Saeculum

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Gaza, brought to you by OCP

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Feds do tend to know a lot of theory, it's a part of their training, and unlike regular people, they don't have a job and other life pressures getting in the way of them doing it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

First names or last names, and why?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He's literally me fr fr (except for the talent and strategic genius)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It means uncle apparently (according to my poor googling ability.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It was apparently coined by a magistrate in the 1650s and has been used to refer to them ever since.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

At one point yes, but it's no longer the sixth century ce.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are they not still known as quakers? They've been the society of friends since the mid-1800s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

If you consider more likely wrong than right to be a safe assumption then sure.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

According to reddit's own statistics, 40% of Reddit users total are from the US, and 49% of active daily users.

Unless you are in a country specific sub, or a hibby sub for something not common in the us, chances are that you are talking to an American.

Your odds are about 50/50 US to rest-of-world.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

In all fairness, "real vacations" are a product being sold and advertised to you by the holiday industry. Taking time off at home and visiting friends and relatives is a perfectly fine use of vacation time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

using paper that isn't backed by actual value...

The value of fiat currencies are backed by the state. In the absence of a successful global revolution achieving communism in the next 50 years, this retirement will have to be under a state.

Things of "actual value" i.e. food, water, shelter and the means of producing them cannot be hoarded in sufficient quantities to retire on with a state backing your ownership of these things.

Planning to retire in a stateless non-communist future is idiocy.

Global warming will either cause the collapse of near all modern states, or it won't. Planning for the former eventuality is a fantasy because you can't know how such an event will actually happen, where is safe, whether you can be safe and you also have no guarantee of being nearby whatever you have stockpiled when the collapse happens.

In the event that the world's various states do survive the next 50 years, planning to retire with currency is probably fine, and it's not any less safe a bet than anything else you can do individually.

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