The west is falling and all the solutions to prevent the fall are morally awful. I find this depressing.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if you can't feel comfortable in a suit and assume therefore it's impossible to for anyone to be comfortable in one, I don't think you can't be comfortable, I just think they're less comfortable. No one spends a lazy Sunday afternoon on the couch watching TV while wearing a suit, if they were more comfortable than other clothes this would be common. Either way your solution of getting better suits or a tailor is an…
There are advantages for dressing up but you'll never understand them by taking the majority view. Nobody cares what anyone wears at home we're talking comfort at work. And again, a suit is ultimately a dress down garment requiring less care to put on than a track suit. In all this discourse nobody ever bothered to ask what dressing is even defined as and we're supposed to call ourselves software engineers. Another h…
> Nobody cares what anyone wears at home we're talking comfort at work.
Comfort is independent of location, the only difference is that at home we prioritize comfort and that translates to not wearing suits.
> And again, a suit is ultimately a dress down garment requiring less care to put on than a track suit.
In what world? Track pants you just pull on and maybe tie up if there's some weight in your pockets, dress pants you have to pull on zip/button up and put a belt on. Some with the upper half, it's easier to pull on a T shirt than button one up. Neither are hardly arduous (hence my surprise that some people take "pride in their appearance") but a suit is definitely not the easiest option.
> In all this discourse nobody ever bothered to ask what dressing is even defined as and we're supposed to call ourselves software engineers.
Because we all have a functional shared understanding of what it means, if you have a definition that differs or constrains this general understanding then it would be much more useful to state it rather than vague hints.
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#23- Public school and forcing kids to go to school is incredibly harmful to children, parents, families, and society. Forcing children to go to school is completely unnecessary. - Mutual credit is a superior monetary system to our current one in every way: An elastic money supply, no bank runs, access to credit for everyone, no inflation, decentralized with no central bank, no moral hazard from seigniorage. - Advertisi…
> Public school and forcing kids to go to school is incredibly harmful to children, parents, families, and society. Forcing children to go to school is completely unnecessary
The vast majority of parents are lazy, feckless and incapable of educating a child. Not to mention the character benefits of socialisation, conflict experience and discipline that might be met at school.
I also refuse to believe that something as ancient as group schooling isn't inherently positive. There is a school in England that has been in active operation for 1400 years
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fully disagree with dressing up at work as being important. I fully agree that many of our problems at work stem from folks trying to prove that they are competent/best at something they are largely ignorant at. Some of these people dress up professionally to help hide their lack of effectiveness. Dressing up for work is value signalling. "oh, a blazer? They are important." When it comes to client interactions, dep…
Bro I appreciate your reply and I want to remind you this is a wildly unpopular opinions thread so I'd encourage you to try to look at things from a different angle than playing the "I disagree" card which carries no merit here whatsoever. As a hint I'd like to convey that the blazer is actually a dress down apparel compared to the outfits it replaced and the suit is designed as the ultimate comfort and convenience g…
> suit is designed as the ultimate comfort and convenience garment
Weren't suits and shirts designed with XIX-century England in mind? I.e. very little hot summers, cold indoors (17 C was considered normal room temperature back then).
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#25- There may not be a successful vaccine for COVID-19 - COVID-19 is just a dress rehearsal for something even more deadly. - Since there is no apex predator for humans, viruses will likely rise to become the leading cause of death - Modern society is, by definition, carbon positive - The one time that society allowed young people to explore their interests, to not work (the 60s), the establishment was so scared at the…
> "The one time that society allowed young people to explore their interests, to not work (the 60s), the establishment was so scared at the revolution they never wanted that freedom to ever be available again"
Do you have any links or references, I'm particularly curious about how society allowed young people to not work & pursue their interests. Was there some sought of Universal basic income? A few more details will be greatly appreciated.
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#26Jeans are the worst kind of pants.
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#27The United States are just a more popular version of North Korea. The brainwashing, flag waving nonsense going on in this country is hopefully going down soon.
Software Engineers are idiots hiding behind numbers. No real progress is made through software itself and the world would be better of with advanced social behaviour then faster servers.
Open Source is a marketing term to lure more people into software development so corporations can exploit more people for cheaper.
Capitalism is currently just exploiting the dumbness of people. If you would have the time and mental energy to learn basic finance, the whole system would work better.
White people don't have culture and envy black/asian culture.
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#28- Public school and forcing kids to go to school is incredibly harmful to children, parents, families, and society. Forcing children to go to school is completely unnecessary. - Mutual credit is a superior monetary system to our current one in every way: An elastic money supply, no bank runs, access to credit for everyone, no inflation, decentralized with no central bank, no moral hazard from seigniorage. - Advertisi…
> Public school and forcing kids to go to school is incredibly harmful to children, parents, families, and society. Forcing children to go to school is completely unnecessary The vast majority of parents are lazy, feckless and incapable of educating a child. Not to mention the character benefits of socialisation, conflict experience and discipline that might be met at school. I also refuse to believe that something a…
> conflict experience
That one is supposedly not allowed in American schools any longer.
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#29The majority of popular prejudices are statistically true, reliably arising from the collective observations of a large number of people over many generations.
Most people are kind and feel bad about harboring prejudices; they actively look for evidence to dislodge a prejudice, and make excuses to dismiss evidence supporting the prejudice. Those prejudices that remain in circulation are those for which the supporting evidence prevails nonetheless.
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#30The governor of Washington and the mayor of Seattle are absolutely incompetent and unfit to lead - at best - and insidious liars at worst.