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Ah! Thank you muchly!

I’m having trouble looking up all those acronyms. I know about roth 401ks, but not the other stuff.

As a futures trader, I can confirm that trading futures is gambling. Like poker, if you know what you’re doing, you can make a living. Most people can’t make a living playing poker, and 95% of traders are not profitable.

Oh I agree with you, and I also agree with Pratai. I personally am actively trying to push myself toward pretty much everything I listed specifically to show the people around me that it can be done and without too much difficulty.

I have also watched, and experienced first hand that telling people they’re bad even by inference for not doing these things puts people into defensive mode and they just stop listening. They feel like they have to defend themselves, so that’s what they do instead. In fact, it makes it more difficult to convince them later because their first impression of the idea is associated with an attack on their identity.

In sales, you do not ever tell the customer they’re stupid, that they’re morally wrong, that they are impoverished idiots and that’s why they should buy your product even if that is all true and the product would literally change all that. You tell them about the problems that they have, and you build it up, and then you give them one singular line that suggests that your product could fix those problems but not everyone can have this product(because it requires work on their part, or it only works within a specific ecosystem).

Instead of “If you have a Facebook account, you support this piece of shit”, maybe “Wow, looks like Facebook and its management are doing some immoral stuff, and wouldn’t you know it they’ve been doing stuff like this for a while. I know that you are an upright moral person, so here are some alternatives to consider. Me and everyone else who are seeing this go down are using this specific alternative. The catch is that it is decentralized its up to us to make it the way we want it, are you free Saturday? Neat, I’ll swing by in the afternoon and help you get set up”

If you use facebook, instagram, google or any of their services, a browser that is built off of chromium, a search engine that is just a google clone, use tiktok, buy nestle products, shop at target, jcpenny, walmart, fredmeyer; you’re supporting the big bad billionaires. Stop it, no excuses.

Use the fediverse for everything, use startpage or duckduckgo, use firefox or a fork, make your own clothes and fire your own kitchen ware from clay, bike everywhere, and grow your own food and go vegetarian/vegan.

No, you don’t want to do all that? Well you’re a bad person I guess. I understand the sentiment, but you gotta market the change better or you just fall into the chorus of “you’re bad unless you do what I’m doing”.

Dehumanizing an entire populace because of an opinion you have about a measuring system doesn’t make you better than them, it makes you a bigoted asshole.

Are you going to say the same about your ancestors who also measured things with cubits, spans, and paces? How up your own ass do you have to be to judge individuals for a culture of measuring things? It literally doesn’t effect you at all if I grew up measuring things in yards and feet, as if I had a choice in the matter.

The United States of America is metric where it counts. All military, all scientific, all medical fields measure in metric. We are all taught how to use metric in school, and then we are introduced to the actual physical world where 200 years of infrastructure was built in Imperial. The system works, we don’t need to change it, it would be nothing more than vanity to do so. “Arrogance” is not fitting here unless you apply it to your own argument.

well what am I saying, you’re an American

This you?

“Stay in school”, you’re such an ass lol

Having read a good portion of the comments in this thread and the anti-american sentiment attached, I am convinced that the only reason the US isn’t wholly metric at this point is out of spite.

I know the actual reason is that it would cost too damn much to convert all the infrastructure we’ve built in imperial, but now I just want the USA to keep kicking everyone in the balls at the Olympics, in the military, and with global corporate supremacy just to own it to the world that they’re better than all of you AND they use imperial.

Its crazy how many people upvoted this comment. Didn’t realize there was so much anti-american sentiment on this platform. I get the government is shit, but insulting the general population just kinda makes you out as an ass.

Well damn, that’s a really compelling argument. I will say that I’ll probably keep my gas car for most stuff long range, but when my partner and I eventually grab a second car for logistical reasons, maybe I’ll look into EVs? Depending on how easy they are to work on. Honestly we were gonna seek out an old Tacoma since we are gonna need a truck for farm stuff soon. Idk, tough bid.

Thank you for taking the time to reply so thoroughly, genuinely.

I drive out for a day trip with friends or to visit friends like every other week. Maybe I’m the exception, though all of my friends do the same so idk.

Or, ya know, not everyone lives on the east coast in the most densely populated area of the country? How about the 50% of the country where its an hour drive between cities? I live in Oregon and am constantly driving more than 100 miles out of town to have fun with friends. Day trips are a common thing in the US, and I’m not buying a separate car just to drive to Medford from Weed.

Even when I lived in Portland or Seattle, I still drove like 2 hours out a few times a month to hang with friends or visit family. The US is huge dude, the whole country of Ireland is like the size of Oregon. When visiting family in Kansas, Colorado, Texas, or just most of the country, the distances get way WAY bigger for just daily living.

[EDIT: I stand corrected, the state of Oregon is twice the size of Ireland]

This comes up a lot, and as someone living in the US I genuinely can’t understand how anyone would cap themselves to a 100 mile range. I’ve been all over the country, from big cities like LA and Seattle to rural places in Montana, Texas, and Florida. No matter where I’ve been, I’ve always needed a car that could drive at least 200 miles for a day trip.

Currently in southern Oregon. If I want to go with some friends into the nearest city to do fun stuff or go to the mall, its an hour and 45 minute drive at 55 miles and hour. If I had an EV with a range of 100 miles, I’d have like 10 miles of charge once I got into town? That is not enough, and then I’d have to wait for it to charge before going home. That just wouldn’t work.

When I lived in Seattle, a pretty big city, I drove a lot further to visit friends because unless you’re wealthy, living with 6 room mates, or a student in dedicated housing, you can’t afford to actually live IN the city. Redmond, Issaquah, Snoqualmie Pass, Tacoma, are all a distance from the city proper, and often you’d end up driving around in those towns to do stuff after you made the trip. I don’t want to be stressing about having enough charge on the day-to-day.

If you’re buying a car, you’re not going to buy a separate car just to leave the city, right?

“You and I are like eleven o’ clock and 1 o’ clock. You see, we are closer to each other than to others” —The Flying Finn

Hold up, how do I get ahold of scriptures that support this interpretation of the story?

Bisexual sitting is how I know you’re a night chef.

Sure, but since we killed off all the predators, if we don’t murder deer for food they’ll destroy the ecosystem with overpopulation. Like us. In fact, it may be ethically more correct to start hunting humans to reduce the population for the sake of the total ecosystem.

[Edit: This comment is a commentary on taking reasonable arguments to an extreme. I do not support human hunting]

Almost missed the /s there. There are people I have seen on this platform that would absolutely reply this way xD

Its also always someone who would be SO toxic to be with, and absolutely ruin my life.