I Like To Listen To The Echoes

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Comments: Always means always.

atheist bad driver: I will rely on my own skill to see myself safely home after a mere 8 drinks

buddhist bad driver: stop getting mad you are too attached to material things (your car that I rear ended)

jewish bad driver: according to this highly controversial interpretation of the melachot which five separate rabbis have told me is completely stupid, driving during Shabbat is fine as long as you ask your non jewish neighbor to turn the car on because then the engine is already on. However, using turn signals is prohibited and you can't turn headlights on or off which is why I just leave my high-beams on at all times

muslim bad driver: muslims are never required to yield the right of way to non muslims

neopagan bad driver: if we follow the teachings of the Great Earth Mother, traffic is like a flowing river. Turbulence and disorder are part of nature. "Lanes" are a product of a Christian society obsessed with rigid status and social control. You gotta just go with the flow, man. (jerks wheel and sends 2004 Subaru Outback with COEXIST bumper sticker and Etsy Dreamcatcher hanging from the rear view mirror careening across 3 lanes of traffic to make an exit)

satanist bad driver: much as great Lucifer defied god's oppressive vision of rigid order and obedience, I am treating this "stop" sign as a suggestion

pastafarian bad driver: this interchange is a sacred place. the convoluted mess of twisted, tangled ramps reflects the form of His divine noodley appendages. When I enter it I must meditate on the interchange and lose all awareness of surrounding cars.

amish bad driver: I don't need to pay attention to the road, my horses know the way home (is currently in the oncoming lane and has just run over a toddler because a leaf fell 200 yards away and spooked the horses)

The things that women used to do in the past to increase household economy have largely been automated out. Most women can’t take piecemeal sewing to earn some extra money, for example. The labor intensive chores that women stayed at home to do have largely also been automated into something much more manageable- we don’t brush carpets, we have vacuums. Doing laundry takes two hours of hands off time as opposed to an entire day. Cooking is made much easier with slow cookers and gas stoves. Gardening is more expensive than just buying food from the store in many locales, including mine. Largely women do not greatly increase the household economy by staying home full time.

Adding to that is a rising housing crisis in most population centers and many outlying areas, meaning that even a starter home is five to ten times the yearly salary of many young men- and that’s with a really good job. A wife working for the first few years/until kids happen can help save a nest egg as a down payment.

I never said you should be at home just because you're married. I have observed time and time again how important it is for the wife to establish rhythm and routine in her household before the first baby comes along so she isn't utterly overwhelmed by the extreme life change involved therein.

I've also lived the single working life and I know for a fact that the household workload is not sufficiently lessened by automation to send the wife out into the workforce. You're describing appliances that have mostly been around since the 1880's or earlier, so by your logic, all the majority of wives who stayed home after getting married from the Edwardian era to the 1960s were immature for not entering/staying in the workplace.

My argument is also not primarily utilitarian. 1. Minimum practical requirement for a husband is to be able to provide for a wife. He shouldn't be dating unless he can, and not just because couples ought to have babies soon after marriage. 2. Young people today expect what I consider to be an absurd standard of living for young people. You don't need 2 cars, you don't need to own a home, you don't need a gym membership or yoga classes, and you need to be willing to relocate to an affordable area if you're somewhere like a city center or a blue state. As I've explained in the comments, I do not buy the economic argument one single bit.

A wife's practical purpose is not to increase the household economy (although modern wives certainly can and do, not just by opting for cheaper methods of housekeeping, but also by generating income entrepreneurially from home). A wife's practical purpose is to keep the home and make the home, which is still a huge job today. A wife's practical purpose is to buttress and strengthen the domestic community. To be there for fellow wives (even working wives) and their children. To increase the quality of life, not just for herself and her husband, but for the small patch of Earth where Providence has placed her.

The precursors to modern appliances developed in the 1880s tended to decrease a woman’s domestic work from full days to half days, and were often offset by increased workloads elsewhere. It still took quite some time to do laundry, for example, because people started to have more clothes. Plus, just because a machine is invented does not mean it’s mass produced, and just because it’s mass produced does not mean it’s attainable for the average family. Many modern convenience oriented appliances weren’t available for the middle class until the 1960s during the post-war production boom. Cars have been around since the 1880s too- were people lazy for needing to take mass transit in the 1910s?

I do agree that a lot of people have more items than they need. I will push back on two specific examples of things people don’t need though, and I will say that the reason many people have financial troubles is not relatively small subscription payments.

Many families do need two cars, especially if you live somewhere rural. If the husband’s car is gone for ten hours per day (work plus commute time) and you need to do literally anything outside the house, you need reliable transportation, and the bus doesn’t always cut it. This could be picking kids up from school, taking them to the doctor, or even something as simple as picking up ingredients for a last minute change in plans (say the meat you purchased for dinner has spoiled even if it’s within use by date). In case of severe emergency, you may need to be able to evacuate your home to escape wildfire or flooding. When was the last time your family only had one car? What were you able and not able to do?

Your family might not be able to relocate. Many people work specialized jobs that don’t exist everywhere- you can be a plumber anywhere, but you will have a very hard time working as a software engineer in Shawnee, Kansas or an automotive engineer in Montana. Especially white collar jobs often are required to live somewhat near major cities, and there are very few cheap cities anymore. When was the last time you did apartment hunting? Even in rural areas cost of housing can be a severe issue. I live in an extremely rural town of less than 30k people in a red state and the cheapest, tiniest one bedroom apartment you can rent is still 1000 dollars a month. For many people, paying a mortgage is cheaper.

And it’s not just about support in the present moment. Smart couples should be saving money for the future- best case, retirement; worst case, the husband dies and leaves his wife a widow, possibly with children. A woman working for a short time can provide a nest egg for the future and give her valuable experience in the workplace should the worst happen.

Your argument that young men should not date unless they can support a wife means that most young men won’t be able to date until their late twenties at the earliest, especially if they go to a college or trade school for a couple of years. This would mean, assuming they marry women the same age or so, that they already are likely to struggle with fertility- most doctors consider any pregnancy after age 35 a ‘geriatric pregnancy’ and slightly more dangerous for mother and baby, especially if it’s a first pregnancy. The fertility crisis is at least partly due to women marrying older and older.

What on earth does making a home entail? Cooking, shopping, and cleaning can be done while working full time (heaven knows I’ve managed for seven years now) and if not everyone needs to own a home then not everyone is doing house upkeep. If you’re single and not taking care of someone who needs help, what else is there to be done? Helping others in the community is a noble goal, but does it really take that much time?

NEED TO KNOW

Ly Thien Pham, 40, is charged with child abuse after allegedly leaving a young child in a hot car, per reports

Pham is an Uber Eats driver who was picking up an order before allegedly forgetting where she had parked her car

The child was found in the car sweating, according to a report

A Florida woman is accused of leaving a young child in a hot car for nearly 30 minutes while she picked up an Uber Eats order.

Ly Thien Pham, 40, was arrested in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Sunday, July 19, after the child was found, according to reports from WFLA and WTSP.

Pinellas County court records indicate that Pham is charged with third-degree child abuse. It is not immediately clear whether she has entered a plea.

Citing an arrest warrant, the outlets reported that Pham is an Uber Eats driver and that she had parked outside a restaurant in St. Petersburg to pick up a delivery order.

But after leaving the restaurant, she allegedly said she had forgotten where she had parked, the outlets reported.

Per WTSP, St. Petersburg police found the child sweating inside the vehicle. The outlet, citing police, reported that Pham had turned her hazard lights on but did not leave the air conditioner on.

The child was reportedly taken to the hospital for treatment.

Yolanda Fernandez, a spokesperson for the St. Petersburg Police Department, emphasized the seriousness of the charges.

"These are child abuse charges," Fernandez told the outlet. "These are very serious charges, very serious for her to have to deal with this. Even though she claims that she didn't mean to do it, that she thought she was just going to run in and out, pick up the food delivery and go."

They’re getting ever more sophisticated at it.

no, royalties are not a significant source of income for most authors. if you wrote something like Project Hail Mary, then absolutely, the royalties would be substantial! but that's like winning the lottery. Ryan Gosling is not starring in the movie adaption of most books.

when you sell a book to a publisher, you get what's called 'an advance against royalties'. it's usually split into multiple parts, so you might get one third for the initial sale, one third for the final revised manuscript, and one third on the publishing date.

an advance against royalties is the publisher saying "we believe you will eventually make X amount in royalties, so here it is ahead of time." and then you don't actually see any money from royalties until the advance is paid off. most books do not make enough in royalties to pay off the advance (I have two children's books and one fiction book, and have yet to see royalties for any of them).

advances are still great, but you need to make them stretch! for instance, last year my net income was about 30k Canadian (21k USD), which is fantastic when you consider that I mostly made it through writing. but I'm definitely not a millionaire. I can live off my writing (not trying to undersell that!) but I'll probably remain in a low income bracket for the foreseeable future.

this isn't me making a fuss about pirating (I've pirated way too many shows to run my mouth on that lmao), but there IS actually a financial incentive to having people buy your books!

buying books shows the publisher that they can make money off you, which means they're more likely to give you advances for future books. and advances are what authors live off (if they don't have a side job). that's why I always push pre-orders so hard! you have to be a racehorse worth betting on, or else they send you to the glue factory....

The things that women used to do in the past to increase household economy have largely been automated out. Most women can’t take piecemeal sewing to earn some extra money, for example. The labor intensive chores that women stayed at home to do have largely also been automated into something much more manageable- we don’t brush carpets, we have vacuums. Doing laundry takes two hours of hands off time as opposed to an entire day. Cooking is made much easier with slow cookers and gas stoves. Gardening is more expensive than just buying food from the store in many locales, including mine. Largely women do not greatly increase the household economy by staying home full time.

Adding to that is a rising housing crisis in most population centers and many outlying areas, meaning that even a starter home is five to ten times the yearly salary of many young men- and that’s with a really good job. A wife working for the first few years/until kids happen can help save a nest egg as a down payment.

"OpenAI says this type of infiltration is "something we expect to become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models," so get ready for more of this."

I'm sorry, we should continue expecting this?

AI hacked into another AI without any command to do so, and we should just get used to the fact that it may decide it's necessary to continue doing this?

Pinterest: Your case has been reviewed and it has been determined that the content violates our guidelines. Your appeal is denied.

Me: I'M NOT APPEALING-

Gov. Newsom's response is funny to me. "You won't hear this on FAUX NEWS, but actually California has the hugest task force to fight hospice fraud and we've uncovered so many cases of hospice fraud and we've completely stopped issuing licenses for new hospice centers, so California doesn't have a hospice fraud program at all!" Dude all those things are indications of your massive, gargantuan fraud problem!