DaVinci

So if you have a voluntarily funded... society?... and they accept the NAP, how would that function in a world with statist societies still in existence? Wouldn't it still have a border? Would it still have an army, even if a voluntarily funded one? What is the difference between the edicts you describe above and the "rules" of an anarchic society?

If it is not for me isn't that because you didn't explain why I should acquire any? This is why I keep asking all the gold supporters to explain why I should get it. The answers are always. "Gold is historically money!" "Paper is just trees" "Gold is in electronics!" While those statements are true, none of them are very convincing arguments for why I should buy gold.

Sounds interesting, but participating depends on hearing further details of the project

Maybe she jumped when the hammer came swinging in cause she doesn't want to be hit by a hammer in general.

None of this really answers my question. Gold is used in electronics. So what? Paper money is garbage. Okay. I can buy food with that garbage. If the economy is fluctuating then gold is like a stock that I can buy low and sell high. If the economy crashes, and even if it doesn't, then I have a pile of gold that no business is ready to accept. Gold is just chunks of metal until someone wants to trade me something for them. So why take money that I can use to buy things and get gold instead? Again, I feel like the real reason people who have gold encourage everyone else to do so is to increase the value of their own gold. No one has ever given me a satisfactory reason why I should go buy gold.

I'll ask you the same thing I ask everyone who says "Buy gold/silver!" Why? Let's say I have $1000 to blow and go get some gold or silver. Okay. Now what. Grocery stores aren't run by superstitious Chinese women. (uh...at least not any I have been to. ) So what is the point of having gold or silver coins? Let's say the economy completely crashes and paper money becomes worthless. Okay. I still have a lot of skeptical people not willing to take some random coins from me. So, sure gold is pretty, but beyond that what good does it do me? I feel like the reason why people keep recommending to buy gold is because it makes their gold worth more.

I think the difference between the bully in the sketch and most other bullies in the real world is that the bully in the sketch has a better understanding of themselves.

Isn't science about truth? How can there be "private science"? Isn't that like saying "private truth"? Am I missing something here?

If you are trying to get a project done around your sleep schedule and work schedule I would say you want to be waking up with the maximum amount of time devoted to you. So for example your energy depletes as the day goes on, and many people find themselves most productive and with the most energy early in the morning after waking up. Because they are at their job however they end up using this energy for their boss, and not themselves. So plan sleep around giving that time back to yourself. If you have to be at work 5 p.m. and work till 11 p.m. then going to bed at midnight and waking up at 8 or 9 a.m. sounds good. If you have to be at work at 10 a.m. then maybe you should wake up at 3 or 4 a.m. to give yourself time to do what you want. Basically instead of having free time at the end of your day after you are already worn out, have it at the beginning when you are fresh and recharged. What do you think of that?

My first question is what do you think you should be doing instead of video games?

I think your first suggestion is the best. Ask questions. It works both for discussing a subject, and for showing interest in someone else, don't you think?

I've had some 'encounters' with the police before. In all of my dealings with them I've only had one or two where I walked away feeling like I got treated like a human being.

I'm not sure I can give you much advice on finding a job. I have always had a problem with too. What I can say is that rather than thinking about this in the "traditional sense" i.e. fill out applications, wait for no one to call back, fill out more, wait more, etc, you should try to find a way to make money in a "jack of all trades" kind of way. Mow grass. Go door to door and ask to mow grass. $20 a yard x 3 yards a day = $60 a day = $300 a week. You can pick up scrap metal. Set up an Etsy account. Sell stuff on Ebay. etc.

A lot of women just don't like the idea of a man drawing "sexualized" images of a woman. I think they feel like they are being violated by proxy.

I wouldn't say it is elitist to want to talk to like minded people. You wouldn't spend years trying to convince a convicted rapist that rape is immoral just so you could talk about the last episode of Game of Thrones at Arby's. Sometimes it just makes sense to find someone you can connect with easier so you can get to issues which actually matter.

I'm sorry to hear about that. My heart goes out to your children. I'm not sure any book will make them understand. If they are that young, and you have been having problems with him for a while then your children have probably sensed that you and your husband didn't have a tight emotional connection. So the dissolving of your marriage is something that they will probably only understand on the level of understanding your emotions. So if they see you crying, they will know you are sad, but they might not understand why you are crying without having had that same emotional connection to you as parents. If you spent these early years of their lives fighting with your husband and arguing and being distant to each other then there is probably not too much of a connection that your children have to the two of you as their parents. I think the best thing you can do is to explain it to them as best you can, but know that they don't quite understand. The most important thing, I think, will be to figure out a way to minimize the effect a potentially single parent household will have on their development. Especially if your husband is actually going to take off and never be seen again after the divorce. Again, I'm sorry about this situation. My parents got divorced when I was young so I understand what these kids will have to deal with. They don't have the vocabulary to say the things I'm saying.

I can certainly see a future with no jobs, or at the very least jobs that only have to be done infrequently to make the small amount of money needed to live. I think the 40 hour work week will be a thing of the past as almost everything becomes manufactured by machines.

Sorry to hear about your experience with your friends. I know how you feel. I have had several relationships strained and broken in the past. I would also like to know if you can look back and see any clues as to what went wrong.

Thanks for the video! I'm still trying to wrap my brain around Bitcoin so this was a welcome dose of info.

Welcome!

Since we are talking about driving, I'll mention what irks me when driving. There is a railroad track nearby that people always slow down to 20 MPH to go over. I'm always stuck in traffic as people go over it, so I have to go over it at 20 MPH too, but I have gone over this track at 45 - 50 MPH before when there has been no traffic and barely felt a thing. So I can't figure out for the life of me why everyone is going over this track so slow. Do they have their Faberge Egg collection unbuckled in the front seat? Another pet peeve I have is when I am talking and people nod in agreement with me and say "Yeah." when I make a point about something. I know they have no idea what I am talking about and are just nodding and saying yeah because they don't want to feel like someone else knows something that they don't. It is very manipulative to me.

I think most people, including myself, don't view an apology as meaning "I won't do that to you again." I think for most people saying "Im sorry" is more like saying "whoops", as if their actions were accidentally dropping a plate or something. This is why when I have reason to believe that something was not just an accident and that there was some thought put into the actions I will ask for the person to promise not to do the actions again rather than ask for an apology, because like you say the apology does not change the past and at that point a commitment to not repeat the negative or damaging behavior is preferable to an apology. Apologies have become a way to get away with bad behavior. Like religious people who feel like they can act however they want because they will just repent, or someone who adds "Oh, I was just joking" onto the end of "You are a loser" so that you have a harder time complaining about the negative behavior, "I'm sorry" has just become a way to manipulate emotions so that someone can make the person they have hurt look like the bad guy if they get upset about what was done to them. This is why I normally, but not in all cases, just skip the apology and go straight to asking for a commitment to not repeat the behavior as I feel it is more effective in keeping the person from feeling like they can just circumvent responsibility. Not sure if this answers your question, but I wanted to add my two cents to your thoughts about apologies.

The only thing I would add to that list is that the person responsible for the situation expresses a genuine desire to not repeat the behavior. Too many times people apologize, and even provide restitution just so they can hurt you again. The apology retroactively becomes manipulation.

Interesting videos. Thanks for posting!

No one looks exactly like their I.D. picture. It makes me think of a Mitch Hedberg routine. "This picture is of me when I was younger." "Every picture is of you when you were younger." So what is the answer to the problem of an I.D. being accurate when you shave your beard, or cut your hair, or get glasses? Get a new I.D.? I think that there is a reasonable expectation that you look like the picture on an I.D., but I think it is just as reasonable for the people looking at an I.D. to be able to tell that who is standing in front of them is the same person as the one in the picture.