Prior to his political aspirations, Shlomi’s career outside of infomercials included two sketch-style comedies considered among the worst movies ever made and an arrest in 2009 for allegedly fighting a sex worker.

He sounds like top tier GOP material.

In Nebraska you’re old enough to vote or die for your country at age 18 or 19, but don’t you dare think you’re worthy of earning the regular adult minimum wage.

Just a heads’ up — I get these messages, not Hegseth.

You understand that in that context (because of how the headline is worded) the response is to Hegseth and not you, right?

When I’m replying to a headline a person posted, I’ll specifically address the person in the article by name, but I wanted to let you know that most people aren’t going to think you’re a Nazi because you’re posting a new article about a Nazi’s behavior.

I’m not understanding why he would want the station to be renamed “Orange Turd Station”?

He was just a really big fan of the 1980’s classic Commodore 64 game “Quest for Tires”

I’ve been engineering in the industry for 13 years now. Every time it swings down it is declared dead.

I’m not saying its dead (even if I see no value in crypto myself). I’m pointing out that the main behavior that Bitcoin is suppose to have, strength against collapsing fiat currency, is absent. At a time when the formula should have Bitcoin shining and rising, its instead falling like a rock far worse than equities which can be quite volatile themselves.

It is going higher. It’s stuck in this odd 4-year cycle. Gets a bit flatter every time, but still swings pretty hard!

I had just been introduced to this 4 year cycle theory in the past couple of weeks. An issue with it is that the predicted 4 year decline should have happened in 2026, but instead it was in Oct 2025. Its early this time. Or said another way: the 4 year cycle theory isn’t holding anymore.

Crypto is losing value because it never had true value.

There is one value crypto has that is an incredibly small edge case that is so small it isn’t worth mentioning. I agree the value of crypto is totally overblown and is not an investment asset.

crypto enthusiasts are dumping their dangerous play money for something that has a chance to keep its value in turbulent times.

I’m guessed this too, but to what? What is still maintaining value when crypto, dollars, and precious metals are all falling? Are they just choosing the that is falling the least fastest?

I recognize the stigma that professional help can carry (especially with older generations). We were not raised with the idea that we didn’t have every tool, knowledge, and ability to address every mental or emotional challenge that we might get faced with. This realization is what helped me.

That being said, recently the topic of counseling came up in conversation on an unrelated situation, and she made it clear that she is not fond of the idea. If we find ourselves in a situation where we can’t communicate healthily, I will propose couples counseling.

Perhaps use this line of thinking when talking to her: If there is a water leak occurring somewhere in your house and large puddles are randomly appearing on the floor, would you or your wife just start tearing into the wall or instead would you call a professional plumber that has the tools and experience to know how to address this situation? Why would we think with zero training each of use would be equal to a plumbing professional? We simply aren’t. Its the same thing with mental health. While there are some issues we are capable of addressing on our own, there are simply some jobs that we’re not equipped for and not calling a professional can lead to no fix, but amateur efforts to address it make the problem worse than it was to begin with.

Isn’t the decline in value of national fiat currency supposed to be the thing we were told would drive crypto higher as a hedge? What is the cryptocurrency community answer as to why that isn’t working here? Gold and silver are down substantially too from their recent record highs. Where is the money going that are exiting these markets?

There has to be enough motivation for them to get rid of bad cops before they become a problem, not after.

I’m understand where you’re going with this statement in spirit, but not in execution. An officer is only a problem after they have done harm to the public for which they serve. How then could a department get rid of a bad officer before this bad behavior presents itself?

I spiraled in my attempt to find the “right” answer, to the point that I did not stop to consider that there is no right answer.

An extension on the idea here is that we frequently are searching for the “best” answer, when in fact what we’re looking for is the “least worse” answer. As in, there are no good choices and from those you have to choose from and you’re left with the choice that has the fewest negatives. I think this is an important distinction because if choosing “the best answer” still negatively affects some groups they will be resentful that others saw their loss as “the best answer”. Instead if this is reframed as the “least worse” answer, its acknowledging that this choice causes some level of harm to them, but works to communicate it is the least amount of harm collectively to all groups and the apology that comes along with it.

I need to take a step back and figure out how I can communicate with her in a way that does not burden her and let her know that I am here for her.

I agree with you on this. Also consider she is feeling equally anxious about this situation (or others you have no idea about!) and that she too is holding back talking to you because she’s trying to spare your feelings or protect you emotionally. I would recommend seeking a professional counselor for guidance as a path for both of you to have a way to communicate important ideas with one another yet still being able to be gentle in the delivery.

“Are you going to get vaccinated against the Vegas Virus or are you going to roll the dice?”

“Blakloclovier vaccine against the Vegas Virus shows strong protection. Always bet on Blak”

“Don’t cash out early on life. Get vaccinated”

My suggestion (though I’m open to any idea that works) is fines/penalties/settlements for shit like this comes out of their retirement funds.

My favorite reform approach is for law enforcement officers being required to carry professional insurance. Police are often referring to themselves as professionals. Let them carry insurance like doctors do for malpractice or professional engineers do.

To ease the transition, I propose that the department cover the base insurance premiums for each officer. If an officer has a judgment against them that raises their insurance premiums, the officer is now responsible for paying for the overage out of their own pocket. If the officer continues to exhibit behavior that results in judgments against them, their premiums will continue to rise eventually to the point where the bad officer cannot afford the overage premiums and will then have to stop working as police because they are not carrying the required insurance. So bad officers will self select out.

There’s also another angle where the base premiums will likely be calculated based upon the entire department. If there is a badly behaved officer, this will raise the base rate of all officers too, so the department has a financial incentive to get rid of bad officers because they are too expensive.

I have nothing to offer you except my attention and my sympathy. I can clearly see you’re struggling with immense challenges physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.

The one thing I might be able to offer is: there is no objectively right choice that you just have to search for, and therefore not finding it is not a failure on your part.

As much as we want to make “the right choices” in life, that exercise comes with the added complication of answering the question “the right choice for whom?”. That itself is a very difficult question, because as you’ve pointed out, some of those are zero sum. For one person to win another might have to lose. What is fair? What is “right”? There are no absolute answers to these questions.

However, be proud of what you and your wife have gone through so far. That took immense effort and sacrifice!

after decimating the indigenous americans that have been here more than 10k years.

No argument on the truthfulness of your statement, but I’m not sure what that has to do with the premise of society enforcing the thought that the rich are rich because of god.

“Trainer uses the Sicilian Defense! Its very effective!”

If you’re looking for specific historical knowledge, as in citations, here you go:

https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america

https://youtu.be/LvmwGwnJf7c?t=598

These are exactly the type of thing I was looking for. Thank you for sharing them.

I have never intentionally put words in your mouth. The best I can figure after rereading our entire thread is that you’re jumping around on different points but giving no clues in the conversation you’re doing that. As in, I’m responding to one of your points, but you’re providing a rebuttal for a completely different point of your own.

In this conversation I’ve been trying to restate what I’m seeing as your interpretation in an attempt to confirm we’re communicating, but then I get another response indicating we’re not communicating.

There’s two possibilities I see as to whats happening here:

• your thesis and points are not logically consistent

OR

• we are simply not able to communicate effectively with one another today

For the purposes of civility, I’m not going to make a judgment one which one these it is. I’ll let you give your downvote button a rest and simply bow out talking more with you today. Maybe in the future we’ll have better luck with one another.

I’m not looking for pedantry. I’m looking for clarity. You eluded to a specific action by robber barons in the 1900s. I’m looking for what that is because I’m seeing that idea predate them.

Robot automation has not lowered the quality of a Ford vehicle

I never said that and the quality of a ford truck is irrelevant to the assembly worker who lost their job due to automation.

You need to back up because you have gone down a tangent alone.

I agree we’re down a tangent, but I’m following the logic of your responses. This is a response to your original thesis: “AI robots can be utter shit”. Then you introduced the ford example for automation, which isn’t shit for assembly.

Which point to you want to back up to that would change our conversation path?

The notion that people won’t eat sawdust bread is demonstrably false with many historical examples proving you wrong.

I’m glad you saw those. I specifically chose sawdust in my example because of those events in history. Those support what I’m talking about. When the adulteration of the food became bad enough, people stopped eating it.

Your stipulation about zero flour is a moving goalpost and a strawman fyi

My “zero flour” comment is a response to your original thesis where you said: “quality of service can drop indefinitely.”

It can’t be indefinitely. There’s a point where people will stop consuming it when it gets bad enough.