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notart666 commented on What to do when you’ve ruined your life   bigfeels.club/public-arti... · Posted by u/d_tr
anigbrowl · 3 years ago
tl;dr subscribe to my blog and maybe sign up for a course, basically a support group for people who like memes and need a pep talk. Shallow but not insincere.
notart666 · 3 years ago
Usually these kinds of things are just about selling a service. Most pitches on this is are like that just rehashed versions of the same sales pitches
notart666 commented on Getting Wealthy vs. Staying Wealthy   collabfund.com/blog/getti... · Posted by u/akeck
thiago_fm · 3 years ago
Haha, I like how the article starts by saying that becoming wealthy has multiple books on it and there's a million ways to do it (as if it is something easy).

Don't get me wrong, the writer is a very good and the article is very well-written, but the the thought process of the writer was very weak.

The reality is that most of the people in the world, 99% will never become wealthy, much less because of their investments.

To start writing a story that basically outlines that the stock market has up and downs, with nothing really important about it. Anybody that has invested in the stock market for sometime knows those obvious things and if that's all I need to stay wealthy...

I guess I already know how to stay wealthy, as I've lived all my life frugal and worried about what may happen. Now, can you please write an article on how to get wealthy?

Thanks

notart666 · 3 years ago
Honestly based on the title I though the writer was going to talk about systemic racism and wealth and how wealthy black people end up poor a bit disappointed it wasn't though to say why we always emphasize this is weird to me rather than why such inequality exists in the first place the conversation is instead about helping a very small subset of people as if they're in some way better than the rest instead of what it usually is, luck.
notart666 commented on Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai   smithsonianmag.com/histor... · Posted by u/lermontov
Smar · 3 years ago
One can trust suprisingly little in the history if you go down this route of not accepting non-verifiable information.
notart666 · 3 years ago
That's not how that works.
notart666 commented on Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai   smithsonianmag.com/histor... · Posted by u/lermontov
glandium · 3 years ago
The Japanese wikipedia article mentions there are records of him being born in Portuguese Mozambique. That would make him black-as-African.
notart666 · 3 years ago
Ehh I'm not sure the Japanese would have a way of knowing that. Given the time period this was in. Not sure if that source can be trusted.
notart666 commented on Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai   smithsonianmag.com/histor... · Posted by u/lermontov
landemva · 3 years ago
I gave up on Smithsonian magazine a decade ago when they started going woke. The article topics and writing fulfill their agenda, and I choose not to pay for that.
notart666 · 3 years ago
Eh. Not sure about that. Yasuke is a real person or we think he is. But this feels more like speculative fiction with an advertisment rather than anything else.
notart666 commented on Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai   smithsonianmag.com/histor... · Posted by u/lermontov
notart666 · 3 years ago
Ah, I clicked on this article hoping for information but it felt more like an ad for the Netflix series and at times goes in detail to describe fan fiction from historians only to go on record to state there is no evidence behind said claims. At that point why even bother to include it in the article as many reader might not even notice this. This article feels more low effort than most articles from the Smithsonian and I hope it's not a sign of lower quality works to come.
notart666 commented on Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition   gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-o... · Posted by u/ndiddy
barbariangrunge · 3 years ago
Step one: build up a huge ecosystem, companies that depend on this ecosystem. Step 2: revoke the old agreement and give 7 days to accept a new one.

What an epic bait and switch

notart666 · 3 years ago
Yep that's how a monopoly works.
notart666 commented on Wikipedia admin jailed for 32 years after alleged Saudi infiltration   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/akolbe
londons_explore · 3 years ago
Maybe the wheels of justice just took 5 years to track them down?
notart666 · 3 years ago
It's a red herring from the Saudis to point at the fact that many Wikipedia entries are already heavily modified and controlled by interest groups like their own. Why they would announce it this way is another question.
notart666 commented on India tops Japan to become world's No. 3 auto market   asia.nikkei.com/Business/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
notart666 · 3 years ago
Not that suprising given their population, still a better investment into public rail and buses would greatly improve the lives of the people there but Im not sure if that will happen when they can't even get toilets and basic sanitation for most of their population and for the people buying these vehicles it's a luxury and most are not very receptive of public transportation due to the already existing problems.
notart666 commented on Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans arrived in the Americas   aeon.co/essays/the-first-... · Posted by u/HR01
maxbond · 3 years ago
(See correction below.)

Much older.

T̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶v̶a̶r̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶p̶u̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶s̶i̶t̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶e̶c̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶c̶o̶v̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶f̶o̶o̶t̶p̶r̶i̶n̶t̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶W̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶S̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶e̶s̶t̶a̶b̶l̶i̶s̶h̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶o̶w̶e̶r̶ ̶b̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶b̶e̶t̶w̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶2̶1̶k̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶2̶3̶k̶.̶ (This is less settled than I'd thought.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_fossil_footprints

T̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶v̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶u̶n̶c̶o̶n̶t̶r̶o̶v̶e̶r̶s̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶l̶o̶w̶e̶r̶ ̶b̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶b̶e̶t̶w̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶1̶2̶.̶8̶k̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶1̶3̶.̶5̶k̶.̶ (This hasn't been a lower bound for a while, see below.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_point

It's my understanding this is an active area of debate. To give a tentative upper bound, the Cerutti mastodon kill - who's anthropogenic origins, while they seem compelling to me (a nonexpert), are hotly debated, have a date of 130k years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerutti_Mastodon_site

(I suspect GP meant to reference the Cerutti Mastodon site, rather than Serpent Mound?)

(And of course, much of this is referenced in the article, I'm busted for reading the comments first! Interesting article that says it far better than I, worth reading.)

notart666 · 3 years ago
Does that make sense for them to continued to have existed for thousands of years during the ice age where nothing grew? Or if the dating is even accurate at all?

u/notart666

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