"How I could just kill a man"
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2025
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People.
They're the worst!
Drivers specifically
Air fresheners. I might just be sensitive but if I'm in a car with one, instant car sickness. I recently stayed in a room that had one in a very enclosed space. I had to put it in a ziplock and even then everything that was exposed to it stinks days after. I don't understand why people consider a heavy scent desirable at all.
Why people think it's rational to believe in a god.
Because it absolves them of personal responsibility and allows them to feel morally superior?
For real. I was raised in an evangelical household and it didn't stick with me beyond 14, even with all the indoctrination and sheltering. I genuinely don't get how a person grows into adulthood still thinking that way.
I consider myself tech aware, if not savvy. I do not understand Bitcoin, like at all. I'm pretty sure it's a scam, top to bottom.
It is a currency just like any other. It is created via virtual mining (the more work you do the higher chance you strike a vein). It's value is purely speculative. There are more bitcoin scams that legitimate uses.
Health Insurance. Actually make it all insurance. My wife even worked in the industry for a bit...
Ideally, insurance is wonderful and socialist. Everyone in a risk category pays into a pool, and whoever ends up realizing that risk gets to use the pool funds to set things right or be compensated for loss. It's truly "we all support each other." Protip: everyone is in the same risk pool. It's called "being human".
The problem is for profit insurance. When you put profit motive on insurance, the means change to reach that profitable end. Now it's "charge the highest premiums possible, pay out the fewest claims, underpay on the claims you can't avoid, and exclude anyone who makes 'too many' (read: any) claims". The problem is not insurance; the problem is profit.
I understand "premium" (what you always pay, whether you use it or not)
I think I understand "co-pay" (what you pay at point-of-use (unless you've hit your annual out-of-pocket maximum (unless you're out-of-network)))
I absolutely do not understand "deductible", which seems to mean something different every time I look at it.
And it gets more esoteric from there.
I usually just pay cash-on-the-barrel for healthcare. Most places do a "same day payment" discount that can be up to 40%.
You understand it about as much as I do. Esoteric is a really good way to describe it 😅
I absolutely do not understand "deductible", which seems to mean something different every time I look at it.
An amount you deduct from the payout of your coverage, typically in exchange for a lower premium. Often, here at least, health insurance will be a per-year deductible and auto insurance per-claim.
If you understand that, great, I'm very happy for you.
I can explain it very simply. In the US (and I assume worldwide) insurance is an industry that exists to collect premiums and deny claims. The business model is highly successful because if consumers do not wish to participate, the government will assist them by making it mandatory.
Chinese language
中文很簡單的，不用怕
No comprendo : (
How things have gotten so bad/why so many people relish in cruelty to the point it has become a mundane fact of life present in every social and economical system we have created.
my own brain
I have been obsessed with truth since as long as I can remember. It was the core motivation of my academic life. Especially in an absolute since. The more I learn the more it slips from my fingers and existence seems to pull further away from it be it political redefining or quantum behavior.
The “funny” response is “everything”. The “serious” response nobody wants to hear.
WWE and soap operas
They're kinda the same thing, no?
Yep, so when I say I find WWE stupid I usually get the response that "It's just like a soap opera!" So basically I find the story lines for both to be terrible writing, but the WWE at least has some athletics... but not as good as you'd find in even an action movie. So it fails to be an interesting story and fails to have interesting stunts.
As someone who really loves pro wrestling, it's not really for everyone. It's about telling small stories which may or may not be consistent with previous lore, but the best ones are. Instead of having a solid structure, it's like a TTRPG where there are characters, and there are events, and the drama comes from how these people react to the unfolding events, while other people react to their own events.
And sometimes reality creeps in, whether by design or chance, and everyone's gotta scramble to adjust to it, how their character would react.
And then there's the crowd. Pro wrestling is the only story I know of that can (and will) change outcomes in real time in response to crowd reaction. A Babyface will act heel-ish to put over a guy being cheered by the crowd, but at the end of the day they'll still be a Babyface
It's amazing
Privilege and exception existing when people say they want equality and justice. They don't. Why not? It's like they want to live an unstable life.
Quantum entanglement.
In short: social media platforms and the people who control them have poisoned the world.
why people wear earrings
cute
Kiswahili
Quaternions.