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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    19 hours ago

    See, your son would learn to deal with scenarios like this if he followed my advice.

    With your plan he’s going to end up like you and be completely incapable of interacting with people who don’t treat him with kids gloves for being the owner’s kid…

    You still can’t even comprehend that people would treat the owners son differently.

    You are wildly out of touch, and if you cared for your son you’d make sure he wasn’t. You’re setting him up for failure but you don’t give a fuck unless the person warning you treats you like the owners wife.



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    Working for your dad is not the same as work experience…

    I started going with my dad on weekend masonry jobs as soon as I could wipe my own butt, and was “working” as soon as I was able.

    It was real work, and hard. But at the end of the day I was still working with my dad and that’s not the same.

    Even if you own a large business with 100 people, everyone knows your son is the owners kid and the experience they gain won’t translate well.

    Let your son get a normal job for a kid his age, unless the plan is full nepotism and you’re going to give him the company eventually.


  • I’ll admit that I don’t really know how that works, or how it’s enforced, or whatever

    They almost always mean “economic sanctions”.

    Cutting them off from “western banking”…

    Essentially not letting them buy/sell any stocks in the western market.

    Which unfortunately is headquartered in NYC, explaining why it’s the NY Stock Exchange.

    There are others, Europe has 5 worth over a trillion each and some others, Asia has the NICA index. But the American NYSE is worth over 25 trillion. It’s the big one.

    But trump personally would be very hard to sanction in other markets, because he’s so shady banking institutions usually won’t deal with him. It’s why he pivoted to crypto.

    He does have some money in NYSE, but that’s overseen by the SEC, and trump won’t sanction himself.

    Ironically what we’d see is tarrifs. America doesn’t make shit, and can’t afford to buy a lot of stuff now. So other big buyers can pressure the “producer countries” into marking up anything that goes in/out of America.


  • Always have…

    If you’re over 145 (where a normal test stops), it’s only like 1 in 750, but it means you’re over 30 points above around 80% of the population.

    30 points is the line where communication is noticably difficult.

    Being smart is like being tall. A little over average is great, but once you’re statistically insignificant you’re still jammed in the same hole as everyone else even tho you clearly don’t fit.

    Like, that was the whole point of the movie. It wasn’t a warning about the future it’s how an intelligent person has always viewed the world.

    The drug abuse correlation with high IQ isn’t just “novelty seeking”, it’s actively and intentionally getting on everyone else’s level, at least for a little bit.



  • Yeah.

    You knew him and he was your best friend, which you were happy with.

    Now he has a gf. And you aren’t the most important person to him. So you’re willing to date him to “beat” the other woman. And will likely lose interest once she’s gone since you didn’t have any before.

    If they break up and you’re still into him, shoot your shot.

    But it would be an incredibly dick move to say something now.


  • His leadership position was voted on before the DNC chair.

    So his threats to cut off funding to the state of any Dems that wouldn’t back him still had some teeth.

    It doesn’t now, mainly because the DNC immediately jumped into the largest twin esture into state parties, ever.

    He’s been a lame duck all but maybe a month of this senate leadership term, and will almost certainly lose it next year.

    If he doesn’t, it’s a bad sign.