Posts by Zachary White19

ruggedraven36 said:Let's be real—school is basically just a factory designed to churn out future employees.

We really need to reform the system to produce people who won't work...

Sam Martinez9 said:It’s a simple matter of supply and demand. If wages remain stagnant—and we have to remember that employees are also consumers—while inflation climbs, a drop in sales is almost inevitable. If employers actually stepped up and increased pay, people would have more disposable income, which would naturally drive sales back up.

The goal is basically to be the first one to hike prices and the last one to give out raises...

Ashley Robinson58 said:People love to throw around the phrase 'indisputable fact.'

If a fact is inherently true, adding 'indisputable' is just redundant noise. It’s already settled. Unless, of course, we're now dealing with facts that can be debated.

Saying something is a fact can be true or false, just like any other claim. When you call it an "undeniable fact," you're basically asserting that the fact itself is indisputable. It’s like saying it’s an undeniable fact that it's an undeniable fact. That’s just the top tier of logic right there... and that's just how it is.

Drew Gonzalez75 said:☕

There’s bound to be a parking spot or a garage for rent nearby.😉

This guy complaining about parking might have to actually rent a space...

Call Code Enforcement to clear those cars off the sidewalk... then maybe people will stop leaving their trash and scrap wood everywhere.

Maybe the logic goes like this. To actually be called a wise person, you have to meet two conditions: you have to be wise, and you have to genuinely want to share that wisdom without any ego... A wise person is someone people actually turn to for advice. If someone is smart but malicious, sneaky, or just plain corrupt, they won't give you honest guidance. They’ll just lie to trip you up. You wouldn't go to them for help, so they wouldn't hold that status...

If you try to define wisdom based on that specific view of a sage, you end up with what Sisyphus is talking about.

"Quote"

feralranger said:Teddy, are you pulling my leg? Honestly, up until this point, you haven't sounded like someone who failed their basic logic course.

You claim things are generally one way, yet you refer to those two things (when, in reality, those two things are quite specific).

Why is it perfectly acceptable to "pair" the terms cunning and criminality, yet—per your logic—it becomes an issue to pair wisdom and criminality? What, pray tell, is the distinct difference here?

(It lies precisely in the empathy and ethics that you seem to be overlooking; that is why cunning can be associated with crime, because unlike wisdom, cunning lacks any inherent foundation in empathy or ethical considerations.)

Cunning feels more like a competition, kind of like trying to outsmart someone... whereas wisdom is what you lean on when there's no rivalry involved. When you go to a wise person for answers, it isn't some sort of contest...

I don't really see how you're linking wisdom to ethics... It just feels kind of off to me...

feralranger said:Quincy:

Ethan Gomez82 As Ethan Gomez82 points out: There is quite a vast amount of information that simply fails to occur to me upon my first attempt at reasoning, yet simultaneously, there is an abundance of insight that strikes me instantly—instances where one can clearly observe just how far a certain brand of wise crime sits from any semblance of actual ethics.

That argument simply doesn't hold water. If we were following that logic, one might claim the existence of a wise crime or perhaps some sort of base wisdom—but that is an absurdity, isn't it? By its very definition, wisdom is inextricably linked to ethics, making such a concept fundamentally impossible. Wait, are you seriously suggesting that a wise crime or a base wisdom could actually exist?

Quincy:

Ethan Gomez82 As Ethan Gomez82 points out: Pinpointing that exact, golden moment to offload a stock position requires an immense amount of wise crime. One would need to possess a deep, almost obsessive mastery of economics, sociology, psychology, and politics, among many other disciplines—and more importantly, one must have the uncanny ability to weave those disparate threads together at precisely the right instant. Even most highly intelligent individuals fail miserably at this, yet a select few seem to possess this particular knack. It is a feat steeped in profound wisdom, though I assure you, it is entirely devoid of any ethical substance whatsoever.

It is nothing more than data collection and mathematics: statistics, probability, analytics... all that, along with its practical application, much like meteorology. It has absolutely nothing to do with wisdom. Even when a meteorologist makes a perfectly accurate prediction, we don't exactly go around calling them wise.

There's also the idea of "outsmarting" someone. What does that have to do with ethics?

I can think of four related ideas: wisdom, a wise person, being wiser, and outsmarting. It feels like what you're getting at is more about how people use the label "wise person"...

bluemason3 said:There's really no point in comparing different species, let alone comparing inanimate objects to living things.

A person who is too dim to survive is definitely not wise.

Didn't the tortoise outsmart the hare and win the race?

If a meteor hits you in the head and kills you, is the guy standing two feet further away any wiser than you were...

bluemason3 said:It depends on whether you're looking at the species as a whole or the individuals within it. A fly that manages to outsmart the rest? That’s just a smart fly.

If we're going by evolutionary logic, you could compare a Fox News viewer to a jellyfish and try to figure out who's smarter, but I don't think that gets you anywhere... Not sure that's really wisdom. Maybe try comparing a rock to a Fox News viewer instead. Is the rock wiser? What can a Fox News viewer even do to a rock?

bluemason3 said:A wise person is essentially someone with enough life experience to read their surroundings correctly and make the right calls.

By that logic, wisdom is defined by how successfully you hit those evolutionary targets—stacking resources, staying alive, and passing on your genes.

So, if we follow that thread, being wise just means being successful. In that case, your average Republican local official with a four-bedroom house, three Mercedes, and two mistresses is miles ahead of Hegel.

By those evolutionary standards, jellyfish would be geniuses... even without brains. And flies are pretty damn smart too...

Waiting in line at the grocery store actually builds herd immunity...

Michelle Davis15 said:Seriously, why don't they just hire more delivery drivers? I don't get it. There are more people looking for work now than there used to be. It feels like they just don't care. Maybe the new owners are just looking for a quick exit strategy rather than actually investing in the local market.

Hiring more people isn't enough, though. You'd need more vans, bigger warehouses, all that stuff too. And what happens to all that extra capacity once things go back to normal?...

Morgan Brown4 said:So, you're saying Capak and Markotić are just political puppets and hypocrites? Fine. I'll even give you the benefit of the doubt on Beroš—even though everywhere I look, people are singing his praises as a doctor, a scientist, a professor, and now a minister.

By that logic, I guess Đikić, Lauc, Rudan, and Primorac are all in the same boat too? Just more political tools and phonies because they actually support these measures? 🤷

Like I said before, we're lucky enough to have experts running the local grocery stores instead. We're really in luck...

Morgan Brown4 said:🤦

Look, this stuff was decided by health experts who actually know what they're doing. They wouldn't pull these moves without a reason.

But hey, you're the resident expert on this forum, so I'm sure you know way better than they do. 🤦

Yeah, because in the USA, medical professionals are always chosen based on their actual skills. Just imagine the disaster if healthcare decisions were made by political hacks and hypocrites instead... our whole system would be in a coma.

Sophia Moore6 said:Oh, they’ll spend it one way or another. At the end of the day, you either have to drag yourself down to the store or just handle your business online. It’s not like the money just vanishes into thin air, right?

Well, thank God it’s not up to you, is it? Honestly, it's exactly this kind of mindset that prompted me to start this thread in the first place. When people start getting all worked up because they have to wait in line, or when they start whining that shops should always be open until 11:00 PM, I just look at you lot and lose my patience. That's when I start snapping back.

Last week, a buddy and I actually locked some guy in the restroom at one of those local shops; they didn't even find him until the night janitor showed up.

I decided to skip commenting on the last two posts because frankly, they were completely missing the point. Pure fantasy.

And how does that have anything to do with the topic (or having a brain)?

Sophia Moore6 said:Let’s be honest: we would all be perfectly fine if every single retail shop and business operated on a strict schedule, closing their doors by 5:00 PM or maybe 6:00 PM at the absolute latest, regardless of whatever pandemic nonsense is going on. It really just comes down to habit, doesn't it?

So why is it that some people refuse to accept this simple reality?
If you're one of those lazy types who demands "flexibility" just because you've grown accustomed to having everything available at your whim, don't even bother replying with your endless list of excuses.
And please, spare me the nonsense about how limited hours will stifle consumer spending. That is a ridiculous argument.
People will always find a way to spend their money, whether the shops are open late or not. 😉

You can make up any crazy rule about store hours and people will eventually adapt, but that doesn't mean it's actually smart. If you made a law saying people could only enter a shop if their left foot was bare, they'd show up barefoot on that side. Then you'd be sitting here on the forum asking if it wouldn't be better if both feet were bare.

Michelle Sanders said:Look, I honestly have no clue what I’m doing wrong here. I did the exact same thing last year and everything worked perfectly fine. They brought the card in for a certificate renewal and now, suddenly, nothing works at all.

I’ve reinstalled everything, read through every single manual at least four times, and I still keep hitting the same wall.

"This page cannot be displayed"

And it's happening on Chrome, IE, and Firefox.

I've tried basically every trick in the book:

- I added the IRS website to my security level exceptions.
- Java applets are enabled.
- I reinstalled AC 6.2.
- I even downgraded Java three different times just to see if maybe some older version would play nice, but nope—nothing (tried 7u55, 7u80, and the modern 8u191).
- I added the root certificate along with the user certificates (which I need to use anyway).
- I tried enabling IE compatibility mode because one guide said to, but then the site just tells me I have to turn it off... like, seriously? Which one is it?
- And who knows what else...

I was assigned to get this fixed over the weekend, and I haven't the slightest idea if the problem is the card, the reader, or just their crappy website.

I am losing my mind here. I don't know what else to try, and I'm really backed into a corner with this one...

But which page isn't loading? Is it the IRS site, some online banking portal, or something else...?

Henry Edwards33 said:Not really, though it would be pretty hilarious if that actually fixed things 😁

Still happening on my end too. I click the window, type the PIN, hit enter and get an error. If I just redo it without clicking anything first, it works fine...

Henry Edwards33 said:Yeah, I've been stuck in that same rut for about two weeks now too 😢

The trick is you can't actually click on the window where you type your PIN. If you use the mouse to click inside the box first, it just throws an error when you try to submit it. You have to just start typing without clicking anything... sounds ridiculous, but that's what works for me. Give it a shot and let me know if it helps.