Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "ColdFusion" channel.

  1. Most people are not very intelligent, even those who happen to get rich by luck or a narrow ability.
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  2. I stopped buying their otherwise excellent phones because of all the non-removable Samsung bloatware.
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  3. A Ponzi scheme based on the greater fool theory is an industry like selling Fentanyl on the street is a mobile pharmacy.
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  4. Rich investors too fvcking stupid for due diligence deserve to lose it all. Non-technical people are functionally illiterate when it comes to understanding how to learn about tech and vet assertions outside their expertise. People were once rightly ashamed to be illiterate. In 2023 they should be ashamed to be tech-illiterate because without basic knowledge of how to selectively learn what you need to, you'll be lost. The worthless US primary education system is no help.
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  5. Financiers cannot ruin your life unless YOU enable that by making unwise choices. I met people who did fine during the Great Depression and listened to them. I would never for example get an adjustable rate mortgage. It's too late for old people but younger ones may benefit from my simple and VERY common example. I haven't felt a recession since 1981. Enlist or commission. Serve at least 20 years preferably in a specialty with many future employment options (preferably USAF or now the Space Force). If the .mil world is out get a government job then cling on like grim death until you vest retirement. A vested retirement is worth killing for. Some can manage it in good unions (IBEW, pipe welders etc). Others may choose the Merchant Marine. Look for gigs your peers do not since most people follow the herd off a cliff. Live BELOW your means all the time with no exceptions and become highly self-sufficient (I do all my home and vehicle repair and upkeep, anyone can and my wife is proof). Buy cheap property away from cities (cities are bad, don't live there) then pay it off while renovating it yourself. Don't buy a McMansion, buy the house you intend to retire in. Big homes don't really make your life better, they just add upkeep burden and higher property taxes. Don't buy new cars. Do focus ruthlessly on getting the most reliable and easy to maintain vehicle(s) that suit your use case. Don't buy new furniture (most of it's junk) except perhaps a good ergonomic office chair. Don't buy a new house. Do buy as much property as you can manage preferably in a SLOWLY growing area that's still zoned agricultural so you have freedom. (I can target practice or hunt on my own land, wrench what I like, keep backyard chickens etc.) Do learn to do nearly everything most people pay others to do for them. They're ordinary humans like you are. None of the above is exotic or difficult. A lot of it's fun and done right your only debt will be a modest mortgage. You don't need to live on the coast or in a big city or anywhere with high overhead. Let the suckers do that. I'm far from rich but retired at 47 and half my income is discretionary because I don't waste it on trifles yet have plenty of toys. Most people are silly and unfocused. Don't be most people. Hang out with people smarter than you are at what you want to learn. Have no useless or low-competence friends because failure really is contageous. If you live in a bad area scrape it off and LEAVE so you don't get taken down by toxic peers. Pick a skill that pays you to travel then go see the world or at least more of the US. Staying in one place is limiting.
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  6. Degenerate gamblers are hilarious but the house is always the big winner.
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  7. Corruption IS the American dream. Lies and greed built this country on the backs of the ignorant barely literate masses.
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  8. Note that luxury crops are not required for survival so the taxpayers have no reason to support their production, but no one can accuse the American public of intelligence.
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  9. Failure to understand aviationists, not bean counters, should run aircraft companies wrecked Boeing and because the human obstacles become wealthy in place they have zero incentive to resign and get out of the way. Aviationists built the aviation industry which unlike other industries cannot benefit from people best suited to running dollar stores. They should be purged ruthlessly because only REMOVAL ends human problems. People middle-age and older cannot change because cognitive decline (no matter how intelligent they are otherwise) freezes their ability to WANT to adapt. I predict Boeing will require decades to fix because aviationist culture has been wiped out. Like HP under Carly Fiorina, the problems run the company so their wealth depends on maintaining their position.
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  10. Fools deserve to be mulcted. Mathis was the most gullible because if anyone should know not to be taken in by a th0t it would be an old Marine. She wasn't even hot so what did those chumps see in her?
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  11. Failure as a car, yes. NOT a failure based on the valuable related technology development Apple got out of the deal. Of course nearly all the comments will be stupid jokes unrelated to the subject at hand. For Apple ten billion is couch money.
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  12. People too emotionally weak to coldly treat handheld computers as tools SHOULD use whatever works for them to master themselves. Even most intelligent people are of narrow competence and most never were nor will be techies. Their addiction to trifles is mentally deadly leading to "oversocialization" and other psych problems. Ignorance is a problem because the ignorant confuse "quantity of infotainment" meant to hold the attention of the less intelligent with access to vital information. If you have no PRACTICAL use for a thing you don't need that thing. The internet puts the libraries of history at our fingertips but most users just defecate trifling idiotic despicable mind-numbing garbage into their own minds because they never learnt HOW to usefully process information. I don't need to discard my phone because it is strictly a tool for navigation, (functional) communication and (functionally useful) information like weather conditions and finding restaurants on the road.. I don't crave the social aspect because I don't value silly things. Become the kind of person who regards popular culture with proper contempt and free yourself from that waterfall of garbage. "News" not directed at professionals is mostly trash to be ignored. I don't need different equipment to limit my access to trash because I'm insulted that trash is proffered to me. Free your mind, despise trifles, and if you want entertainment make it truly educational. A day you learn nothing is a day wasted. BTW I do not game or even watch much fiction. The real world is vastly more interesting and useful to learn about, not what some thot wore to the Grammys.
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  13.  @neilpountney9414  German automobile quality has declined considerably. If I bought new I'd buy Japanese (and then only after exhaustive research because as a mechanic I trust no company).
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