Is this too much to ask? : whitepeopletwitter

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 13 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Waking up without alarm to go surfing?
Where the fuck happens that?
Usually we need to get up at fucking 7 to catch the early good waves and that's in the single week we can afford to be somewhere at the beach

And I know, that is already a high level of complaining, but c'mon, you can't just sleep and go surfing whenever. The sea dictates and that's part of the experience to feel like the little thing surfing a ball of energy in an unforgiving sea, that doesn't give a shit about your preferences.

Do I only go to the wrong places or is this just part of her bullshit?

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't think the person in the post cares about good waves, I think he cares about hanging out on a beach with a morning cocktail near some surfboards

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago

Well, ok
Can be nice too, but calling it surfing is a disgrace
Probably they don't care about that - and I'm not caring as much to really complain
Have fun at the beach, whatever...

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

His bullshit, heh. It's the dude posting.

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, plenty of people wake up naturally well before 7, so I imagine those people could get up without an alarm to go surfing.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm still really suspicious about those morning people...

[–] SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 1 points 9 hours ago

Different tokes for different blokes

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Too much sand. Let me commit banditry and hate crimes like my ancestor, nobody likes Utah Mormons anyway what's the harm?

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Hate crimes and contempt for sand you say…

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Less so contempt more so general annoyance, loose wet sand fucks up my balance too much and is kinda in the same region as wetlands in my opinion. Also Anakin didn't commit hate crimes, he is simply an aggressive negotiator he does commit war crimes though.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I would argue that the purge of the Jedi Temple falls more on the line of hate crime than war crime. The Clone Wars are the public war between the Republic and CIS, and a quieter religious war between the Jedi Order and the Sith, both of which fit the legal definition of “religion”. Crimes committed by agents of the Republic or CIS would most likely be war crimes. Order 66 and the burning of the Temple are a grey area. Anakin/Vader never served an agent of the CIS, he pledged his fealty to the Sith, became a religious convert, and led Republic troops to slaughter other Republic forces. His motivation was driven both by his new religious belief, that hate and rage would make him powerful, and by embracing the feelings he held that he had been deceived/denied/manipulated by the Jedi. Vader killed the Jedi because of their religion and because of his new religious beliefs. By the time he kills the leaders of the CIS, that’s a war crime because the Republic had become the Empire and Vader was an agent of the Empire.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In the defense of Anakin I'm pretty sure that the purging of the Jedi Temple is a crime of passion at that point. According to the novelizations he was severely sleep deprived and basically in a mild state of panic attack through much of episode three, you stop functioning particularly well after about day three of insufficient sleep Anakin was on like day fourteen or something. Point is Anakin basically did the equivalent of not sleeping for a week only to wake up in a cult. I don't think he got proper sleep until he went off to slaughter the CIS council.

Though I guess it was still a hate crime given that he was taking orders from Palpatine and it was definitely a hate crime on his part, hell I'm pretty sure he would consider it some type of retribution for the purging of Koriban.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I’d say disarming Mace could be a crime of passion. Anakin went there to ensure Mace didn’t kill Sidious, even pointed out what Mace was about to do was illegal, then acted in a way that he knew would be the death of Mace.

But the Temple has conspiracy and premeditation. Sidious comments that once the Jedi find out what has happened to Mace they’ll swarm and kill them both, so they have to move quickly. Also promises by doing this, Anakin will gain strength in his new “religion” so he can save Padme. He might be running low on sleep but he still had time to assemble the 501st and aura farm the fuck out of his entrance.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Look Anakin post episode 2 aura farms like a motherfucker, doesn't matter if it's EU or Canon he is going in there to make everyone look bad and it scales inversely with the number of limbs he has. Regardless given how many braindead actions I've made due to sleep deprivation Anakin may have very well have shutdown after getting mace killed if Palpatine didn't give him directions. But fair enough regardless of any other factors everything can trace back to Palpatine and to an extent Mace not giving Anakin something to do in the meantime while he dealt with Palpatine. Seriously Mace should've dumped Anakin on Cin Drallig or Jocasta Nu while he went to crack open a boy with the cold ones.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Mace isn’t known for great decisions. This all good have been avoided if he’d granted Anakin the rank of master. Might even have not gotten to the standoff if Mace had taken the information “hey, the Sith Lord behind both sides of the war is the dude in charge of the Republic, and presumably ridiculously OP” and mobbed in with three dudes who’s defensive strategy was “die”. It’s noteworthy that when Mace and crew enter, only Mace is aura farming. Dooku never aura farmed; died. Maul aura farms like a motherfucker; just keeps coming back. What was Lucas telling us?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Honestly this discussion is kinda making me want to see a resurrection of the old Star Wars What if comics. Make them into books broken into EU and canon continuities, there's certainly a market for it given how many What If channels there are on YouTube focused on it.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 21 points 23 hours ago

i have zero desire for riches.

i just want [riches]

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly this isn't to crazy. I know some people like this who moved to Thailand and Indonesia and they work in tourism and their lifestyles are pretty much exactly like this except taking a few people out fishing or up a mountain.

You could probably even do this in the us if you found the right place. You could definitely do it in nz if you pretended like you were looking for work.

[–] aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 3 points 9 hours ago

NZ job seeker benefit system definitely would not let you do this lol. You've clearly never been through it.

You're not paying rent, eating well, and sipping wine on $360 per week lol.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 7 points 20 hours ago

There's loads on Airbnb experiences. When I was in LA I went out in some guys boat, he takes people out a few times a week and it pays for his boat. There was people doing guided walks round the city and stuff

[–] auntieclokwise@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

As long as you live frugally and in a reasonable COL area, this isn't crazy expensive. Doable with a couple million in net worth. Huge difference between that and what many of the rich are worth. The reality is that a million dollars isn't what it used to be and the fight isn't with people with single digit millions, it's with people with triple digit millions and up. Yes, having single digit millions feels like being rich in today's economy to many, but, in the eyes of the truly wealthy, a single digit millionaire might as well be a destitute homeless person.

[–] SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The phrase "ultra wealthy" really doesn't do the concept of "a billion" justice in the minds of us creatures that typically can't visualize quantities of distinct objects greater than 3 in number before beginning to add a layer of simplification by counting in multiples in order to conceive of the entire quantity simultaneously.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Doable with a couple million in net worth.

Stopped reading here.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

A couple of million dollars is outside the realm of possibility for 99 percent of the population at this point in time, excluding property value.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 2 points 13 hours ago

The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars. To a billionaire, a mere millionaire might as well be someone on welfare.

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 16 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

One million seconds = ~11 days

One billion seconds = 31 years

It's not one order of magnitude - it's three.

One billion vs one million is the difference between a dollar candy ($1) and a full-time paycheck ($1,000).

The space between a nice bottle of wine ($50) and a median priced automobile ($50,000).

The delta between an expensive night out ($250) and a fucking house ($250,000).

And ultimately,

The failure of a working class income ($30,000 - or $15/hr x 40hrs FTE) and the assholes who rule us ($30,000,000).

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Soon they'll be trillionaires, and there will be no stopping them.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 9 hours ago

Elon fucking Musk...

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

They will stop themselves, their politicians will cannibalize them, silver lining!

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 5 points 22 hours ago

Yes, the money on the higher end is measured using a log scale: there are people just like me, 10x richer, 100x richer, etc. simply because money helps to create money even with safe hedging.

The scale is the problem of capitalism, there's not so much we can do about it today. What could be achieved in our lifetime, is the progressive tax scale that although does not stop exponential growth, at least it tries.

And no, fuck Europe. Progressive tax scale in Europe doesn't flatten the exponential incomes, it affects only regular workers. Which may be good, but it's not enough

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[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

"Call me unambitious, but I want the benefits of being wealthy."

That's all I read.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 217 points 1 day ago (18 children)

I mean, if all the wealthy did this instead of their endless grind to own more and more at the expense of everyone else, the world would be a lot better.

The ultra wealthy have a hoarding mental illness. Most people would have stopped working long before they got to the point they did.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (19 children)

I've had this same thought. Like, if I ever had the opportunity to be as rich as Bezos or Musk, I don't think I'd make it because I would've stopped so much earlier.

At a certain point, I'd just think "Sweet, we're set for life, and I can spend all my time with my wife and kids." Why would I sacrifice that kind of life just to see numbers on my bank accounts go up in a way that no longer meaningfully affects us?

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You can totally do this with remote income of 1,000 usd/mo.

For example, in Hua Hin, Thailand you can get a small place for 300 usd/mo and remaining 700 is enough to hang out, meditate and wind surf every day. Lots of places like this around the world and it's really not hard to make 1,000 usd/mo remotely if work on it. You can even do instructing if you get good at a particular water sport completely legally as well though you won't be making more than 1k/mo but you'll be making a lot of friends :)

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 51 points 1 day ago (12 children)

A quote I like:

Nobody wants to solve problems. Everyone just wants to get rich enough so the problems don't apply to them anymore.

It's true. Same for disillusioned me nowadays too.

[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I just want to get rich enough to run a non profit apartment complex for my marginalized community.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

We should talk. I've some ideas about this.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

What a pessimistic take and I'd really disagree with it. Many people actually want to work on challenging problems and this "get away" mentality is mostly a symptom of people being tired out by bad systems. There are definitely people who want to hang out and do nothing but I'd say that a minority overall. People love creating stuff, period.

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, that was my way of thinking too some many years ago.

And all my enthusiasm and doing stuff resulted in.... What I have now. A world where I have little time for myself, where I have to grind money in a job type I'm too experienced in to switch away from, in a world that keeps getting more dystopian every year.

And I watch with horror how the next generation is falling for fascist populist rethoric politics and voting for them because they feel the same way as me but lack the life experience to realize that they are voting for the wolf in sheep clothing.

Without money I can't change anything.

I hate money and I hate that I have to want a lot of it.

Keep hold of your idealism. Perhaps it will serve you better than it has me.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Well I wish you find success soon then! 🙏

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Kind of reminds me of a sign that they have at Jimmy Johns.

The investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked…

Inside the small boat were several large fin tuna.

The banker complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisherman replied…

“Only a little while.”

The banker then asked why he didn’t stay out longer and catch more fish? The fisherman said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs.

The banker then asked…

“But what do you do with the rest of your time?”

The fisherman said…

“I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a nap with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my friends, I have a full and busy life.”

The banker scoffed…

“I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat, and with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually, you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to a big City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

The fisherman asked…

“But, how long will this take?”

To which the banker replied…

“15-20 years.”

The fisherman thought for a moment and then asked…

“But what then?”

The banker laughed and said that’s the best part…

“When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”

And, once again the fisherman asked…

“Then what?”

The banker said…

“Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take naps with your wife, stroll to the village in the evening, sip wine and play your guitar with your friends!”

[–] grue@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Oh, the irony of having that sign at a corporate workplace staffed by wage slaves.

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What would you do with a million dollars?

Nothing man. Nothing.

Man, you don't need a million dollars to do that.

Office Space

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 25 points 1 day ago

Slight difference between doing nothing in a building and doing nothing under an overpass though.

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