Hmm, so I have thought about this for a while.

There isn’t a ton of reason to think aliens are here.

1. The main reason, is because of how things are. Things are rough and chaotic. Our leaders don’t seem to even see 5 years into the future. The world is very exploitative. It’s very arbitrary. It just doesn’t make much sense to think that some powerful mind is in control of it. It doesn’t seem planned. It seems like a bunch of hairless monkeys that live short lives developed technology a few people ago and are stumbling through everything.

2.Aliens if they have the tech to visit earth. Are very likely to be post scarcity, and to have less competitive ideas. The values of our leaders do not align with the idea of aliens at all at least in all likelihood.

3.Anyone who isn’t a child or short on intelligence probably realizes that everything on TV and the internet is pretty much a lie, intentional or not. Humans barely know anything about anything as it has always been, and the world is very much controlled by the upper class of wealthy people.

There is maybe a shred of reason to think they may be here. One is that life on earth has continued for many billions of years, which is amazing when you really think about it. The conditions required for life to perpetuate are quite narrow.

Another piece of evidence is virtually all of human history for many thousands of years revolves around extremely religious people and magic and all this stuff.

Another thread of reason is simply the logic of the Fermi paradox, we know there is likely at least hundreds of thousands of intelligent life forms in the galaxy alone, probably more like millions or billions.

So if they are here, they probably don’t want any contact with anyone or very few people. I don’t think politicians and rich people would be of interest to them. It’s also possible that they are so far beyond us in development that communication or acknowledgement of existence isn’t even something they care to establish. I mean what good does it do an ant to know humans exist? Mostly just makes them long for things they are not going to get from us. Even though we could give ants everything they want, we just don’t feel the desire for whatever reason. Maybe they judge us by our own level of empathy? They treat us like we treat lower animals?

This still doesn’t line up well with the apparent chaos of reality, however, if they had a secret agenda, it becomes more possible, just also not all that likely. There isn’t anything on the planet that would ever be of value to them except maybe the fruits of human knowledge of culture.

Maybe you have a guardian slav

Knowing is half the battle.

Well sure there isn’t a physical thing like class. It’s just an abstraction that we as humans came up with but I like the idea of owning (not indebted) a home, which to me signifies middle class. This is mainly because it gives you a lot of sovereignty. You can choose not to work continually, if the market doesn’t pay a fair rate. You expenses are relatively low and controllable, since you don’t have taxable income and you can survive, even retire in this ideal society.

These days that’s very difficult with inflated asset prices, fiat currency, property taxation of the common people and things like that.

Yes my definition isn’t anymore or less true then anyone else’s because class isn’t something that exists, but personally this is how I see it. I only think in terms of working class when it comes to labor law versus business and stuff. It doesn’t have much use to me outside of thinking about workers rights. Most more left leaning people that I’m aware of these days don’t particularly care about workers and stuff much these days. They care more about things like welfare or equality which to me isn’t really a working class issue so much as a low class issue. I’m not anti welfare by any means. I just don’t think I have every heard like an American Democrats professional or not, advocate for giving workers time off, or protecting their wages from excessive taxation or forced profit sharing or anything like that.

America isn’t a right wing or left wing system. Democrats are mostly right wing and mostly liberals, they are also hard capitalists. The Republicans are mostly alt right and borderline to full blown Nazi. Workers come nowhere in the equation of political parties or the average worker. Most democratic and Republican voters seem to be mostly interested in building a massive surveillance state, rent capitalism via high taxation on the poor and low taxation on the rich, controlling each other, controlling speech and ideas. This is what most Americans for the past few decades regardless of party has found important enough to vote in. If you want someone to care about the working class you will probably have to somehow get your average American to stop being obsessed with spying on everyone in their society first because that is way higher on your average voters priority list.

Probably because bittorrent didn’t have any way to rank users based on how much they seeded, and also the fact that it wasn’t configured properly out of the box with basically every program that I have viewed. By default, bit torrent destroys the CPU in your router with as many as 500 active connections.

Another reason is that so much software is commercial, and these companies want to maintain control over the servers for tax reasons but also so they can end the products life very early and try to force users to buy new versions. Not every video game does this but many of the more corporate and publicly traded ones do this.

I asked my nine year old daughter, and she said it doesn’t mean anything, it’s just brain rot to confuse the adults.

I think of class like this, lower class, is people who start with nothing. Their parents can’t save any money for whatever reason. They have to start working as soon as they are out of school. They will probably never own anything.

Middle class is more like. The parents own a home, the child will probably own a home. They can go to college. They can move somewhere that better fits them.

Upper class to me is like “good” families, people who have homes and investments. Where the children don’t necessarily have to work. Where getting some type of education is almost expected.

The ultra wealthy to me are not upper class, they are just criminals.

I think they do because they know there won’t be as many insects and the water will be colder for a few days.

It’s pro wrestling.

No it’s that everything is expensive and life is a lot of work but capitalism can’t make people fall in love so instead it will try to give birth through corpses.

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Do they respect you as a person? Do they let you have your own space and life? Do you feel like they are being fair and reasonable with their expectations of you? Do they get mad so they have an excuse to write you off or ignore you?

A person who loves you will always be reasonable towards you and treat you like a human being. They won’t be a perv and go through your stuff or gossip about you. They won’t try to take from you, but fair expectations are fair.

Stay away Roman slaver!

A better metric is homeownership to me. Someone who is middle class is secure and doesn’t have to rent nor pay debt. They only really have to work when it’s mutually beneficial. That is basically impossible to achieve in the modern world with the hundreds or thousands of micro taxes and cartel controlled corporate markets and complete lack of land for the lease it’s to live on without virtual indentured servitude. Even if you did spend your entire life buying a house the state would just take it away from your children with the brutal taxation. Without a home you are always going to be a slave and have to work at any shitty job just to have food and a roof over your head.

For me it’s more like 15-30 minutes. I still count it as awake because if I remember something in this time I can still wake up and do it and also I can remember some things from this period of sleep.

Or get a raspberry pi

The issue is that almost zero phones have custom roms available, and android is just a bad operating system to begin with. It’s designed much more around tracking rather than something like a server. You can’t do basic things like close programs or uninstall software or even choose how the memory is used. Basically unusable as a server for anything other than a toy. If you do find a ron for your phone somehow, it will suffer from many of the exact same issues. No closing apps, no access to the networking layers, massive security flaws due to a chaotic software landscape.

Mostly for protection and also for emergencies. I don’t hunt anymore because I can not make good use of the animal and also I don’t even particularly like game meat, but it’s nice to have that option if stuff goes to hell in the future. The defensive aspect I have used several times.

To me it always seemed crazy to trust other people with your protection. Not only are governments almost always run be psychopathic pedophiles who will murder millions for any number of reasons while surveiling the rest of the population, but humanity in general is not at all trustworthy. Most people are pretty evil. They will hurt innocent people. That’s how humans on average are.

You have too much gain.

But yeah it’s normal.

Honestly you shouldn’t judge anyone as a group, even billionaires. They are not all evil, probably mostly evil though even if just in the basic sense of destroying the world for profit, both physically and in terms of human happiness.

The time we spent the past 20 years fighting surveillance, private political funding, and proprietary systems will never be given back to us. That is something more valuable than money that the billionaires have collectively taken from us. When we do finally get our rights and humanity reinstated properly, that will be a lot of near wasted time for millions of people. Gave was one of the good ones. He had principles no matter how much money he had which is commendable. I consider Bill Gates to be one of the good billionaires too. Windows wasn’t really bad until he left the company.