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  • Idno man, that’s sounds like a very America brained argument. When people say free healthcare they don’t mean we should have self sustaining health slaves colony to heal us up for no money. Obviously it’s going to cost tax money if it’s not directly billing the consumer.

    Public healthcare also doesn’t mean free healthcare. In Iceland it’s subsidised 90% with a wax payment of like $200 monthly or something so it’s not free, but it is public. You can also have free but private



  • Step one, write in a dream journal or just try to remember the dream as soon as you wake up. Doing this will improve your dream memory instead of it just fading away.

    Step two, have a check to see if you’re dreaming as a habit. Holding your nose closed and breathing through it is a nice one since you’ll be able to breath anyway in a dream.

    Step three, establish cues, like every time you walk through a door or whatever just so you’re doing it frequently, the more the better.

    Step four, wait until you get a dream where you try breathing through your nose. You’ll become lucid instantly and gain control over the dream.

    Step five is just exploration of how to maintain the lucid dream state. Generally it’s very exciting to have a lucid dream but excitement wakes you up. Spinning around in circles and trying to involve all senses such as touch, smell, taste etc will help you make the dream clearer and more real.

    I used to be into this and had a blast flying around, teleporting, conjuring and whatnot.










  • Most recently when I used Windows was because of work. I’ve been seeing these posts for a while now and I can make some valid arguments.

    • Anti cheat games
    • Adobe products (Web is not the same)
    • MS Office desktop
    • Work has processes linked to Windows specifically (server that only works on IIS Express maybe?)
    • Big legacy codebase where they don’t match filename casing.
    • Specific Visual Studio scripts or plugins for a DSL.
    • Security requirements that need windows APIs (like mandating crowdstrike)
    • Music production with a Ableton (it works but it’s not noob friendly).
    • You have deep knowledge of Windows and getting up to speed on Linux would take a year without guarantees you have a comparable system.
    • Your client is on Windows and you’re making a desktop Windows app that’s not cross platform.

    Thankfully none of these apply to me so I’m on Linux but I can see how this is an issue.



  • Not all companies need to grow. Some do perfectly fine by just maintaining their current output like a owner operated single person plumbing company.

    Another example can be Walmart, they don’t need to grow but investors prefer growth so it becomes a focus.

    There are some companies that need absolutely to grow to survive. This is seen a lot in tech where in order for the business model to make sense they would need some big quantity of users.

    Let’s say you got seeded 10M and managed to get to a minimal product with 10k users that get you $2 in revenue monthly but your cost are around 50k monthly. It means you’re making a loss but with 100k users you’d make a profit. To get to 100k you need more investment but to justify that investment being sound you need show growth.

    So in general if being bigger gets you economies of scale then making a loss early is fine as long as you can get the investor money you need to survive. So to survive as a business you need to grow.

    Those are two ends of a spectrum and everything in between exists as well. So quick answer would be “Companies don’t always need to grow but some really do because their business model only works at a different scale”.