21 sats \ 0 replies \ @alt 2 May \ parent \ on: 🕛 Time preference: Which one describes you? culture
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. I think we all feel like that at times, the high time preference path is the easiest.
Yes. Governments have no business dictating what people can and cannot put in their bodies, and the idea that they can outlaw a totally natural substance (a plant) is nonsense.
Any measure that reduces the absurd restrictions on these substances will be a net good thing in the long term.
Surely you'd like to be low time preference?
High time preference means that you highly value when you get things or do things, hence you want them sooner rather than later.
Low time preference means you aren't so concerned about when you get things or do things, and so are more willing to wait and build things up for the future.
Laws and regulations exist only to benefit those who make them, hence their interpretation is bent to whatever is most useful to the government at any given time.
This was an interesting read. The only time I've managed to damage my phone by dropping it was when it fell out of my pocket getting out of my car, landing face-down on gravel. A stone cracked the screen (I say that, it was actually a screen protector, the real screen was fine).
My impression from most corners of the internet is that my generation thinks all the problems with inflation and the economy are caused by "capitalism and corporate greed".
Most seem to think that at a minimum, the solution is more government intervention and more tightly regulated markets, and there's a very vocal group who think the way out is to abolish capitalism altogether and enact some form of socialism.
I was a prolific reader as a child. In my later teenage years and as I moved into university, I lost my habit of reading.
Now I'm in my mid-twenties, I am trying to make a point of reading more. It can be slow going, with the busyness of everyday life, but I find it is time well-spent, and effort well-exerted.
Disgusting, and the excuses by the museum are an awful attempt to downplay it. A museum should be a place of learning, and of historical accuracy.
If this guide was purely an entertainment piece, it should be shown in controlled screenings alongside clear explanations that it's for entertainment only.
Well colour me surprised. Who could have possibly predicted this? Fundamentally worthless tokens declined in value after the initial hype died down? Shocker!
My education was centred on physics with a focus on space technology and environments, but in my career I've spun off into materials science.
I'm a scientist and I think of myself as very logical and serious. I don't believe in the paranormal.
That said, as a child I have had paranormal experiences, and I try to avoid visiting 'haunted' locations. I would not allow a Ouija board in my home, and would certainly not allow one to be used there.
It's a known cognitive dissonance that I have and for the time being I am absolutely fine with that.
I've answered the question in the post body, not the title, but it's really confusing. The results of this poll are totally useless because there's no way to know how other people have interpreted it.