>As far as I remember, Mulder's suit was meant to look like the cheap and ill-fitting suit that a low-level, young government employee would buy for a dress code and because he didn't want to think about clothing.
1000% times better than what people are wearing today.
Today is so hoodified you have office workers in sneakers.
The white shirt, suit and trench looks so good. ALSO people where not as obese. This has of course an effect on the fit.
His uniform was pretty much the federal worker equivalent of the off-the-rack oxford shirt and chinos for a corporate cubical drone like in Office Space.
Yes, the tech world brought "casual everyday" to the office. But, ironically, the SF tech scene is full of designer t-shirts and jeans, so the obscenely rich and/or sartorial types can still signal their elite status among casual wear...
The Mulder equivalent today would be wearing a clearance rack hoodie from the megamart, rather than the hand-woven, artificially distressed version from this year's runway show.
On the second question, you make the mistake of framing it as a completely personal choice. But we are formed by our environment. I had no chance growing up in the 00s. Everyone had jeans and hoodies, maybe a sweater. I did not pay attention. I carried that into my 20s and only in my 30s have I started to care about my clothes and weight, which I regret so, so much I want to die almost.
I blame everyone. My parents are and where preppy but they made the mistake of thinking I would pick it up through osmosis somehow. But getting things handed to you or seeing, you dont learn tools, what things are called. I really have had to study and try on things, I remember I saw well dressed people in our capitol and HM models for inspo. 4chan fa board has helped a lot too but now overrun with zoomers but there are good threads.
I am too paranoid to post myself openly online, I have no instagram nor an active facebook so I will not post some imgur of myself here. But for work I tend to go with business casual chinos, OCBD and boots or loafers. You must understand, everyone is casual here and wears jeans at most.
Same with books and quality movies. It really is a struggle to find quality, but the internet does help. Like finding xfiles. Our state does upload good old movies to sort though the modern slop.
Yes it is peak TV. Also sad how young people are. I was a child though. But am rewatching it. Yes no modern TV comes close. And the remake... I suspect HN aggress with the casting but I wont speak on it or I will be banned.
And you should read up on the Soviet system, the failure of central planning, their occupation of Germany (Eastern Germany vs West Germany)
The holodomor (Ukraine genocide, yes a real one not a pretend Gaza one)
Read on the current Ukraine war, do you even support it?
Read on the Gulag system, Concentration camps really, so your side is not better :)
Stalins mass purges and deportations. No free speech, press, assembly, one party state rule. You want this?
Read up on Chernobyl, the cover up.
Majorities in Poland (85%+), Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, etc., view the shift to democracy and markets positively. Living standards, education, and opportunities improved. Ukrainians overwhelmingly reject it post-independence and especially after Russian aggression. Baltics treat Soviet era as occupation, not legitimate rule.
Because I suspect you are a socialist. Not in the sense of like me in Sweden, but an actual tankie one.
Taking your 'tankie' comment, I'm not a hardline socialist.
I do not need to read up on soviet system because i'm german. I'm quite aware of gulag, concentraion camps etc.
Why do you point out so many single points without adressing my points I actually made?
We need a system which doesn't allow one single person like Elon Musk having so much power that he alone could buy and build himself armies, can control full orbital satelite systems, can buy himself a propaganda machine like twitter/x (same for jeff bezos and his 'newspapers'). Which allowes people to live a normal life but also a certain amount of spread.
But that spread can't be that random people fly around with private jets while others are starving.
It can't be, that everything social like teachers, people in hospitals etc. can barley survive while it people like me just get it handed.
Mistral is just not as good, saying this as a European, sadly. I support them and would like to see them get better in their models, for chat especially as that is what I use. Dont use any CC, APIs etc.
I avoid using and buying Chinese things due to the country. That is my view. They will turn on us too.
I don't think companies are hosting them because imagine the liability. Could be wrong though. Again I don't know much about these things I just know they exist.
I've been working on my own misaligned model and grok is definitely different enough with a syspronpt compared to all the other frontier models that I've considered using it to generate synthetic training data, however it leans really heavy into LLMisms which makes it not really worth it.
Tangentially I also really like the idea of llms as librarians they are trying out with grokapedia.
Not that you're wrong, but I think they were talking about it from a technical POV. I use deepseek to write exploits and red team("Malicious" code). It's alignment is under different values so it's nice to be able to at least swap between models for different uses.
To be charitable to TFA, there are a dearth of accurate and well-understood labels for the kind of X versus Y they want to make between national economies.
Even "First/Third world" has been fraying at the edges for decades since it was originally about political alignment.
Not in the UK but in Sweden. Smoking is already banned in restaurants, on train platforms, mostly all in public.
With health care being tax funded in regions, I dont want to pay for smokers bad health.
"oh but do you want to tax or prohibit unhealthy foods!!??"
Yes, first remove all drinks with sugar or heavily tax them. Not needed. Zero sugar drinks only.
2nd - price hike on snacks, chips, nuts, chocolate, "pick n mix" candy, sugar candy
3rd - BMI based health. Want any help for pain, surgery, whatever and your BMI is over 25? Lower it and you get it. Do you smoke? Stop. Do nicotine? Stop. Any hard drugs? Stop.
Nuts have good fats and are somewhat okay in a VERY moderate amount.
But they have a crazy amount of calories. Nuts are not a thing to snack on, if you eat more than one handful, but it is easy to eat an entire bag and at that point just eat chips.
"A small 1.5-ounce serving often contains 240–300 calories, while larger bags (e.g., 100g) can range from 570 to 750 calories."
I assume you are american, must be very blackpilling to visit Sweden. Imagine living in a functional democracy and society where things work like public transport and holidays.
I am American and I visited Stockholm for a week last year. It was nice and pretty but boy oh boy was it stifling. Copenhagen was way more relaxed by comparison.
I am American, I have never visited Sweden but I have visited Norway. The taxes on normal everyday things like food were as high as 25% and everyone I talked to expressed interest in America, either visiting or living there. I only know one person who moved from America to a Nordic country (Denmark) and she complained that everyone was racist and that it took several months to get an appointment for a root canal, during that time she just had to live with severe pain. I have zero desire to live in any Nordic country.
I assume you are american, must be very blackpilling to visit Sweden. Imagine living in a functional democracy and society where things work like public transport and holidays.
Not OP, but I'm not American, have been to Sweden (and lived most of my life in countries with better public healthcare than Sweden), and I also think yours is an aggressively conformist take. I'm not sure what value it is meant to be adding to the overall conversation. Save it for Reddit next time.
I'm permabanned on Reddit unfortunately so I cannot participate in that site :(
I make a new account and it is immediately shadowbanned + real banned for evading in 24h. Even with a VPN. They are crafty.
Anyway Reddit is leftie infested too, so they don't like me ether but I liked some specific hobby and work subreddits.
As below said we have that hardcore protestant work ethic, not suitable for everyone. Only Germans do it better.
My point is we have a functional society, healthcare, public transport, schooling and world leading companies, one of the highest HDI in the world etc. We are just the best :)
So you're a religiously-tinged nationalist. I'm happy that you're happy, but is that really meant to be particularly unique or interesting? Or even germane to the topic at hand?
mrbukkake said it was a very Swedish response and from there it went, the germane topic at hand, and I'm like, yea?
We banned smoking in public in 2005 and have had a special government alcohol store since 1955.
Nationalist is a bad word nowadays but then people cannot deny where people want to live is in the north or western Europe or USA/Canada. Maybe Japan and SK also.
I live in none of those places. I enjoy a (free) public healthcare system consistently ranked much higher than Sweden's, and smoking has been banned virtually everywhere except for designated areas for several decades. (There is much more public smoking in Europe than here.) Our HDI is equivalent to Sweden's, our household wealth and incomes are significantly higher; lower crime, more nature, much better weather. There are over two millions European migrants living here. Many are economic migrants - nurses and doctors, for example, since our public healthcare system pays better, and offers better work-life balance, than those in Europe.
The thing is, I still don't see how any of that matters. This is a pointless nationalist dick measuring contest that leads nowhere. You're not going to convince anyone of the superiority of Sweden, nor are you likely to be convinced of the superiority of other places, so what is the point of the discussion?
You can get every book ever realeased in PDF or ePUB on the web my guy. Hello?
Just because your internet is just TikTok on your phone...
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