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Food, housing, clothing if you're lucky, and maybe one day a job that pays $35k, but only after a year of working for room and board. I'm not saying it's not helping them or that it's not worth it, just that this article heaps praise on Taylor when it seems like all he was after was some cheap help.

Except the men are working for the entire year that they're there (if they stay that long) for, effectively, room and board? Maybe it's worth it to them, I dunno, all I know is Taylor is getting a pretty sweet deal. Re:recovery programs - you mean the kind that provide active support, regular counseling, etc like this guy isn't providing? And do you know how much AA meetings cost? Nothing.

There are only 2 things that can't be lawyered out of existence:

1. Buy the land and refuse to sell under any circumstances, but you might get eminent domained (or your local equivalent).
2. Blow up whatever gets built, but then you won't be around to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Basically the only real answer is to be so rich you can out-buy or out-lawyer anyone else.

These fuckin' questions, no doubt.

Frank Taylor’s idea for the Stable Recovery program was born six years ago out of a need for help

And a desire to not pay that help, apparently. He might eventually offer them a job, but even then it only pays a decent wage after 90 days.

The goal is to keep men in the program for a year as opposed to other recovery programs that run for 30, 60 or 90 days.

Yeah I bet. Free help for a year is a pretty sweet deal.

This isn't that uplifting after all. Maybe it helps, I don't doubt that, but Taylor gets a shitload of value out of it ($17/hr, purportedly what that labor is worth, times 2080 hours in a year = ~$35k per person per year.)

Good, driving music. I have a big list of liked songs on Spotify that I listen to while I'm exercising, but I'm slowly creating another playlist called 'Energy' that I add suitable songs to, with the intention of ultimately building a playlist full of such songs. It's kinda weird though, sometimes I feel like the music gets stale and repetitive, even with 800+ songs on shuffle, and that affects my motivation to exercise.

Conservatives don't have an ideology beyond 'I am a good person', not as a value judgement, but as an assertion of objective truth. It is inherently selfish.

• I am a good person so the things that I want are definitionally good and the things I don't want are definitionally bad.
• If I didn't want something yesterday but do today it was bad then but it's not now because I want it.
• If I wanted something yesterday and don't want it today it was good then because I wanted it and bad now because I don't.
• I am a good person so the good things that happen to me are deserved and the bad are injustices.
• If you don't agree with me you are a bad person and the bad things that happen to you are deserved and the good are injustices.
• Winning is all that matters because it puts the good people who want the right things (because I am good and I want them too) in power instead of the bad people who want the wrong things (because I don't want them.)

sqrt(-1).

It was 5 different posts, but either way it was to make a point that repetition is dumb.

Yeah I was gonna say, there's a whole-ass rental car industry exactly for that kind of purpose. But this isn't the sort of thing you buy because it 'makes sense', you buy it because it's cool and you have fuck-you money so that's enough of a reason.

He also published Luigi Mangione's manifesto, some stuff on JD Vance that was later confirmed through other sources, other leaks, etc. Every time I see his name of late it's associated with something that I would describe as the above: good, necessary work.

I, we, you, they, kinda all of them. I kinda make up characters in my head and assign them positions and personalities based on the need of the moment, and address them as appropriate. I don't give them names or anything, it's more like 'that dick who keeps telling me to get off my ass and be productive can piss off', etc.