Rags 🎲

He/Him.

Everything is interesting. Lover of stories. gm/dev/coder/writer.
Negative Utilitarian Syncretist. 2 sincerities & 1 sarcasm in a trench coat.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

It's actually quite rare to see a wealthy person wearing a nice suit. This is because dressing well is more about knowledge than money, and wealthy people are typically not invested in learning how to dress well. I will give you some examples.

In slide one, we see two powerful, wealthy men, both in custom-tailored suits. Sunak's jacket is too short, both in the body and the sleeves. Bezos, who is pictured here on his wedding day (when he would have wanted to dress well), is wearing a custom dinner suit but with the wrong waistcoat. The low armholes are also causing his jacket to lift. A famous bespoke tailor in Milan said Bezos's outfit made her heart break.

In slides two and three, we see a high school art teacher and an electrician. They are not poor, but their vocations certainly place them several tiers below the former Prime Minister of Britain and one of the wealthiest men in the world. Yet, their clothes fit beautifully, and they are styled in a way that's thoughtful and coherent.

In slide four, we see a man who claims he's wearing a bespoke $20,000 suit from one of the finest tailoring houses on Savile Row. Next to him, in the same slide, is a man wearing a $300 Jos A. Bank suit. The $20k blue suit does not fit well because this man interjected too much during the fitting, insisting to his tailor that he make the suit tighter and shorter, which is why the garment is pulling and rippling all over the place. The other man, despite having more modest means, educated himself on how a suit should fit and achieved more with considerably less.

Online, you will find all types of influencers and writers hawking the latest trends and designer labels, telling you you have to buy such-and-such thing to have "aura." But in reality, money has very little correlation with style. There's no reason to assume that wealthy people can buy nice suits because it's not as simple as pulling out your credit card. You have to educate yourself a bit on the topic.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

Coe-moe-die-tee

[fenlon @1fenlon]

when i was 9 i pronounced "commodity" like it was the name of a greek philosopher and my dad still hasnt let me live that down. its been 16 years

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

@Aella_Girl @hecubian_devil It's not very meaningful.

'No' would be debatable if the stress of slavery can inculcate a desire to better him and his fellow slaves (rebel, etc).

But the hypothetical implies their situation doesn't improve either way so may as well give them rose glasses via 'yes'.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

Super Torch at the end.

[Earclacks @Earclacks]

Super Torch 🔥 VS 🍢 Super Lance

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

Love is sacrificing yourself upon the altar that is the object of your affection. Doing so without regard for any transaction, reciprocation, or acknowledgment. With their best interests in mind.

That is romantic.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

It is very romantic for the man to do this.

It is very unromantic for the woman to do this.

[Diane Yap @RealDianeYap]

The most romantic thing a man can express to a woman is that even if she never has sex with him again, he wants to be with her forever. Because his love for her as a person transcends any animal urge.

This is even more romantic if he has a high sex drive.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

Is it so wrong to want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women?

[bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ @yhdistyminen]

Obviously "the market is a bunch of dummies who can't tell SpaceX is a giant bubble and Elon Musk is a drooling imbecile whose brain is slowly turning into soup" would be a little too convenient for my priors, so I'm skeptical. But I can't fully shake the feeling. What gives?

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

@RealDianeYap Romance & sex are not necessarily related.

Romantic aptitude is the capacity to facilitate increasingly deeper forms of mutual intimacy between you and another person. To (co-)cultivate, deepen, & sustain mutual intimacy, affection, & emotional connection within a relationship.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

@Dmitri_tweets @aflyingfrog @mietek_68 @br4dy58 @Ravve_6 @clusterbitch_ Vertical / horizontal integration is extremely expensive. That's like asking a cow farmer to become McDonalds.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

@scoutfreak Based

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

@aflyingfrog @mietek_68 @br4dy58 @Ravve_6 @clusterbitch_ You can very specifically point put the hierarchy of bad actors in this order.

corporate buyer power (a powerful oligopsony sets the price) > the market structure that enables it > producer-state weakness > consumer indifference.

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[Zack D. Films @zackdfilms1]

How Expectations Change Your Reality 🤔

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

The definition of over sharing is just this thread in the dictionary

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

@ilex_ulmus this is the entirety of that conversation.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

@estherzelda0514 this is the stupidest thing you've ever written.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

@th4stlovenature @NateTalksToYou The distinction is you experience something period. How you rationalize that to yourself is the important part. It can certainly matter to the individual whether they experience something pleasant or offensive but that goes without saying. You may as well detail that you breath.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

@th4stlovenature @NateTalksToYou You are agreeing with them. The point is people have the capacity to do multiple (seemingly at odds / contradictory) things, and compartmentalize them in a way where one value has no say on the other value.

[Rags 🎲 @ragswolf]

If Jax didn't already abstract he would have killed himself on the spot the instant Caine pulls up with all their socials. Just jumped into the void immediately while laughing.