If you’re talking world wide you could give everyone on earth that is currently in poverty about $1200. That’s enough to help a great deal in poor countries, but it would be very temporary. If you’re talking just the USA, you’d be giving everyone in poverty $30k. That would certainly keep people out of poverty for a while. But under capitalism where people have to work many would be back in poverty in a year. Cash infusion would only work if it was permanent like a UBI.

Even if you spent that money to build free housing all over the country, it wouldn’t be enough to end poverty, though that would probably be the best use of the money. Just flood the market with housing availability and living gets way cheaper.

Mentally going through all the couples I know and half of them involve overweight men. Absurd to live in North America and think you can’t date if overweight, 1/3 of our continent is overweight and the majority of that is men. Over 2/3 of Canadians are in common law relationships or married at the age of 35-44. To be this deluded you have to believe basically 100% of single people are overweight, which is not true. But seeing what you type I’m guessing weight has nothing to do with it, people don’t like people with defeatist, lazy, downer personalities way more than they dislike overweight people.

App dating isn’t the only way forward, you actually have to have a life and put yourself out there. All my relationships were when I wasn’t really looking but still kept my circle of friends wide, and I’m not an extrovert.

At no point in this conversation were they inconsiderate, you on the other hand… Your self righteousness is making you completely blind to self reflection. Take a moment and reread this thread putting aside your moral certitude and it’s clear who’s tone was inconsiderate.

Belatro won all sorts of awards, including GDC game of the year. $10 for an award winning game is nothing. Probably the most addicting game I’d played in years, and I’m not even into that type of game.

Makes perfect sense. I do get some light exercise on the e-bikes. If you’re familiar with zone minutes, I get between 15-75 each 18 mile round trip, depending on how hard I peddle. It’s usually enough to cover my exercise for the week. I can always peddle harder on the way home when I’m not worried about being sweaty.

Revolution doesn’t have to be violent. We do need a revolution, but I agree that violent revolution leaves a power vacuum any shithead can fill. We desperately need a grass roots, community based, cultural revolution though. One that firmly opposes our current consumerist culture.

This as a pretty awesome list, I’m gonna save it.

One thing you could add is e-bikes, depending on how good the bike infrastructure is where you live. We were able to completely eliminate a second car because I can bike much further to work without getting sweaty. 9 miles each way. Also bike to some other local things like farmers market. Unfortunately my dad got old and we got a hybrid for free since he can no longer drive, to help him with appointments. But it was working in concept until that point.

I empathize and agree with a lot of your points. I see where your coming from. I do find a lot of “bro” talk to come across really cringe.

However, I think you are making an error by banning people for it. If ultimately you’re goal is to build communities and have interesting conversations, then banning people for what is socially widely accepted removes the ability to build connections and learn from others from a wide swath of people. You are essentially quarantining yourself and closing yourself off from others by drawing very innocuous lines in the sand. You’re limiting your community to only people that are okay with incredibly controlled language and incredibly controlled communities. This diminishes your ability to learn from others, have interesting conversations, and be challenged by new information. A lot of people that might otherwise want to make a connection with you, will find such a strict line so ridiculous they will discount everything else you say because they find you to be so unreasonable.

Also, not everyone uses bro as a deminisher or even gendered, many people do see themselves as being siblings to everyone, all humans are family and saying “bro” is a way of reminding others that we are all connected. You are ultimately harming yourself more than anyone else.

When I was young, limiting bathroom access for students was common. I always thought it was bonkers. Somewhere along the line people realized it was barbaric, and unhealthy. Under current laws, while not explicitly written, it likely violates the schools legal obligations to the health and safety of a child. This district is fixing to get sued.

Hard agree, but hopefully as people wake up you’ll be fighting along side people you care about, it makes some difference. And if you find there is a country you can safely escape to, that might still an be an option.

Fascism is on the rise everywhere, you won’t escape it by leaving. The only choice is to resist.

Not in taste, not in texture/airiness, not on quality what exactly do you believe is similar? They are both pizza! Just to clarify, I walked into this argument fully aware it is subjective. Maybe I’ve just never had good NY pizza when I’m there. If you let me know your favorite NY pizza you swear by, I’ll give it another shot when I’m there. In all honesty I’ve only had it as a tourist as I have family there. Locals usually have a more developed sense of where the best example of something is.

Chicago style pizza was originally tavern style thin crust. This deep dish nonsense is a modern thing. And I prefer Neapolitan over Sicilian because thinner crust is usually better.

As much as I love Jon Stewart, NYC has the worst pizza in the country. Don’t get why people love a limp pizza with the wrong ratio of bread/sauce/cheese. I’ve had better school lunch pizza than your average New York slice. Chicago style thin crust or Midwestern thin crust, or neapolitan are all worlds better pizza.

I actually think you hit the nail on the head with persecution complex. He likely grew up experiencing antisemitism, I know I did and I’m younger than him. But he became incredibly privileged. Since being persecuted is core to his younger identity, he doubles down on the idea that he is persecuted. I see this frequently with people that are newly rich, they can’t accept their new privilege as a shift in their identity, so they double down on an old identity.

It’s the same issue with Dave Chappelle, who used to be more conscious of -isms, but is dishonest about any other bigotry but anti-black bigotry since he became ultra wealthy. He needs to focus on anti-blackness over all else because if he doesn’t he just becomes another privileged dude in a broken system (in his mind). It’s about protecting your self image of a victim after becoming one of the privileged.

Also Seinfeld is a groomer creep.

Charlie Kirk openly supported great replacement theory, a core foundational belief of modern neo-nazi’s. He was objectively a nazi.

Charlie Kirk openly supported great replacement theory, a core foundational belief of modern neo-nazi’s. He was objectively a nazi.

His words stoked division, hate, and death. I have no empathy for a neo-nazi who would kill me in an instant if it were legal. As far as I’m concerned, his death is self defense.

That is likely to scare away even people that would be fine with it 2 months in. Most people are not trying to become your therapist on day 1.

They are holding his arm, so he is at least detained.