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- Comment on What do I need to know about the Odyssey before watching the film? 3 days ago:
You don’t need to do anything, at all. I will tell you, the girl who captures Odysseus is named Calypso. She’s a nymph, not a full god. That was the only thing I didn’t know. You already know who Zeus and Poseidon are.
- Comment on Do women actually enjoy sex? 3 days ago:
That doesn’t happen. Like, it has never hurt that much. You’re going to need to seek treatment for vaginismus.
- Comment on Do women actually enjoy sex? 3 days ago:
For me, it hurts at first, but my body builds up lubrication after insertion. He goes gentle and slow for a bit until it feels good for me. For me, I would characterize my pleasure from as kind of comparable to my pleasure from eating. In general I love sex. Not every meal is a Michelin star. Sometimes it is, just absolutely amazing and fulfills my every need. Sometimes it’s just reliable and hits the spot real quick, like a peanut butter sandwich. Rarely, something is a bit off, and it’s not that great.
But it’s not normal for me to suffer. I stops hurting, it feels good, and I want it.
- Comment on Why do some people identify with a political party even if many of their views don't align with that party's platform? 4 days ago:
So they held very socially conservative views, yet they didn’t support the Republican Party and hated Trump. Why is that? Why would someone hate MAGA while basically agreeing with many of the same social positions?
Because Trump is a horrible human being. He raped his wife. He was friends with Epstein. He lies, steals, and extorts people. Believing in the traditional social order is different from believing people should hold no values at all, which is what Trump does.
- Comment on What does "Woke" mean to you? 2 weeks ago:
Calling something “woke” is basically saying “I am an idiot.” The usage of the word means indicates literally nothing about the subject and only reflects the speaker’s lack of education.
- Comment on What are the worst ever city street layouts? (U.S. perspective) Charlottesville VA and Lexington KY 2 weeks ago:
yeah I actually think they did a really bad job out west. in earlier city development, they brought over the experience of European city design. as they started expanding out, nobody knew what they were doing, but they still had to design cities around the geography. but once you get past the mountains to the flats, where there’s no there’s nothing constraining your design but common sense…you see the results of American exceptionalism.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel like I'm being watched when there's no one there? 2 weeks ago:
It’s normal to experience occasionally, especially if it’s fleeting or you’ve recently seen a horror film. It wouldn’t be normal if it was happening every day or multiple times per week. In that case, you’d probably want to check in with a therapist to get screened for psych issues or maybe identify whether stress in another area of your life is causing it.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 2 weeks ago:
Because this question is clearly asked by someone who appears to be a teenager, or maybe a university student, who doesn’t understand the first thing about international politics. My goal was to answer their question efficiently and in language they understand.
you are implicitly arguing that there is a substantive difference.
No, I’m not arguing that. That’s taken as a fact central to the definition of terrorism. Whether you personally agree with it or not, that is how the word is used. When government actors use the word “terrorism,” they’re not referring to government military action. If you argue otherwise, you’re teaching this person to misunderstand the language their government uses.
Now you can make an entirely separate argument that goes along the lines, “The definition may be that, but I think it SHOULD be something else!” That’s what your response is doing. That’s an argument I have no stake in personally and did not bring upon by myself by just explaining the definition.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not an argument. It’s a textbook definition. I’m sorry you disagree with the standard definition. There’s a time and a place to argue political theory. I hope you have at it with people engaged in that discussion.
- Comment on What is the difference between terrorist attack vs military strike if both kill civilians? 2 weeks ago:
Terrorism is when politically illegitimate groups use violence to coerce people into comply with your demands out of fear. The terror is key to terrorism. Usually, when a government strikes, it’s not intending to attack civilians, and if it does, it’s not to scare the civilians. It’s to stoke resistance You could fairly call the Trump regime’s murdering of random boats in the Caribbean terrorism.
- Comment on How would you evaluate having more pay vs an easier job? 2 weeks ago:
law. you’ll notice it’s the complete opposite of my preference. it’s actually probably going to be both challenging AND low paying. but it has other aspects that suit me, like stability.
- Comment on How would you evaluate having more pay vs an easier job? 2 weeks ago:
Definitely easier. I’m planning on marrying, so money will hopefully be fine.
- Comment on How would you evaluate having more pay vs an easier job? 2 weeks ago:
At this point in my life, it’s more about growth and advancement opportunities. It’s ok if the job is hard if the experience can eventually be leveraged into a better paying job. But that’s because I am young. If you are just chugging through the last few years til retirement, then easier.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure historians 30 years from now are still going to learn how to differentiate source quality.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t describe the American Political Science Association as a flash poll on CNN.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
He is consistently ranked the worst president
- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 3 weeks ago:
The pay and benefits don’t need to be good or as good as possible. They just need to be the slightest bit better than the risks and effort of striking.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Downvote if the person deserves it. You don’t know that the person is the one downvoting you versus someone else. Although if you’re in a conversation with someone who you feel deserves to be downvoted, you’re probably better off blocking and moving on.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The price listed for tuition isn’t the price most students pay. You apply for financial aid and scholarships, and each family gets a different price based on what they earn. In general, local schools are less expensive than nationally ranked ones.
- Comment on Why it is that in the USA for most people the default color for a casual sock is white but in most other places the default is black? 4 weeks ago:
Black socks are for formal dress wear in the US. I wear black to work, because I dress in business formal at work. White is for casual wear. When I worked a business casual job, it didn’t matter whether I wore black or white socks.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 4 weeks ago:
The major pollutants are manufacturing, mining, oil production, and animal agriculture. not air conditioners. If we want the rest of the world to stop producing with manufacturing, you’re going to need to create agreements to share your wealth in ways that do not require the exchange of goods. That’s why people over-produce right now. For money. That’s why the world will continue to get hotter for the considerable future. Nobody wants to be the ones to give away our wealth for free. You need to take care of your people and install air conditioners like the rest of the world.
- Comment on "Take the medicine for one week" is monday-sunday or monday-monday? 4 weeks ago:
7 times. The week is done.
- Comment on Could the Supreme Court overturning Marbury vs Madison be a way to repeal the US Constitution? 4 weeks ago:
Marbury v. Madison established the right for the US Supreme Court to strike down laws that violate the Constitution. Overturning Marbury would turn the Supreme Court into a court of review, meaning they only apply the law as written. They would lose the power to invalidate statutes. Some countries with civil systems do have high courts like that. It wouldn’t be the end of the world. We just generally believe that adding checks and balances encourages a healthy government.
So, no. Overturning Marbury does not make the Constitution not the law. The Constitution is the law because the drafters signed it and the legislatures enacted it. The only way to get rid of it legally is to pass a new constitution in the same way.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
It’s giving away our intelligence apparatus to every other nation. What do you mean how.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
Of course not. He’s a criminal. What did leaking that data do to improve the lives of Americans? Now, how much more advanced did our foreign enemies become in attacking our intelligence? He was an extremist that made us more vulnerable to threats based on his own personal value system.
- Comment on How many donations worth of ten grains of rice does one need to live healthy for one day? 1 month ago:
50g is a 200 calorie portion.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Because the reasons to oppose AI are complicated and hard to understand, so they need to be explained. The only reason to like AI is if you just look at it and assume it works. Explaining why it isn’t answering your question accurately, why it isn’t “thinking”, why it doesn’t understand your prompt, why it’s a waste of resources- these are all complicated arguments that require explanation.
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 2 months ago:
That’s poor emotional regulation/lashing out. Anger issues. Short-tempered, belligerent, possible mental health disorder.
- Comment on how much money is there in total? 2 months ago:
up until yesterday i had assumed that the total amount of money in the world is zero ($0) because what one person has in bank account, another person has in debt at the same time, since money is literally nothing else than a codified form of debt.
Nah, money is constantly growing. Whenever anyone does anything of value, there is more money. People are alive and doing things every second of every day. Unless there’s a catastrophic bubonic-plague level event, the total value of money in the world is constantly increasing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The late 1800s/early 1900s was an era of technological progress. The camera, the airplane, the radio, new manufacturing enabled high rise designs like we’d never had before, high speed rail was redefining cities and towns. They were beginnings of the progress that we have today. I think they would be proud, not surprised.