I mean, it sounds like your friend genuinely doesn’t understand the scientific method. That doesn’t necessarily make them unreasonable. It just means they had a sub-standard science education.

You are presupposing that men always act a rationality that they simply do not possess.

There’s a balance between physically punitive surveillance state and consequences for your action.

stay away unless you’re unemployed

It does not make any sense to oppose international cooperation. Like it’s moronic outside the scope of politics- it’s just straight up brainwashed. “The people are foreign and therefore we can only ever talk to them to exploit them!” Like really?

In my state you’re legally required to remove the snow from your car before driving, because it’s a danger to the people around you. So I think it’s rude.

Taiwan’s economy is like 98% reliant on China. China could drain Taiwan dry without ever setting foot on that island. Taiwan will negotiate a deal with Xi. They may like it or not.

Fuck that. You didn’t make that mess, and they will set back any progress you make. Focus on cleaning out your own space that you control and that they can’t ruin. Sneak some trash bags into your bedroom. The day before trash day, bag as much stuff as you can, and try to sneak the bags out early in the morning before the trash comes. If you give them any opportunity to intervene, you’re going to get yelled at for throwing things out, or they’ll try to go through the stuff, or they’ll bring it back in the house. Any bit of their involvement is a no, because they’re not going to help you have a clean and healthy space.

Then do it the next week, and the next week.

Be ruthless with throwing things out. The fact that you don’t have a clear walking path means you have way too much stuff. That the stuff is sitting under piles of clothes and you haven’t touched them for months or years means they aren’t important to you.You can get a job. You can buy more things- things you actually choose for yourself and like. But you can also be intentional about it, fewer things but higher quality things that you actually can use and that make your life feel better.

our professor used the japanese internment camp case to teach us about the limits of presidential power. indiscriminately shoving people into camps was a thing the president was 100% allowed to do to us citizens. the president, the court, the congress were all like “yup sounds American to us.”

you could try talking to the people at your local courts or court records department to see if they have anything that might be a good fit for you.

if these are literally just regular gloves, she may have not seen them at all.

Basically, your brain cells are dying, and they don’t grow back. You are slowly losing the ability to do all sorts of things and reason in all sorts of ways. You can see how many more dark spots there are on a brain scan- those are just a lot of mental processes your brain can’t do anymore. The other parts of the brain try to compensate, but after a certain point you’ll never be able to think as well as you did before.

So you just lose more and more of your cognitive functions until you die.

I’ve forgotten most of my childhood. I have a few flashback memories per year, but otherwise, even for 3rd/4th grade, I barely remember anything. In general, the older you get, the more you’ll forget them, but some people do have better memories than others.

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therapy is not a magic “make the trauma go away” button. nobody is designed to experience high levels of stress that frequently. all anyone can do is tolerate the traumatic role for as long as they can and then transition into a more comfortable role when they can’t deal with it anymore.

in my own life, I’ve only met Chileans and Argentinians with good enough English that I could have conversations with them. we VERY RARELY will get news written by Brazilians. with the language barrier, our understanding of the south is pretty heavily influenced by narrative and rumored stereotypes.

but also it’s like, I feel pretty confident that if you asked the average American what continent Guyana is on, there’s a 50/50 chance they’ll get it wrong.

“To strike another blow for freedom allows a man to walk a little taller and hold his head a little higher. And while he can, he must.” - William J Brennan, former justice of the US Supreme Court. I keep it taped to my door to remind me why I’m here.

Communism has nothing to do with resource misallocation. That’s a thing that some communist governments did, as did democratic governments and theocratic governments. Your comment is really doing exactly what the person in OP’s hypothetical did. It’s really not surprising that a populist takeover by mob rule did not instantly create an efficient system of communist government- that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to work out an effective system of communist government. That means they were too impatient to gradually work out a system that would actually improve the circumstance for everyone involved.

the same thing happened during post-colonial land redistribution in Africa, and that had nothing to do with communism. when you take land from the people who know what they’re doing and give it to people who don’t, then you disrupt supply chains, you’re going to get famine. so don’t do that. get the people who know what they’re doing on your side.

they actually have huge issues in American dating, because a lot of women will refuse to match with them at all. obviously this isn’t a problem for rich people, but for regular people they are just lonely people who blame their loneliness on some evil other side instead of simply not being a good person.