Leo Gura

Don't marry unless you find the truly right girl. However long that takes.

Of course

That is the mystery!

The alternative is simple: Western liberalism. It exists for good reason. Because it works. This whole problem could have been avoided if Putin just stopped thinking he's too cool for school. Putin is resisting the inevitable: Liberalism will come to Russia sooner or later. Russia will not invent some unique superior system. That is foolishness.

No behavior in a Playboy centerfold.

No one is threatening Russia's survival. Putin is just paranoid of his own corrupt system collapsing.

This sounds nice in theory, but in practice what you're saying is, let Putin turn Ukraine into a corrupt repressive mafia puppet state more backwards than Russia for the next 50 years. Don't forget why Americans have so much power. It's because the American system is superior to all the other systems that have been tried aside from Scandinavia. And Putin ain't Scandinavia. Don't hate on America so much that you overlook the obvious superiority of the American system relative to its alternatives.

Lynch no. It's hard to articulate what makes a good film. Certainly none of the Hollywood superhero shlock or endless franchise slop. It has to be an original concept executed tastefully. Denis Villeneuve is one of the best directors right now. Red Letter Media has good taste in film. They are great at calling out all the crap films.

I want to feed you a cockroach omelet. To expand your horizons

This is what you're jerking off to: But it does beg the question: what makes a shape "good"?

This is just noise.

Try playing your favorite video game on God-mode, use all the cheat codes, and see how long it holds your interest.

That's not true. There's good evidence Putin wants Moldova too. At the least he wants all of Ukraine and Moldova. Beyond that, I'm not too worried, but we also shouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt. I am not saying Putin will invade Poland. But he already wants too much.

@Breakingthewall I've heard the history of the region. You don't need to repeat it. None of that justifies violation of international law and treaties which Russia itself committed to for respecting Ukrainian borders. Just because there's some local fighting going on does not mean you get to disregard and expunge an entire nation.

1) You have no idea where Putin will stop if you give him no pushback. Guys like him are not known for their humble aims. 2) It's more than regional conflict. Putin's goal was to overthrow the legitimate government of Ukraine and occupy the whole country. He just failed at it. 3) The notion that Russians are harassed by Ukrainians is gaslighting. Putin was funding that harassment to justify his greed for land. 4) Putin says that he does not consider Ukraine a nation. I am not saying the answer to this war is clear-cut. But this framing that the evil US establishment empire is feeding this war for corrupt reasons is wrong. That's not what is happening.

No. There is no mystery why people have difference experiences.

Bro, who among us has not jerked off to fractal gradients.

That's actually not good. You'll cum too fast.

Stop assuming that I do this every day. Why are you strawmanning me? I merely said it to you as a counter-example to your limited logic.

Your argument is: So you mean we have to fight Hitler??? Yes. That's how life works. My grandfather was fighting Nazis at 16 years old. Who ever wants to be in war? If Ukraine doesn't want to fight, they can surrender any day. As long as they want to continue fighting, it makes a lot of sense for the US to support them.

There is far more to be said about God than that.

I have been busy and have not yet had time to investigate this issue. I will investigate when I get some more time. If something was done incorrectly it will be reversed.

Not a good answer.

@Nilsi There is a more interesting existential question here, which is: Why do people's tastes vary so widely at all? What actually creates those tastes? That's a question I don't have a good answer to.

I agree that I could be more open to things, in particular new experiences. As far as Western philosophy goes, I avoid it because I don't want it to corrupt my own independent realizations of reality. There is also a tradeoff and cost to letting human ideas affect your thinking.