Basman

Bro it's Sweden. Swedish prisoners have better conditions than the countries a lot of these 13 yos originally came from. It's more like daycare. And if they don't know what they are doing then that's an even better reason to lock them up. The kid gloves are off when it comes to stabbings and murder.

If this guy quit smoking for your sake there's a good chance he would eventually start smoking again with the years. At least in my experience with smokers. Very common for smokers to flip on and off with smoking throughout one's lifetime. If you don't want to deal with that then it's for the best to not invest more into that relationship. It's likely to be a continuous thorn in your side. There's also the coke thing, which in of itself would be an understandable deal breaker. It's normal and healthy to have standards relative to drugs and smoking. Myself, instantly lose respect if they take hard drugs. I even start hating them a little even if I don't know them, that's how asian I am, mentally speaking.

Any market that has to do with electonics is suffering from inflated prices due to shortages thanks to AI. Video game consoles are going to cost up to a stack now. What's crazy to me is why hasn't the bubble burst yet? I realized that AI ain't all that long ago and I can't be the only one. Definitely not worth the kind of money that is being dumped into it.

We live in an attention economy. Marketing is just how you communicate value to people. Without it you get nowhere. Marketing doesn't have to be cringe.

Burn out is such a powerful force. It can take years to get over. I know Leo has been dealing with his own burn out, so I'm sure there's insight to be had. It's such a universal and often frustrating experience, because often what we're burnt out over is important to us in someway.

Liking girls is pretty gay actually. Women are super feminine and soft and shit.

Serious crime deserve serious consequences. 13-18 yo are old enough to know what they are doing is wrong. Also, they get help inside prison and are removed from the criminal environment that bred them. It's not like Turkish prison.

If you know anything about child soldiers then you know that they can be monsters. Easily brainwashed and work zealously for cheap. They get paid in food an approval and are expendable. It makes sense to exploit children to do your dirty work if you are resource starved which is probably the case for these gangs.

Sweden didn't put under 18s in prison till now due to the rising gang violence. It's actually normal I think across most of the world to imprison kids for serious crime. Bad immigration policy tends to test liberal utopian dreams.

Betterment is a good short-term solution to a crisis, but long-term generosity creates dependency and undermines the local economy. It's hard to compete with free so poor countries are rendered indeficient at developing their own businesses and systems for handling survival. And the free stuff is often mediocre and eats away at peoples dignity, like used clothes. Africans wearing a tired old oversized Spiderman shirt instead of something locally produced. The "gifts" poor parents give their children during Christmas are all donated. It sends a message to one's self-esteem when it's chronic. It's a good example of how good intentions tend to backfire if you don't appreciate how systems work. It's an example of why stage green is insufficient at solving the problems it cares about, and often actually makes things worse. Sometimes its more evil to rob people of the opportunity for self-improvement and dignity with your compassion than to just let them suffer and struggle.

It's wild how someone can genuinely come to believe that living in a completely centralized surveillance state is somehow a good thing.

It's harder to connect with people when they always think that they can do better. That's the crux of modern dating. It keeps people from being open minded and investing too much into potential relationships.

It's kinda scary how literal you are sometimes.

shitting on fat chicks is my job. Don't give my job away to the feminists.

fanum taxing your own brain is lk a 5head move

Here's the original article where that glorious catchphrase came from: https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/welcome-to-2030-i-own-nothing-have-no-privacy-and-life-has-never-been-better-ee2eed62f710 It's a fictional story of a future techno utopia but it's pretty ludicrous and reads a bit like 1984. You'd almost think it's parody but it's categorized as an essay.

I haven't read anything but the whole vibe here is cringey, so probably work on that.

How you know your from Sweden.

My impression is that many leftists are just a bit too ideological and groupthinky to have serious opinions on how to run a country. Complaining about bigotry and capitalism all day on Twitter isn't political, it's just a vibe. There's no strategy beyond expressing virtue. In order to be politically constructive, you can't be overly idealistic. A political leader needs to be fine with making decisions that will kill people.

Some guys have a preference for crazy. I consider them a health hazard.

The difference is hype. I'll believe it when I see it. Techbros want to jump on the lap of hype like an anxious dog.

He has a lot of really good ideas of how humans work that have been foundational to me. People love to hate him for his books not being academic tier, but then he probably couldn't make big general connections about human nature to the same degree, which is what he's good at.

Five minutes of research tells me it's not that simple.

It's accurate. Everything boils down to attention essentially nowadays.