Basman

Because no one spends 6-12 hours reading a book they aren't interested in. Only they can now what interests them enough to commit the time to a book. Rarely have I ever seen a gifted book actually get read. It's true of me as well as the books I've gifted myself. I see that fucker collecting dust on my mates shelf, begging to know it's purpose in life, unable to just end it all. Please stop gifting people books unless you know what your doing. Your doing the world a disfavor. This needed to be said.

Probably a waste of money. People don't actually enjoy reading that much. They have to pick it out themselves in order to be engaged enough just to read the first page. Less than half of books bought are ever finished. A better strategy is to buy them a gift card I think. Then your inviting them to engage with books in practice.

Solidarity is how you advocate for any minority or marginalized societally. We have much more solidarity for women today than a century ago, hence we treat them much better now. In contrast, Japan is more misogynistic. It's only in the last years that they rewrote their laws on rape. Women need their own train carriage to not get groped. Broadly, cases of sexual assault go down as porn use go up, so it's likely a matter of access. Also, rape is a concept your bought into from your culture. Rapists don't believe its wrong, otherwise they wouldn't really do it. It's not so much a genetic predisposition towards rape as much as it is just towards having sex. If your not a rapist, you will have less sex. That is why men rape.

Many hands carry more. Centralized planning cannot replicate the vast and disperse knowledge and experience of locals and aren't accountable to the results they create or dynamic market demands to nearly the same degree. The persisting ugliness of capitalism means it does works in essence. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. Communism is bad once and then we go back to capitalism. We've gradually honed capitalism to be less brutal though, something we are likely to continue to do. We no longer base our economy off institutional slavery for one.

Chimps and bonobos are not our ancestors. They are evolutionary relatives. Were not even the same genus. We branched off from a common ancestors millions ago on the evolutionary tree. Human mating habits is more relative to environment and survival strategy than anything else. Sorry, pet peeve of mine.

I remember you making a point about it as part of your dating advice, to avoid drinking at all. I think a little alcohol can be useful. That's why I brought it up.

I feel like a lack of open mindedness is the problem. Your must have an open heart for the opportunity to really love someone. You only get so many opportunities for a long-term relationships. That's the real shame. I know someone who's one of those rare types who cares more about being drawn to who someone is and less their looks. They got low standards looks wise in fact. I think it's genuinely easier to date when your like that. He's very open minded as a baseline.

If its like an art to you then I can relate. If your bad at dancing, and your ashamed of that, then just get good at it.

Last time I checked, Leo seems to have a bias against alcohol. A little alcohol is social and helps calm the nerves and warms you. And I don't even particularly enjoy alcohol.

Grandmas socks are the worst gift in human history. She knitted those for hours. They itch and I feel terrible.

9 times out of 10 it doesn't go anywhere in my experience. It's almost always a waste.

If your a book freak of course I'm not just imagining it.

Books are high investment and interest is highly specific and personal. Even when you think you nailed their interest they'll probably won't read it. I know a guy who has a PHD in viking history got gifted a book about Viking history and he never read it 😂 Time and time again.

Not in my experience.

He's got that light skin stare

9/11 for the homeless. Klein/11 if you will.

What are you doing besides social media? You need to fill your day with meaningful things to do. If you try to quit an addiction you should replace it with something constructive.

You just have an utopian bias. Your in an adversial relationship with reality fundamentally. That's the crux of the issue. The pushback is against bad leftist ideas of what men and women are because they are not true. Fundamentally you don't accept what women and survival actually are. Women survival is falling in love with your rapist and raising their kids, stockholm syndrome style. That's how a lot of women survived historically. Leftists see that and want to deny its even there.

It's pretty obvious that academia can't be contemplative if you think about it. It was obvious to me already before experiencing university. It's too inundated with incentives and rules which makes it more scholastic than anything. The fact that you can't make statements without basing it on a source is such a double edged sword. You have to partially outsource your sensemaking to be accepted in academia.

I think he just ratted out. Jesus was toast. He made a call to save his himself from the political intrigue conspiring against Jesus and his cult. Its a rat eat rat world 🐀

It's fine to make generalizations when they are largely true. It's a bigger leap to make woke post-modern claims about women, which are clearly ideological. If it's not obvious what a woman is you are probably overthinking it. Go outside more. Read how people actually live outside of modern standards of living. It's not some grand mystery. Your overstating the degree of harmful stereotyping in my opinion.

Let me rephrase that. I think the whole is enterprise of post-modern woke equalitism is essentially about tone policing reality. Certain aspects of reality are ugly, brutal and gruesome, so they spin tales about how reality is more fair and just than you might think. Sometimes they are right, but not always. At the end of day, reality is what it is irrespective of what you think about it. Its like being upset when crocodiles kill bison crossing the river because it's so brutal. It gets childish after a certain point.

Historically you might not always be so sure who your kids are exactly lol

Sure, but then I would caution about bias. At the end of the day, what is being said is obvious stuff. Obviously men did the majority of hunting throughout history. Sometimes reality is simple and your overthinking it for largely ideological reasons.

It was about how science can be biased and post-modern equality ideology.