Basman

The purpose of a strong military is to first and foremost prevent war from taking place in the first place. NATO spending more on military is largely to keep the peace.

Business can do welfare but only if it is a win-win for them. Therefor, private funded welfare tend to be band-aid solutions. Not permanent solutions. For that you need to build infrastructure and high quality bureaucracy, which only the government can effectively provide. Permanent solutions tend to be a net-loss monetarily but politically significant, which is why only the government can provide permanent solutions ultimately. You can build as many wells in Africa as you want but unless the local government doesn't start building it's own solutions for creating public goods then the situation will never truly change. It's an issue of corruption, a lack of resources and development. Not of a lack of goodwill or business corruption necessarily.

Of course shovel makers are getting rich during a gold rush. But the reality of the situation is that we are in a moment of time of heightened security needs. That is simply what it is. We need more shovels. It's not that deep. Corporations are ultimately not responsible for the welfare of society. That is the governments job. It's the government you should really be pressing. Corporations are going to do what they can get away with generally. If corporations are running amok than that is an issue of regulation in the same way that murderers and rapists running amok is an issue of policing. Of course it is a problem if politicians are in bed with corporations. Like starting unjust wars for profit. But that is an issue of corruption. Again, the responsibility lies with the government.

Security is a basic and essential need. Without security you can't have a functional society. Violence is an existential threat to society, which is why monopolizing violence is such a high priority, such that you can regulate violence. The alternative is society dissolving into tribes and gangs. Adequate military spending is more important than helping homeless people or feeding orphans.

Russia is on the warpath. More money spent on the military is just a necessity. NATO countries are actually very happy to under spend on their militaries otherwise, which they have until recently. Europe has long leaned heavily on the US military which has lead to them being woefully unprepared for an attritional war with Russia, especially as America withdraws its support. More money spent on the military is less money spent on public goods however. It could contribute to the degradation of trust in institutions in the long-term. A part of European welfare is getting to underspend on the military till recently.

Discussion > spoon feeding answers. The ultimate teaching style in my opinion is having a personal relationship with a mentor with which you discuss their teachings with. A lot of understanding comes from exploration. Just taking the answer that AI gives doesn't engage you intellectually with the material you are trying to learn. My stance is to use AI as a supplement. You want to be the one in charge of thinking because it is an act that is worth doing yourself even if you can delegate it.

You want to have a growth mindset where leveling up is more interesting than staying the same. There will always be some kind of pain to pushing yourself because you have to discipline yourself, put in effort and take risks. But see it as challenge that makes your life more interesting. Like, a video game on super easy mode gets boring fast. We tend to overestimate how painful pushing our comfort zone actually is anyway. You can handle much more than you think. Like soldiers going through boot camp push themselves physically much farther than they thought they where capable of and end up just fine.

Inside your comfort zone you already essentially mastered your environment. The experience you will gain from outside your comfort zone is what you'll need to grow ultimately. Anything valuable will require some short-term pain, but the long-term pleasure will pay for that pain with interests. The trick is to associate more pleasure than pain to acting on your growth and more pain than pleasure to avoiding taking action. What actions have you have been avoiding taking? Why haven't you been taking action? What pain have you linked to this action? What have been all the pleasures you've had indulging in negative patterns of behavior? What will it cost you if you don't change? What pleasures will you receive by taking action now?

Which is why AI is automating information based tasks first and foremost. There's no automation without infrastructure. Industrial infrastructure is expensive.

A lot of guys have bad taste. So it evens out slightly.

Most people are religious as products of their environment. People might gradually secularize if they live in a secular society where they maintain certain traditions as part of their community. Much of the west's traditions and values are religious ideas that have been secularized to become devoid of their original Christian belief. I believe that religion is in large part a survival response, so as society evolves it tends to secularize as religion becomes outdated relatively speaking.

Government is not for regulating people's personal relationships. Marriage is strictly a private matter.

You guys are always adding these magical qualities to busting a nut that don't exist. Jerking off is not a big deal in the slightest.

It's like playing video games or watching Netflix. You know when you are wasting your time and should be doing something else. I never experience loss of "vitality" or whatever and I jerk off almost everyday. If my balls get heavy enough I get so horny and bothered that it's not funny anymore. I might be above average horny though I think.

You can't perform good genes. A man isn't getting hard for ugly women.

If you need the government to lit a fire under your ass so you don't neglect your relationships then you shouldn't get married in the first place. Just divorce if you don't want to be married anymore. It's just a promise of commitment at the end of the day. Not actual commitment.

Kant is a nerd.

Judaism as a religion is unique in how little it is tied to a particular nations history and culture compared to every other religion. Islam is uniquely Arab, Christianity European and Hinduism Indian but Judaism precedes having geography for most of its history. Jews can be found a bit all over the place as a minority religion. They've always been doing their own thing to a certain extent and been principled in their culture for better or for worse, which has lead to conflict. Generally, people don't like foreign, much less in the past.

Being culturally isolate is perhaps the biggest cause why people are suspicious of Jews historically.

Can't Cuck The Tuck.

Kind of shows the incompetence of the Trump administration. If they wanted to bury it, it would be much better to just let it die on the vine and never bring it up again, but they had to make a big statement about it. Now a probable cover-up has turned into an obvious cover-up and has been inflamed by the apparent lies.

Sounds like your using masturbation as a procrastination tool. Procrastination is a fear response. It's always fear. It means you are putting great importance on the thing you are procrastinating. Procrastination is associating more pain to doing an act than not. However, your imagination tends to be bad at predicting the future. The act itself is most likely less bad than you think. People tend to underestimate their ability due to fear, lack of experience and wanting to have it easy.

I've heard whispers of the Baltics. I don't have the knowledge to make an educated guess but definitely not Poland when there are less gangsta countries. I've also heard from Vlad Vexler, which is where I get most of my info from, that certain East-European countries might actually invade Russia first, but that is just a rumor. Don't take it seriously.