Basman

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.

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.

He's got that light skin stare