Talcosis

Like I said. I agree with your explanation.

My point is simple: when you say “it’s only cheap because…” Every CFO in the world stopped listening after the word “cheap”

Yeah. Exactly. Like I said: they build it in neighborhoods because it is cheap.

Evidence so far is that he’s 100% correct. He just needs US troops to take the hits from Iran and he can continue his ethnic cleansing in peace.

Cold as fuck and sparsely populated is another way of saying expensive as shit to do anything.

They build in neighborhoods because it is cheap.

It’s pretty much the foundation of the quiverfull movement. They literally use the imagery of an archer having a quiver full of arrows. Kids, in this case, being “arrows of faith”.

No, there was. And there is. That’s the worst part.

We produce more food than we need. We produce more goods than we need. Starvation and poverty are both choices made by those in power to ensure their own power.

That’s exactly what I said. It’s not about the money.

The point of a game of monopoly isn’t to have a comfortable cushion of cash, the point is to drive everyone else into abject poverty and own the board.

Sometimes. Especially if you run into tankies.

Institutionalization.

It’s like that one movie…pretty sure its Shawshank Redemption? There’s that one guy that gets out of jail and then commits suicide in a few months or so, because he can’t handle the real world after spending most of their life in jail.

I think work operates in a similar way…but the cruelty of the trap is that the things that make life worth living, i.e. hobbies, friends, a life outside of work, etc. kind of interferes with your ability to get that high level income you need for early retirement.

I think a lot of people that work even though they have the means to live comfortably for the rest of their lives are there because…work is their entire life. They have nothing outside of it. No purpose.

We talk about retirement as a question of resources: do we have the financial resources to live x years? What we don’t talk about is every other resource. Social, emotional, physical (in the does your body work sense) etc. Sure, you’ve got the house and the money…but your friends are all at work, and making new ones is pretty hard…even if you manage to make bank and retire in your mid 30s.

I thought letting pets starve to death was plan b for all cops?

Plan a is, of course, shooting them.

Does stock market count?

I guess there is a gender aspect as well. One of my dude friends casually mentioned they were poly when talking about relationships. Nothing out of the ordinary, really. Just “oh, cool”.

This girl I knew who I was a bit on the fence about invited me on a date and showed up with two other guys. I don’t have a problem with one night stands, but I have literally no interest in sharing. Then she got real mad when I didn’t try to hook up with her then and there. I didn’t even realize it was a poly thing until later that night, I thought she intended a platonic hang and I was the crazy one that thought it was a date.

Yup.

And then in my experience, I go. “Oh. Dang”

Depends on who you piss off

According to the laws of man, yes.

According to the laws of physics? Nope.

It turns off your muscles’ ability to relax and then you flex to death. Normally because you’re no longer breathing.

BRI is almost certainly economic colonization. Is that nicer than European colonialism? Yes. Will it have negative effects on African nations? We shall see…but I think it’s likely. It’s like that megaport China is building in Myanmar: it’s way more capacity than Myanmar needs. Maybe a debt trap, maybe a way to continue shipping through there in return for maintenance that Myanmar can’t afford. Maybe just a big Chinese billboard on the coast.

China quietly beat the USA in 2018. That was the year that China became the global leader in scientific output. Everything is downstream of scientific and technological advancement.

Tbf Shadow Warrior is explicitly trying to be Blood with more dick jokes.