I really don’t want to Google this one. I finally stopped getting tired of California Dreaming

Do you live somewhere where growing is legal? How did you get started? I’m interested in self growing but idk where to start, and where I live it’s not exactly allowed

I’m still convinced that fat people just don’t have this feeling. Like when I eat too much, I legitimately feel sick. Stomach aches, neck and chest pain, nausea, lethargy, it’s awful. I’m on the borderline between healthy and overweight (even though I have basically no fat on my body). I have no idea how anyone functions while eating enough to gain and maintain all this weight. It’s completely insane to me

the charts are what people are actually listening to

But this statement by itself is incredibly disingenuous. Artists and record labels literally have to pay Spotify to get their songs to be played in the algorithm. Yes, it is technically what people are listening to but it’s actually almost always which record company decided to break open their wallet the most for that particular song.

The only reason anyone cares is because of post WW2 guilt and oil interests. There are other places on earth in nearly the exact same situation (two unsupportable regimes both claiming sovereignty over the same region and committing war crimes against each other) and no one cares about them, let alone even knowing what places I’m talking about, simply because there’s no oil involved. The answer is fundamentally the same as when you’re walking down the street and see two drunk guys hitting each other. You ignore them and keep walking. Some people just want to do bad things and there’s not really anything you can do to stop them. By getting involved you inherently are forced to choose sides and now are supporting someone who doesn’t deserve to be supported.

Tl;Dr of history of israel-palestine conflict:

Britain colonizes Palestine and makes it Israel

Israel recognizes this as kinda bullshit and willingly offers basically half the land to existing Palestinians and also offers full citizenship to any Palestinian who wishes to remain in what is now Israel.

Palestine refuses the deal, declares war on Israel

Israel kicks their ass, again offers a deal with less land

Palestine again says no, basically a cold war begins

Other Arab countries refuse to allow Palestinians to move there, also declare war on Israel and get their asses kicked

Terrorists begin attacking Israel from Palestine, especially from the West Bank

Those terrorists are elected to run Palestine in a free and fair election

Israel begins committing human rights violations against Palestinians

We’ve now been at this last stage for at least two decades, possibly longer but I can’t be bothered to fact check myself on the exact dates right now. And yes, this is absolutely as short as the TL;DR on this situation can get, I’m 100000% sure both sides will get upset about details I left out even in this longer story.

Acting like common slang is somehow incongruous with “philosophical” conversation and voicing that opinion is hilariously hypocritical. I urge you to consider what it is about that language that upsets you so much and take some time to work on it. I use common slang mostly because the point is obvious and using big words makes people feel like the speaker thinks they are above everyone they are speaking to. I wrote out that entire long ass sentence instead of saying you sound like a conceited jackass because I know you edge from unnecessarily long phrases.

That’s basically agnosticism. And it’s pretty common among intellectuals, historically speaking at least

Yes but I follow rules 1 & 2 so the fact that I don’t know how to start conversations with people doesn’t matter, I get so many matches that eventually someone will put up with my bs and I can get laid

Adding onto what OP said, housing prices have literally more than doubled in the past two years, and interest rates were at record lows during that time, especially in 2020

Nah, it was pretty obvious. It’s not his fault y’all are dumb as fuck. It happens! Just be happy you learned something today

Imagine if he was our president

Lots of people on YouTube talk about this a lot. It’s something that you won’t really find a direct source for, but is obvious once you start looking into it. Reagan changed everything in the US, after his presidency every president since has pushed neoliberal policies. Low social spending, low taxes, lots of bailouts and subsidies.

It applies to the parties as a whole too. Republicans create a problem, Democrats say they want to fix it but can’t because Republicans are blocking them, they wait for everyone to forget about it and then they do it all over again. When Democrats have full power they could go back and fix those problems but they never do. And they never get anything done when they have the power. They just move the goalposts, focusing on problems that require help from whichever part of government is Republican controlled. That way they can pretend they’re trying to do something and blame Republicans for blocking it.

It’s a mixed bag. Many of them focus too much on policing the rules as strictly as possible and lose sight of the spirit of the community. They are a necessary evil in my opinion, but they shouldn’t be appointed with zero accountability as they currently are. Elections and community votes to remove mods that abuse their power should be more common.

Almost. It was 2005. And it was a good movie too, imo. Doesn’t need fixing like the original did.

Legit Chicago. No work on the CTA that desperately needs a new line (or several), but just spent $800m ($300m over budget) on the Jane Byrne Interchange and immediately started work on Kennedy for another $150m (will end up being at least $300m). I can’t help but imagine if they took that billion and spent it on the CTA instead

Jesus can we ever get anything new? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory already got a fucking reboot two decades ago. We don’t need a third one

Sometimes you have to fucking do something. We can’t make big changes overnight. Start small. Organize soup kitchens in your community. Or a community garden. Or start holding party meetings and recruiting people to the cause. And stop making excuses for “leftist” murderers just because they’re “leftist”.

No, in uneducated American circles you would be correct but in actual political discourse a leftist is truly a leftist. A liberal is an American “leftist”.

If you’re bad at it sure. But if you’re bad at it you wouldn’t try it in the first place