The Macarena I’d about a woman cheating on her BF getting drafted into the military with 2 other guys

Which is pretty intense for a song they taught to kids in grade school

An important thing to remember is that your job represents about a third of your life and almost half of your waking life. People as a species are sociable and want to know more about the people they spend the most time around. A lot of those interactions are not inherently trying to get something from you but are rather people just being interested in the person who are around them

It was, I got laid plenty in college. I meant I would get a woman’s number, text her, then she would give 2/3 responses and disappear. It stopped almost entirely when I switched to asking for Snapchat instead

You probably don’t interact with a lot of teens then. It’s pretty common in high schools and college campuses. I was told a decade ago that my green bubbles were probably why women stopped texting me after I got their number off okcupid

It’s not pointless, it has a very clear point: centralize the police in the single territory free from the federal/state devide, where the entirety of the government that controls the country functions, and place it under the direct control of an autocratic ruler who has previously used control of this territory to avoid consequences for his crimes

The primary difference is he’s doing it in year 1 in preparation for what he’s about to do instead of retroactively in the last 20 days to try to save his ass. If that doesn’t scare the shit of of you then it should

If anything he made Chani less of rug to be walked all over and gave her a personality outside of “wife to the messiah”. If you were going to bitch about anyone in the Dune movies I’d think it’d be The Lady Jessica because she is an entirely different character in the movies. I don’t think that’s a criticism because she serves the plot well, but that one is a more grounded argument

In her defense if you’d rather be porking that ball of anxiety who causes every man in her orbit to experience full on ego collapse than your wife, she has every right to divorce you. And Jeph can pay her legal fees, god knows he has the patreon money for it

American BBQ. There’re a lot of regional flavors and differences but most of them are bad in my opinion. Memphis dry rubs and Kansas City molasses sauces are my 2 favorites

I’ve always liked this old Cracked video which argues that Zach Morris’ Time Out is low stakes enough to not create a superhero world but just kinda makes everything work for you

In a world without other superheroes? Rogue’s powers from X-Men are probably the worst. You can never have physical contact with other people for the rest of your life and there’s no other powers to steal. Lose/lose

First and foremost I want to say discussions like this are why I really like engaging on Lemmy over Reddit. This is an interesting discussion with good points and isn’t inflammatory

I have a math degree and tend to approach everything from that perspective. By sheer cold logic: if 2 adults are capable of raising a child that is a functional laborer, then a household that achieves that same objective with 3 adults is less efficient because each of these adults spends time with the child instead of 2 adults spending time and one fully working

Personally I think this is a failure of capitalism. Studies show happy people working fewer hours are more efficient. Why is it that every capitalist country continues to overload their workers and remove benefits that make them happy?

I think capitalists live in magical fantasy economic land and don’t think of laborers as people, but numbers on a sheet. I think too many people have gone through business school (as I have) and have a simplistic view of economics leading them to think capitalism is a meritocracy. It’s not, if anything capitalism is most closely related to feudalism. The momentum of money caries ideas much farther than the merit of those ideas

I fundamentally disagree that capitalism is an unemotional descriptive science. I think behavioral economics as a subset of sociology does a much better job at explaining the human approach to money, even if it isn’t perfect

I disagree that capitalism is about the investment over labor. I view capitalism as a justification for growth at every expense. For much of history the most efficient way to grow was conquest. While that is still partially the case, now we’ve moved towards cannibalism capitalism in my opinion. Now capitalist seek their short term growth by stealing from future profits instead of stealing from other people (by and large)

Which is all to say capitalism will push people towards the minimum they can subsist on, while the capitalist suck up everything else. A three+ adult household is less efficient (from a cold logic perspective. I fundamentally disagree with that logic), so capitalist countries will enact the laws and customs that favor the fewest number of adults not participating in the workforce

In summary: I think we disagree about who the chicken is and who the egg is. I think capitalism is the chicken to societal norm’s egg

Sure, I think it was clear by your nitpicky word that I meant the open internet. Obviously you can use the internet to talk to friends/family/therapists about your relationships. I just don’t think you’re going to go to /r/relationships and say “me, my boyfriend, and our girlfriend all genuinely love each other and have super fun kinky threeways every week” or if you do you’re going to get downvoted for bragging/lying

So 2 things:

1. People in successful, happy relationships have a tendency not to go on the internet to discuss them. Additionally /r/openmarriageregret is obviously only going to be about disasters. It’s like going to a monster truck rally and crying about the destruction of cars

2. Hot take: capitalism is diametrically opposed to non-nuclear family lifestyles. Not that they are impossible, but that capitalism creates enough confounding factors that will make it very difficult

Not right!

Short answer: pay them. These apps have made themselves the barrier to human interaction and will put you in front of more people if you pay them. If you’re online dating then you’re playing a numbers game and the best way to win a numbers game is playing as much as possible

Probably Newton and Tesla. Both seemed to not really understand other people and were more focused on their specific hobbies

In Horizon Forbidden West

You know, in a sane country this would be a reasonable headline. Tax dodging is often done legally if dishonestly. By hiring someone who is particularly adept at navigating those loopholes that person could effectively shut them down without opening new ones. It takes a thief to catch a thief and so on. Unfortunately this isn’t a sane country so I have to assume he’s just going to make the loopholes just straight up holes to make things even worse

As I live in the south I hear my “how are you all doing” morphing into “howya’lldoin” and there’s nothing I can do to stop it

I’m so sorry to be the one to tell you this but 30 years ago was the mid 90s, not the 70s-80s