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Porn isn't the problem, it's attention-whoring Instagram models luring in simps by jiggling their ass. You don't have to search for it to get flooded with that kind of content and it's bad for both young men and women. Porn is better for you than these attention-whoring IG models. Porn serves a necessary function. These models are just wasting your time and distracting you from working on your day. I wish IG had a setting to turn off all female models and celebrities. That is the trashiest of content. That would improve IG by 50% at least.

Geography is to nations what genetics is to living organisms. It's more reductionistic to blame underdevelopment on a single religion.

Once again, the point has never been that vaccines don't or can't have side-effects, the point was that it's still safer than dealing with Covid. People keep refusing to grok this.

The right wing is getting more unhinged, not moving left.

I don't see why right-wing media would decline when half of the country will always be right-wing.

Is there a Hebrew word for Karen?

It's not a scam, but the status associated with it is. People who buy G Wagons do it for status moreso than for a quality car. Because you can get quality car for much cheaper.

As I said, buy whatever you want. Just be mindful of how brands brainwash you with fantasies of their products. No, top universities have higher quality professors and students. Although of course there is a major status game going on there as well.

@Ayham All that is a function of geography, as is Islam.

The difference is there is no brand brainwashing people to buy African masks. Buy whatever you want. But be aware of how brands brainwash you. People don't buy Rolexs because they authentically admire them. They buy them mindlessly as status symbols. I have an expensive Omega watch. This piece of crap broke when I was adjusting the time on it. Now it costs $500 to fix it. A Walmart watch would be more reliable.

Of course it's much worse. No, the reason they are underdeveloped is because of geography.

He is too pro-US actually. Mearsheimer wants the US to use geopolitics to maintain its dominant position at the expense of other nations like China. The only reason Mearsheimer opposes the Ukraine war is because he thinks it is taking attention and resources away from playing hardball with China. Mearsheimer's whole aim is to maintain US hegemony. Which is where his philosophy breaks down.

@Lila9 That's less a Muslim thing and more a development thing.

Your view is too narrow and short.

Mostly. Luxury items are mostly scamming your money to sell you a childish fantasy. Watches, clothes, and cars especially. And the more luxury and pricey they are, the more of a scam it is. It's a mind-scam. These brands fool you into thinking these things are important and valuable when they basically aren't. A $20,000 Rolex is a mind-scam. Nobody needs these items, they don't even have good build quality, and they won't make you happy.

If you did a quantitative analysis it is actually the opposite, but the news amplifies the negative stuff.

But don't overlook that JP came face to face with some of the real limitations of Green utopianism and its failures. So he's not wrong for pointing them out. The only problem is that he takes it overboard and turns it into an irrational overreaction. And in the end his heart resonates most with Blue traditional Christianity. JP is also just from a prior generation, so his views have been shaped a lot by 20th century Cold War issues in a way that is no longer relevant today.

You will revisit your values once a year and refine them based on your life experience. It may take 5-10 years of that before you are solid.

@OBEler Drama

I do receive value from IG. It gives me new ideas and artistic seeds. But it comes with a cost. There is definitely value to be found on TikTok if you look for it. But at what cost?

Games are similar to film and story in that they need drama to fuel them, otherwise they get boring. That drama is usually some kind of combat mechanic.