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I don’t care how you mean it, it makes you sound like an asshole and you should know that you’re being manipulative and likely hurting this girl

If you are choosing to stay with a girl you don’t really like, or respect, that’s incredibly selfish. And when you combine that with talking about how enlightened you are… Well, you shouldn’t be with a girl who you consider below your standards. Let’s leave it at that

Huh? I can't trek from my own home

I'm planning a month (or perhaps month and a half) trip to Nepal this May, mainly to do some trekking. But I was wondering if anyone here has been, and has any recommendations for other things to do there? I'm going to work while I'm out there (as I'm able to work remotely) and then take some time off to explore. The two things that are top of my list right now are the 14ish day Annapurna circuit trek, and a flight around Everest and the Himalayas. I'm asking here since Nepal is known for its spiritual culture, so this feels like a good place to ask for recommendations Thanks in advance!

I mean, humans form deep emotional bonds with animals all the time. So it’s not that crazy of an idea

Oh, nice! What did they teach? It looks like such a beautiful country. Especially the trekking there.

Most people are unconsciously bigoted and racist. There are numerous studies on this And yea, obviously ideally no one should be racist to any race, but it's very different when the more powerful societal race is racist towards the less societally powerful race. Just like how it's worse when a 6ft5 120kg man hits a 5ft1 50kg girl than vice versa. The power dynamic there means that racism going from more societally powerful race to less societally powerful race is much, much more damaging than vice versa.

@mr_engineer Or, hear me out, large public gatherings are a public health hazard in a pandemic that would result in the deaths of thousands of people. So many governments stopped them.

@mr_engineer what could be better in the middle of a pandemic than karen and her entire church group of 200 people crammed together protesting in the middle of a city dont see anything that could go wrong there no risk of death at all /s I also don’t even think protests were exclusively outlawed. Public social gatherings were outlawed because it’s a fucking pandemic!!! twisting that as “outlawing protests” is intellectually dishonest

It isn’t communist. It’s just factually wrong to say that. Communism is an economic political system. Wokeism, or caring about social justice, is not comparable to it. You can be pretty woke, and care about social justice, while running a company. My bosses are a great example. Being woke doesn’t make you a communist, it just means you care about societal wellbeing and social issues, which is not communism.

Mate communism is an economic political system, wokeism is mainly about social injustice, race issues, gender issues or any issues related to typically marginalised groups. The two are only loosely overlapping terms/groups at most. Saying “all wokeism is communism” is Olympic level mental gymnastics. Some of the most wokeist people are likely running profitable businesses in silicone valley and other such places

Ehm, care to explain…? If you take the actual definitions of all of those words as far as I’m aware everything I wrote is true

So in practice, you think that “wokeism is communism”? Would you describe Stalin or Mao as wokeists, then?

If you want a really funny example of what not to do, have a look at this dude https://youtube.com/@DavidBond99 In one of his videos he tells you a great tip for stopping a girl you like from meeting other guys on tinder while you’re chatting to her on there. The simple trick is to share her profile to your several burner phones and report her profile to get her banned! Who knew it was so simple. But the whole premise of his channel is essentially being a rich white dude visiting poorer countries have sex with women. And of course he films it all and gives his piercing insight into his success, which is of course, definitely, far deeper than just being a rich white guy in a poorer country. I don’t think travelling to another country to meet women is bad necessarily but it is quite easy to do it in kind of a scummy way

Saying that “all wokeism is authoritarianism” is false. Saying that “all authoritarianism is communism” is false. Saying that “all communism is authoritarian” is false. Saying that “there were authoritarian implementations of communism in the past” is true. So I have no idea how you are concluding that “wokeism is communism”, it highlights your bias a lot to make a statement like that

Nuh uh, you don’t get to move the goal posts. What you said was that “wokeism is communism” which is categorically silly

Congrats, you win the award for the silliest thing I’ve read all day. And I’ve been browsing a lot of YouTube comments today so you know that’s an achievement

If you live anywhere in Northern Europe there’s a pretty decent chance you’ll be vitamin D deficient, especially if you primarily work inside, and especially during the winter. Ive been taking supplements recently, for about a month. Not sure if it’s enhanced my mood, I’m not depressed but I do struggle with energy sometimes.

"You're all so arrogant and self-asserting", he said in an arrogant and self-asserting manner

I've used it a few times, but I've found there are some issues with it: You still see posts from the user you've ignored if they're quoted by someone else It's very easy to just override the ignore function because every post from an ignored person has a little button to show it. Sometimes that entices me to give the benefit of the doubt to someone I've ignored You still see people replying to ignored users The first and last points aren't really solvable I suppose, but maybe there is some configuration available to fix the middle one? I like the ignore function but it doesn't totally isolate you from users you want to ignore. It's a start I suppose

@lxlichael People can fuck whoever they want to and however often they want to. You can fuck a lot of different people in a high consciousness way, and you can also have only long term relationships in an extremely low consciousness way. Realistically if you are a guy who prioritises sex quite highly, you're going to need to have sex with quite a lot of girls in order to find out what you enjoy the most, and to find a girl who you are sexually compatible with. It's very possible to do that in a high consciousness way. Women should do the same. And, for a lot of guys, they need experience before they'll be able to attract the girl that they would be most satisfied with settling down with. What is the point of marriage? I don't wanna marry, I'd rather just settle down with a girl without needing to get the government and the legal system to force me to stay together with her.

I’ve done both of these. Or just talk to people in the queue and go in with them. That works pretty well too

Oh, one advantage with techno places (again in the UK) is that they are usually welcoming to people going solo I've noticed. So there's that. You can buy a ticket online beforehand and show up on your own and they'll still welcome you happily if you aren't creepy. Bouncers seem like dickheads far less at techno venues in general. Whereas if you go to a normal club here you will almost certainly not get in solo no matter how friendly you seem, and the bouncers are often total dickheads.

I’d like to see what it’s like there actually. I think it’d be cool. There are places here were the ratio is pretty even but it’s usually either the more exclusive or harder to get into clubs or the most popular non-techno clubs

I’ve noticed techno-specific clubs tend to have a much higher ratio of guys to girls, at least in the UK. In normal clubs here by 3am the dance floor is filled with couples making out, grinding etc. but in techno clubs here I see maybe one or two couples doing that on the whole dance floor. Often by 3am it’s approaching 80-90% guys So in terms of actually meeting girls who are down, normal clubs are probably better I also feel like people in techno clubs (again, in the UK) are less friendly and more cliquey overall, and it’s much easier to find people who are really up themselves But I’ve met girls in both types of clubs