Joel3102

Wealth tax is a logistical problem to implement. Usually the event of selling is a taxable event. Do you tax every person with a 401k (American folk speak) prior to even realising gains?

Hedge fund managers whose full time job earning insane money don’t outperform the market, I’m not arrogant enough to think I’m smarter

Expand? How can one safely beat the market?

Investing in index funds is a pretty safe investment. Studies show that if you can withdraw 4% from you investments as year and your investment base will not deteriorate over any 30 year period in history. There hasn’t been a ten year period where the market hasn’t gone up

I have this as well. So fucking hard to stop, I mutilate the skin around my nails and everyone’s just like wtf. At least with smoking or something, the trigger isn’t always right at your fingertips, literally. Theres a subreddit for dermaphotagia if you wanted to check it out

The irony is that he’s made multiple videos shitting on PUAs. Maybe because ‘game’ is so natural to him it seems silly to practice

The UN official position is to have Tel Aviv as the capitals for both, until an agreement is made. The US recognising Israeli however not Palestinian capital status, gives too much leverage to Israel with 0 concessions

Nah, why?

What are you talking about? That helped to destroy the possibility of a two state solution, and gave Israel a free pass with demanding no concessions with regards to settlements etc Also, watch out for the incoming Israeli PM. He’s even further right than Benjamin Netenyahu, his party doesn’t even pretend to be in favour of a two state solution or an end to settlements

Sounds like you’re the abnormality. Even during my teen years when I’d wank 5 times a day or so, I’d still need at least an hour recharge time

You know what he means though. At the absolute level there’s no death. But what does consciousness do at the end of this incarnation?

'Porn has awards too' made me lol good

First the first couple of months when the girl is new, you might not have a desire to look at porn. But after a while, you’ll start to crave variety

My gf is the same. She hates the idea of me fapping/thinking about other women. I don’t think they understand the male desire for variety

You’re right. You can’t say that everything is imaginary and other beings don’t exist they’re all imagined, then tell us not to go out and torture people for a living. You can’t have it both ways. By this logic, there’s no less reason to massacre people for the sake of it than there is to massacre people in a GTA5 video game. They’re both unreal

Relevant to today’s events. Powerful clip

@ryanth Throughout the Middle Ages Christian society was generally more anti-semitic than the Islamic world. The Jews even fought alongside with the Muslims against the crusades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_and_the_Crusades Whilst there is 100% a lot of anti-semitism in the Middle East, it's not as black and white as Muslims hate Jews and the West doesn't

@ryanth https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-and-non-jewish-population-of-israel-palestine-1517-present Look at a timeline of the Jewish demographics of Jerusalem. It dramatically increased from the turn of the century from a small minority to 82% of the population in 1948. That kind of ethnic displacement is very rare and it the source of the issue, because it basically resulted in Arabs being evicted. Whilst not perfect, the Jews lived relatively peacefully under Ottoman (Islamic) Middle East. See point 3 below https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/18093732/israel-palestine-misconceptions

JLP is so ridiculous that it's funny

@LfcCharlie4 Yeah there was a big debate in the 1920s between the Austrian economists and the socialist economists who thought that central planning would work out, which evidently it didn't. Although the Austrian's IMO are still pretty wacky with their hardcore libertarian views on central banking etc. But they have some interesting partial perspectives It's true that the flavour of the month is now a kind of market socialism, which may or may not work some day. I'm not ideological about it, if it empirically works then I'd be in favour of it. I do think there are some elements of the left (mainly online not the mainstream) that defend old style communism

The primary reason why socialist states have failed so far is because of the economic calculation problem. Without market mechanisms there simply isn't a good way of determining where resources in society are to be allocated. The centrally planned economy can't possibly make the millions of calculations required to adequately allocate resources by itself without price signals. This would be the case even if those running the centrally planned economy were benevolent

Having a wank is not junk food, but porn is

If you're awake the idea of death is seen as false. Sure, the body in this form may come to at end, but what you truly are can't ever die because you're reality itself, how could that ever die?

The vast majority of men aren't able to obtain that naturally. Steroids doesn't have to mean you're Ronnie Coleman

@Leo Gura what’s wrong with trying to put on some muscle to improve your looks? It can help you be more attractive. You’re not gonna get bulging muscles naturally by lifting some weights. Getting huge without steroids is a massive fucking slog