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Questionmarktarius posted...

What do you do when the wealth just leaves?
Sure, you could have a world-wide socialist utopia, but all you'd get out of that is Mars quickly becoming a gated planet.

Why do you keep demanding answers to questions I've already said I don't have answers to? Is it deflections?
Although, I wouldn't mind it if all the mega rich went to Mars. I hope they find happiness there

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Questionmarktarius posted...

As opposed to what - relying on the whims of lobbyists and politicians, or "benevolent" dictators?

I guess, yeah! Maybe I'm authoritarian but I'd rather rely on a government whose explicit purpose is to care for its citizens than rely on hope that a celebrity suffers from the same illness as me and decides to raise money. That doesn't mean I think governments are perfect or that it's necessarily the best solution.

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teepan95 posted...

I feel like this is an issue that is relatively easily solved by doing your research before donating to a specific charity/cause >_>

What? The issue isn't that people are just giving to bad charities. Me doing my research before I donate doesn't change anything

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Manocheese posted...

What's your solution? Should people be forced to lose money building housing that isn't profitable?

Like I mentioned above, I don't have quick fix-all solutions to complex problems. One could imagine different regulations, or one could imagine development being done by people who aren't on it for the profit.
I don't think it should fall on my shoulders to have the answer just because I'm able to see that the current situation is fucked up.

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Wewillrocku posted...

bull****, the left is pro war. look at wwi, wwii, vietnam, and korea.

With "the left" here, are you actually talking about Soviet Russia, the Democrats, or somebody else?

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My semester ends the week before Christmas. Technically it actually ends early January but there's still a significant break over Christmas. Students have their exams in January though, so they have to study. I can finish up making the exam and stuff before so I'll be a little bit more free

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Balrog0 posted...

idk, this is kind of a weird topic! you think there shouldn't be any material hardship in the world, but you don't want to embrace communism. So are you just saying something like "it would be better if there weren't suffering" which every one would agree with, or do you have a specific mechanism to ensure there isn't material hardship that also isnt communism?

I don't have a fix-all solution to a really really complex set of problems, no. But that doesn't stop me from getting continuously more irked with the way things are now.

I don't know very much about communism other than the basic idea of workers owning the means of production, and I wouldn't embrace an ideology I know very superficially. But there does seem to be a whole lot of criticism of capitalism and imperialism from the left that is on the mark.

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And, people in Albania shouldn't have to rely on the whims of strangers to get relief aid

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thrashmetal14 posted...

Organizations that donate time/resources/labor to just causes shouldn't exist?

My point is they shouldn't need to. There shouldn't be starvation when the most developed part of the world is throwing away more food than we're eating.
There shouldn't be homelessness when developers are intentionally waiting to build housing until it's profitable enough.
There shouldn't be bankruptcy due to medical bills when most of the bill goes straight into the pocket of someone who had no part in your medical care. Etc.

And I shouldn't have to be labeled a communist to be thinking this.

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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

There are plenty of stories. Old Republic. Clone Wars. Dark times. Post Empire.

The main trilogy movies are centered around the Skywalker bloodline. The mystery of Anakin's birth. His marriage with Padm. The importance of their twin children.

Only the ST didn't continue this trend. Should have been about the Skywalker cousins imo [Luke's and Leia's family, the legacy of Darth Vader].

The ST is still about the Skywalker bloodline, Kylo Ren is very central to the whole thing.

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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Everyone can use the force. It's just that the Skywalker bloodline is unnaturally powerful due to Anakin being literally half midchrlorian.

Yeah and I would like it more if literally everything in a huge galaxy didn't revolve around a singular bloodline

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Charities shouldn't exist

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PikachuMaxwell posted...

I guess it raises awareness about problems at least. But yeah, it's quite a complex matter....

Yeah that's the thing. It raises awareness about the problems that are arbitrarily deemed important enough. A good illustration of this would be the bucket challenge that happened a couple of years ago.
It raised a lot of awareness for a relatively unknown syndrome (ALS). However, it raised a disproportionate amount of money to the cause. Of course it's good that ALS research and treatment gets money, but there are illnesses that take a lot more lives every year, so if you'd want "life-saving bang for your buck" charity causes, a large portion of the proceeds would have been more efficiently placed elsewhere.

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And this is even without considering that the very rich bend over backwards to set up their own charities to make sure that when they're "giving money to charities" they're actually just moving money from one pocket to the other to avoid taxation and improve their public image.

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So there are thousands, maybe millions, of charities dedicated to a lot of different causes.

Every "legitimate" cause exists because someone, somewhere has a really big, potentially life-threatening, problem, that they just can't afford to solve. Be it research/treatment of diseases, hunger, homelessness, deforestation, endangered species, etc.

Each cause literally has to sit and wait and hope that people with money to spare decide that their particular cause is worth giving to. In some cases, poor people are relying on the whims of the rich to survive.

These whims? Decided on based on maybe personal experience, maybe it's what gives the best optics to improve your brand, maybe it's just what a random PR consultant picked for a company that wants a tax break.

So, is charity a good thing?

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I really hope Rey keeps being a nobody. It would feel so bad if, in the whole Galaxy, the only people who matter are people with noble heritage, especially when the OT taught us that the Force is everywhere

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Blue Swede had a pretty famous hit with Hooked on a feeling, Roxette are also quite famous, not in the least thanks to being featured in Pretty Woman

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MrMallard posted...

idk, the only Scandinavian artist I know is Maria Mena who's a Norweigan pop artist who sings in English. The only artist I know to mention Sweden in their music is The Mountain Goats, in a 90's lo-fi indie album named Sweden.

snow owl is a god tier song though

Have you ever heard of ABBA? We have some writers who have written a lot of pop songs you might be familiar with if you check out Max Martin.

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Kommunal musikundervisning definitely

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I like doing Hobbit first because the last line to Legolas is "go and find strider and learn his true name" and his first line in Fellowship is "this is Aragorn, son of Arathorn".

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Perascamin posted...

Well at any rate, I never said orgasm was coming from penetration

Good for you. Sorry for the misunderstanding then

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Honestly I think My Hero Academia is a strong contender for second place behind OP in terms of how entertaining it is.

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Didn't he say something like "during release weeks he sleeps on average 2-4 hours"? If that's the case then by all means, take your break so you don't break

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StealthRock posted...

Life experience for one. Many women are afraid to express themselves sexually sue to socisl stigmas or fear of hurting their partner's feelings. Why does the "faking it" stereotype exist anyways?

And two

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/201908/why-you-need-talk-about-sex-your-partner%3famp

People who talk about sex with their partners and not twitter are most likely tk have satisfying sex lives

Haha, when your link started off citing Jordan Peterson I was ready to throw it out. Then it cited a study so I went and read it. The study finds that quality of the relationship and comfort talking about sex are associated with pregnancy prevention and substance use during sex.

It says jack shit about this:

StealthRock posted...

Women dont really tell their partners this though. They'd rather complain online. Then they wonder why their partners arent magically better at sex

Weird how you're kind of blaming women here while in your next post you're acknowledging a social stigma? Anyway I think you're half-right about the social stigma and fear of hurting their partner's feelings. Those are certainly factors, but I think you're missing some. For example, I know women who try to talk to their partners but nothing good comes of it. I also know women who get promised that "next time I'll focus more on you baby", but that next time never comes. So I don't think your life experience really covers the whole story, which would have been weird, since you're just one person.

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StealthRock posted...

Women dont really tell their partners this though. They'd rather complain online. Then they wonder why their partners arent magically better at sex

What's your basis for this

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Perascamin posted...

The orgasm is coming from flicking the bean while you fuck. You a virgin?

I already said that really early in the topic. And honestly I don't think "not all girls are the same" is a very controversial opinion

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Ilishe posted...

It changes nothing either way.

I would prefer they become better people and consequently better moderators as well. If by deleting my posts they feel better about themselves or are able to vent some daily frustration, by all means I guess. It doesn't really matter.

"I dare any moderator to try and convince me of something I refuse to change my mind on"

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Ilishe posted...

Meh.

I would challenge any mod to explain my last few moderations, particularly the warn and suspend.

There's no reason besides they can so they do.

That's certainly a strong motivation to try and explain anything to you

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Error1355 posted...

*looks up the moderation*

Oh fuck off.

fwiw, OP reads like sarcasm

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What is "The male gaze" Alex

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

The movies are done in such a way you can reasonably tell who's important and who's not based on the scene.

And if you want to read the books with a reasonable understanding about who's important and who's not, you don't need to savor every word for half an hour.

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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

I read every Harry Potter 4-7 in about 6 hours after midnight release. I remembered roughly 90% of it with the exception of some of 7 with the camping. But that's still nothing compared to the amount of detail in the LotR is my point.

LotR isn't trying to tell a story. It's trying to paint a world, various cultures, hundreds of years of myths and introduce various characters with varying depths. You can't just speedread it and say "I understand it now" in the same way you would if you took your time

That's literally the case with a movie as well. You won't just "understand" it 100% from one time watching it. There are so many details etc, especially in a huge production like LOTR, that watching them once is far from enough.

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Southernfatman posted...

And I blame the movie execs more than Jackson in all of this, just to add.

She reaches the same conclusion. It's really quite a tragic story and it had pretty big consequences for the industry and for New Zealand

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Southernfatman posted...

and Jackson agreeing to come in and half ass it.

I think there's a lot more nuance to it than that. If you're interested, check out Lindsay Ellis's three-part video essay on this. It's quite interesting and it starts out just doing critical analysis of the movies, then moves on to examine the production etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTRUQ-RKfUs

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Solid Sonic posted...

How long was the book?

256 pages. It actually covers a lot more than the movie, but the movie is sooo slow

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treewojima posted...

I dunno, LOTR books are pretty long, or at least they feel that way since there's so much world building, appendices, etc

First of all, they're actually quite short. Secondly, even if you concede that they're longer than the movies, The Hobbit trilogy is entirely indefensible.

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HylianFox posted...

can make a movie that's actually longer than the book it's based on

Idk Blade Runner is pretty long

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ITT: Women are for fucking and nothing else

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Perascamin posted...

You being real right now? Girls love to be fucked. You can't really choke or pull a girl's hair in a way that's hot to them during oral, but if you've got them bent over you can pull their hair back, slap their ass, rub their c***, etc. Girls that are into anal? They will love it if you rub their asshole during doggystyle with your thumb to warm them up and then finger then there.

A lot of girls want to feel filthy during sex or be "taken for a ride", but are just too shy to admit it. Also an orgasm is wayyyy more intense when it involves penetration and c***oral stimulation at the same time

Girls are different, and it's quite well-known that a minority of girls can orgasm from penetration. That doesn't map, of course 1:1 with what someone thinks is hot.

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GAME went bankrupt though, which was a bit tragic for Swedish stores. IIRC, the central concern wasn't making profit, but the Swedish branch was! So it felt a little unfair for the Swedish part of the franchise.

Personally I just buy digital and download.
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Keith_Valentine posted...

scar the 1 posted...

lmao

Hes not wrong. Circumcision is genital mutilation imo. I wish I was uncircumcised, im missin out on that sweet girth bro.

I also disagree with circumcision, but he has no basis for saying that that's why men aren't satisfying women sexually.
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

Keep in mind that this is mostly common in America where circumcision rates are around 51%. If less men were circumcised men would have less performance issues and more women would be satisfied.

lmao
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There's this pervasive myth that men need to use their penis to satisfy the woman they're having sex with. The fact is that most women don't climax from penetration anyway, so unless you're doing some CAT position, the dick just isn't gonna be enough. Luckily people are born with fingers and a mouth so it's not a big deal.

Similarly with "half minute heroes". There's no good reason why they should be bad in bed just because they come quickly. They still have fingers, a mouth, and ears. I'd wager the bigger problem is that a lot of men don't care about making their partner climax, and some women play into this dynamic by faking or saying it's fine etc
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