I don’t know why Carter went on to write a book that was critical of prejudice after spending his early life being super fucking turbo-racist

Maybe he came across some dignity later in life? People are always changing and that’s something we should all be respecting.

And they keep rising in price or you didn’t notice the dark pattern where it was actually the price for the first year.

How did you get him to find truffles? :O

Hell yeah you’re going to win!

Full of AI fingerprints yet no disclosure.

I knew you were going to post this.

Except that his idea of oranges is piss.

Exactly. 12:01pm is stoopid.

You too mister “no doctor”.

What if somebody says to meet at 12:30 AM? I would think that’s an half hour past noon. Yet it often goes 11am -> 12pm -> 12:30pm -> 1pm. Absolute madness.

12-hour would only be somewhat decent if there wasn’t noon/midnight confusion.

y’all’re going about this all wrong

anyway, mine is coffee chocolate chip walnut ice cream

(even though apparently op says new ice cream flavors don’t count)

buddy pls

Yes that’s how capitalism works.

I’m saying that most western socialist democracies, even with capitalism, look quite communist.

You’re obviously focusing on the unemployed part of it. But even if I were unemployed I would get food and housing in my EU country. Although mostly it would be in the form of money with extras like access to a place to get free food or social housing.

With a normal job you can buy middle class luxury goods perfectly fine. Which is my point. Middle class luxury goods are stuff like TVs, game consoles, phones and decent clothes. Stuff like being able to go drink a night or go to the movies. All that stuff is perfectly possible which means you can get whatever “low paying” job and have a share of all of that. And without the idea of money that looks like economic communism already.

I know it doesn’t move towards communism, but it looks a hundred times more communist than Russia and China. Think away the money in socialist democratic countries and you can just work a 32-40 hour work week to receive housing, food, healthcare, social security, middle class luxury goods, etc. In socialist countries all of that is much more affordable with a normal job (and even during unemployment). It’s like resources are already equally shared but they just have a monetary backbone.

Democratic socialism is a much better move towards communism than an authoritarian approach. Therefor Europe is already more communist than China and Russia.

Mad, tankies?

There are many paths towards communism. China and Russia went with an authoritarian regime “to move towards Communism”. This actually makes sense on paper because it requires quite a lot of power to actually change the whole system into communism. The tankies still believe this, but in reality their leaders are perfectly happy with all the power they now have.

It takes a while to learn how to not give a fuck about what people think of you. But in a respectable way of course. If you stop giving a fuck you can just be yourself. Took me at least until I was 25 before I could really be myself. Looking at the people around me that age can definitely be much lower or even higher though. I still care about what some people in my life think about me, and I try to live up to their expectations because I love them.

Your idea of doing social activities is a pretty good idea too. Meeting all kinds of different people is a good way to get out of your shell and you’ll automatically care less about what they might think of you because if it doesn’t click with them that’s perfectly fine and you can just continue your journey.

K-holes are fun though.

It’s a common mistake for non native English speakers. I thought the same for years but now know the difference.