badconvincer

I like the gimmick. I don’t think I would have bothered checking any of this otherwise and I’m in the field.

All I saw was the drastic reduction of American hegemony by pulling out of bases and countries, losing the entire Asian pacific region to Chinese hegemony (partially due to the killing of TPP), losing Eastern European/middle eastern allies to Putin/Erdogan and denigrating moral standards that enabled authoritarians and dictators both at the government and lower levels. Picking a fight with China was probably the only good thing to come out of his presidency.

They’re not. Arabs, Iranians etc. show up as Asian in the US though you’re free to pick whatever you want.

I’m not a fan of Islam myself but if I had to find reasons in its favor I would say it’s extremely unifying, offers contentment through absolute submission and fosters a martial sense in its adherents I find missing in a lot of religions. Additionally I feel like it is the religion that would be the most accepting of a scientific interpretation of the world if it can get past the modern Wahhabism that’s being spewed.

The western world has also historically demonized people all over the world through various implicative means so it’s not surprising people are on guard when all you’re probably trying to do is be direct and straightforward. The key here is “probably”, I genuinely don’t know your motivations.

The first telling is not usually when you get caught in a lie. It’s subsequent references to it that are just different enough that people catch the lie and silently judge you for it. With someone you seldom meet you’ll probably get away with it but behavior like that tends to also bleed into your long term relationships where it actually matters. You have to be very, very smart to be able to maintain many lies and is out of the reach of most people, at least anecdotally.

Ticks on the other hand are silent, migrate to hard to locate parts of your body, you can’t feel their bite and are very crush resistant. When can we exterminate them all?

In my opinion, the body and mind tell a person exactly what they need to be happy. If we could murder people that offended us, or force sex from a mate we desired, took what we wanted etc. life would be a bed of roses. I genuinely believe the person would be absolutely content. The problem is this is inconsistent with how to live as a society and this is the root of all human suffering.

This is a political post.

Yeah but that’s honorless and if I ever find out you’re going to lose respect and credibility.

I’ve always found this much more inspiring than the “everyone in their place” ideology that LOTR has going on.

Tenet was incredible. It’s one of the few movies lately that I spent a lot of time reading about and watching breakdowns and explanations after the movie.

This is exactly the experience I’ve had at American national parks. Signs don’t state the time but distance and the envelope drop off is used extensively. This is coming from someone that did a road trip through all 48 continental states over a 3 month period and we camped all the time and only stayed in hotels/motels once a week.

Not with connie

Which I have addressed.

We should really give death row inmates the option to be in scientific trials that are dangerous. I guess this could be misused if judges funnel people into the system explicitly to be used in these trials but I think it would be worth it if we could somehow prevent the above scenario from happening?