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I'll take that bet

> Do you really believe most people would stay faithful?

Yes.

You're asking me to believe that most people will betray their principles, commitments, vows, etc when it becomes convenient.

I have no evidence that that is the case.

If anything, there are numerous examples in literature of people staying faithful for years apart.

My hypothesis on this is that this belief that people will cheat is projection on the part of people that would.

> But, if they are talking to them daily, which is what the post above was about, then IMO, something is wrong with our relationship and I should be worried.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. In that scenario, there is nothing wrong with your relationship. But yet you say there is.

> Of course maybe you just know special types of people I've never met.

Right back at y'all.

As someone that does not experience that kind of tension, it’s baffling to learn that there are people can be tempted into violating their own principles over things that are not even worth it such as saving lives.

I’d even go as far to say as people that can be tempted this way do not have as strong relationships as they think they do.

> tempestuous situations

But given this

> The idea of a sexual relationship with her is just gross, though, in the “I’m screwing my sister” sort of way.

There is no temptation

> I have certainly known men with higher libidos than me and I find a great many of my female frinds and acquaintances attractive

Having a high libido does not translate into wanting to have sex with your close friends.

> I have certainly known men with higher libidos than me and I find a great many of my female frinds and acquaintances attractive

> level of control over feelings that normal people do not posess

Normal is only normal within a culture. I've yet to see any evidence that this is biologically inherent to human beings.

> This completely cuts against everything you wrote above about how it's possible to separate friendship and attraction to the appropriate sex(es).

Given that the original claim is

> When Harry Met Sally was right. Men and women can't be friends. Eventually the sex gets in the way.

I don't see how this contradicts anything. The original claim is that sex will inevitably get in the way. The person you're replying to is claiming that there are women that they will not inevitably become sexually attracted to.

> Men and women can't be friends. Eventually the sex gets in the way.

Might be true for you, but this is not true in general.

Well he better hurry up because he only has 41 more years before it needs to launch.

It's a common response on Reddit that Europe is far more racist than America because they're blind to their own problems.

You're talking about a situation where priming is relevant. Your objection doesn't address the problem.

You probably meant this in jest, but a few projects come to mind such as the federal highways, the moon landing, the Manhattan project.

I doubt we'd be able to do that today at at least the same efficiency.

> accidental ban

You have no evidence that this was accidental

What is your point?

Cantonese and Mandarin are not mutually intelligible.

Australian English and American English and British English are mutually intelligible.

You might as well be claiming that Old English and modern English are the same language.

I'm a Cantonese native speaker and this is it.

The idea that "written Chinese" just happens to be identical to written Mandarin whereas written Cantonese is also the same and we actually translate our spoken words into a different written form is just historical revisionism and linguistic chauvinism.

The plain reality is that modern written Chinese is the way it is because the CCP standardized Mandarin as the national dialect.

Categorically false.

She was literally one of the first employees.

What's it like to share a name with the comic?

> as those who would otherwise invest in capital are uninterested in seeing its value captured.

There are only so many places you can park your money

> Well, I'm not sure UBI really solves the issue.

You can't just say that and then not say why you think that.

> “We’re intentionally not prescribing how many days or which days — this is for Directors to determine with their senior leaders and teams.”

This reminds me of what George said to Jerry in The Deal on Seinfeld:

> Jerry: Spending the night. Optional.

> George: No, you see? You got greedy.

Making the policy discretionary will ultimately make it like an "unlimited vacation" policy where it actually doesn't happen but the company gets to say that it's their policy.

Given that your post got flagged, that you admit it's meaningful despite you asking why you should care, I can only conclude you were trolling.

If this event is not meaningful to you, then don't care.

This event is meaningful to women.

If you don't possess the capacity for the empathy necessary to intuit why this is meaningful, then I don't think someone explaining it to you will make a difference.

One person doing something is not a culture.

AFAIK they don't perm ban IPs, they device ban, probably using some form of fingerprinting.

Will be?

It's been the case since time immemorial.

Has there ever been a time where that wasn't the case? Maybe for a very brief period during the past ten years due to social media.

Back in time?

Who needs to go back in time? We're literally still abusing them today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline_prote...

Yep

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline_prote...

We're literally still violating treaties with them.

> Tibet was a sovereign country foe hundreds of years until it was invaded. It is currently occupied against its will.

So's Hawaii, but you don't see anyone giving a damn about that.

> Imagine being called a minority in a place you are the majority and have lived for centuries before occupation.

Native Hawaiians: Am I a joke to you?

Native Americans: First time?

> pre-mapped environments

this raises the question of: what happens when those environments change?

pretty high if people won't use them because they don't trust them.