Similar to the Milo thing I bet. He's fine with it.

i'd say it makes sense because people reach maturity at different ages, but since such logic could easily be abused if applied as law, the best thing we can do is decide on an acceptable age limit

Yeah, before you know it you have guys tripping over coffee tables and accidentally inserting their penises into girls during the fall.

Its a 1 in a billion shot. When it happens, trust me, no one believes you.

Hmm. Fight!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/31/number-one-in-poverty-california-isnt-our-most-progressive-state-its-our-most-racist-one/#32cb93215cd9

The author is very much on the left and calls out how many of the progressive policies have resulted in greater inequality and helped create a 2 tier society in California. He doesn't give solutions, but it would presumably come from the left in his case. Still, something like this would be fuel for the right.

The soultion is to disown CA

He doesn't give solutions because they would all involve deregulation.

It's virtually impossible to make a case for it these days.

Even when I try here, I have a torrent of opposition usually.

People proclaim libertarian values and principles, but when you hold their feet to the fire, they usually make up an excuse and regurgitate the precise arguments that got us into this mess.

I keep bringing up such examples as minimum wage, rent control, market deregulation, and so forth. All I hear is how this would spell the end of the world.

We are not able to deregulated. Whenever another country or market is ruined by the sheer amount of state intervention, people's solution is always to add yet another regulation to undo the harm done by a prior regulation.

"You can't take away that regulation, because, by now, we have this other regulation in place. So, the solution is to add a regulation to undo the effects of the second regulation."

I might have grokked the essence of the Austrian and Chicago schools of thought, but it will be a long time until I have the angelic patience of people such as Friedman and Sowell.

Every time I have a conversation about economics, I want to hit my head on the nearest wall. It's fine, though. A fool and his money are soon parted.

But in order to keep people from starving or dying on the streets a la the time before all these controls we'd need more government "welfare". If we let the market handle it, are we prepared to provide more food stamps, Medicaid, etc. to those who have to work for less than it costs to live?

I'm open to removing all the market controls you mention as long as we have an effective safety net to ensure we don't let our own people (citizens and legal residents) to die because the market won't either give them the ability to support themselves (able bodied) or they can't support themselves within it (disabled).

I was reading “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” The cat just died and it makes me feel so sad I knew it was real the poor thing

And i know the owner will know its fake

I need to read more PKD

@Undead Mockingbird#8608 I hear you, m8.

Oh, wow, where'd he go?

Did he get yeeted?

I'm watching Tim's vids about "thots" which I didn't even know existed before today

Can someone explain to me why men pay for something so silly?

I'm mystified why this is even a thing O_o

one reason

penis

Huh?

Isn't there like porn and stuff on the 'net?

Why pay for "thots"?

there's probably a loneliness element as well

they want the interaction

even if it is shallow

Huh

So it sounds like these men are blaming these women for the fact that the men are willingly throwing money at them?

actually, now that I think about it, it's quite inline with evolutionary biology

I believe some primate males will give gifts in exchange for sex

perhaps this is just a sad modern representation of that method

humans are animals, first and foremost

I'm seeing mention of unfairness but it's men who are acting on their impulses. It's not the woman's fault that the man wants such a shallow interaction and is willing to pay for it. This really sounds like the accusation that women change after sex and call it rape because they regret it. How is this different? Men regretting it after they spend the money and then calling it abusive?

I don't think the people who are giving the "thots" money are the ones complaining

other people see this, think it's a lop-sided agreement or abusive, and blame the women

Why do people not involved in such transactions even care?

sympathy

they feel bad for the men