@Empty_America I've done a lot of drugs, and it was so annoying whenever someone came back from a trip swearing they had a life changing epiphany. I've seen this dozens of times and those guys just keep living the same way they were before
@wanyeburkett Riley Reid married some wealthy handsome athlete influencer guy. He didn't go to a small town and snap up some low mileage farm girl. Says something about preferences of high achieving people
@BrosephusD @Empty_America Or if you even just limit them, at the warehouse I'm at we start people at 21 an hour to unload trucks and stage boxes. Guys are bringing in 650-700 a week after taxes. If you're giving your parents a few hundred for the bills, you can save a 1k and spend 1k every month
@eyeslasho I think this is the kind of thing where everyone has to agree that's good for it to be a rational position for you to hold. It's like with free speech, if you're unwilling to censor your enemies under any circumstances but they will censor you, you're in bad shape
@Empty_America This had to be a presentation problem because women (especially young women) are just as into anime and video games as young men. The only 90% male interests left are like riding a motorcycle or classic car shows
@Empty_America If you look at the median age of the USA it was maybe lowest ever in 1965-1975. Really unique period period because of that, in combination with decades of economic growth and technological change
@Empty_America Amost boomers I meet are generous. I know many people whose parents help them with major purchases and the occasional bill or paid for college, weddings, down-payment. I don't understand wanting your parents to destroy their investments so you can consume things you don't need
@Empty_America I toured a plant for an interview recently, in an industry with an unusually high level of manual labor. The workforce was 75% female and 2/3 of that was 30-50 year old Hispanic women
@0xAlaric Excellent thread, it's almost inconceivable that Cortes was able to land in a virtually unknown land and topple an empire with such limited resources. If I remember right it's extremely fortunate he was even able to communicate with any natives
@Nullsci1 No chance I would risk that, sometimes you gotta have a sense of self preservation wrt your reputation. It's like if you had a lunch planned with coworkers and everyone canceled except a woman. I can have pure intentions but people will still see me sitting with her
@Empty_America Shocking the libs especially appeals to scores of allegedly far right types who reflexively adopt positions to own liberals without really having a coherent ideological reason.
@whyvert As long as caning isn't a substitute for prison sentences. Criminals have a subculture that valorizes toughness and pain tolerance, thus the brutal nature of prison. Corporal punishment is only a deterrent for the already law abiding normies
@Empty_America Your statement about European groups like Italians and the Irish is true. It's not true that Arabs and Indians and other groups were generally considered white, the SC had to overturn lower courts in 1915 to allow the naturalization of a Syrian.
@Empty_America Idk man I'm from NC and visited in laws in different parts of NJ and it was all rolling hills and mountain streams and gorgeous little towns with perfectly preserved historic homes . Total opposite of my mental image
@KILLTOPARTY No, you've indicated in the past that you developed a dependence on kratom that was psychologically unpleasant for you.
Amphetamines would almost certainly be more difficult for you to responsibly manage