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Nostalgia for childhood where you had a community (family) and your needs were taken care of (dependence).

Family is the original community

Loving people equally is impossible. Even poly people have a 'primary' introducing hierarchy and preference. A group of people sleeping together is not a stable community. It's fil…

How do you address the feeling that the non-committed person you're sleeping with 1) Does not prioritize you 2) Finds somebody they like more than you 3) Not actually happy with yo…

I find it funny that poly relationships will insist on talking about feelings but get very uncomfortable at any sign of jealousy or attachment.

People who do not depend on relationships simply don't enter into relationships. For everybody else, there is the normal and perfectly human feelings of jealousy, attachment, fear …

can we also blame the DNC for not holding an election for who would run against trump? Or the DNC for throwing Bernie under the bus in 2016 (he would have beaten trump)? Maybe the …

Before LLMs, Google was showing highlights which took crawled content and displayed it on google search results, meaning they’d get less traffic on their site while google stole th…

What’s missing from these conversations are the cost of living. We’ve financialized the housing market, meaning the very basic needs of shelter now rises in price in accordance to …

Korea 1950, Tibet 1951, Vietnam 1979 (yes, China invaded Vietnam after USA withdrew). China also has had border skirmishes with Burma, India, USSR.

Letting kids use social media is like letting McDonalds decide what their next meal should be.

Blue origin just landed their new glen rocket. Not an easy feat. Although I wish billionaires would fix homelessness, I think its good there’s more competition in the space launch …

I think they’re doing a great thing. My area has seen some wildfire smoke season near the end of summer. It never happened when I was a kid. Now every summer there’s wildfire smoke…

Right, I’m glad there’s some platforms that still ensure standards for content. Unlike facebook which recommends pornographic content and AI generated attention bait.

If an AI can’t write the code after two attempts, I’ve never had success trying ten times

Cursor based pagination was mentioned. It has another useful feature: If items have been added between when a user loads the page and hits the next button, index based pagination w…

No need to ban speculators, just tax them fairly as the article suggests.

Now being where you are disincentivized from making improvements?

Buy from a speculator and you get to enter the market at a price of their choice. Vacant land is land that somebody could have built a home or a restaurant or a storefront or an ap…

Before contraceptives, there was no such thing as casual sex (except for the homosexual kind). Sex produced babies, 2% of women died in childbirth. Children need a father to help p…

This isn’t a western view, it’s literally how the majority of the world still operates. Marriage is not an abrahamic invention, it happens in eastern cultures, middle eastern cultu…

whats the problem?

It was just 60 years ago, and most cultures in the world today still practice this form of sexual modesty.

This is an unusual take. People in the past made 4-10 babies per family and they did it by being celibate until marriage. Sex positivity and casual relationships were not normal, a…

Do you feel that this is a fair way to distribute earnings upon divorce? When no children are involved? My interpretation is that one should not marry somebody who earns significan…