FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
Jeffersonian.
Some questions as usual I overthought. "Should the government be a means to an end and ultimately be abolished" can get Strong Agree from Ancaps or from Communists.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
I absolutely hated the idea of obtaining an actual friend or a romantic partner only to be constantly forced by that person to do random things in which I had no interest. It seemed like a continuation of how my parents would torture me by making me join after-school clubs and dragging me to museums, concerts, and weddings.
Only boring people are bored. There are simply very, very few things I cannot enjoy when with my wife or a close friend. If I don't like it naturally, I find a way to make myself like it. The idea that every experience in one's day will be perfectly to one's own taste is a modern conceit.
With few exceptions* my wife and I enjoy almost everything we do together. We're together, so that's nice. And I can find my own way to enjoy almost anything. My wife wanted to invite all her friends over to watch The Bachelor, which is distinctly not my kind of thing. So I found the autists out there doing sports-podcast Sabermetrics analysis of the episodes, and now I had my hook. How long did Madysyn's Hug-Jump last? How did her HuJu compare to Bryttunee's? Will this affect her odds of making the final four and Seeing Sand? I make her go hiking with me, she makes it fun for herself by picking out fun hiking outfits and aesthetics.
Though, in all honesty, I sometimes feel guilty about my relationship with Mrs. FiveHour, because intellectually I buy into the idea that modern marriages are asked to be entirely too much. But she genuinely is my best friend, and that's just how it is.
*colloquially referred to in our relationship as "Harbor Freighting" after my wife's reaction to being in a Harbor Freight store and being violently and instantly bored while I vaguely browsed buying solar panels or a house jack or something else I didn't need
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
Why can't we lean on verboten characteristics? No middle aged white woman has ever killed a cop*, very few middle aged white women are good at driving SUVs in tight quarters and really know where their wheels are pointing at any given time.
*In the line of duty, some have killed boyfriends who happened to be cops
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
What gets into people that they have fights about what is ultimately just a bunch of guys hanging out?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
I think the stronger argument against ads is more that the median ad that makes someone purchase something is causing them to make a purchase that they probably shouldn't in a more ideal world, and people both do that and accept their time being wasted with extremely repetitive advertising because they're bad at making tradeoffs.
Once you start with this logic, you end up somewhere between the khmer rouge and the Uncle Ted. Which, fine, make a much bigger argument for that if you want to, but it's way outside the bounds of OP or the essay he's citing back to. I don't think a mass consumer production economy is possible without branding and advertising. But then when you say:
And idk if the internet or sports would be doomed or particularly harmed without this much advertising, the economy is an equilibrium, people really like sports and the internet and would find other ways to pay for it.
There's a big difference between "Advertising should be more strictly regulated and limited" and "Advertising should be illegal." I don't even think you can really get from one to the other in terms of consequences.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
I think this is one of those cases where the things people complain about in romantic partners (problematic beliefs in men, women being "crazy" or demanding) are actually more like revealed preference in favor of associated attributes than they are negative judgments.
People complain about downsides belonging to partners they made love to, they aren't even aware of the downsides of those they don't.
I've been hunting for the version my own ABG told me to get long ago: the AsiaPac books graphic novel version. I've never been able to find it. It's my white whale of used books. It's out of print. There's somehow exactly two volumes for sale on Amazon for the Kindle, but that's not terribly helpful since it's a ten volume set.
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