If you have a job and hobbies, you’re not a loser. You’re an average person. The nature of a pyramid shaped economy requires a lot more people at the bottom than the top. You’re literally doing what you’re supposed to do.

You don’t need to do anything, at all. I will tell you, the girl who captures Odysseus is named Calypso. She’s a nymph, not a full god. That was the only thing I didn’t know. You already know who Zeus and Poseidon are.

That doesn’t happen. Like, it has never hurt that much. You’re going to need to seek treatment for vaginismus.

For me, it hurts at first, but my body builds up lubrication after insertion. He goes gentle and slow for a bit until it feels good for me. I would characterize my pleasure from sex as kind of comparable to my pleasure from eating. In general I love sex. Not every meal is a Michelin star. Sometimes it is, just absolutely amazing and fulfills my every need. Sometimes it’s just reliable and hits the spot real quick, like a peanut butter sandwich. Rarely, something is a bit off, and it’s not that great.

But it’s not normal for me to suffer. I stops hurting, it feels good, and I want it.

So they held very socially conservative views, yet they didn’t support the Republican Party and hated Trump. Why is that? Why would someone hate MAGA while basically agreeing with many of the same social positions?

Because Trump is a horrible human being. He raped his wife. He was friends with Epstein. He lies, steals, and extorts people. Believing in the traditional social order is different from believing people should hold no values at all, which is what Trump does. You can reverse it for LGBT Republicans- they can support the social order without holding any moral values.

Whether you like the job or not affects how well you interact with your coworkers and managers. It depends on the team’s environment, though. Sometimes everyone gets along BECAUSE they all agree the work sucks.

Calling something “woke” is basically saying “I am an idiot.” The usage of the word means indicates literally nothing about the subject and only reflects the speaker’s lack of education.

yeah I actually think they did a really bad job out west. in earlier city development, they brought over the experience of European city design. as they started expanding out, nobody knew what they were doing, but they still had to design cities around the geography. but once you get past the mountains to the flats, where there’s nothing constraining your design but common sense…you see the results of American exceptionalism.

It’s normal to experience occasionally, especially if it’s fleeting or you’ve recently seen a horror film. It wouldn’t be normal if it was happening every day or multiple times per week. In that case, you’d probably want to check in with a therapist to get screened for psych issues or maybe identify whether stress in another area of your life is causing it.

Because this question is clearly asked by someone who appears to be a teenager, or maybe a university student, who doesn’t understand the first thing about international politics. My goal was to answer their question efficiently and in language they understand.

you are implicitly arguing that there is a substantive difference.

No, I’m not arguing that. That’s taken as a fact central to the definition of terrorism. Whether you personally agree with it or not, that is how the word is used. When government actors use the word “terrorism,” they’re not referring to recognized government military action. If you argue otherwise, you’re teaching this person to misunderstand the language their government uses.

Now you can make an entirely separate argument that goes along the lines, “The definition may be that, but I think it SHOULD be something else!” That’s what your response is doing. That’s an argument I have no stake in personally and did not bring upon by myself by just explaining the definition.

It’s not an argument. It’s a textbook definition. I’m sorry you disagree with the standard definition. There’s a time and a place to argue political theory. I hope you have at it with people engaged in that discussion.

Terrorism is when politically illegitimate groups use violence to coerce people into complying with your demands out of fear. The terror is key to terrorism. Usually, when a government strikes, it’s not intending to attack civilians, and if it does, it’s not to scare the civilians. It’s to stoke resistance. You could fairly call the Trump regime’s murdering of random boats in the Caribbean terrorism.

law. you’ll notice it’s the complete opposite of my preference. it’s actually probably going to be both challenging AND low paying. but it has other aspects that suit me, like stability.

Definitely easier. I’m planning on marrying, so money will hopefully be fine.

At this point in my life, it’s more about growth and advancement opportunities. It’s ok if the job is hard if the experience can eventually be leveraged into a better paying job. But that’s because I am young. If you are just chugging through the last few years til retirement, then take the easier job.

I’m pretty sure historians 30 years from now are still going to learn how to differentiate source quality.

I wouldn’t describe the American Political Science Association as a flash poll on CNN.

He is consistently ranked the worst president

The pay and benefits don’t need to be good or as good as possible. They just need to be the slightest bit better than the risks and effort of striking.

Because if you give them money, they’re going to spend it on drugs. If you give them an apartment, they’re going to destroy it and not care, because they’re on drugs. I understand it’d be “nice” if addiction treatment wasn’t hard, but it is.