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He’s always been like this, for over a decade now.

I like the example of a clay ball and car/bicycle wheel/rim, as it’s easy to understand. For instance, a clay ball has little value on its own. But by removing some clay from the centre to turn it into a bowl or cup, it becomes more valuable, even though there is less clay. Same with a wheel rim. A solid block of steel doesn’t have much value beyond its raw material. But by shaping it into a circle and removing material from the centre to create spokes, it now becomes light enough to be a wheel, and is more valuable, despite there being less steel. The formal laws of logic would state that the more of something you have, the more valuable it is. But here the opposite is true, by having less of something, we have made it more valuable. How can this be, it’s a contradiction! However, the contradiction is synthesised by understanding that the labour to remove material from the object in a specific way, so that the object can be used to complete specific tasks, has drastically increased the use value of the object, to the point that is is much more valuable than the raw material it is made out of. The lack of material in certain locations actually makes it very valuable. That is dialectics.

This is paraphrased from an explanation of Zhongyong Dialectics that I saw a few years ago. I hope I didn’t screw it up too much.

The way people talk about persons over 25 dating persons under 22, it seems people feel this is tantamount to actual pedophilia. So, you think this is almost as bad as molesting children, but also it should be legal? Why?

Because I obviously don’t think that, and I was trying to explain it to them from their perspective.

I feel like a complete idiot for actually trying to give an honest answer about how you can disagree with something morally, but that doesn’t mean that it must be illegal or punished by the state.

I think I want to vomit after reading that…

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There are winters days that hot in South Africa, with the minimum temperature dropping below close to freezing/0°C on the same day. And most people don’t have air conditioning or well insulated houses, and life goes on. It’s not that big a deal. Now summer on the other hand, where the minimum temperature can be above 20°C, those are painful, especially as most don’t have air conditioning.

I mean this comes from a complete misunderstanding of the objective of the Houthi attacks. Yes they have been “ineffective” at directly hitting a NATO military ship, but that’s not the primary goal here, the goal is to disrupt trade with Israel and their allies, and on that basis the attacks have been very successful. It’s always a big mistake to view the success of military operations from a military standpoint only. That kind of logic is what makes the US think they could’ve won the Vietnam war or beat the Taliban if they just fought for longer or fought differently. Wars are complex multifaceted endeavours, you can’t just look at the direct military aspect. Many have won the direct military battle but lost the actual war. Real life is not a multiplayer shooting game where having a better K/D or holding down a certain objective means that you win the war.

Multiple times, but it wasn’t very effective as Ansar Allah have developed many countermeasures to reduce the effectiveness of airstrikes, due to being under a much more intense Saudi Arabian led aerial bombardment for nearly a decade. At most the US took out their air defences for a little bit, and hit some above ground munitions.

What does “winning the war” look like to you?

Can’t join NATO with an existing territorial dispute. “Agreeing and joining NATO anyways” would be an official admission by the Ukrainian government that the territories currently held by Russia are not part of Ukraine anymore.

I’d probably vomit after smelling or tasting one

He’s been a huge arsehole for over a decade, no idea about his politics though

I mean it’s true. A lot of adults, from everyday people to some of the most famous people on earth are still mentally stuck in high school. And it shows in the art that is currently popular, in terms of both music and films. It’s also getting harder and harder to make art for adults, with attention spans being so terrible that anything that has decent pacing is now considered a “slow burn”, and people having less life experience when compared to their parents or grandparents at a similar age.

Apparently the 3x is only around 13 000 Scoville units, but the high volume of chili and the mixture of the sauce with the noodles makes it taste much, much hotter than that. At least that’s what friend who tried some told me.

One just needs to look at the difference between India and China to compare the effectiveness of capitalism and socialism. Socialism seems to be winning by a landslide.

Though he expresses some confusion about his part in the plan
And he can’t understand that he’s not in command
The decisions underwritten by the cash in his hand
Bought a sweater for his weimaraner, too
Now I’m no mad man but that’s insanity

Pick n Pay is an actual supermarket retail chain in South Africa lmao

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