Yes but also there is a complex dialectical relationship between sex and love

Completely agree! “sex as a need” is very deserving of criticism since it’s often tied to r**** culture. Also yes friendship is best and we should develop more tenderness and care towards friends, undeniably.

Actually I didn’t mean that sex/love were needs I just said they were cool, and that depriving ourselves from it for private property reasons is sad. But I should reaffirm that making other people suffer for it is also really sad, and that yes ultimately we should thrive for a complete relational revolution where exclusivity isn’t the dogma

It’s a tough but really interesting subject that touches the relationship between the nuclear family and private property. I’ll try not to write a whole book so I’ll focus on what you need to explore to understand the whole infidelity paradigm.

Firstly, observe how much housing and property is tied to family status. Ultimately, marriage is not a love affair it’s an economic one.

Secondly, explore how the reunion of private property, love and sexuality is a historical construct that has and had many alternatives.

Finally, understand how social constructs corners us into absurd dilemmas. Cheating is dishonest, yes we should always say that we want an open relationship before lying to somebody who trusts us, unfortunately, that’s not how things present themselves in reality. Your uncle might be an ass, idk, or maybe he knows wanting an open relationship would mean divorce, aka, personal level economic crisis, and that nobody wants this, so cheating is the lesser evil. You might say well just give up on sex/love if you’re married, but I don’t think we should expect people to renounce that very prevalent aspect of the human life because of some private property shenanigans

Hope that helps seeing a different perspective, I personally got way more involved in questionning love/marriage and family after I experienced living together as a couple. Some stuff you gotta live it in your flesh to understand why people do the things they do

I don’t know how that compares with Dota but you kind need to know what’s the champions does to watch the tournaments

Same for Dota, but I’ve played both so in my case it’s not really about knowledge. In Dota abilities have a bigger cooldown, often more wind-up, stuns are longer, the map is larger and abilities have more range which makes everything a lot more readable in my experience

And strategically it’s day and night you have crazy tower dives 5 minutes in with 6 heroes, pros play ultra aggressively and every move is a clutch, it can be absolute cinema

Talking about League or games in general? I agree for most games, for example Dota is very entertaining in tournaments. But League specifically has an extremely stale meta in terms of overall strategy, and when fights finally happen, they are just too fast to understand anything

Dota is overall better and that makes it worse. Quitting was the best decision of my life and my friend’s

Totally normal, tournament games are actually trash to spectate because the game is ultimately very poorly designed so coordinated professional play is extremely tedious

If you want to get the appeal find a high rank streamer you can vibe with and watch them play solo ranked. The game’s addictiveness is about the solo ranked experience

If they went hard with the straightness they probably would’ve gone full swastikas on the website and program RAC/NSBM bands

Years of arguing about Xinxiang with libs falshing before my eyes

Trump folding under no pressure

Imagine space agencies hiring random dudes to put them in the rocket like the only reason they make inhabited flights is to have a bag of flesh on board for reasons

She is now being held at ICE’s Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana, and fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine.

I totally understand genuinely protesting againt war even with the geopolitics behind it, but fleeing to the US and then get deported because they hate you for being Russian anyway is pretty ironic.

Well he’s required to choose a Pope name to be called by so it’s not really a problem

Bump

Oh no oh shit oh fuck

power dynamics

Showing eastern european countries as last invaded by the USSR in the 40’s is absolute clown shit

They were being occupied by nazis in the first place, and the USSR was an ally force, it’s double nonsense

The End of American Free Speech

The even simpler mechanism that Deng successfully exploited is market competition. Imagine you’re a Western company and China just opened, you have two choices : be patriotic and keep your workers home, or delocalise to China.

Except there is no choice, if you don’t delocalise you’re gonna go under because everyone else is slashing their prices and flooding the markets thanks to cheap labor.

Giving the opportunity to gain market advantage to capitalists is enough to force them into anything, including collective self destruction. That’s cartoonishly stupid. Truly the most efficient and rational system lol

“Materialism is when genitals, human constructs like gender are actually ideas so they’re idealist”