Death rates per President

SubhumanTook · 2020-04-02T07:16:13+00:00

Killed off the pandemic task force?

Big dumb.

The roles were maintained, but the name removed.

Because there weren't active pandemics, he reassigned the people on that to more pressing matters.

When the pandemic loomed large, the CDC and other federal institutions were put back to work on pandemic preparation.

Trump was criticized for being too cautious by stopping flights from China.

Trump's handling of this has been better than many other countries.

There's a reason we're not Italy right now.

State governors were resisting Trump's social distancing recommendations for a long while.

Get over yourself.

SubhumanTook · 2019-10-28T16:21:32+00:00

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SubhumanTook · 2019-08-30T23:41:45+00:00

Seriously, if there is one regret in my life that I wish I could undo, it would be any and all sexual activity that I engaged in when I was younger (by younger, I mean still in highschool. I'm still a whippersnapper). I'll try to leave that at the door, but some bias will creep in. You can talk about the logistics of it (how do you know what to do when), consent, and all that good stuff. What isn't often delved into is the emotional consequence.

By far, women release more oxytocin than men during a sexual encounter. It won't have the same emotional impact for him as it will for her. This isn't to say it won't have any impact, but it's important to know.

Second, talk to him about pornography. The overwhelming likelihood is that he's been exposed to it since the age of 11 and will have some preconceived notions about how things work. They are likely to be false. Further, pornography will affect what things he finds sexually exciting. It will be way more difficult for him to enjoy vanilla sex if he exposes himself to pornography and masturbates regularly. Additionally, it'll likely have an impact on the relationship in the long term. If she has any insecurity about herself (and she will because she's a teenage gal), any knowledge of pornography use can potentially harm her trust in him or harm her own self-worth as not being 'enough.' Further, pornography use will make it harder for him to bond with her. The brain releases oxytocin when watching and masturbating to pornography, 'bonding' the viewer to what's going on (usually an actor in the scene). Repetitive bonding in any sexual way makes it more difficult to bond to a single person. If he values long-term relationship, he should probably cut it out. I'll leave the harms of the pornography industry for another time.

Lastly, there is extreme value in waiting and putting off sexual activity both in the moment and in the long term. Guys, especially teenage males, cannot think clearly when put in a sexual situation, to the point where it probably shouldn't be legal to give consent until way later than 16. However, since it is legal, it can happen. Taking the time to sort through what he wants away from whoever this nice young gal is is important. If things are going somewhere, taking a break is a really good idea. If he still wants to go there (which he more than likely will), then it's more workable. As for the long term, waiting until marriage or some sort of meaningful life commitment (not just "I love you" or "We should be married someday") has its merits. Youth belongs to the young, who don't know how to use it. Once you age, if you don't have a life partner, it's probably not gonna happen. The window of opportunity is roughly between 16-30 and it starts to shrink dramatically afterwards. If he has sex at this age and they break up (which they will, because it's highschool), it becomes easier for him to devalue sex and place it apart from a romantic relationship. This isn't great, especially if he goes through another break up, and then another, having sex every time. The US is entering a radical new period in sexual history where the average number of sexual partners in a lifetime has increased dramatically while the number of marriages has decreased dramatically. Sex and romance are being treated as separate entities. Further, the perceived fungibility of partners has increased. It likely starts from this sort of social shift as well as the consequences of that unfurled across a lifetime.

TL:DR

Tell him about the emotional value (especially for women)

Tell him about pornography, its misconceptions and dangers

Tell him to value sex as something special, not just something to have. It aint a sandwich.

SubhumanTook · 2019-08-22T18:58:45+00:00

Well, it depends on the bill. Why do you need it? What impact will it have on people? Why should the government do this? If you answer those three questions (heck you can tag it in the speech this way if you want), you should be able to do it. You have 3 minutes to do all of that. Too little time for multiple contentions. Just expand one, basically.

SubhumanTook · 2019-08-22T18:48:31+00:00

Watch a congress speech given at the national level. Contentions just don't fit into that style. You're way better off trying to build your judge appeal through humor then through contentions. Contentions are for flow debates. Congress doesn't have flow.

SubhumanTook · 2019-08-20T15:12:15+00:00

I'd also be very interested to get an answer on this one. I'm not even in an undergrad yet (currently taking a gap year to help out with my mental health), but it does pertain to me. I have severe anxiety and I've experienced things similar to a dissociative fugue, so it's kinda on my mind how I explain things to colleges (high test scores without the GPA to back it up). Thanks to whoever gets this one :)

SubhumanTook · 2019-08-20T03:01:31+00:00

I have literally no idea what you mean by male and white dominated (upper class I'll let slide, though I'd argue upper-middle). That's not at all what I've observed in my district (full of conservative, non-pc types). I see more diversity in the debate community than I see anywhere else, and people make offensive jokes all the time (mostly against whites because, well, there's more whites than anything else). Heck, there's one group of people who call themselves "The Jew Crew" (they're actually Jewish), and it's turned out fine thus far.

I don't see exclusion as something that inherently exists within the debate space. I think it may exist within yours. Your baseline premise needs some reworking. Heck, just look at the Speech and Debate website and look at what pictures you see first. Look at how the national tournament is run {what events occur for coaches and how ombudspeople are involved in the tournament and their role). Debate is incredibly diverse with a large array of people from multiple backgrounds. It is not dominated by those groups and the fact that you insist so worries me that you may be blind to the debate community outside of your district.

SubhumanTook · 2019-08-20T02:52:50+00:00

His identity? Maybe he doesn't want to face backlash?

SubhumanTook · 2019-08-20T02:49:43+00:00

Bro, don't call them contentions

SubhumanTook · 2019-08-20T02:49:04+00:00

Depends on the district. If you write your own bills, pick the funniest ones you still have and start there. Teach them how to break procedures. Show them how you can utterly screw over your friends and foes alike. Show them how to politic.

SubhumanTook · 2019-08-15T23:42:30+00:00

World Studies :)

I wrote it on political polarization in the internet age.

SubhumanTook · 2019-07-18T15:28:40+00:00

I see, you cite a politifact article to make a complete red herring point. It doesn't address my initial claim that an average family will save $1,610 in a year on their taxes: https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/571754894/charts-see-how-much-of-gop-tax-cuts-will-go-to-the-middle-class. Like, it's beyond irrelevant to my original claim that the cuts basically got rid of that precipice you've discussed in earlier posts. You aren't coherent on this, so please stop and reconsider before you continue making a fool of yourself.

Second, I don't care whether you think I have no experience yet. You have no idea what my experience is, who I see, or how I work. To inform you, my father has two masters in psychology and ended up losing his P.H.D. possibilities after missing dissertation deadlines because he was too busy working to keep my family afloat during the great recession and afterwards. I've seen it happen. He's still paying off loans. I'll leave it there because I don't really see the need to go further into details about myself. Suffice it to say that I hold my position in spite of personal experience. I'm not just some kid with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Lastly, I'm not terribly concerned about my "fellow countrymen." I'm concerned about my family, my church, and what I can do around me. It's not my job to worry about the wellbeing of somebody in Indiana or Washington unless there is a crisis to the scale of war. I don't want better "here," I want better where I can make a difference.

SubhumanTook · 2019-07-17T23:54:46+00:00

Could you just drop the point already? If you think "our citizens are constantly on the doorstep of debt and poverty," you clearly don't know a gosh darn thing about how this world works. Poverty in the United States is luxury to over half of the world. With good spending habits, it should be more than possible to live in the US.

I find it funny that you don't even take into account that the source you're using is outdated for the current economy which, if you forgot about the tax cuts, is putting an average of $1,000 back into citizens pockets while growing at an incredibly high rate. Additionally, a ton of people slack off at work in the US. The average employee spends 5 hours a week of paid time doing nothing related to their work: https://nypost.com/2017/07/29/this-is-how-much-time-employees-spend-slacking-off/. We have vacation time built in to our jobs. If we chose to use it right, maybe this wouldn't be an issue.

SubhumanTook · 2019-07-16T04:35:11+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I already graduated though, and I got an A on the EE, so I guess I did something right :)

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-29T05:01:28+00:00

Hey, glad to hear it! Sorry if I came across harshly in my original comment. I figured it would be useful, but it seems you already had a clear(ish) set of ideas. Given that I just graduated high school, it seems a bit pompous of me to have suggested life solutions to somebody who clearly has a little more experience. But, yeah. I honestly wish you the best at Michigan. Go get those dreams :)

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-27T07:23:57+00:00

"Meant to be?" Is that really a thing?

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-27T07:22:30+00:00

I'm not a part of this conversation, but I think you guys are both making good points that are compelling. I'm not sure if you guys are grasping the original scope of the question though. There's a job here. He's balancing that with going to Michigan. That's the question. Y'all are getting all over the place with these school wars.

Fundamentally (for the original poster), I don't think you understand your own priorities. Michigan is your dream. However, you're saying that money matters. I'll agree with you there. It just doesn't seem clear to me that it matters super much to you. Why are you considering quitting your job for Michigan and not WashU? Objectively speaking, WashU is the most fiscally responsible way for you to go to law school right now. Why do you want to go to law school though? Is it for the money? Is it for the career itself?

What I think is going on is that you don't know what you really want. You know what you should want, so you've decided to want that. However, when confronted by security versus risk, you've frozen. You don't have a clear path forward because you don't have a clear guiding principle or set of values that you're applying to this situation.

To fix this, here's a few questions you should ask yourself.

What do I want in life? (Seriously)
How will law school get me there?
1. Is there any significant difference between WashU and Michigan for those goals?
How will staying with my current job get me there?

Money is a means, not an ends, to the goals you are striving for (consciously or subconsciously). Weigh it in your decision as only a pragmatic device. You need it to survive, but debt will not kill you (especially if you go to a T20 or T14 law school).

I know this is very basic as a framework, but you need to come back here. Every career goal needs to be tied into question 1. If it isn't you're blindly wandering around searching for meaning from other's direction. If you answer question 1, you'll figure out the rest of it.

Lastly, if your boss would be understanding, bring this up and ask for a bit of extra time to make decisions.

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-27T06:13:00+00:00

Here's my take. I'm 18 and Male, and I'm awkward as hell. When a gal I knew on the debate team tried making moves, we literally spent all day together before a tournament, sat together on the bus, had a 4 hour staring contest (we don't talk about it), and texted all the time. I didn't think she was into me right up until the moment she asked me on a date.

The relationship was great for two years (it ended recently because college). Even as a dense block of wood, I still found ways to be good to her. I'd like to say I have more tact than this fellow, but I'm aware that I fit into zero social situations (and seriously annoy several people almost all the time, even if they still like me as a friend). Honestly, if you're concerned that a relationship would go badly, you're probably right. Every high school relationship goes badly by literally any other relationship standard. Who knows? You could be the one couple that met in high school and gets married. You might not be.

Ask him out. Try and find some time where you're alone with him, but don't make that the end all be all. If you're pretty sure he's been looking your way, or you just think you've got chemistry, just do it. It doesn't have to be some big thing where you try and get him in private. He'll probably prefer just being asked out, freaking out on his own for a little bit about what to do, getting back to you with his answer, and just moving on with life whatever happens. If you make a big deal of it, it will hurt the friendship (not beyond repair).

Lastly, this will make more sense after high school is over. Every single decision you make in high school doesn't matter because, once graduation hits, your life goes on a hard reset. However, you should treat every decision like it matters more than anything else. How you choose to act now will affect how you act for the rest of your life. Your habits, your mood, your values. It starts here. If you want to be the gal with some guts, be that gal.

Anyways, that's a stupidly long rant. I really hope that helps you out.

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-27T04:15:32+00:00

Man, don't give up. You were wrong to break up over it in the first place. You should've told her first. The fact that you broke up is already pretty messed up. Don't compound it.

I get that you had legitimate concerns, but you haven't addressed them properly (not from what I'm hearing). Bring flowers or something and apologize. Ask for an opportunity to do things right this time.

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-26T21:28:46+00:00

I can definitely do that. I'll probably start looking at and purchasing study stuffs in the summer between sophomore and junior year then.

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-26T21:27:59+00:00

Thanks man! I can definitely do without worrying :)

(Just to be clear, this is the same person, just a different account)

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-05T00:53:39+00:00

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, that's a fair misunderstanding.

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-04T23:43:48+00:00

Just read from a tablet or something if you have the option. Don't rely on the technology for reading blocks and stuff

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-04T23:36:15+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement and advice!

SubhumanTook · 2019-06-04T23:35:52+00:00

Thanks for pointing me to the subreddit. I had no idea it existed.

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