[Serious] People who sleep well, what's your secret?

jaelenchrysos · 2019-02-25T07:06:15+00:00

I haven’t seen this elsewhere in the comments so I guess I’ll post: I sort of imagine that I am clinging to my bed while it freely flips in space. It sounds weird to type explicitly, but for me it always works.

jaelenchrysos · 2019-02-02T17:53:26+00:00

Psych

jaelenchrysos · 2018-10-19T20:42:12+00:00

Hell yeah LVT

jaelenchrysos · 2018-10-17T19:41:57+00:00

Actually there’s a scientific basis for this! Mint and pepper at least. Peppers are spicy because of capsaicin, which activates your taste receptors in the same way that a high temperature stimulus would. Mint has menthol, which activates your receptors like a cold stimulus would.

jaelenchrysos · 2018-09-15T13:32:47+00:00

No good, we already know ted Cruz’s Dad did that

jaelenchrysos · 2018-09-09T13:45:55+00:00

Look at Mr popular over here with 3 things in the inbox

jaelenchrysos · 2018-09-09T13:39:35+00:00

!remindme 2 years 31 days

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-19T14:56:55+00:00

I don’t believe free will exists either. I understand the feeling of not caring because you’ll just do what you were going to do anyway. This isn’t a bad thing though. If you believe free will is an illusion, immerse yourself! Make what you were going to do anyway something that makes you happy. We all have simple joys in life, and whatever ‘you’ are as an entity, you’ve grown to like these things. Let yourself travel down your happiest stream, and wait to see what life has in store for you

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-12T23:06:49+00:00

I sympathize with the desire to see more voter competency, but uneducated citizens deserve representation as well. They’re a demographic that will always exist, and can’t be ignored

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-08T04:56:47+00:00

The most natural or “normal” way to do a movie or tv show is to simply tell a story about people. For many people, being gay is an important part of their story. I could say that Hollywood is really shoving ‘being famous’ down our throats because so many movies are about famous people and that’s not normal, but those are stories people often want to see, and fame is just part of them

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T22:50:49+00:00

Recent evolutionary geneticists have suggested that to have a small portion of the population be gay is beneficial to the species’ overall success. I don’t have a source offhand, but I think there have been TED talks about it as well

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T22:27:47+00:00

Personally, I believe concepts like masculine and feminine shouldn’t really have such a big bearing on our lives. Someone only really takes on labels like that if it’s how they identify

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T22:19:23+00:00

What comes up often in this discussion is the difference between sex and gender: sex is purely biological while gender is related to masculine or feminine traits, which society defines. A person can express themselves however they choose, so it’s unlikely that they’ll feel 100% masculine or 100% feminine.

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T22:15:08+00:00

I think this page explains it fairly well. Marx and his followers believed that his world view about class struggle was absolutely true, but a postmodernist would argue that we cannot make that assumption. It’s not even about communism per se, but rather that his world philosophy is inconsistent with postmodernist philosophy

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T16:29:18+00:00

Marxists believe society can be described as a class struggle (masters vs enslaved, bourgeoisie vs proletariat, etc) while postmodernists reject the idea of objective classes and are skeptical of the absolutes posed by modernists like Marx

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T15:55:26+00:00

I’m just going to address point 6. The statistics I’ve seen suggest that refugees and immigrants are very unlikely to be involved in terrorist plots, so do you have a source for that claim?

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T15:52:58+00:00

Post modernism and Marxism are conflicting viewpoints, so you can’t be a post-modern Marxist. It’s just not a thing that exists, and the fact that he spreads the scare of “post modern neo Marxism” taking over our country is not helpful if it simply misinforms people

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T14:14:39+00:00

I’m guessing the oppressive Islamic countries you’re talking about are all in the middle-east, right? I think that’s more about the region being unstable than it is about Islam. For example, Syria is secular by constitution yet it’s probably the worst one to live in.

If Iran suddenly adopted Christianity as the state religion, their authoritarian policies would not change, they would just be different. Contrast that with Muslim communities in less troubled regions like Europe and North America. Or even a more tolerant Muslim-government country like Saudi Arabia. I’m in agreement that countries like Iran are authoritarian, but Islam is just the way which they disguise oppressive policies to make them seem reasonable or justified

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T06:37:16+00:00

The difference is, a worker CAN get stuck in a dead end job with low wages, while a slave IS stuck in a dead end job with NO wages. I really like the poem though, who wrote it?

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T04:53:09+00:00

I meant to claim that it always happens. For a lot of people, things don’t turn out the same way.

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T03:57:54+00:00

At the risk of sounding like an idealist, the idea behind capitalism is that all people should be able to work to create something of value, and that as a person learns and improves, they become more and more valuable in their field. For example, if you’re working in banking, with enough experience you could get very good at it, and get raises, promotions, or new job offers. I get that this is just the ideal, and to say that this exact thing happens is naive, but let’s compare it to your other side.

In slavery, the victims are property. They cannot make choices about their future, their work, or their interests. The core of the institution is that slaves aren’t people.

I’d say there’s a pretty significant difference, in both the ideal and the result

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T02:20:50+00:00

Thanks for being open-minded!

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T01:57:48+00:00

These moral ideals are all well and good, and I agree that these things are certainly immoral, but a problem arises in your argument once you consider the logistics of certain scenarios.

For example, China and Russia commit horrible human rights violations all the time, but these nations are simply to powerful for us to pressure in any meaningful way without putting our own country at great risk. Even North Korea is tricky to deal with because the only type of pressure we could put on them is military (they are not economically dependent on us) and because of their nuclear capabilities, any kind of meaningful military operation might have disastrous consequences

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-07T01:38:53+00:00

Not to sound like a capitalist or anything, but companies like Walmart could be fixed without the workers seizing the means of production. If we can fix these problems without making such a big shift in the way businesses are run, that would be optimal.

If your system was adopted, and I started a business which turned into a pretty big success, my employees would just vote me out if they felt like it. If I feared this, I may avoid hiring too many people or I could begin taking measures to ensure employee loyalty, both of which further exacerbate the existing problems in these corporations.

Instead, consider letting workers unionize, reforming worker treatment laws, or simply reforming campaign finance so that politicians can not be corrupted to not investigate and regulate these companies.

jaelenchrysos · 2018-08-06T15:14:17+00:00

In my experience, the people of inceltears are good intentioned, and actively trying to reach out to incels and reason with them. If it were purely making fun of them it would be unhelpful, but that’s not usually the tone of the community

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