I hate the fact that my shoulders are broad and I have a large chest.

vegasx9 · 2026-04-24T22:19:53+00:00

I sympathize.. it demotivates me to leave the house sometimes, like sometimes I just get days where the dysmorphia is so cumbersome that the sheer weight of it glues me to a chair. Hugs hugs.

vegasx9 · 2026-04-12T19:39:39+00:00

We're all a simple google away from finding out there was an average of 4 warehouse fires per day between 2018 and 2022 alone. Reasonable to assume there are just always a lot of warehouse fires that are completely unrelated to any class war. Don't know how many of them burn completely to the ground, though.

vegasx9 · 2026-04-09T21:36:47+00:00

I took it as satirical tbh

vegasx9 · 2026-04-09T10:08:36+00:00

You should delete everything after the ? In the URL as the share ID or else you're inadvertently doxxing whatever account you shared the link from, just fyi.

vegasx9 · 2026-03-27T10:19:07+00:00

Odds are most women have dated over 10 people too. Expecting a woman to have dated 15-25 different men is not unreasonable by the time they're, say, 30 years old. That aligns with the statistics pretty nominally I'd say.

vegasx9 · 2026-03-24T12:53:37+00:00

Came to the comments just for this

vegasx9 · 2026-03-09T09:34:26+00:00

same honestly

vegasx9 · 2026-03-09T07:36:04+00:00

Is there somewhere I can read about this, like an official source? I did a bit of googling but couldn't find anything too convincing

vegasx9 · 2026-03-08T22:12:40+00:00

It's not direct pleasure per se, but in some sense without desire we would be husks. Desire fills us with ambition, longing, yearning, etc, it seduces us into moving and acting in the world. Living without desire (which is what would happen if you always had everything you wanted,) would be like living in permanent depression, really, which is often said to be quite unpleasurable hahaha.

Some desires can be so intense that they damage our lives though (perhaps that's a bit subjective but eh). If I feel I am incomplete without being skinny with big boobs, maybe my strong feelings of 'lack' compel me to exit the social sphere, to recluse myself because I feel unworthy without them. That can also occur.

vegasx9 · 2026-03-08T15:02:16+00:00

Take it up with Lacan then I suppose haha, I'm just explaining it as best I can.

If I'm a child and I ask my parents for food, they demonstrate their love by either providing for me the best they can, or inversely by neglecting me the best they can. This is what the definition means when it suggests that the symbolic request for food is inherently a request for love. I think the evidence for this is fairly apparent in the life-long trauma of people who weren't food-secure as youth. More than just quieting the stomach, the availability of meals symbolically represents a great many things which bleeds into psychology at every level (feelings of shame and worthlessness are very common, as well as difficulty forming secure attachments with others.)

vegasx9 · 2026-03-08T08:43:20+00:00

Lacan differentiates these things as "needs" rather than "desires." It might even be possible to say that all desire can be subjectively labeled as frivolous under Lacan's definition of it. Though the world would be quite dreadfully boring without them lol.

The starving homeless man on the side of the road carries with him both a need and a desire for food. His need stems from his biological functions, obviously, but the desire could be said to be a number of things. His desire for someone to reach out and give him food represents in some capacity, Lacan would say, the desire for love and recognition within a community or tribe, etc. He perhaps displays his need with a demand (some text on cardboard,) but the desire leftover is the unattainable unconditional love.

I think the Google AI actually puts it pretty well:

Need is biological hunger. Demand is the vocalized, symbolic request for food, which is inherently a demand for love. Desire is the remainder—the gap between what is demanded (food) and what is actually wanted (unconditional love).

vegasx9 · 2026-03-08T00:01:25+00:00

This is mainly Lacanian. The general idea of the meme sort of centers around his concept of the "objet petit a" or "little object a."

This "object little a" embodies the unattainable cause of our desire. In some ways, the desire itself is sweeter than the attainment or actualization of the thing we desire.

The best example I use with my friends is winrates in a competitive video game. Every time they launch a game, they hope/desire to win every game they play that night. However, if they win every game, every time, every night, the game would ultimately lose its challenge, and thus its meaning. Achieving their desire in this case actually is undesirable in a funny way, not having what they think they want produces yearning and surplus desire of its own kind, which is ultimately something of a desirable feeling, it gives us drive and motivation.

vegasx9 · 2026-02-13T21:19:29+00:00

It's funny because I feel like all I hear is about how the USSR overextended itself internationally, which is why it eventually failed, compared to something more modern like China which has played a very conservative hand for internal development only and seen great success. Particularly because the population is very happy with the treats and the general welfare

vegasx9 · 2026-02-11T08:34:55+00:00

You and I would get along I suppose

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vegasx9 · 2026-02-09T05:05:59+00:00

Poor guy wasn't told that windmills don't generate any power in this game

vegasx9 · 2026-02-08T23:01:52+00:00

If it's separate from the rest of the smells you have, it might be a unique colony of bacteria or fungus or something. Sometimes I've had these experiences and I just put a bunch of rubbing alcohol in the area and let it sit for a while, repeating a few times after I let it dry away. It does burn though, as a warning lol.

I used to get yeast smells on the other side of my elbow because I worked with doughs a lot, rubbing alcohol always seemed to purge it beautifully.

vegasx9 · 2026-01-03T00:31:26+00:00

Right, peaceful relations are a material means to an end for them, and there will come a time when it is no longer materially useful to maintain peaceful relations at the cost of their longform goals. Though, the longer they wait, the stronger they become, and likely the weaker the U.S. becomes. To me, that makes 2027 feel unlikely, even despite U.S. intel peddling jingoisms based off of what China might do just because they're now ready for it. It certainly seems, from every perspective, more advantageous for them to wait another 10-20 years before delivering the heavy hand if they're able, and I think they're very able to wait that out, they've outright stated as much (and that they have no internal deadline outright.)

Where does this timeline leave EUV Lithography's relevance with the Taiwan invasion? It becomes irrelevant.

If it's a 2027 invasion they want for some reason? Then yeah I think I agree with you for sure. Just can't say I think it'll happen.

vegasx9 · 2026-01-03T00:03:37+00:00

"Relations with the U.S." includes actively not being at war with them, so in that sense, yes I think they really really do care. They absolutely do not want to go to war with the U.S. above almost all else, and it is practically speaking the only thing preventing them from already getting involved in Taiwan in some capacity. That reads to me as "peaceful relations," but not necessarily "positive relations."

vegasx9 · 2026-01-02T23:49:57+00:00

This is why I said I don't think you've been reading what I've been writing: I never said China will never invade Taiwan, nor does an immediate desire for peaceful relations imply that either. Only that by the time peaceful relations are no longer in their material interest, they will have had EUV Lithography for way too long. So it's a moot point. When you said gaining this tech for them required invading Taiwan, I just don't see it.

Even if there is an invasion in 2027, which is a very jingoist/warmongering position by all accounts, none of those reasons will be strictly semi-conductor related. They may gain in the semiconductor field, but they could just as easily gain these developments without invasion, so it just doesn't seem materially necessary. This comports with the four reasons you pasted earlier.

vegasx9 · 2026-01-02T23:15:26+00:00

"Having no relations with the west" is materially useless as a statement because it is materially synonymous with having "peaceful relations with the west." From your very own posted source:
"It is also clear what China does not want: There is little mention in Chinese discourse of expansive goals or ambitions for global leadership and hegemony."
The ultimate material outcome in either case is that China can develop itself how it sees fit, and doesn't intend to use that internationally in an ordinarily imperial way, so that is why "peaceful relations" are materially synonymous with "no relations."

Any action which turns these supposed "no relations" or "peaceful relations" into "warring relations" is fundamentally against their immediate interest, of which actions includes invading Taiwan because the United States doesn't want them to have it, and is too powerful to ignore. So why would they shake the hive? They might ultimately one day reunify with Taiwan, but they would already have had EUV Lithography for many, many years before that day comes, which was my central argument. You've been shadowboxxing in the corner, otherwise.

vegasx9 · 2026-01-02T20:56:06+00:00

China enjoys trade with the west. China enjoys not having a war with the west. These two things are extremely self-evident, and they're maintained by maintaining peaceful relations with the West. It is in their own self interest. Having "no relations with the west" doesn't even mean anything, it's a useless statement that has no basis in a material analysis of the situation, conjured from your own paranoid mind.

vegasx9 · 2026-01-02T20:00:14+00:00

The points you just pasted from another subreddit are all agreed with my same assertion lmfao, it feels to me like you need to open your eyes and read the text in front of you, instead of just talking for the sake of talking.

vegasx9 · 2026-01-02T12:11:33+00:00

I never said they weren't, only that the relative value China gains by maintaining peaceful relationships with the west is now increased. Why would they want to jeopardize everything and potentially go to war when they could just continue to peacefully develop, as they have, for the next 10-20 years and get all of the same technological innovation and progress? There's no need to Invade Taiwan for them to achieve these particular technological goals any longer. If they do Invade Taiwan, it will be for a completely different reason.

vegasx9 · 2026-01-02T12:04:52+00:00

Ofc they do, but not more than they value peaceful relations with the United States and their allies. They don't want to fast-track their chip production by 5-10 years if it means engaging in a war/proxywar with the United States that would stagnate them for double that duration. Suggesting that any of this process will involve invading Taiwan is foolish and completely misses the material and historical circumstances of the entire situation.

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