Alsjemenou
@Alsjemenou@lemy.nl
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I got mine after having a stable relationship and a partner without a child wish.
i knew from a very young age i didnt want kids, and have always picked partners that shared my view. I also knew that I would make a great dad if it ever came to it. So i never got the snip until i was 39.
I don’t think I would have mind if I did it earlier, but it’s also not as necessary as you think. If you pick your partners carefully and be open about your wishes. This shouldn’t be a real issue. If you are having fantasies about fucking around a lot, you should wear protection anyway. And as a matter of fact, not being snipped will help to wear that shit.
I want to mention lastly, please don’t get into a deep lasting relationship with a person who has a child wish. It will end badly.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
Finally i can get my jacuzzi!
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 week ago:
Ah great, I would like everything i ever would need to buy ever, always be on super sale. Thanks.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 2 weeks ago:
Okay. Let me give a sane outsider take.
First thing you have to understand is that there is a big disconnect between the conviction of Epstein and the influential connections he had. All the conspiracy talk about the island being a childporn hub for elites is nothing more than that: conspiracy fantasy. His suicide fueled many more ideas about the elite killing him, but again no evidence at all.
However, there is a strong public pressure to research the connections between Epstein and the elites he knew. This has most likely been done in the background, since Epstein did shady finances. But Trump has campaigned heavily on the popular sentiment. And it lives in the minds of people a solution to lock up all the elites/draining the swamp.
So now there is a big problem for the maga populists, there is a ‘list’ of connections to epstein. But there is no further evidence (yet) that those people did anything illegal, or is entirely complicated financial crime. The list probably includes just about the entire political spectrum includes donors and includes Trump. So everybody wants to handle this the correct way, including those donors. Nobody wants their name public because they spoke to a shady financial advisor. And any case against a super wealthy person needs to be watertight, they can afford a legal team.
Is it possible that there was deeper predatory connections? sure. Epstein had easy access and no question that he was willing to share. Is that going to be written down in a list? absolutely not. Epstein did finances the shady way and that’s more likely the reason so many rich people were interested in his business.
So this isnt a political issue. Of course, now it is. But that’s because Trump made it one.
- Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery? 2 weeks ago:
Why not add a bluetooth speaker and some search lights, maybe a perfume dispenser and a toothpick holder. fucking genius.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 2 weeks ago:
'99 Renault Megane scenic 1.9D
it was dangerously slow. And I failed my first test because of it. I was supposed to merge in front of a truck, but i simply couldn’t get up to speed in the space i had. The exam lady refused to believe me that it couldn’t.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 3 weeks ago:
First of all, there are a lot of people willing to die for their country as it is. As soon as people are willing to give up their lives, you’re not changing shit. These people didn’t grow up like you and me.
Secondly, there is a world of difference between stepping in and stepping in. One of the main reasons that North Korea is so isolated is because of sanctions. That is also a form of stepping in.
Thirdly, we already saw war and foreign meddling in that area. That’s exactly why America is the great evil opponent of North Korea. That’s not a coincidence or just because Kim Il Sung, Kim Jung Il or Kim Jung Un hated “freedom”.
Now you ask, what other solution is there?!
Well, a lot of people are actually working on that. By launching information campaigns and spreading Western/foreign music into the country. Real change comes from within. But please remember that this country is now lead by the third generation of absolute leader.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
:p would be rude to call someone dumb otherwise.
Look, you’re completely right about big poluters. Obviously.
But them polluting doesn’t rid you from your responsibilities. Car manufacturers make cars go 150 but you still need to keep to the speed limit. And because everybody does that, at least to a fair degree, we can all drive safely.
You can just toss your thrash on the side of the road.
You can just exist on a red meat only diet.
Its all the same. Have some common decency. Don’t consume polluting products when you know that it’s the worst option and there is much better available.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 weeks ago:
Okay. But as an individual we still have a choice. And knowing what clearly is worse, while having minimal impact on your life if not doing it. It doesn’t exactly feel like a smart decision, to have red meat/animal products in general. Can i at least call you dumb?
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 4 weeks ago:
Yes. And also explains why worldviews are so different between cultural, linguistical and geographically different groups of people.
Even though we’re becoming more and more unified, through the internet, through logic systems like maths or science in general. This is not to be mistaken for truth. Western scientific ideology specifically has as unspoken ‘truth’ that when ideas ‘win’, they are more valuable. While English, our logical rules, our ideologies are winning not because they are true but because they are believed more, or over, other languages, logic systems and ideologies.
Ofcourse these systems of beliefs create opportunities and knowledge for people. Don’t mistake my dismissal of truth for disaproval.
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 4 weeks ago:
Because everything we can say about reality is through the human perspective and the construct of language. We believe that this can yield us truths. But its just a belief. Our human-ness might just as well blind us to what is actually true. And as such, most of everything we think we know is based on belief. There is no escaping this problem.
- Comment on You learn something new everyday 1 month ago:
The numbers for 1993 werent in yet?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
People are idiots andll try to whack that seed full force with a blunt potato peeler.
- Comment on If you gotta go, you gotta go law. 2 months ago:
Restcloset*
- Comment on If this is you your priorities are all screwed up 4 months ago:
Oh shut, thanks for the wake up call op.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 months ago:
In a sense it is done. That sense is being a beacon of progress. All presidents before Trump understood the relationship America had with the world as being a world power. While there always was a conservative voice in America, conservative presidents were always able to mask self interest under the flag of progress, bringing democracy, peace and free markets. Now ultraconservative fascist are no longer masking, Trump and Musk are literally not smart enough to understand. The USA played a very important role in the world order and the current administration is basically giving that up.
Trump and Musk, because they really aren’t smart (i can’t stress this enough, they lack the mental capacity), are not considering the value of that role, the services the US provides. They only think about the value of things and of money. More rockets, tarifs on goods, expenditure… And see these as things along which progress is measured.
While that does, to a small extent, captures progress. It forgets the foundations of progress, peace, education, financial security, social cohesion, to name a few. Sorry, i say forget… But really what i should be saying is dismantling. They are also clueless about the value of services and the service economy. Which is, or has become, another measure of progress.
Anyway the point is, the US can’t maintain their position in the world order. They can’t maintain a government that understands their responsibility in that order. They abandoned their classic role without providing the world with a new/better one.
The US has been degraded to a trade partner.