lime!

while i do appreciate the “why should i change, he’s the one who sucks”, you gotta think about the optics at least some of the time. if you have to explain it every time, how many people do you think left before you had the chance because of first impressions? people who have had enough bad experiences to not want to take the risk?

koans can also be fables, ending on a vagueness designed to be meditated upon in order to learn a lesson.

the problem with using buddhist koans in the current year is that the main users of them today are andrew tate and his cadre.

real life is not an adventure game, bro. i see what your koan implies but you’re just being an asshole by responding like this.

lukewarm take at best, and i’m superficially on the same side here.

the notion that a potential soul takes energy from a person is completely unqualified, and used as a basis for the rest of the argument. there are so many external energy sources in the universe even before we start talking about a “spiritual plane”.

weak.

i don’t even need the powers, i just want some stability

just plug me in, coach

i want to be juicy and delicious

did we not tell you that this is exactly what would happen?

it’s been standardized multiple times! the Italian outlets look like that to be backwards compatible with their older standard, where different amperages had different plugs.

E is only common in five countries, F is more widely used.

multiple things can occur

why bring up the us? “trade imbalance” usually refers to imports v exports of that country.

i think the australian coal industry definitely qualifies as “shitty exports”. they wanted to dig up the great barrier reef to make a coal harbour.

it’s a quote

oh yeah i forgot america has special school buses. that makes more sense.

that’s so wild. is it too personal to ask what country you’re in?

is that you, tim?

nah you’re fine

i read “weak” in this context as “unmanly”. as in, the concept of feeling things makes someone less of a man, that manliness is inherently tied to stoicism. which is a very common thing, and something that needs to be combated. using language that meatheads understand necessarily means losing some nuance and adding some bias.