This one right here, for starts. Just post your question.

Or as a lot of their tankie supporters claim.

Monarchs 500 years ago could also travel at whim, enjoy different cultures, and learn about any subject available to them without restriction. And the great thing about a divine mandate is that monarchs didn’t have to do a single damn thing they didn’t want to and could still keep their power.

I’m a licensed electrician. I do construction for my job.

If I didn’t need to work to support myself and my family, I’d offer my services as a licensed electrician to my community at-cost. I’d charge for materials, but not my own labor. Basically, just use the skills I have to support others in my community who could benefit from those skills.

But I also wouldn’t work anything close to 40 hours/week.

There is only a tolerance paradox if you treat tolerance as a moral absolute. That is, if you treat tolerance as something you must give to everyone regardless of their actions (or anything else), then you run into the paradox that giving tolerance to those who do not reciprocate it actually undermines the nature of your own tolerance by forcing you to defend the intolerant.

However, if you treat tolerance as a social contract, there is no paradox. Everyone deserves tolerance so long as they are willing to give it in return. If someone is unwilling to be tolerant, then they do not deserve tolerance themselves. No paradox.

Sure, but also all life. There isn’t a purpose to life except to reproduce and continue living.

From Stark? When?

We see him get a bunch of tech from Stark, but we never see him get money. Then, at the end of No Way Home he gives up literally everything, including his identity as Peter Parker, and is shown living in an extremely cheap apartment.

When did they make Spider-Man rich?

No, nothing has changed. You could make the argument in the comic about Spider-Man’s appearance in Captain America: Civil War, but nothing else.

Homecoming: Spider-Man is fighting criminals trying to steal hyper advanced technology to weaponize it and sell to other criminals.

Far From Home: Spider-Man is fighting a guy who is using advanced tech to stage destructive attacks with elaborate illusions in order to set himself up as a hero, despite the large amount of destruction and harm he’s causing without care.

No Way Home: Spider-Man is trying to redeem and prevent from dying some inter-dimensional villains he inadvertently caused to be dragged into his universe.

Infinity War/Endgame: Spider-Man joins other heroes to fight a galactic tyrant with Malthusian ideas of population control, hell-bent on eliminating half of all life in the universe.

In none of these movies was he fighting for the government to maintain the status quo.

I have a mortgage, which we like to call “owning” but is really me renting-to-own from the bank.

I vastly prefer this to just renting. At least a portion of the money I spend on housing is going towards something I will eventually own (20+ years from now).

Your degree of credulity should be criminal.

There isn’t an end goal. The authoritarian leaders just want to have and keep power for as long as possible. That’s it. It’s not more complicated than that. It’s just power for the sake of power.

“Enoch built this, and Enoch will destroy it.”

What exactly is the problem? Are the responses inaccurate or off topic? Are they wrong?

I guess I just don’t see why you should care that much? Your co-worker is showing you the level of engagement they have with your conversation (very low), so you should respond with a similar level of engagement. Rather than verbose answers, just give a few words.

I think you’re missing my point. I’m not saying nobody ever was taught to type in earlier generations. I’m saying that millennials were the first where there was a widespread recognition that typing was a valuable skill EVERYONE needed to learn, regardless of your future life path. Of course there were people getting trained to type ever since the first keyboards were invented. I mean, there were people as long ago as the 1870s learning to type on the earliest mass-produced typewriters.

I’m talking about a generational cohort as a whole, not individual select cases.

And I’m also talking about the difference between typing being a skill you learn for school/work vs something you use for socialization.

I’ve long said that I believe Millennials, as a generational cohort, are the best at typing that ever has been and ever will be. We were the first generation where adults really recognized that we’d be using computers our entire lives and took steps to teach typing. But, so much more importantly than that, we socialized through typing. I had typing classes in school, sure, but I learned to type quickly on AIM and in chat rooms.

Earlier generations only really typed for business or school. Later generations socialize over phones, so they, too, only use a physical keyboard for school and business.

I guess I should amend this theory to include all tech literacy in general.

Stuff like that certainly exists here, but it’s not super common.

Peanut butter is pretty much our standard of that type of thing. We use jellies/jams/marmalades/etc also, often paired with peanut butter.

Nutella is popular, but not nearly as much as peanut butter.

Marshmallow fluff (basically marshmallows melted into a spread) exists and used to be more popular, but is basically seen a a novelty item now.

We also have apple butters, pear butters, etc. They’re basically a very thick apple sauce that can be spread on food. They’re not super common, though. You’ll mostly find them at specialty stores, farmer’s markets, or farm stands.

Beyond that, the type of stuff you mentioned are fairly uncommon. If people get them, it’s likely as a novelty for a special occasion. Maybe a kid’s birthday party or something like that. They’re not the type of thing people will keep in their house and have frequently.

You seem to be operating under the misplaced assumption that Trump’s goal with the tariffs was to actually bring manufacturing back to the US or improve the US economy in any way. It’s understandable if you haven’t paid very close attention to Trump over the past 9 years. But whenever thinking about him or his policies, you have to keep one thing top of mind: Trump is a habitual liar who only cares about his own personal wealth and power.

He’s not trying to bring manufacturing back to the US or improve the US economy. He’s doing market manipulation to increase his wealth and that of those who helped get him into power. He doesn’t give a shit about you or me or any of the rest of us. He couldn’t care less if the US crumbled into dust tomorrow, so long as he’s still on top.

Trump has stated many times he’ll serve a third term. Told people they’d “never need to vote again.” He fully plans on being President untill he dies.

Hell, his official website is selling Trump 2028 merch.

I’m also so accustomed to his normal podcasting voice that when he does interviews where he’s just having a conversation with someone else it really weirds me out. Like, dude, you’re not supposed to be talking like a normal person just having a conversation. You’re supposed to be describing the most extreme examples of the human condition in poetic terms.