ContrarianTrail @ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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Maybe there are people with such a skewed worldview that they consider anything short of a billionaire 'unsuccesful' but building wealth of few million is perfectly within reach for average middle class person and simple life-style changes like this are a key part of getting there. No fraud needed. If you want to stay middle-class then by doing middle-class things is how you stay there and buying $5 coffees daily and financing a car are good examples of that.

Do you listen to podcasts too or just audiobooks? In my case, I already listen to a lot of podcast, and I feel like when I'd have a chance to listen to audiobook, I'd just rather put on a podcast. Though perhaps some non-fiction, especially if read by the author.

I even highlighted the relevant part about targeting military centers for you.

If they had targeted schools and hospitals you know we'd be reading about it. We aren't.

I don't have TikTok myself but having seen my friends show videos from their screen I think it's absolutely hideous how half of the video is covered with comments and buttons and shit. That would be a total dealbreaker for me.

Gonna be a tough pill to swallow for a lot of people if Trump and Elon actually do manage to end the war with reasonable terms.

Not saying I'm optimistic that this will happen but I guess you can't really rule it out either. I have a feeling that Putin is pretty much done with this shitshow and would be willing to take an exit that'll preserve even half of his face.

I did indeed include 'overgrown eastern european town' in the prompt.

Every single Iranian TV station, newspaper, hospital, and school are about to get bombed.

That’s not an opinion - it’s a cynical prediction about the future that didn’t end up coming true, yet the person pays no reputational price for being wrong.

Like, do you compliment each other on the superficial stuff?

We go to the gym expecting to get compliments from women but the only ones we end up getting are from other gymbros.

Ironically, my GF just asked some young fellow about his perfume and when she came home she told me about how worried she was about being labeled a creep because of it.

Do you come here to apologize that you were wrong when turns out this didn't happen?

I didn't think so.

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Iran’s state news agency reported strikes targeting “military centers in the provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan and Ilam” had been “successfully intercepted.”

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I don't think I've ever ordered ice-cream from McDonald's. Not exactly the type of product I'd go to a hamburger joint for.

Who could have possibly seen that coming?

99% of people didn't even see chatGPT coming just a few years back.

I really struggle to answer this even though I have this constant feeling of something being wrong. I've been quite lucky with genetics and the things I've wanted to change that can be changed I pretty much already have.

I guess there are two things I'd like to even further improve on:

• I'd like to care less. I like myself the least when I get emotionally captured. I'd like to just be able to let it go and be teflon where nothing sticks.
• I'd like to naturally want to read more.

Women get this kind of attention and compliments constantly but I bet most of them don't realize just how rare it is for even the most handsome men. I remember Chris Williamson, podcasted, previously a male model and professional stud saying that he can pretty much count with one hand the times he has been approached by woman.

I've had a woman send me a blow kiss from a passing vehicle once. I bet she didn't think anything of it when as I'll remember it forever.

If you’re changing batteries on a device and get the used and new ones mixed up - or simply aren’t sure if they’re dead or if the issue is elsewhere - you can drop the battery on its base from about 10 cm high. If it bounces, it’s empty; if it doesn’t, it’s full. Allegedly, this doesn’t work with all types of batteries, but it probably works with the ones you’re using, which are likely Alkaline AA or AAA ones.

Sure but that doesn't really change anything. I don't think he was fit for the job to begin with.

You seem to be implying that is the reason I find myself disliking him less now than in 2016 which couldn't be further from the truth. That's among the most pressing arguments against him.

That's equally unfair as me saying 'I don't see how Harris supporting gender-affirming surgeries for undocumented immigrants in custody' makes people want to vote for her.

I find myself disliking him less this time around than I did in 2016, and I don’t exactly know why. Sure, there’s a ton I disagree with him on, but that applies to both candidates. I guess I have some sympathy for the people in the center who were pushed away by the left and ended up on the right.

No need to worry though - I’m not a US citizen, so I’m not voting for him.

Would you take away the rights of someone with an intellectual disability from watching porn or smoking?

That's a perfectly valid discussion to be had.

It's you who was suggesting adults of certain age should be banned from social media, not me. You don't get to then say 'It’s all oppression. It’s all wrong.' in the next sentence. You're being a hypocrite.

There's a good reason we don't let kids eat sand, hit their friend, drive cars, vote, watch porn, drink alcohol and smoke tobacco. Their brains are undeveloped. They don't know any better. They're entitled to autonomy when they're capable of it.

It's not the government's job to tell adults to not partake in self-harm. Kids don't know better.