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It just hit me we dont have any general chit-chat threat, so here it is. Post whatever you want, share whatever you want.
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whatever… just forget it…

what ya'll think of sweet and sour chicken? i used not to like it but after trying it on different places i realized the way they make it in some places it's actually good, specially if it's spicy.

you know what i can't get a taste for tho? eel sauce or "unagi"
way too fucking sweet i don't like it at all, just soy sauce for me thank you.

>>750876
yeah its pretty good

>>746423
>>746485
If you feel like this, you're too immature to appreciate yourself

>>739125
You're forgetting that people age and mentally change. Also anything traumatic can happen to you.

>>739131
There's more worth living for than romantic love. If you don't think so, you're a loser



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Freedom of speech my ass
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>pinterest
Well, you did kick the white lady beehive. Lmao

Pinterest was ruined by AI slop and I'm glad. They already ruined image searches in much the same manner.

Is their any white woman out there that likes being called a dog fucker?

>>750976
Then it's not serious. Stop with this shitty meme.

>>751153
I never get AI on my feed or related pics. I assume the "algorithm" grouos pre-AI or natural-looking images together



 

I suppose the public sector size does not matter if the exchange is still unequal, also this is wikipedia so take it with a grain of salt.

>>751022
Wtf Oman is AES???

>>751022
>Oman's large public sector is the direct result of a specific social contract established by the late Sultan Qaboos after he took power in 1970. It wasn't a random economic choice, but a core political strategy for modernization and stability.

>When Sultan Qabous bin Said overthrew his father, he inherited a medieval, isolated state. His modernization project (the "Oman Renaissance") was funded almost entirely by oil revenues, which flowed directly to the state. Instead of distributing this wealth via dividends or sovereign wealth funds alone, he used it to build a massive public sector that served two primary political goals:


>Create a National Identity and Employ the Citizenry: Oman had no modern economy. The state became the employer of first and last resort for Omani citizens, offering secure, well-paid jobs in government ministries, state-owned enterprises, and the military. This instantly created a loyal, national middle class tied directly to the state's patronage.


>Prevent Social Unrest and Buy Political Quietism: In exchange for a guaranteed job, a generous salary, subsidies (for fuel, food, housing), and free education/healthcare, the implicit demand was political acquiescence. The ruling bargain was: "The state will provide for your livelihood from cradle to grave, and in return, you do not challenge its political authority."* This successfully neutralized dissent for decades.

>>751082
This just seems like such an obvious thing to do. More countries or all countries should do this. They sort of do to but societies always need an out group to blame problems on so some groups get shat on whether they deserve to or not.



 

Communist countries have had money, USSR had rubles, Cuba has Pesos, China has Yuan, and East Germany had the Mark. But that was/is stupid. In a perfect communist country you should just be able to go up to a person at a store and ask for something and they just give it to you like in this video above.
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maybe that should tell you something about the mode of production those countries had

>>750768
>Socialist counties
☝️🤓

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They were/are transitionary socialist states thoughbeit

>>750785
That's true

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>>750762
Soviet money in the ussr was kinda worthless. Even if people had money it wasn't easy to find something to buy with it. This is quite tricky. Did this point make soviet money not-money-like pseudo money?



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Vladimir Putin is neither a socialist let alone a communist he’s a reactionary fascist imperialist
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>>750455

truth nuke. everyone is either fascist, conservative, neo lib, radlib (both just as worst) progressive, or left

>>750484

most likely not since russia is taking their sweet time trying to invade ukraine but nothing much else has happened yet (its been 4 years already)

>>750394
This is only controversial to a very small handful of retards.
Literally handpicked successor to Yeltsin.

>>751004
>fascism is when i call someone fascism

>>750972
Русня спок

>>750972
all youre doing is normalising fascism to look like an epic radical



 

Please do it I need sustenance.





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What do you guys use/do to make yourself/ your environment smell nice? What kinda deodorants, perfumes/aftershaves do you use? Do you use any diffusers, burn incense etc

I personally like this perfume, i tend to douse myself in it if i can’t be bothered showering

I also use a reed diffuser, but i find that i become oblivious to the smell after a while

i like the feminine smells bc theyre so varied but i have no clue how to test each one out

My absolute favorite smells are as follows
> Dry grass
> Sunscreen and sweat
> Sea salt on the wind
> Eucalypt smoke
So a late afternoon fire on the beach is my ideal smelling environment and every time I get to do that sorta thing on a warm night it's peak. I've also got a thing for burning metal and ozone, take from that what you will.
>>751073
>I personally like this perfume, i tend to douse myself in it if i can’t be bothered showering
Tbh the natural smell of a hygienic person will generally beat out perfume sprayed to cover up something. Plus the amount needed to effectively mask a smell I find to be too much, the smell becomes too intense. Though I'm no expert, I reckon that perfume should be subtle though that may just be because of my experiences around people who practically lather themselves inthe stuff.



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How common are girls who are obsessed with their boyfriends? My ex used to have my photo as her phone's wallpaper and won't go to sleep if I didn't send her pics to fantasise about.

I want a gf that worships me, not merely sexually, I want her to get high from my scent alone and long for my embrace yet I don't want a 24/7 subby trad wife with no personality… does such person exist and how can I find her in the wild?

don't look for the source
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>>751029
The truth is, people don't want freedom.
They want favor.

That's why people believe in God, especially the anthropomorphic philanthropic deity kind.

Humans love to preach about their superiority above the rest of the animal kingdom but whenever push comes to shove, they tuck tail and scream into the void

>>750481
>I want a gf that worships me, not merely sexually, I want her to get high from my scent alone and long for my embrace yet
Sounds annoying.
>I don't want a 24/7 subby trad wife with no personality…
This would be perfect. le flod

>>750481
There are, someone I knew had a girl stalking him and sending him 26 messages and calling him five times and he just hated her and wanted to be left alone
Life is cruel and gives rewards to people don't desire the rewards, the Buddha was onto something
>>750956
I have seen so many teachers subconsiously look down on people who they think have "failed", it feels like entitlement, i don't believe half of academia even care in the first place lol, teaching is a backup career

>>751071
>Life is cruel and gives rewards to people don't desire the rewards, the Buddha was onto something

Yep, Christianity tries to cover this up with the lie about suffering being a test of character.
There are people who actually believe that deprivation of prospect creates empathy.
Yet, these same people are often comparing their own failures to others.

That's why idealism is poisonous.
It creates unwanted unnecessary goals.

It's especially sad when youth is forced into this

>>751071
>I have seen so many teachers subconsiously look down on people who they think have "failed", it feels like entitlement, i don't believe half of academia even care in the first place lol, teaching is a backup career

I have never seen a teacher judge adults, only kids.
Teachers only morally harass kids about non-technical academic subjects never adults

I also notice that most teachers tend to talk in a therapy speak dialect. The kind you use for toddlers. They even have the most delusional opinions. They have a concept of "wrong speak", punishing kids for expressing cynical opinions.

I'm now understanding why conservatives see schools as the enemy although conservatives often miss the forest for the trees.

Teachers should be mandated to work in worldly spaces before interacting with kids.



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how do i stop being such a sad fucking chud over my ex
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>>750975
This this this

Man is not above the animals.
Humans are the species of animal to be in denial about their biological drives

The only species that is cognitively blind to bio-chronological maturation

>>750966
There's value in every type of deep himan connection, it's why we still exist. Your opinion is based in protestant values and is also dumb.

>>750786
There are fates worse than death.

>>751051
Actually it's you who is dumb.
My post is criticising the obsession with relationships.
Of course there's value in all forms of human connection, but this board seems to think friendship and family is a pain in the ass.

I suggest to people on here to befriend lonely, disabled, and elderly and they say "no thanks".

Also, heterosexuality being for baby smoking isn't limited to "Protestant values".
All religioys and secular societies think along the same lines.

>>751067
You're changing ypur point now, but i agree with most of the new stance at least.



 

Writing this as someone who doesn't fall for Tolkien's romanticism of the past but nevertheless is a pedant.

I was reading about how Germanic societies worked before Charlemagne, before feudalism. And essentially what I ended up realizing is that this is the Rohan of Tolkien's world. Instead of a clear division between "warrior" and "farmer", the farmers were the warriors simultaneously. Free-born or freedmen. You are a free man, so you must know how to fight, to defend yourself, your farm, your family, your "people". Of course, I'm sure Tolkien wasn't a fan of the slavery practice, but the "heroic" free men are the ideal specifically.

In this model, the ruler is not your manager/boss, he is "first among equals".

Many haters of Tolkien seem to have the misconception that the Hobbits are his "ideal". But on the contrary, the Hobbits are the men who had forgotten their "heroism", who had become domesticated, dependant on violent men with swords to defend them. They are not what was "lost", that would be Rohan, they are the later stage transition to the "loss" of "heroic freedom", where the divide between farmer and warrior is now the rule (the warrior part of the equation being Gondor, themselves part of this "loss" of "heroic freedom").

So, to be pedantic, he wasn't "pro-feudalism", he was anti-Charlemagne (in the political sense at least), he would align himself with the freeman Stellinga revolt of 841-843, which I imagine to use an analogy, was something like trying to disarm Texans.

The irony of course is that Christianity/the Church played a major role in this domestication of the once "honorable" Germanic farmer-warriors. Tolkien was a devour Catholic.
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>>750884
For its many faults, the Catholic Church is nothing like the Nazis.

>>750888
LotR's ties to Catholicism all lies within the realm of "deepest lore."

The book itself makes basically no mention of religion at all.

>>750888
I mean, it's not a hot take, it's literally the case. Like another anon pointed out, "kings" predate feudalism, both in the political and economic sense. The Bible is not "pro-feudalism" if it calls Jesus Christ King. That would be historical revisionism.

>>750890
Yeah, it's worse.
Because it still exists, for one.

>>750964
Stop being silly, anon.



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