Nostalgia is a bitch that lies to you that the past is better, when it’s not.

This will not work on some, but it will work on some.

Maybe in the past it’s possible to live forever by renting, but that’s not the case anymore.

I know it’s a joke but it’s wrong in so many levels to be even dating a dog.

Assuming you’re in UK or Ireland, most of the world still pays for SMS.

I’m glad I was taught not to begrudge and feel envy of other. I learned later in life that there are some insecure tw@ts who’d like to drag others down.

I thought the point of the Internet is that in case nuclear apocalypse happened, that there will still be a reliable mode of communication?

Fruits are basically unfertilized vagina.

It goes both ways.

Truth of the matter is that people do not know what they want.

If you’re in a religious country, everyone still takes this seriously.

If you stay home with your parents for a year or two, you’d get plenty of savings if you’re careful. I know I did.

I know in more individualistic countries not moving out by 18 or 20s has traditionally been seen as taboo, but the current housing situation makes that traditional social rule very impractical for many. Besides, from what I heard in the USA, still living at home with parents is less stigmatised than before.

You paid taxes with it. I don’t know why people would feel bad about applying for welfare benefits and food stamps if they have worked before. Are there those that abuse the system? Sure, but their number pale in comparison to those who genuinely need them. Most people who had been on social welfare do get out of it. Though I have a fairly cynical view, I still think most people do not like to stay in the rut and strive to work hard to move up in their stations. I don’t know about the US but in the UK the vast majority of welfare go to pensioner, disabled and children. Only a smaller percentage of the welfare go to the unemployed despite the anti-poor propaganda.

I think one of the reasons for people feeling awkward to ask for welfare on a personal level is because as a society, we have been conditioned to please the wider society and should derive our sense of worth and happiness by working and grinding. Of course, you want to help society, and of course you can’t always rely on generosity alone, but there is unhealthy level of stigma of not working and looking bad in front of others-- most of whom just go on with their own lives not thinking about you when they go to bed. But we don’t realise that at all the grinding, working and trying to look productive to please others is only benefiting the billionaires whom we are ultimately working for.

I only do when I joke. Lol.

Pros of disc games: ready to play and you own the game.

Cons: game breaking bugs exist and asking devs to send you game patches is awkward af.

Yahweh told Adam and Eve not eat the fruit of knowledge. Why and what is bad about the apple of knowledge?

Pretty much anything from Adele.

Anarcho-capitalism doesn’t work, yes. What’s your point?

Have you any luck yet trying to answer me how would you define collectivism?

Did I say I agree with Rand?

You can be centralised but not collectivist. See the theory of anarcho-capitalism.

I’m guessing you’re operating from different sensibility of political philosophy. Define collectivism then we can talk.

Centralised but everyone is expected to value the group over the individual. The property in the Soviet Union belongs to the people albeit managed by the state. Therefore, collectivist.

Centralisation does not mean either just means individualism or collectivism.