It’s not capitalism, baby?

You can’t eat 12 eggs in 4 weeks?

This is an amazing thread to collect answers to people’s security questions, thanks!

I like me some good smelly ass to suck

Especially your mom’s, so yes, you did right

Also, if there are a couple tribes enough distance apart to each be self-sufficient, there is no incentive to even have a state. Government/states only became useful once too many people lived too closely together.

And it’s not like we can go back to tribal self-sufficiency.

That makes sense, but this approach first requires the will to actually regulate in this manner. Because “just” closing the border right now would just keep capitalism unchecked, just within the country. Most people don’t even meet their next-door neighbor that often, countries are usually still big enough that I don’t think your second point does very much.

Otherwise, it does theoretically sound good. However, I don’t think just any country at this point could be entirely self-reliable, some just have an impossible land-to-people ratio that is only possible by importing food from other countries. I don’t have that much information about this, though, so might be false, I don’t know how much land you need and how the agrarian situation is like for many countries.

No, I don’t think there is a trick… I just thought you did something weird, because I’ve literally never hurt myself opening these or even had any problems at all.

I just opened one of these to test. What I do is I use my fingernails to get below the tab, which is extremely easy. The harder part would be to lift it up with my fingernails, which I don’t do, instead, after lifting the tab up just a tiny bit with my fingernails, I push my finger further in so that a bit of my flesh goes in between the tab and the lid, which gives me a bit more leverage to lift the tab. I then repeat this one more time, after which my whole finger is in the hole. I can then just remove the lid by holding the can with one hand, then pulling the lid in a 45° angle with the finger through the hole.

I just never thought about that there could be a problem opening these and I wondered what exactly you were doing to make it hard.

I’m scared to ask… what… are you using your fingernails for here?

Yes but which free trade are you talking about? Because if you close borders so trade only happens within one country, then there will still be competition within the country. I.e. your neighbor’s factory. That’s why I ask which borders you mean exactly… Because usually “close the border” means closing the border of the country to imports/exports of goods/humans of other countries.

Well yeah, but that doesn’t invalidate the “tolerance is a social contract” mentality, it invalidates baseless accusations and extreme hostility. What I said is the actual intended result of the “don’t tolerate intolerance” mentality. If that is fine with you, then you don’t actually have any issue with the mentality itself, but with the implementation.

Wait, which borders are you talking about? The borders of each individuals property? So everyone should be self-sufficient, with no trade happening at all?

Do people really stop competing with one another if the borders are closed? And if so, how? In my mind, neither open nor closed borders change anything in the amount of competition there is, it just changes the groups involved.

So what is the alternative to “downvoting” someone’s opinion? You can’t support it, obviously, that would be stupid. I just see no other way than “downvoting”, saying “well, I see where you’re coming from, but your opinion is wrong and doesn’t achieve what you want”.

Why should anything be crashing at this point? Everyone is still working, right? Value is still being extracted from workers, right? People are still buying things, aren’t they?

The stock market will only start crashing once the effects actually reach people’s spending/working behavior, which it didn’t yet.

Nah, you’re on a good path. If you continue to work on yourself, accept your shortcomings, you really can’t do anything wrong. Only staying still would be a problem. The fact that you ask here is already proof of the opposite.

I’m glad :) I hope you can get to a better place with your depression. I’ve been through it, I know how much it sucks. If you need more advice/explanations/help, don’t hesitate to ask.

Many people in here treated you very unfairly, because you did sound very much like you’re saying “I’m incredibly amazing and can do nothing wrong”, and some people assume that such a person could never do something different and they absolutely hate that.

A healthy confidence is incredibly important, but so is knowing that you’re not perfect either. I’m very proud that it seems like you can do both :)

The question is what you mean with “too much self-awareness”, which you haven’t said. I strongly assume that what you’re talking about isn’t self-awareness at all, but self-worth issues.

Because just knowing yourself… is simply never a bad thing. If it is, then it isn’t the thing you’re talking about.

As others have said, flirting is a “natural”, risk-free way to show sexual interest in someone.

I’m autistic and basically can’t do it. So I just go up to people I find attractive, and say “hey I think you’re cute, I’d like to get to know you better, would you also like that?” or some variation of this. Most of the time it doesn’t work, but quite evidently by what is lying next to me, it works sometimes.

Being yourself is not about not doing the things that are required to reach your goals. You still need to do them, i.e. express sexual interest. What is meant is that you need to figure out a way to do the things that are necessary to reach your goal in a way that you can actually learn to do.

New things. I simply can’t stay with anything. Makes it basically impossible to have any decent job, because people want and expect you to be an expert at what you do.

It’s not really about the sarcasm itself, what they were saying was so ridiculous that having that as an actual opinion is just completely unrealistic. It shows that your conecpt of reality in ragards to yourself, i.e. self-awareness, is currently very lacking.