The latter

Far out, man

Look man when I was a kid Pluto was a planet. Therefore Pluto will always be a planet.

This mental inflexibility on my part may be related to autism, but I will never admit it.

I most certainly was not.

My friend went to Thailand, but part of his monk training involved martial arts training in Germany. He’s now re-joined regular life. He lives in Boston now and he’s a psychotherapist, meditation instructor, husband, and father.

Did you pick anything up when you read Marx? Are you able to articulate your thinking here?

Adding ice is ridiculous. Add Pepsi

Actually the science on this shows that kids who grow up close to manure have lower incidence of allergies and other autoimmune problems.

The reason for avoiding pasteurization is to maintain nutrients.

It’s got nothing to do with whatever ethic might require a person to purposefully invite infection, as this post seems to presuppose.

I was quite sensitive at your age. It took me a while to discover it, but I found that I was far more sensitive to psychological toxicity than I was to physical difficulty.

At the shelter I had to deal with:

• Sleeping in a room full of men, with the lights on
• Showering in a group situation (being naked in front of other men)
• Pooping at toilets in open stalls
• Keeping my backpack up on the bed with my arm looped through the straps to ensure nobody stole it (there was a thief in the room during my stay, and after a couple days of people’s stuff going missing we caught the guy and he was kicked out)
• Having to wake up on their schedule (5 am wake up, 6 am having to leave the shelter)
• Eating food that didn’t match my (soft) dietary restrictions

Overall that was hard, but it was easy compared to dealing with the decades of psychological horseshit that had built up between me and my parents.

It was spartan living conditions, but I was healthy and optimistic when I was there. Lots of other guys in there were not healthy and optimistic.

That’s just my own experience. And this is coming from someone who considered himself quite sensitive. As a kid I never did anything physically dangerous because I was too afraid of injury. I was a “wuss” as a kid.

Staying at the homeless shelter was surprisingly easy for me. A far less dangerous environment than my home.

Plus it was an aventure that helped me find out who I want to be in life. I pride myself now on my toughness, and in knowing what I need and what’s just nice to have. Turns out I need an environment in which I’m not being psychologically tortured, I need a system of boundaries and incentives that’s clear, and it’s merely nice to have a bathtub where I can take hot baths, and a kitchen where I can cook, etc.

I still consider myself sensitive, but not to cold showers and physical danger. What I’m sensitive to is people loading on my empathy with unclear, neurotic, angst relating styles.

I’m totally sensitive to the kind of depression I get when staying with family. I’m not so sensitive to deprivation and challenge.

What about joining the military or a monastery? You can be a monk for a while.

A friend of mine did this on his twenties and it really helped him out.

You’d have to dedicate your life to monastic living, but there are worse ways to spend one’s time.

Alternative is the military. Obviously there are ethical questions you’d have to answer there for yourself.

I have already decided I would rather live in a homeless shelter than with my parents. I have generally done okay when I have lived in homeless shelters, and I have done extremely poorly when I’ve lived with my parents.

Despite the material difficulty, psychologically the shelter is a much better environment for me.

Is this an option for you? Our society does have systems to help you out, if you don’t want to rely on your parents.

Violence is justified to defend oneself or one’s allies from violent aggression, and that’s it.

Retirement and open source contribution sounds like an excellent combination to me. Give the old men something to do, let the projects be worked on by people who can take their time, make the best use of the expertise. All that sounds great.

Because older men tend to be more financially secure and hence have more time for generosity.

I don’t see how it’s “culture war circle jerk” to run a poll on how many people think discriminating based on race is okay. Care to explain?

Literally no part of this is arguing that businesses should be allowed to discriminate against minorities.

DEI is discriminating against majorities. Anything other than merit as a consideration is discrimination.

Was it you that removed my comment?

It was upvoted at first but then went negative. I have to say it’s a relief that people aren’t yet willing to embrace that position openly.

“world police” means doing police work at a global level.

Police fundamentally exist so that individuals can outsource their security to the state. Police disincentivize coercion by maintaining the ability to do violence and doing violence on those who use violence. It allows individuals to not have to think about physical in order to move freely.

“world police” means one country’s military defending other countries so that those countries don’t have to maintain a military or handle their own security.

The meaning of the phrase is inherent to the phrase’s word: it just means playing a police role (punishing aggression between third parties to maintain a peaceful atmosphere) for the world (planet Earth).