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And contrary to the impression many people want to give about sex (namely their own performance and how long they can go at it), sex probably does not last all that long for most people. Even the longest outliers, the act itself does not last that long when you consider the grand total of your life. Yet again, many people make a huge deal out of it.

Often, it is not the quantity of time to consider, but the quality.

Some of the moments we consider highly important really do not last that long when you think about it. When going to the gym, if you are doing 3 sets of 5 for 3 different lifts, each set probably lasts about 1 minute each. That makes 9 minutes of time spent going hard. 9 minutes is not a lot of time, in the grand scheme of the day, but those are 9 very important minutes.

Yes, you need to devote time for rest between sets too, but I hope my point makes sense.

@basedbagel 2nd, money. Sure, gas will cost you money, but a flight will cost you even more. You easily save money when you drive instead of flying. And given that it comes around to about the same amount of time, you are just choosing if you want to spend more money so that you don't have to be having your hands on the wheel the whole time.

@basedbagel 7 hour drive easy. I hate long drives, but it is going to be superior to the 3 hour flight for several reasons.

1st, time. You have to allocate at least 2 hours prior to arrive at the airport before you get on your plane. And depending on how far you live from the airport, you have travel time to account for there too. And then you have the actual flight. After, you have to wait a while just to get off the flight. So at the low end it will take you about 6 hours (if you are lucky).

Oh no! Men refusing to work with women, which hurts women's productivity! This is terrible!

Wait, why are these women unable to be as productive unless they are collaborating with men? Can't they just collaborate with each other? After all, we are told how smart and capable women are, so they should be just as productive when collaborating with other women.

Or perhaps this "collaboration" is just like what happens in group projects at school when you get paired up with a moron.

One thing I do remember is there was a Myth Busters episode "proving" there was a moon landing based on some equipment that is supposed to be there. There is just one problem with this whole thing: I am just getting fed information from a TV. I cannot verify anything and I am just seeing what the show wants me to see. To just accept this as fact is to be no better than the boomers thinking that Covid was the worst thing ever just because CNN said so.

When it comes to some theories, I see myself as agnostic in whether or not they are true.

Did we actually land on the moon? I would not be shocked if we didn't, but I am not hard set in whether it happened either way. It does make me scratch my head when we see the current effort to "go back to the moon" facing a series of setbacks.

Are they failing because they are a bunch of DEI hires? Or is it because we are trying to something that is not actually possible?

When I was in grade school, the thought of the idea that the US would ever cease to exist or decline was just something that seem like crazy talk. But now, seeing the state of the world and the waning power of the US, I see the latter happening and the former being a very strong possibility. Wouldn't it be something if the United States of America was something you read about in some book rather than an existing country? In 100 or more years, that does not seem so crazy.

@MeBigbrain @ChristiJunior @tyler @Ghislaine They don't care about the "muh state lines" thing, they are just hoping to use it as a weapon against him. This is a leftist/libtard tactic, to look for any means to attack their enemies. They care not if they contradict what they said at previous times, as long as they can use it to attack who they see as their enemy.

They need constant updates from their superiors in order to appear consistent. Thus, the leftist media apparatus.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @udongle So she went from a "basic ass local" to a basic tatted dyed-hair fatty.

@BHG @basedbagel For example, Milei on paper appears to be great. But how much will he be allowed to do in the long run? I fear that he will eventually be subverted by the Big GAE that wants to push their progressive bullshit. We saw Bolsonaro in Brazil get "voted out" with a suspicious election, as well as likely many other leaders in other countries. We cannot trust politics to fix the system, so trying to metagame politics to cater to women will not work with that in mind either.

@BHG @basedbagel I am not against making the best of a situation that you have. However, I am not for putting in the maximal effort into something for mediocre at best results.

Maybe the "best" solution we want cannot be feasibly enacted at this time. I am just not seeing a strong focus on politics as the solution with the current system, especially when we have seen what happens even when we get someone who is "our guy" in office. Often, he gets subverted from doing anything good.

@sardonicsmile I am confused. How exactly are these two women fighting over custody? Were they a lesbian couple? Or was there some other dumpster fire level of dysfunction going on that I am not aware of?

@BHG @basedbagel Also, it is a glaring issue that we need to play the emotional game of picking a more "attractive" candidate to appeal to women. This shows that we cannot win them over with logic, which means we cannot address other issues unless we cater to their whims at every single turn. This means we are at best slow to solve problems. But usually it means we do not solve any problems at all.

The problem I see is that @BHG is trying to figure out a way to win within the current rule set while @basedbagel points out that the current rule set is rigged against being able to actually solve the problem. You have to bend over backwards too much just to get inferior results when you confine yourself to the rigged rule set.