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Part 1

A man is traveling by foot when he sees a party of merchants walking in the opposite direction. With that party is a donkey who is heavily burdened with all the merchandise. The man noticing the donkey ready to collapse, states, "That donkey is carrying too much! Take off some of those things so that he does not die from exhaustion!"

The merchants take a look at the donkey and see that the man is correct. They start to discuss among themselves what they should do.

I have a theory about the supposed increase in autists. The internet is to blame. Not simply because people can look up terms and mis-diagnose themselves (though this is part of it), but rather that the internet has the unfortunate side effect of allowing people to be "terminally online."

When you are doing the vast majority of your communication through text alone, you are missing most of the actual communication you would get in a natural social situation (vocal inflections, emotions)

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For anyone who wants marriage and family in their future, I have some advice:

Don't marry wrong. If that means not marrying at all, so be it.

It is indeed better to not marry at all than to make the wrong choice on who to marry. I will never tell any man that they have an obligation to get married, because in spite of the fact that I am married myself, I understand that my path is not one that can or should be prescribed to all other men.

I for one am sick of the incorrect pronunciation of Epstein. It is "Ep-stine", not "Ep-steen." I don't care about any retarded justifications, the "ei" makes it a long I, not a long E.

Even more retarded when it was with Harvey Weinstein, when it was said as "Wine-steen." As if we do not see the exact same letter combination in the same name.

Is the media doing this because the "stine" pronunciation of Stein would make people associate the name as Jewish? Too late, everyone already knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ohoqQqXes0

This sums up how I feel about the prospect of space travel outside of our solar system. In short, other stars are too far away and anyone who thinks we are going to get the magical technology to travel fast enough to make such travel possible is delusional.

My conspiracy theory of the day: the demonitizing of videos using terms like "pedophile," "rape," and "porn," are not used to protect children, but to serve as a shield to our own corrupt rulers so that it is harder to discuss the horrible acts they are doing.

Not that it really would work anyway, since people just created replacement terms like "PDF file," "grape," and "corn." You can't truly stop the message, you just force people to come up with new terms.

I have an idea to sell the idea of a net-taxpayer voter system to leftists. Use their hatred of billionaires against them. Talk up how billionaires should not be voting since they have been getting huge tax cuts.

Maybe it won't work, or maybe it will force them to look into how much each group actually pays into the tax system.

And to make sure we do not fall into the trap that short sighted libertarians do, the order of operations goes like this: the welfare ends. THEN we can stop ICE activity. Thinking the order of operations are interchangeable shows that you have no ability to think.

I have a proposal to address the ICE activity/immigrant welfare fraud/immgration issues in general. This is a proposal I doubt anyone on the left would agree with (and probably a good number on the right too).

I accept ending all ICE raids and activity on the condition that we abolish all welfare and welfare adjacent programs. If the immigrants are really making it on their own, then welfare being gone will not affect them.

I frequently see topics of discussion where I want to chime in, but I realize in order to do so, I must reveal a part of myself that I fully intend to keep private. It is not worth accidently leaving a trail of evidence about yourself for some asshole who wants real harm done to you just for a discussion which will most likely no longer have relevance a week later.

So when we are dealing with having ICE operate in Minnesota, we still need to look at the bigger picture. If they can successfully make a difference in rooting out those committing fraud and make the system less corrupt, that would be a step in the correct direction to having more freedom. Because having your money stolen is bad enough when the government does it, but when it is stolen again through those who are cheating the system (gov officials included here), then it makes for less freedom.