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Is HRT repping true repping or not? Was debating someone about this yesterday

doing an oomf map! tell me which country (or state if ur american) ur from and i'll fill it in!

Lesbian T4C is honestly one of the most evil things out there. And I dont get it either because trans women are like, right there.

Library books 5yo wanted: - girl animal learns to be brave - boy knight would rather read fairy tales than fight - brave girl saves lots of animals It’s all just so tiresome

i hate it when people are strict at a games night because my favourite thing to do at games is cheat. monopoly. charade. whot. ludo. i will cheat. we are adults now and it’s okay to cheat. it’s part of the fun.

Disgusting horrific awful interaction bait time oomfs! Time to give me validation!

Rent control is a stunning policy. The literature, the experts, and the repeated experience of reality all stand undivided in saying it's bad. But the public loves it. It's insanely popular. It's basically a 75:25 issue and voters want more of it.

I get why so many liberals are fundamentally disdainful of democracy these days—it’s because liberalism is exhausted. It’s out of answers. Liberalism won, it delivered the world it promised, and people still aren’t content. They’re not satisfied. So the people must be wrong. We are unfathomably richer than our ancestors. Output per capita in America today is on the order of 900 times greater than before the invention of agriculture, about ~225 times higher than in 1 CE, and about the same (225 times) higher than Europe in 1000 CE. If measurable productivity were really the greatest object of human society, then we shouldn’t just be a little bit happier than people in the distant (or even recent!) past—we should be *ecstatic*. We should *already* be living in a utopian age of overwhelming contentment. We should be *currently* experiencing a kind of paradise. The Kingdom of Heaven, as liberalism conceives of it, has already been made real on Earth. We are living in their Eden, and 20% of people are depressed. We’ve stopped reproducing ourselves. We’re overwhelmingly dissatisfied with our governments, anxious about our economies, and pessimistic about the future. If you talk to rational liberals, you can usually get them to acknowledge the ways in which humans are wired not to appreciate absolute levels of wealth—the hedonic treadmill is a well-documented phenomenon. The evolutionary reasons why humans are wired to attend more closely to *relative* prosperity instead of absolute prosperity are obvious. They’ll usually admit this. And the conclusion, insanely, always comes back to something like “isn’t it unfortunate that people can’t appreciate how well-off they are? We’ve delivered well-being, people just don’t recognize it.” This is an obvious, ludicrous contradiction! Who determines the well-being of the people if not the people themselves?! I want to be clear; I’m not making an appeal to RETVRN. I don’t believe things were better in the poor old days. But that’s rather my point; delivering human contentment is not as simple as turning the dial up or down on the Output Machine. Meaning, security, and satisfaction are actually hard problems that demand specific and well-evidenced answers. Liberal elites’ disdain for everything that can’t be so simply measured and optimized is not evidence of their entitlement to rule over irrational masses, but instead proof of *their* irrational commitments to their ideological ends in denial of the reality of what drives human happiness. They purport to be rational, but this blinkered drive to Produce More is anything but.

lenin had a word for a privileged layer of workers defending their position against the class: labor aristocracy. a tunnel boring machine runs with 9 workers in madrid and 25 in new york. the extra salaries aren’t solidarity, they’re rent, paid from the transit budget of the poor

Number of Non-Binary City of Chicago Employees by Community Area