You don’t even really get much equity out of it. If your houses value increases because of the market, so does all the other housing.

Wrong, so very wrong. First you get to keep 30-60% of your payment as principle, as opposed to rent where you keep 0. Second, the mortgage payment stays the same while rent goes up. Even during modest times this makes a noticeable impact but over the last 15 years the effect has been insane. Even just looking at equity your logic is wrong. Assume I buy a house worth $100k (to keep math easy) and pay $0 down. Now assume it doubles in value, the house is worth $200k and the mortgage is worth $100k. You just made $100k or in real growth close to $50k.

If you plan on staying in one spot for 4+ years, buying is essentially always the correct move. Renting gives you the ability to move as you desire but you’re paying in unseen ways.

And? That’s still not single payer car insurance.

Also owning & operating a vehicle is a privilege whereas living & receiving medical care, should be, a right.

No, single payer system means a legal guarentee of public health care.

What they did was make it a punishable offense to not have health care. That is very very different. They aren’t giving a product that are forcing you to buy a product.

I’ve probably seen 500 instances of accusations of appropriation and I’ve seen maybe 4-5 of that were were actually real appropriation and real harm.

It’s an internet buzzword. The pattern is real but the internet zeitgeist around it is rage bait BS.

Race based humor is icky actually.

It’s possible to both be very progressive and also think the term cultural appropriation is generally misused to the point of being useless/meaningless & also cringe at race based humor.

& annoying the DM is not a win condition.

There is a wide margin between hardcore railroad and absolutely no plan.

Most people don’t realize that the essence of the game is about telling an interesting story & jokes not “winning” dnd.

That includes the handful of DM’s I’ve tried before I gave up and stuck to online content.

I get it’s fun to taunt Trump but booooooo for shaming platonic compliments.

I don’t know the sentiment behind your comment but my point is it’s stupid to argue about Americentrism on a Americentric platform.

Like it’s fine if you don’t want to see that content but go to a different platform rather than whine about it. It’s not the bakeries fault you arrived wanting to buy a car.

Agree on the chatbot thing but to be honest, it was like that way before LLMs.

There was a full decade where they would just keyword match you to different chat flowcharts.

I’ve got some bad news for you about where the majority of fediverse users are based.

I don’t “decide” if they are, like in an objective sense. I’m perfectly capable of creating opinions on the subject. Which is exactly what you’re doing; you think it’s fine. That’s an opinion. We have both formed opinions on the subject.

the wrong vag will destroy you

I mean it could give me an incurable STD. Or lead to a kid in the world that I didn’t want. Each would destroy a part of me.

TIL having literally any standards around sex makes you a prude 🤣

There are many that are that ‘wrong kind of person’ that simply don’t realize it. And to that person, that gets excited when they see men put down, I ask you to reflect on that feeling.

Blegh. So much loaded language. A MAN said one thing in reference to something a WOMAN said. How dare he.

IMO sex should always be with some one special to you, it’s not respecting your own body to just go fuck whoever. That’s my perspective on it, I’m not calling those that disagree with it a whore but it’s how I feel people should treat their own body. Why take on the various risks of sex with some random person you don’t care about? At that point why not just Jack or Jill yourself. And yes, that applies to men too - which I assume will blow your mind. Similar to how I think people should eat healthy foods… those that don’t aren’t morally wrong they just aren’t setting themselves up for success and IMO making a mistake.

I agree most western cultures put too much emphasis on female virginity, catholicism stands out, but IMO you’ve gone way too far in the opposite direction into “sex literally has no cost” which is factually wrong.

You are conflating two different things. The post is about virginity being “significant” but your position seems to be more about your first sex being “especially good” which is not what any person ever claims.

Also no one is shaming you in this thread. I guess maybe you had bad experiences elsewhere? There is nothing shameful with not caring about your virginity but that isn’t a common position.

I mean I’m a guy but that doesn’t match what literally any girl in my life has ever said.

They pretty much all share a similar story about them being extremely nervous and it being uncomfortable awkward sex. No one described it as “magical” and also no one described it as “just another Wednesday”.

It’s not special in some cosmic sense. You’re not losing a part of your soul.

But as the other dude said, you’re experiencing something very intense & intimate for the first time. That moment is significant for the vast majority of people.