and most of the people think citing sources and being factually correct is wrong, and being ignorant and emotional is right.

and let’s not forget those who are ignorant, emotional, and cite fake sources as evidence of their ‘truth’ that the earth is flat or the CCP is a paradise of human freedom and development.

There is no amount of reasoning that will make her change her mind. So in the end, she is always right because there is no other option. That is incredibly frustrating and I end up being neither “right” nor happy.

that’s why you break up. that isn’t a good relationship. you are going to be miserable and it’s only going to get worse.

I’m much happier single and learning, than dating a stubborn/stupid person who makes both of us miserable with their horrible decision making, who expects me to be the only adult in the relationship. Especially as I want to have kids too, and it would be many times worse.

that’s a problem with your ego, not the relationship.

the point of a relationship isn’t to ‘win’. if you are trying to compete with your partner you’re going to be miserable.

whose reality? people live in very different realities and in 2025 the notion of a shared reality is ever more tenuous as people bubble themselves up.

i invoke fallacies because they are part of reality. the vast majority of human beings operate with cognitive and logical fallacies, there are inherent aspects of every single person.

you can prattle on about your perfect society where intolerance is not allowed, but how are you going to enforce that? through violence? would you yourself, wish to be subject to such violence if you yourself had thoughts that society deemed intolerant? if so, great. but many people would not want to be a part of such a society.

right, so just kill everyone you don’t agree with. sounds like a very progressive and liberated and FREE society… one where you must live in terror and fear lest you upset the government or your neighbor.

it’s not a matter of you respecting them. it’s a matter of whether or not it’s economically or legally worthwhile.

if the fine for cheating on my taxes is less than the tax i’d pay (and the returns I’d get on investing those taxes) it’s worth it.

People behave according to incentives. If the penalty for under reporting your taxes was 20 years in jail and it was rigorously enforced, people would not cheat on their taxes as much. However, the punishment is:

In cases of substantial understatement, the accuracy-related penalty is 20% of the portion of the underpayment of tax.

So basically if I get caught, all I do is pay more tax, which might be scary to lower income people, but for rich people who can get MASSIVE returns on their untaxed income, it is stupid not to do it. if I can save 10,000 per year and invest it and turn it into 400K after ten years, then the 20% extra tax I’d pay on that withheld 100K is a not much of a penalty at all. It’s 20K or 5% of the money I now have from cheating on my taxes. and even if i only double my money to 200K, I’m still only paying 10% of what I have earned.

shouldn’t the penalty be 500K? that would make cheating on my taxes more costly than not cheating.

and both would have a big impact on the economy, that may not generate overall positive results.

you pass a law to stop it. there are many active variations of how to tax such things that come with various benefits and drawbacks.

economic growth isn’t necessarily material growth.

there is no material limit on how much code I can write. or the books i can sell digitally.

the economy can grow with less resource use, and really it has compared to history. agriculture is far less resource intensive than it used to be due to improvements and far more economically productive.

that’s what progress is and why productivity continues to skyrocket. we can do way more with far less.

That’s a lot of people man. Poor and rich alike. Lots and lots of people cheat on their taxes, lie about their income, and use tax loopholes to reduce their tax burdens, both legally and illegally.

OP above doesn’t have to report that 2500, and incredibly common for self employed people to vastly under report their income within about 10%. The vast majority will never be audited, but from those who have been audited the IRS draws the following conclusion:

“For example, overall, people reporting work earnings to the IRS that are between the 5th and 75th percentiles underreported self-employment income of $4,000 on average,” she said. “In contrast, those below the 5th percentile underreported self-employment income averaging $21,000 while those above the 95th percentile underreported self-employment income averaging $27,000, and this is a conservative estimate, as earnings above $250,000 are masked in the data.”

https://isr.umich.edu/news-events/news-releases/self-employment-income-widely-underreported-u-m-survey-shows/

in other countries it’s far worse. a major part of the 2009 Greek financial crisis was the fact 1/3 of Greek GDP is untaxed. that’s 1/3 of the taxes missing entirely.

https://www.npr.org/2010/03/25/125125500/greeces-bottom-line-too-many-tax-cheats

a pity fuck would have fucked you up more.

but people dying of thirst will drink salt water and die faster because of it too.

oh, so she’s poly?

pretty much.

but i’ve met plenty of stupid scientists and psychologists. usually when they try to apply their expertise to other areas where it doesn’t apply.

congratulations!

I don’t police other people’s politics. I mostly am interested in what they do and how they vote. Words are cheap, and policing other people is fucking weird and egotistical no matter if it’s done by progressives or conservatives. And they both seem to LOVE telling other people how to live their lives and how wrong and horrible they are for not agreeing with the hypocritical nonsense they spout they don’t practice themselves.

I voted for weed legalization, but i don’t smoke. I am against public weed smoking because it’s gross like public cigarette smoking. But I don’t care if people smoke in their car and homes. I also vote for candidates that want immigration reform, but I am not for open borders and i think immigration should be reasonable restricted and borders should be enforced. But I also have felt that way about immigration for 20 years and I don’t grand stand about it just because of what is going on with ICE abuses currently. ICE should be doing their job quietly like they did under Obama, while reasonable reforms would include paths to residency, but not whole sale amnesty for all existing residents. I also have known several immigrants and many of them are deeply anti-immigrant and are 100% on board with what Trump/ICE is doing, they aren’t a liberal progressive monolith, and liberal leftist views about immigrants and immigration tend to be vastly oversimplified and condescending. Also, most immigrants are conservative, not liberal. So if you want open immigration… those immigrants are often the ones will will vote against your your side. That’s kind of ironic, isn’t it?

I also notice people who claim they are against ‘rigid structures’ at the ones who happen to adhere to them in their personal lives. Like poly people, who claim they are alternative and anti hierarchy but always almost always have a massive and rigid power differential in their relationship structures. It’s almost as if they bullshit phrases like that to cover up their hypocrisy of their practices. A lot like Trump.

is your friend single and hot?

you sound like a menace to polite Christian society, sir.

Your gum chewing shall corrupt the children and women, and lead weak men astray.

A lot of girls won’t fuck me because I don’t drive a 7 row luxury SUV and ask me if I’m homosexual or mentally ill for not doing so.

I mostly laugh at them. Are they ‘society’ or just stupid twats projecting their insecurity about vehicle size onto others?

That Douglas Adams fellow was a right twat. Just because he wants to fuck buildings doesn’t mean the rest of us do. I’m content fucking my 10 year old hatchback. It has a dual exhaust… and it never once impressed a lady. It mostly impresses Suburu drivers who are all lesbians or aspiring lesbians.

Chasing sex can be fun. For a lot of dummies the chase is the point and the sex is the annoying dumb part.

It’s problematic because there was a lack of transparency of the facts about the relationship.

I dunno, I don’t want to fuck people that lie to me about shit. But I’m gay like that. I once had a kinky gf who I loved, but i dumper her ass when I found out she had lied about herself to me. We dated for two years and it was pretty gross because she straight up admitted to lying to me when we met because I’d have never had dated her had she told me the truth.

Even if both were ignorant of the facts the facts are still relevant to making an informed choice.

also, why do you assume they didn’t want to have a beautiful incestuous gayby, gestated by their daughter/sister who ended up in foster care after the initial divorce to whom both had an immediate and strange attraction when they met her at the gay bar?

because it’s funny