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Just throwing this out there, the fascists and reactionaries have 0 qualms with having a bunch of kids. Do you want the generation of people who will be running the world when we're old to be entirely raised by fascists and reactionaries? Where will future leftists come from if not from present leftists?

This completely contradicts your earlier point:

People that don’t want children usually think of the potential wellbeing of a future human. People that do want children, usually do so for selfish reasons.

Are you choosing to not have kids (which is a perfectly fine and morally defensible decision to make) because you're thinking of the potential wellbeing of a future human, or for the selfish reason that it would make your socioeconomic situation more difficult?

Again, simply saying "I just don't want to have kids" is perfectly fine. But you tried to moralize it by saying people who do have kids are selfish and those who don't are altruistic. Yet the reason you gave for not having kids was selfish.

I am very much a leftist (anarchist, to be specific). I have 2 kids and I absolutely LOVE being a dad. It's the single most fulfilling and enjoyable thing I've done in my entire life.

If you don't want kids, that's perfectly fine. Kids need a loving an nurturing home, and if someone is unwilling to provide that, they shouldn't have kids just to have them. But I also don't think there's anything wrong with having kids if you want them.

From an ideologically leftist perspective (which absolutely should NOT be the determining factor in having kids), remember how much focus the fascists put on family and kids. They are having plenty of kids who will be raised with their fascist ideology. Do you really want the generation who will be running the world when we're old to be entirely raised by fascists?

I didn't have kids because of my politics, but I'm happy to know that at least 2 future adults will be raised by me with my values.

most don’t seem to want to have children either for the uncertainty of the future or because they are too expensive or because it wouldn’t give them too much time to organize or whatever

I'd just say that every single one of these factors has been in play for virtually all of history and yet people still had kids and were able to do great things. John Brown had like 20 kids, but that didn't stop him from fighting slavery. Nestor Makhno had a daughter. Our world is nowhere near as dire as the one Makhno lived in, and he built an entire anarchist society. What do you think the birth rate in places like Rojava is?

These aren't very good reasons to not have kids, they're just justifications people pull out when they feel like saying "I just don't want kids" isn't good enough. It is. if you don't want kids, that's fine. Don't try to make up some reason why others who do shouldn't.

Summer.

I grew up in a desert and LOVE the heat. Doesn't matter if it's humid or dry, so long as it's hot I'm happy. And I HATE the cold. If I have to wear long pants and/or long sleeves to stay warm, it's too cold out.

I think the answer is yes to both.

So what? Making mistakes is a huge part of life. Everyone makes mistakes all the time. We deal with them and move on. That's just called being human.

You are overthinking things to an ENORMOUS degree.

What you need most of all is to get off the internet and go engage with people in the real world. These are all questions people grapple with as they enter adulthood, but most of us do it subconsciously.

What you're really struggling with here is knowing yourself. You can't figure that out without life experiences. You need go try things to find out what you want out of life and who you want to be.

I don't know you or your life, so it's difficult to give specific advice. I think what would be best for you is to go out somewhere with people and just engage with them in a non-creepy, non-prying, normal way. Become a regular at a local dive bar. Find a local low-stakes sport league (like kickball or pickleball or some shit). Find a gaming/hobby store that has live gaming nights and start attending. Find a recurring class you can take.

The specifics don't matter so much. The goal is to find something/place you can go to which is likely to have some of the same people at over and over. At first, you're not trying to meet everyone and form friendships. That'll come in time. At first you're just trying to get comfortable and confident in the space. Present yourself as open and easy to approach. Be willing to make small talk with people when appropriate. Over time you'll start having those small talk conversations with the same people. Then you can start building on that. "Hey, I've seen you here before. We had that small chat about XYZ. It's nice seeing a familiar face. My name is ABC..."

Then be willing to say "Yes" to things. If someone invites you to something, say yes. If they ask if you want to try something, say yes. Obviously within reason, but don't shut yourself off for nothing.

The biggest thing is, don't try to have an agenda. Don't go out to meet people with the intention of trying to get laid or find a romantic partner. Don't focus all your attention on trying to meet potential romantic/sexual partners. People pick up on that shit really easily and it makes you come off as a creep. I'm not saying don't form those relationships if the opportunity presents itself, I'm just saying don't make that your focus or purpose.

Humans are social animals. Our biggest evolutionary advantage that led to us being the dominant lifeform on the planet is our ability to connect with one another and form communities. We are hardwired to crave that and thrive on it. All this may sound daunting, and I'm sure your gut reaction will be to reject it as impossible for you personally for this reason or that. You'll say you can't do any of this because of health reasons, or because you're not attractive, or because you're autistic or neurodivergent, etc. Those are all just excuses. More people than you can count who are uglier, less healthy, and more neurodivergent than you are perfectly capable. Socializing is a skill just like any other. When you first start doing it, you're going to be bad at it. But the more you practice and try, the better you'll get.

Frank is really the only person he can speak to about daredevil.

His investigator Cherry also knows Matt is Daredevil.

I really like the symbolism of the meals he's eating. At the beginning of the season, when he was running for and had just won the Mayorship, his meals were incredibly spartan. His first meal we saw was just a small, plain, egg white omelet with a piece of asparagus. He was trying (at least outwardly) to be on the straight-and-narrow. He was living the image he portrayed as a reformed, law-abiding person.

As he's become more and more frustrated with the job of mayor and been letting more of the Kingpin out, his meals have gotten larger and more indulgent. The breakfast he had with Vanessa at the start of this episode was larger, then the dinner at the end was a huge plate of food.

I wonder if we'll see that reflected in his physical body. In the scene in the diner between Matt and Fisk, there was discussion about his weight. He was slimmer, more fit. I wonder, as he devolves back into the Kingpin, if he'll start putting on more weight to get back to the Kingpin physique he's well known for.

I heard that some casting reports showed she'll be in the final 2 episodes of the season, along with Frank.

That absolutely 100% exists. In commercial buildings, this is the standard. Nobody has to go to the BMS (Building Management System) and tell it to switch to cooling or heating. It's all automatic. Even higher end residential thermostats do it. A couple of years ago I had my gas furnace replaced with a heat pump/electric heat system and it automatically switches between heat and cool as I've programmed it.

Hell, you can get systems that are sophisticated enough that every individual room in your house has an independent thermostat that automatically maintains a different temperature in each room. Of course, that'll require a separate VAV for each room, which isn't common in residential buildings.

The primary reason you don't see "smarter" systems in homes more often is because they're more expensive. Most people leave the fan on their HVAC system on auto and just switch between hot and cold manually as needed. And for most people, that's only a few times per year. Most people switch it to cool sometime in the Spring, then leave it there until the Fall when they switch back to heat.

A more complicated system is just paying more money for something you don't really need.

Misogyny. It's really not more complicated than that. Even if people don't recognize or acknowledge it, our culture has trained us to be much more critical of capable women than men.

Every single person who disagrees with the administration on the internet? Incredibly unlikely. That'd be literally 10s of millions of people, if not over 100 million. The US prison system currently has a capacity of ~2 million. It's estimated that globally there are ~11.5 million people in prisons. So you're talking about locking up several times more people than are currently locked up. It's just not possible.

The scale of what you're suggesting is just unimaginable. How much manpower would be needed to lock up tens of millions of people? Nearly the entire non-incarcerated population of the US would need to be employed in building and staffing prisons and doing the police work to track down and arrest people.

And what would that do to the US (and global) economy to remove tens of millions of people from the workforce and force the rest of the population into servicing those prisons?

Even in the strictest countries with the most draconian censorship, they don't lock up people who are just disagreeing with the dictator/administration. They lock up people who make a name for themselves and get recognition/go viral. If you have an account that gets a HUGE following and you don't just disagree, but attack and criticize, then you might end up with some problems.

To avoid this, just don't let yourself get a big following with an account that's super critical. If you notice you start to get a following, just delete that account and start a new one.

There's a really inspiring revolution ongoing. The journalist James Stout has been doing some excellent reporting on his patreon and on Cool Zone Media with his contacts in the rebel movement.

That is an incredibly dumb argument. Every single Republican in office has also signed onto bills aligned with Democratic policies. That's just how a multi-party legislature works.

Yet again, you refuse to respond to criticism. Try doing something other than insulting me.

I think you are incapable of forming a response to my very valid criticism of your ill-conceived idea. You keep resorting to the same baseless claim that your system would simply be immune to corruption without ever actually giving a reason why or a method to prevent corruption. The US isn't the only corrupt government on the planet. All of them are. Every single one.

You act like that since I'm from the US I'm somehow incapable of understanding complex ideas? Yet you yourself are incapable of giving a response. I assume based on your focus on Brexit that you're from the UK? Are you seriously suggesting that the UK government is hyper-capable and incorruptible? Really?

Try having a conversation like an adult. Why do you not believe that your poll test would be subject to corruption? What mechanism would you include to prevent it? Just claiming that it wouldn't because it's not in the US isn't an argument. It's an admission that you have no clue what you're talking about.

I'm just dying for the scene of Frank slaughtering a bunch of cops with Punisher tattoos. That, and Matt's second showdown with the cop whose ass he beat at the end of episode 2. Literally every time the two have been in a scene since, Matt has taunted him for getting his ass kicked. The rematch will be very satisfying.

You seem to have an incredibly large amount of trust in your government. For your benefit, I'll assume this is rooted in naivety. Your government does not work for your benefit. A government is made of individuals who are people, just like everyone else. They're responsive to incentives, just like everyone else. And when someone has power and authority, their incentive is to maintain this power at all costs. This has been true in all countries and all governments throughout history. Yours is no different.

Create the power to control who is allowed to vote and give it to the people in charge of the government and they WILL use it to maintain their power.

You can go on and on about how noble your civil service is, but it's all bullshit. It's staffed by normal people, just like every institution is. They react the same as people always have.

Yes. You want a system whereby the people with access to the resources needed to educate themselves are the only ones allowed to vote. What's more, you want to give the power to control access to the ballot to an unelected group of people who get to determine what education is sufficient enough to give you the right to vote.

You're just handing the power to pick who is allowed to vote over to the people already in power. Of course they're going to abuse that power to ensure they always win. That's ALWAYS what happens in every single government that's ever existed. People with power want to remain in power and will manipulate the system to ensure that.

Your poll test system is just a shortcut to oligarchy.