I love when not beating your child is used as a flex.

Congratulations! You are not THAT kind of asshole.

A lot about this is, in my opinion, misleading.

I don’t need to be able to read Ulysses and understand all the themes and the deeper meanings, to be literate. As to actually understand all the meanings, I would have to be familiar with the culture in which it was written and the personal perspective of the author on that culture.

I don’t think the perfect world entails that everyone (or, at least most people) is overly familiar with ancient cultures and authors.

Unfamiliarity with the context of what was written is usually why people don’t catch on themes. A person with german cultural background will not read a passage about bringing honor to your bloodline, in the same way a chinese person will. A lot of Germans are deeply suspicious of the idea of honor. I learned that after decades with Germans and their culture.

How many Cultures are you familiar enough with to be able to correctly understand a text written in it?

E.g. the “remorse of conscience” is a cultural theme. A person who reads a lot of books and seek out these themes, has a different culture than a person who only scrolls on TikTok. And if the person reading books isn’t on TikTok, they are probably unable to properly understand the themes in a TikTok.

And yes, you said that there are different levels of literacy, so you didn’t say that I was illiterate if I wouldn’t catch on the “remorse”. But you present literacy as a 1 dimensional scale. 1 level, 2, 3, etc… When it is not, your ability to correctly parse a text is not 1 dimensional. You will probably fail to correctly understand a story written in ancient china, and if you understand it, you will probably fail to understand a story written in the 1950s in Germany.

Get off the horse. Stand next to us and enjoy your pleasure of reading with other people and learn different perspectives. They aren’t less literate than you, they are differently literate than you.

That explains why there are so many of them. It is for the WAP.

“traveling” yikes.

That is one way to say, you think wealth is attractive.

I have traveled quite a bit and I like it a lot, but it is no hobby. For it to be a hobby, I would have to have a lot more money.

Once or even twice a year, is hardly a hobby.

Oh and that is fine but then you have to ask yourself if you want to have a partnership with bad sex. If not, break up, or “teach” by communicating what you want, what is good and what is bad. There is no alternative, accept bad sex, break up, teach.

(Technically, you could let them have sex outside of the partnership to study, but… Well, not my cup of tea)

Which is why I am almost certain that there is a reason why they import raw sugar

Honestly I think, as a cis man, cis people are probably very bad at answering the question.

humans tend ignore “harmony”. When you walk through the field, do you look each blade of grass or at the cow? Do you feel “non-pain”? How could you possibly explain someone pain that doesn’t know pain? Do you remember the last time, you sat next to your friend watching a show on tv, in the same detail, you remember the conflict/discussion that you had with them?

Generally we will remember and pay attention to the things that are “wrong”.

If your gender is right for you, why would you pay attention? What would you even pay attention to?

If it is wrong for you, you feel the “pain”, see the cow and remember the conflict.

I understand your perspective but I want to ask a question, not to you, but for you to think about it. What motivation causes the imports?

If corn syrup is a replacement for whatever they are doing, why are they importing raw sugar? If raw sugar is cheaper than you would expect them to already use sugar for everything and not corn syrup, and switching to corn syrup would be an increase in cost . If raw sugar costs the same, import is additional paperwork, why import? Raw sugar is more expensive, why would they pay more?

Raw sugar can’t be replaced easily in their use case? Now that makes sense.

No. That is the point.

Sugar is “fancy” as in “you don’t need sugar for your diet”.

Based on what I find online, the us import about $2B in raw-sugar, while some (about 100M) is exported again.

Source: https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/raw-sugar/reporter/usa

How much “processed” sugar leaves the us again? I am not sure. Maybe all of it.

Sugar too. That ain’t healthy and is kinda fancy but… Can you see them losing their shit over sugar prices? I do.

Tomatoes imports were 2.5B in 2023.

Apparently the us imports 15% of it’s food supply.

I left Twitter on the day, musk bought it. I knew, I could trust him with my data and him firing so many people proved me right. Twitter isn’t a safe place for your data.

His politics, now and then, would have been good reasons too but you don’t need politics. Everyday it becomes clearer, Twitter will fail.

Well said.

I have never seen a more easily offended person as a person who calls others snowflake.