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I love beef but have a hard time eating meat from a cow that was old. The taste is so strong and overpowering. Apparently it's considered a delicacy in some places.

Is it in your top 3 core values? Do you think everyone has an inalienable right to be left alone? Do you think individual choice comes before virtually everything else?

Okay so obviously an absurd amount of money was printed during that time period which made everything get ridiculously expensive. But was there anything else that contributed to it? Why is home ownership an unachievable pipe dream at this point?

Thanks!

More than 50% of us in our 20s are living at home, and others with roommates. Very few Gen Z people are living fully on their own.

Do you just take this housing crisis as is and accept that these are the cards we got dealt, or does it really weigh down on you that you can't afford to have your own place and probably won't for another 5-10 years?

I hope this isn't a weird question. I know the sun is healthy when you're carnivore and you don't burn because you're not eating sugar and seed oils, but can it actually have anti-aging effects? Is there any evidence that getting regular sun exposure (when not on a junky diet) helps keep the skin young?

Just some food for thought. I'd love to know if there's any research about this.

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I'm a native speaker of both EA and WA and will automatically switch to whichever one the person in front of me speaks. I'm naturally a linguistic chameleon and subconsciously mimic the way the other person talks: grammar, vocab, accent and everything.

It works fine for EA and WA since I'm fluent in both and it comes naturally, but one time I was talking to someone from Gyumri and felt a bit awkward because I was trying to speak Gyumri dialect by essentially mixing EA and WA and hoping it comes close. It's not putting on an act, it's just that my brain cannot maintain its own dialect when someone else speaks differently. But in the case of Gyumri, it was obvious I was inexperienced. Maintaining my natural dialect felt wrong, but so did trying to talk like a Gyumreci.

We live in a world where every parcel of land is under the control of a criminal ruling class who will threaten you with violence and ultimately death for not complying with their orders. We will in a world where 99% of people see nothing wrong with using force and making threats against people as a way of achieving ends. Almost everyone you know justifies some form of slavery, conscription, centralized control and justice.

Does it not send a chill down your spine knowing we live in a world full of dangerous people? It makes you question how much humanity has really developed since the caveman days...

I'm looking for old books published in Georgian, Armenian, and Russian. Books about the Caucasus, local history, etc.

Any recommendations? Thanks!!

If there's no state, cities and towns can develop in two ways: A) 100% organically. People just build wherever, or B) a real estate developer buys a ginormous plot of land, designs a city on it, then charges residents to live there and enforces city rules.

It somewhat saddens me that many ancaps promote the second option as the alternative to statism. I personally want to see the majority of ancapistan be comprised of spontaneously formed cities with 100% privately owned real estate.

Are there any formal written arguments by ancap thinkers against urban planning? Are there any economic arguments to be made against it? Just curious to know.

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Some Christians, particularly conservative American Protestants, think it's important for everyone to have a lot of children and ensure continual growth of the human population. They're in moral panic about birth rates dropping, with some fearing extinction in the most extreme cases. Of course it's an exaggerated fear, but this is what it is.

I know it's natural for biological organisms to want to procreate but is there any special view that Christians in particular have about human extinction? What do they think would happen if we went extinct? What would God's view of that be?

Personally I'm not pro or anti procreation. Have kids if you want to, don't if you don't.

The letter ვ has many allophones and variants in Georgian, but in most cases it's pronounced as an either [ʋ], [β], or [w]. In some official sources it's listed as [v], but rarely do natives ever pronounce like that.

My question is, how did it sound 1500 years ago? Did it used to be a hard [v] or did it always have some softness to it? I saw one very old church text were ქვეყანა was written as ქუეყანა. What's the letter ვ's connection to the letter უ? Overall what is the history of the letter ვ?

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I know in Mashtots's time it was pronounced as a thick, velarized L [ɫ], heard in words like Երուսաղեմ (Jerusalem). But at some time it turned into a voiced velar fricative [ɣ] (the GH sound we recognize today).

When did this happen? And are there any reason for why? Or is it just completely random?

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I currently have 15,000 pictures in my camera roll. I know a solid 8000 of them are junk, so I've made it my goal to sit down and go through everything before it becomes too overwhelming. It's going to suck, but it's necessary.

I think going forward, though, I'll want to make it a habit to routinely clean up my camera roll once a month. If all it takes is 30 minutes a month, you'll easily be able to manage everything going forward.

I think Murray Rothbard put it well when he said that once upon a time, wars between rulers were seen for what they are: wars between rulers. But the rise of nationalism, particularly after the 1800s, helped obfuscate the nature of political conflict and make people believe that wars were between nations; essentially, my tribe vs. yours. It tapped into a very primitive and hard-to-quell aspect of human nature, and the result is that now, people view criticisms of the state as criticisms of their nation, their family, which needless to say is not easy for many to handle.

Mythology is also a powerful tool in the maintenance of state rule over their cattle. Myths are frequently told in order to add a touch of magic to otherwise ordinary phenomenon which would not be tolerated if people viewed them literally, such as in the case of state extortion. You'll hear all sorts of myths depending on where you are about how the nation was born, how the state was born out of a unanimous agreement between the government and the governed, etc. What's sad is that even among libertarians, who are often minarchists, people will tell stories about how the birth of a state allowed for law and order which allows people to have wealth and political freedoms that otherwise would not have come about, implying that if you enjoy the life you have now, you owe your gratitude to the state.

I think the difficult task here, for voluntarists that is, is getting people to disconnect their emotional ties to their nations from the idea that you need a state in order to have it. You can have cultures, civility and economic luxuries without a violent ruling class imposing their demands on everybody. It's a difficult task, but one that's imperative in the effort to create a free world.

I realize there's no way to know this for sure and diet is not the only factor but I'm just trying to get a general understanding. Assuming you start eating carnivore in your early 20s and stick to it, how much longer can you have colored hair? Is there a good chance it'll still be colored when you're 70?

Anyone have any restaurant recommendations? Thanks!

Are most people really punctual? Will the average person feel really bad about being 5 minutes late to work? Are the younger generations becoming less punctual or are they preserving the cultural norms?

Personally I want to see German punctuality everywhere on Earth.

If there's no state and subsequently no welfare, how does population decline (or growth) affect the economy? Some conservative people in U.S. lately are freaking out about younger generations not having as many kids and they cry about the death of civilization but I have a hard time taking any of that seriously. We live in a very technologically advanced world that helps us not rely on humans so much for production. What kind of effects do you think AI will have on the economy in relation to potential population decline?

So I seem to be out of the loop a bit here but apparently a lot of people on the internet are calling a crisis of humanity because younger generations aren't having kids or are delaying it into their 30? Have I understood correctly?

I think it's probably true that having children is increasingly being viewed as optional, and a lot of younger people are waiting until they have more money, stability, and ultimately knowledge until they have a kid. But why is this a bad thing? People make fear-mongering claims about population decline and I honestly don't get it. Like... so what if the human population drops to 7 or 6 billion? Or even 4 billion? I don't see why it matters whether the number goes up, down, or stays the same. And honestly people should just mind their own business. The question of whether or not a person procreates should be an entirely private and personal matter. I don't see how it affects you if someone else doesn't have kids.