Bwahahah really now, what a joke of a person

Ayn Rands' arguments can be picked out without reading the entirety of Atlas Shrugged, key passages, interviews, and interpreters are enough. And there seems to be a resounding consensus that her arguments are too weak and flawed to be philosophy as opposed to mere opinion. She contradicts herself and notoriously refused to address any criticism of her points. She is speaking too generally and not subjectively, and your post suggests to look at her life as anecdotal evidence for her positions. A big no no in philosophy. If she's doing philosophy, her upbringing shouldn't technically matter to a more universal truth. I was raised Conservative Christian, for example, and I don't believe one should think oh these factual claims have more weight because of my upbringing. Why shouldn't I be able to disagree with her? Lastly, she gets hate because of how many Ethical Egoists tout her as their go to gal, when her arguments are incredibly flawed and not close to academic. There are better Egoists with somewhat sound arguments out there even if you so choose to believe that crap. I do feel you on the downvotes, Lemmings are so trigger happy when it's a harmless opinion they dislike. I'll upvote you lol

Love WFH for taking care of animals, stress free guilt free breaks, all my home comforts, but I do feel extra sedative when working for hours and do get a bit lonely wishing I could make more coworker friends, but they're on the other side of the continent

Love how people on Lemmy kept the Reddit tradition of just downvoting a harmless opinion when they don't agree

I'll take you on my ark

Palworld is sick as fuck, played pokemon as a kid and got tired of it, but this is a refreshing new take with great gameplay

Digimon lame as shit I'm tryna shoot a pengullet out a rocket launcher and create a pokemon assembly line with depressos. Idk what groups you're around but I have heard nothing whatsoever about Digimon since like Obama

Fuck reading

Respectfully, that is apples to oranges. You are unable to function as a regular person in China with bad social credit. Here you can't get loans and sometimes your employer sees.

Alt + F4

With the premise thqt being a good president =/= being a good person: Washington Adams Jefferson Lincoln FDR Wilson Carter Sorta LBJ as long as you don't think he was involved in JFK death And phucket Obom'ner, you have to admit he was nationally gridlocked but it was a much better time for America plus Obamacare saved and improved lives

Very informative, thanks

Grapefruit juice is an exception to this

I could understand how this would appeal to someone with extreme social anxiety or someone really pressed for time, but in reality I don't care for this at all. I'll wait in line for 2-5 minutes or scan it myself at self checkout if I'm really pressed for time for some reason

Yawn. Costco > Sam's club (ew, Walmart) for treating employees, plus Kirkland brand is the best store-name brand. Btw you can have a digital card on Costco app. I'm not even sure what your reason was for canceling, and for some reason I read your whole comment twice

Where grapefruit spoon?

I use Connect for Android and everyone's name is the same. Couldn't be happier with Connect, actually

To your point "Starbucks annual net income for 2023 was $4.125B, a 25.69%" https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/net-income#:~:text=Starbucks net income for the,a 25.69%25 increase from 2022.