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Back when I still did Christmas at all, I converted first to a religion that didn't have Christmas. It did have, however, a 4-5 day festival of approximately equal importance in the spring. I made sure all my family, friends, and colleagues know that I wouldn't be celebrating a Christian festival, but that I would be giving gifts in March. Then I'd look at what I got for Christmas and did some cynical calculations.

For each person who gave me a gift, I decided if I wanted to lessen the relationship, keep the relationship as-is, or deepen the relationship. I'd then pick a gift of lesser, equal, or greater value (roughly speaking) and give that response gift in March. The only difference? I'd get them all for a song and a dance in the inevitable post-Christmas bankruptcy sales.

So the best time to get Christmas presents is after Christmas. January and February is when businesses get very desperate (to the point of dissolution for many) and prices drop like concussed bees.

I'm binge-watching The Last of Us this weekend.

I avoided it because it was based on a video game. I was wrong to.

The links left me more confused, not less.

Huh. TIL that Proudhon was a Marxist.

/s ← In case it wasn't abundantly clear.

Don't confuse anarcho-capitalism with anarchism. The former are disguised fascists. The latter are not.

Obligatory Link: Property Is Theft

Technically speaking you'd have to say they did war crimes by modern standards.

A lot of what you describe wasn't actually criminal at the time, see. It was called "war".

Doesn't make it any less horrific, mind.

Because he is wrong. It's that simple, that stark.

His misery comes from within and, worse, it defends itself from ending by insisting he can't be anything but miserable. He needs professional help, not the help of random people on the Internet.

Good point. I just spotted the name. I should stop engaging.

Joining with the other sex and reproduction is literally the main purpose of all living beings...

This reductive view doesn't help you and, indeed, probably hurts your chances of getting what you so desperately want.

Drop this focus on sex and, ironically, you'll have a better chance of having it. We can generally tell when a guy wants us only for orificial insertion; that's a bigger turn-off than almost anything.

As others have said (that you didn't bother to respond to) work on yourself before you start working on getting others. And in your case I would strongly recommend getting professional evaluation for possible clinical depression before it literally kills you.

AliExpress' "weird delivery system" is THE FUCKING POST OFFICE YOU IDIOT!

I hate you so much right now.

Well, I kind of think blaming the right people is important. But it's easier to blame people literally half a world away from you, isn't it?