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"No matter how many data points and coherent arguments we're presented with, we all have biases from our upbringings, life experiences, and balance of neurotransmitters." So true. There is an external reality out there but it's hard to see it because of various biases. I have found, though, I have a better and more successful life if I can get my beliefs to coincide with reality as closely as possible. All humans are imperfect, though, so I've held dumb beliefs which got me into trouble when I acted on them.

> If Dems are in power, you can be sure the burden will be placed mainly on the wealthy or corporations, who have benefitted from an educated workforce. When taxes are raised on corporations, they increase prices on the goods they sell to pay the extra taxes. This then hurts the average person who has to pay the higher prices. Soak the rich tax schemes never work in the long run. The money from the taxes just benefits people who are unwilling to engage in voluntary transactions with others where they offer goods, money or services in exchange for something they want in return. There is no moral difference between someone who forces me to pay for their college degree and a thug who holds a gun on me and demands I hand over my wallet.

My favorite guilty pleasure is reading private eye detective novels by writers like Raymond Chandler. It's not highbrow literature but I like it. Going to strip clubs is a close second and I also like massaging pretty strippers when I'm there. I work an accounting job where I don't do any manual labor involving my hands. I almost always get a remark from the girls that I have the softest hands they have ever felt. They also express surprise that I'm 66 but hardly have any wrinkles. I've always had soft youthful skin because of good health habits. If you want to see what bad health habits can do to your skin take a look at a recent photo of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards some time.

One thing I've not seen much discussed is that this new Biden plan will lead to a transfer of wealth from males to females. Two thirds of all student debt is held by women. Women are more likely to go to college and, once there, are more likely to major in fields that don't lead to high paying jobs. They end up carrying more debt because they can't pay it back with their low incomes. So, this program will lead to things like the male plumber or auto mechanic paying more taxes so the female with the sociology or art degree gets off the hook for paying back her student loan. I went into a practical field, accounting, to avoid this situation. I don't have unpaid loans and I don't want to be responsible for the unpaid loans of others. Four of my stripper regulars had college degrees in music, drama, psychology and art respectively. I was perfectly willing to engage in voluntary transactions with them where I gave them money and they gave me lap dances and company. They could use the money I voluntarily gave them to help pay back their student loans. I considered them good people for being willing to give me something of value to me in exchange for my money.

I'm 66 years old. One nice thing about that is that I know strippers have zero interest in being the girlfriend of an old guy like me and therefore I don't have to spend any time thinking about whether dating one would be a good idea or whether I should pursue one. I'm not sure I would want to be a young guy having a regular at the strip club. I would end up thinking "maybe she likes me but I'm not sure" and wondering if I could talk her into being a girlfriend. I never liked that ambiguity with girls my age as a young guy and like it that the relationship is pretty clear-cut between me as an old guy and my stripper regulars.

"Throughout the 1920s, conservative Republicans controlled both the Congress and the Presidency. They made sure the "free" market ruled, and not a dime went to "parasites". Leading to the Great Depression." There was a recession in 1921 and Harding, on the advice of his treasury secretary Andrew Mellon, took a hands-off approach. The recession quickly ended. Eight years later there was another recession and Mellon gave the same advice to Hoover but Hoover ignored him and intervened. Then Roosevelt had the government intervene even more and turned the recession into a 12-year Great Depression. It was government intervention, not free market capitalism, that caused the Great Depression.

In the pre-capitalistic era the average life expectancy was 35. Now, in the countries that adopted capitalism, the average life expectancy is more than double that. Recently here in the U.S. there has been an increase in income inequality but that hasn't been due to more capitalism and less government intervention. Free market capitalism has been replaced with a corrupt crony capitalist system where those with the right political connections get rich rather than those who provide goods or services to consumers.

I've come to the conclusion this taking of money from productive people and giving it to others by corrupt politicians in return for votes or campaign donations is not going to stop and, once the parasites outnumber the producers, it will lead to an economic crisis followed by something worse than the Great Depression. There is no political solution here. We put the supposed conservative Trump in office and he didn't cut government spending and added seven trillion dollars to the national debt. If you look at history, every great nation eventually declines. Why should the U.S. be any different? Some day after we hit bottom things will start getting better.

I've always thought the number of reviews is a more accurate measurement of club quality than the rating. Here in Indianapolis Brad's Brass Flamingo has a lower TUSCL rating than Dancers but twice as many reviews. The general consensus here is Brad's is a better club and that is reflected in the fact that more guys go there and more guys review it after having gone there.

They usually don't want to come right out and tell you to get lost so they make vague promises they don't keep and hope you get the hint and give up on them. I've only been in one situation where I wasn't sure when to end it. This involved a six-year regular like you. In my case she said she was quitting. I then said, "I won't see you again". She then got an angry look on her face and wanted to know why not. I then told her, if she wanted to, we could still see each other after she quit stripping. We had dinner and talked on the phone a few times and then she stopped answering the phone when I called. I think she just changed her mind about seeing me after her stripper days were over. These girls change their mind about things all the time. I was a little unhappy but I accept that these relationships have an expiration date and I can always find new girls.

I have a slight preference for strippers who are stripping to feed their kids or pay for school over someone who is stripping to support an alcohol or drug addiction. I don't like feeling like I'm helping to enable self-destructive behavior. As for strippers engaged in criminal activities, they don't usually tell me about those activities and I can't tell from their behavior in the club that they are involved in that. It's easier to spot a drug addict than a criminal. It's been my observation that most strippers don't care about the moral standards of the customers. If some guy researching a cure for cancer and another guy who deals drugs are visiting a club as regulars the strippers will just pay more attention to whichever one spends more. In a strip club, men are largely viewed by women in terms of their willingness to spend money. There is nothing really wrong with that. The guys there largely just view the women in terms of sexual attractiveness and what they will do sexually and don't think much about anything else.

I like seeing the same female over a long period of time. I would get a girlfriend, but my experience has been they want to move in with me and I don't want that much female company. It has been stated on here before by guys with sugar baby experience that those relationships don't last a long time. That would also be outside the price range of what I want to spend. Escorts would probably be in the same category. So, for me, stripper regulars are best. I've had a lot of strippers tell me I'm their longest regular. It doesn't appear there are a lot of undemanding guys who don't expect sex and visit the same stripper for years. I've not had the girls tell me they have a lot of guys madly in love with them who shower them with money for long periods of time. Most long-term regulars like me seem to be aware this is primarily just a business transaction.

I ran into my first Cuban here in Indianapolis several months ago. She couldn't speak English hardly at all. She started doing our lap dances in the middle of a song and I couldn't get her to understand I wanted the lap dances to go from the beginning of a song to the end of a song, so I just walked off on her. She also wanted to charge $40 for each lap dance, which is too high for the Indianapolis market. If they come this far north, they will run into few customers who speak any Spanish so they will need to learn some English and also how clubs differ in cities with fewer tourists and more locals who are regulars.

I haven't visited a stripper weekly for five years, but I have had one who I knew for five years and some others I've known three years. You will never really know what they think about you personally because they want that steady source of income to continue but they do tend to become more honest over time about customers in general. I think your fav is being honest. There's a lot of things strippers don't like but put up with as part of the job and guys being too rough is one of them.

I had a stripper tell me once her dances were thirty dollars each or three for a hundred. I think she was trying to give a discount for buying in bulk but her math skills were not very good.

I didn't go to strip clubs until I was past 50 years old and have always wondered what it would have been like if I had gone as a 24-year-old like you. I think I would have had better rapport with the girls if I was the same age as them and they would have been more willing to sit and socialize with me for lengthy periods of time if I was young. I look good for a 66-year-old but certainly looked much better when I was 24. I don't care enough to pay the money for extras or keeping a stripper sitting at my table. Just a short chat and two or three lap dances and spending fifty to a hundred dollars is a pleasant night at the strip club for me.

I've run into a surprisingly large number of strippers going to school who drive from college towns like Bloomington, Lafayette and Muncie to work here in Indianapolis. All those college towns have had strip clubs. The Muncie one shut down because of lack of customers but the other two cities still have strip clubs. These girls tell me they make the drive because college boys don't spend much money, are disrespectful or ask them out on dates too much. They also worry about people in their college town they know coming into the club and seeing them. College girls seem more likely to see stripping as having a stigma attached to it. I'm happy they make the drive to Indianapolis and I can buy lap dances from them.

I put going to a strip club in the same category as going to a club to see a band play or going to a sports bar to watch a basketball game on a big screen tv. It's just a way to get out of the house and go somewhere where I can watch something while I'm drinking.

I had a little tiny regular just under five feet tall. She told me one time that she had previously been part of a criminal gang that burglarized houses. She was small and agile enough they could use her to climb through a window they broke or forced open and then open the locked door from the inside.

There's actually something of a resurgence of pop punk among female artists like Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo and Willow Smith. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/pop-punk-no-longer-boys-143009689.html Influences for this go back to groups like Green Day or even further back to groups like Blondie. This won't become the musical mainstream, though. Because of technological advances and easier access to a wide variety of music, there is no longer a musical mainstream. It's been replaced by numerous musical subcultures.

I've never had a dancer change the rules on me. I sometimes have girls tell me the rules before lap dances begin and the rules are usually reasonable. There is usually a standard level of contact in a club and the girls and regular customers know what that is. For that reason, I often don't even ask the girls what they allow since I already know what is normal for that club. The only time I have a problem is when I get a new girl who starts doing an air dance and gets angry when I touch her. In those situations, I quit after one dance.

Bouncers can ask a customer to leave the club after he has insulted a dancer and then use force if that customer refuses to leave. I've seen that several times in strip clubs over the years. Bouncers or strippers can't, though, beat someone up just because of an insult. That is an assault, and they are open to arrest if they do that. I've not heard of a bouncer or stripper being arrested for attacking a customer, but I have heard of them being fired from a club for doing that. Most strip club owners understand that customers are more likely to stay away from clubs where the employees engage in physical attacks on them and pick safer clubs to visit instead.

The Covid hysteria ended because the virus mutated into a milder and more transmissible form. The most recent 7-day average number of deaths for the disease here in the U.S. is 316 a day. That's about one in a million people dying daily. As has been true since the beginning of this epidemic, the average age of death for someone catching Covid is 77. This is also the segment of the elderly population in the worst health. It's likely most of the people dying from Covid would have died within a year anyway. People under 60 have over a 99.7% survival rate. This type of virus almost always mutates into a milder and more transmissible form because of evolutionary pressure. A virus that mutated into a more virulent and less transmissible form would kill its hosts before they could pass the disease on to others. Covid is joining the 1918 Spanish flu, 1957 Asian flu and 1968 Hong Kong flu as something most people don't need to worry about. Only people over 65 still might want to consider getting the vaccine. For others, the long-term risks of the vaccine likely exceed the benefits. Insurance and funeral industry statistics show an increase in mortality among the largely vaccinated U.S. population. This may not be due to the vaccine but the reluctance of U.S. government health agencies to investigate this lead one to think they are afraid of what they might find if they did investigate. Many younger people have already had Covid and have natural immunity so it would be especially unwise for them to get the vaccine, especially since the boosters have decreasing effectiveness the more that are received while the negative side effects increase the more boosters that are received.

I love licorice but when I tell people that I often get a negative reaction, so I think that is widely disliked. Napoleon Bonaparte liked licorice so much that when he died he had black teeth from licorice stains.

Was it a common thing for parents, like mine, to tell their children they could get to China by digging a hole? I spent an afternoon when I was six years old on a beach in California digging a hole to China. I just looked at a globe and it appears I was actually headed to Afghanistan. My parents lied to me.