I don't really agree that people in general are awful, but we do all have our awful sides.
And indeed, people who really know how to get to the top and stay there tend to almost always have skills and a mindset that steer them towards dictatorship.
Also, when you have fixed pricing on products, there's suddenly no reliable feedback on what people really need. Now you can gauge it from how much they are ready to pay for a product, but with fixed pricing that is lost. And then the factories are constantly producing too much of something or too little of it.
And especially when it constantly happens that there is too little of this and that, a black market is practically sure to appear to get people what they need. And that grows corruption that then destroys the rest. Hooray.
Of course you can just ask people if they would want to have __________. But often they answer "yes" to things they won't bother to get anyway or "no" to things they will actually end up liking once their friends notice how nice they are. So, in reality that doesn't really help.
You can also build some very advanced computer system that follows everyone in realtime and always guesses with a high precision what the people need at each time. But then we have a very horrible system where we are being spied on every moment. Not what I want, either.
If this problem doesn't get tackled, socialism cannot work.
I haven't really been super interested in watching the HP films, but my children might eventually be and maybe I'll watch the movies with them some day in the future? For this reason, I've taken care at least to not know who kills him. This came kind of out of the blue here.
I usually buy my computers used when they are dirt cheap. That means, I typically come about 10 years after everyone else regarding new games. It works just fine, except for some unfriendly people who like to spread spoilers. Also, especially with Bethesda's games, by the 10-year-mark, typically already over 70 % of the game's bugs have been fixed, which is nice!
(My current computer is kind of a powerhouse, though! It can run both Skyrim and Fallout 3/NV with full graphic settings. Of course not the remastered editions, but it's still awesome getting to play those with my own computer now! Fallout:NV I did play almost completely through on a computer that I was able to regularly use elsewhere)
This is basically what happened in the Netherlands in the past.
I once met a woman whose family name was Boschpijper. Bosch means bush and pijper means dicksucker.
Those nicknames were kind of a joke, but then they followed in official records, but nobody cared. Then, after some generations of them having been written down, they were suddenly something important. And now the family of Boschpijpers have carried their name with pride for several centuries.
The point of kissing is that human cheeks have more pheromones than most parts of the human body. When you kiss someone, your nose almost unaboidably ends up near that other person's cheek. When you sense the other person's pheromones, you will feel good or very good or, seldom, repulsive, depending on how different the person's immune system is from yours or how close a relative the person is.
The part with lips touching each other is actually mostly irrelevant, but because people generally don't know the actual point of why our species likes kissing, that's the way they get their noses positioned correctly.
I would imagine that if you are as completely asexual as you say, you probably won't feel much anything when kissing unknown people.
I guess kissing your parents' cheeks has felt nice in your childhood, though? It's also about pheromones, but of course not the same ones as with a romantic partner, so the feeling is different and maybe possible for you to feel?
It was meant to honor what some Turkish architect found when making an internet search for "azura", because that's the name of the hotel. They found a picture of a statue like that and figured that would be a perfect addition to the kitch-style hotel he's tasked to plan.
While I disagree with the teenagers' ability to find my banking passwords regardless of where I hide them, for example because I can make a copy of them that has been altered with a password I can calculate in my head and that takes the location of the password on the table into account in the calculation, the rest is true.
I remember having seen things I really wouldn't want to see even as adult when I was browsing Internet for stuff that wasn't supposed to be available. Shady websites can be shady in so many ways!
It is true that making an age verification system for a basic porn site will probably direct the youth to other sites with content you wouldn't see on PornTube. I hope my children won't ever watch porn, but if they ever do, I hope it's from a source that doesn't allow the worst things to be shown. For example PornHub does remove the worst stuff and is quite commonly used. If that one cannot be accessed, then probably something else will. And it's likely to be worse. Though, PornHub has a lot of really bad abusive things as well. Checked it out now and one of the first videos it showed was something that looked like the woman is really unhappy, even distressed, about the situation she's being filmed in :(
You can't build a completely teenager-proof system. But you can build a system that is almost completely teenage-proof. And that's definitely good enough!
All such systems exist only to support parents in their parenting. It gets easier keeping your children safe and developing well if the amount of ways the teenagers can be idiots is narrowed down.
Despite what who think? I don't think there are people who think people in USA are not human beings. (Or if they are, they are less than one percent of the world population... Of course within 8 billion people you will find a proponent for any opinion...)
But yeah, since you care about humanity's liberty as a whole, you could maybe kindly stop undermining that goal by assuming that what is done by under 5% of the population on this planet is the standard that the remaining 95 % are following.
I wasn't being eurocentric. I was being Asia-Africa-Australia-South America-Europe-Canada-Mexico-Central America-Caribbea centric.
The only country where most of the right want to reduce gun safety is USA. We are talking in an international forum, so here international concepts count, not nation-specific. Typically in the world right-wingers are for safety and typically in the world the politics of the Democrat party count as right-wing.
When in a conversation not specific to USA it is not okay to speak as if everything was about USA. It is not okay to speak as if there was a left-wing party in US Congress or Senate and it is not okay to claim that the right wants more dangerous gun policies.
And here we're talking about something that takes place most prominently in UK and secondly in a bunch of other countries, but absolutely not in USA. USA has nothing to do with this, so don't be as insolent as you were.
(Also, for example Australia is not in Europe. Learn some geography.)
Doesn’t change political narrative being pushed by both major political parties in the US, where in the left supposedly wants guns banned, and the right wants everyone armed.
Online banking passwords? "Find"? How the hell? Have you lived in a barrel?
There is a 8-number code that I've got in my head, then there is a 4-number password that I've also got in my head. And then a paper with single-use passwords which work so that when I have given the two correct passwords, it tells me which code to use. And no way am I giving full access to my bank account for my children!
Some banks also have a system where you log in with your fingerprint and then a four-number code using an app on your phone.
I think the money on the parents' accounts is a much better motivation for the children than an ability to watch porn. And yet, I have not heard of anybody's children actually having found out their parent's bank passwords.
And also: Maybe there really is a child that installs a keylogger on their parents' computer and steals the password paper from the parents' wallet and also happens to really want to go out of their way to watch porn... Well, then there is. Such a child is already in so many ways in trouble that I don't think seeing porn will traumatize them at all. Such children are few and it makes no sense trying to build a 100-percent foolproof system. In any case, using online banking passwords is a lot more reliable way than the weird hocus-pocus being done now.
In Finland you could handle this by having people authenticate using their online bank passwords. A LOT of government stuff already works that way, so it would require almost no extra coding at least over here. I wonder why it cannot be done the same way in England?
I don't really agree that people in general are awful, but we do all have our awful sides.
And indeed, people who really know how to get to the top and stay there tend to almost always have skills and a mindset that steer them towards dictatorship.