Definitely not how that works. All companies are taxed and they don’t get any special representation outside lobbying that they were going to do either way and churches do in fact put a lot of the money they should have payed in taxes into lobbying.

You know what is worse? Depressed bed blobs pretending that they are introverts and normalizing antisocial behaviour. Healthy introverts have and regularly meets friends. They just don’t do it as often and in the same way as extroverts. I know these things because I went to therapy instead of trying to normalize my insecurities on the internet.

Is fire an invention? I feel like it is something that happens to us wether we like it or not.

They can just not vote but they do vote and they vote for the degenerates so that… They get lower taxes? Is that what they are selling their souls for?

I never thought of him being immune to Sauron as him being powerful. He is just like the the hobbits but to its fullest. Bombadil is perfectly content with his own existence and there is nothing for the ring to tempt him with.

Arguably that would make it even more effective.

That exists, it’s called a face tattoo.

Natural resources it the prime example. I think all natural resources should exclusively be under democratic control and all profits from the sale of naturals resources goes exclusively to the government. Developed land like private housing gets complicated fast but ideally things should work like things work now but the government fulfills the functions of a landlord.

Popular vote is what the most number of people want. The idea that popular vote is bad is anti-democratic.

Nobody should be allowed to own land. You can build a building and that building is yours because you built it but you can’t make land and the only reason you own it is because someone in the past used violence to take it.

Both the democratic and republican party are several smaller parties tied together into two disgusting rat king. If one of them disappear today there will be an instant split of the surviving party into two new rat kings. The collapse isn’t what they fear. They fear that the Overton window would move left.

By a vast margin. Replies are apparently unusable as a thing for communication because if you have a checkmark the algorithm ignores any other consideration.

It feels like s legal liability to start a instance and not police it. People could upload CP and you would be on the hook because you are the server owner and clearly did nothing to stop it.

Yeah, that is why it’s such a big deal when a big instance defederate from another. If there was a large number of small instances nobody would care.

I think account migration needs to be the next big feature to prevent people from bunching up in big instances. Everyone is new when they start and the biggest one will always be the simplest to find.

Your life would suck with siblings or without. You have a job and an education and seemingly supportive parents. You have all the resources you need to make a plan and fix things but something inside you is preventing you from getting better. Go to a therapist to figure out what that is and start making moves.

It depends on what context your doctor gave you the advice. If the context was that you need to be hydrated then it’s fine but if the context was that you are drinking a lot of soda then the carbonation might be part of the problem. I know that my dad was recommended to not drink fizzy water when he had bowel problems.

Not because you have bad opinions. Because I think you are quite sad as a person.

I doubt the would want to hang out with you.

I didn’t say anything about cultural wars. I specifically avoided the issue in my example. Getting really upset because some wrote something is not a good thing for real life IMO, doesn’t matter who wrote what (provided it’s not news, of course). Part of a good society is the old adamant “I don’t agree with you at all but will defend your right to say it”.

Who are getting upset at things being written? What does that mean and what does it have to do with vulnerability? You’re doing the fucking boomer shit that kids are too sensitive these days while not specifying what the problem is What is the problem? Be a tough guy and say what you think instead of dressing it up in vague bullshit.

Do you think vulnerable and tough are on opposite ends of a spectrum?

Also the post are talking about real interpersonal interactions with people in your life. The fact that you instantly made the post about culture war bullshit is telling.