I never blame the people asking for tips, I instead blame those giving them.

I’ll list my Bitcoin address for anyone who would like to tip me! As I wrote out this whole comment for free, a tip seems quite reasonable here. If you disagree and choose not to tip me, that’s ok since tips are optional…but please don’t start rambling about how others should be tipping when you yourself did not tip me when provided the opportunity.

Oh well that’s reasonable then /s

Most European nations still have some form of provinces/states. Even itty bitty Switzerland is made up of a bunch of different Cantons.

Completely agree and I was referring only to this specific instance.

I agree with all points, but isn’t the officer who stopped it from continuing the ‘good guy with a gun’ here?

It’s almost like it’s possible to have good guys with guns without letting every single person get guns by default.

I really hope you’re right.

Libraries existed before any licensing or copyright even existed lol. The entire point is to ‘copy’ information, which is exactly what happens when you let many people look at the same clay tablet or whatever. Peer to peer.

You could literally sit there and copy from someone else’s scroll on to your own scroll.

The logical conclusion of libraries is piracy anyway. Like that’s their entire point, the dissemination of information freely.

Ahh thanks for clarifying. But the devil advocate in me is thinking ‘If it’s been cut, it’s been processed’

All ham is processed isn’t it? Salted and smoked.

Yep, alcohol is definitely delicious. Getting drunk is fun too sometimes sure… but often I quite decide not to have another beer because despite wanting more of the flavor, I don’t want more of the effects.

Where in the world did you get that number and what were the specific parameters?

Because "2.3 billion people — 29.6% of the global population — don’t have adequate access to food" and “9 million people die from hunger-related causes every year”

That’s the saddest part. They know the secrets, but lack the required accuracy.

But why can’t they make something that smells delicious though like an Indian curry or fried Swiss cheese and eat that instead of nasty-ass fish?

Harm…to the environment, yes.

I smoked weed in Thailand as a 15 year old in like 2006 lol. It’s always been there and always will be.

I’ve also smoked hash in Saudi Arabia. I have yet to find a single country in which I could not find cannabis in if around for more than a week or two. Literally no one has ever won the war on drugs or even come close.

And I’d be fine with the neighbors cooking up a smelly fish meal if they could just make that food odorless.

But obviously they can’t and that makes no sense, so instead I am a normal human being and just deal with a smell that is not to my preference since it’s completely subjective and can’t hurt me.

I hope when I’m old they just decide to let my generation suffer to correct this fundamentally flawed system that will inevitably collapse at some point. It’s based upon the impossible notion of infinite growth.

I totally agree with you about immigration, but I tend to look at the population issue from a world wide perspective. And from that perspective the population goes up every single year without fail, which to me is a major problem that I hope our species will find a way to overcome.

I was pointing out that the person calling me a corporate teat sucker was they themself one, as evidenced by their use of an iPhone.

Wrong? I see people deciding not to have kids as fundamentally a good thing. Coercion into having kids due to government pressure or social norms seems a whole lot more wrong to me. It’s ok to not want kids, it’s not some sort of disorder that needs fixing.

I would absolutely love to see the population go down, even for like a single day, within my lifetime. But considering we’ve added over 2 billion people to the population since I was a kid…I don’t have high hopes.