Democracy doesn’t work particularly well when the voters are uneducated or otherwise missinformed. That when the country starts doing things that are against its and its own citizens interest. Corruption, legal or otherwise, also contribute to making it disfunctional.

The type of traffic shaping you are thinking off can still be done under net nutrailty and was never an issue.

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Or how about this:

The body is a super complex chemical eco-system. Messing with it is understandably super difficult, if you do not want to cause damage. All drugs have side effects. Known or otherwise. Using drugs for any reason is like throwing a funnily shaped wrench in to a factory you do not fully understand. It always causes problems. In medical science we try to figure out what type of wrench causes the least destruction while providing some benefit. We then weigh the benefits against the downsides. Leave these decisions to someone that has dedicated their life to this science. Let them make educated guesses for you. Instead of you just guessing. Generally, don’t use any drug unless you have to. Stop as soon as is recommended by your doctor. Assume that any drug you use, will have a permanent, accumulative detrimental effect on the body. Just to be safe.

So prices will go up until you and me will get around with rickshaw. Whoever is poorer pulls the other. And while we bump forth; we wont have to worry about continued plastic pollution. Our rickshaw is made of metal and wood.

How does that affect you instagram influencer browsing experience?

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Thanks!

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I’m afraid I will get malware, just stepping in to the play store. Yep.

Just install the bare minimum and get out asap.

If you would otherwise vote for donald; go ahead and do the protest vote.

I have a feeling Israels leadership don’t agree with you. Their chosen war tactic seem to hinge on starving the enemy until they are ineffective. To them; killing Hamas members are more important than any number of civilian suffering or death.

Corporate tactic, very secret: Don’t self-destruct.

Nice recommendation! I tried it and it’s probably the first keyboard I actually like.

I think there is confusion over the long- and short scale naming system for numbers.

Long Billion: 10¹²

Short Billion: 10⁹

There is this concept of ‘Us and them’, a in group and out group. In conflict it is often utilized to make your guys hate the other group and ‘dehumanize’ them so that you can prevent your guys directing sympathy towards the enemy. The other guys may have different language and culture and whatnot. Language is one of the best barriers for sympathy and is well recognized by the ones that use this to their advantage.

To a large extent, I think it is the same principles that prevent people from recognizing the suffering of individuals of other species.

We apply importance to the recognition of suffering so we can prevent it. I say we apply it to everyone.

Now, of course we can nit-pick and try to separate out who or what we apply sympathy to. You could designate some things as just automatons; such as ants, bacteria or even viruses. But I’m not gonna do that now.

When a cute and innocent individual get brutally murdered, people get sad. When it’s some guy in sub-Saharan Africa, that you hear similar reports of every day, it’s just not evoking much of a response. Probably that is what is going on.

Also, there are fewer dolphins than there are humans. From that perspective, it is even sadder.

I don’t agree that humans are special in any way, btw.

That lab sample must have been a single diode emitting for a nanosecond or something.

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Well, education has to be there before the problem pups up. Start educating now and the next generation you reap will be better. It’s one of those “best time to plant a tree is yesterday, the next best is to plant it today”.