Oh they did, yeah. But if you go back a century or two and manage some great political changes to the industrial revolution, we could avoid the worst of capitalism and actually get proper cooperatives, thus actually funding the people instead of large institutions / nations / corporations, which whole claiming to do good, actually ended up doing bad.

That’s the short and more rational version. My own is just like, go back in time and shoot the fuckers responsible for the drug war and we’d avoid quite a bit of the problems we currently have. I could go into a whole multihour monologue as to how the lack of empathy in today’s world is because we live in much larger societies but also, because I believe prehistoric humans actually had a tendency to do parties with serotonergic substances (shrooms back then, nowadays also lsd and mdma), which are proved to increase empathy and lessen your fear of strangers (this would’ve been necessary for populations as you can’t inbreed with a small hunter-gatherer group, you need to meet other groups and have fresh genetic material), and while that is still going on with a small part of the population, most people aren’t doing it and are stuck treating eveyone outside their family as “others” and that just won’t work in our interconnected world where we need to work together to avoid the only known planet to sustain life from becoming uninhabitable to humans.

But that’s just a brief version of my 2 cents. And because it’s so short I believe most will perceive it as schizo babble than actual reasoned arguments but as I said, I could write a book on this shit so I understand that a silly short version won’t convince anyone.

Easily a week.

A month would be pushing it before I get a new actually sizable chest freezer.

About 70-90% of my days are “buy nothing” days.

Nobs

Because you’d rather live in the cold dark ocean than in your neet cave?

Just go back ~century and fix it there, easy peasy.

Billy Russo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigsaw_(Marvel_Comics)

Anyone else bothered that they’ve used “pKg” to mean “package” and not “per Kilogram”?

A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.

Death can’t have him.

http://gnuterrypratchett.com/

But time doesn’t mean growth, necessarily. A whole lot of companies are one man businesses, which don’t even plan to grow.

Hell, basically being an uber driver means you’re an entrepreneur with your own company, but slogging around drunks and pizzas all over town for 10 years doesn’t really improve the situation.

The punchline is that the person is loaded, yeah, but it doesn’t follow from the premise, and that’s kinda my point. It hasn’t been set up properly, see?

but those that move there, or are “settlers”, or endorse and support the “settler” policies are certainly land thieves.

Ah, so only a vast majority of them. Okay.

Being the CEO of your own company really isn’t a guarantee of much, though.

If he sais something like “CEO of a fortune 500 company”, that would be a bit different.

Depends on where you’re from and what the regulations are, might have been just non-denatured high% vodka essentially. As so much was needed regulations weren’t the strictest everywhere.

Anyway, I’m not gonna believe you before I see you take a mouthful of 80% alc and swirl it around your mouth and smack smack smack mmm. Without making any sort of sour face.

Because if you do, then that’s actually medically concerning, because that’s a poison and we have systems in our bodies to make us not ingest poisons easily. As in, that’s why we can taste bitter. Alcohol isn’t bitter per se but it’s a volatile solvent, and at those percentages it’s just not in anything way a taste. It’s a sensation.

I may be wrong, but I don’t believe you. You also say you don’t "really drink, so I’m thinking a younger person who’s had a small hit and enjoyed the aftereffects and can’t now discern them.

When you talk about “ethanol for disinfection”, do you mean denatured alcohol? Because if so, I believe you even less.

Yeah I’m not gonna believe this before I see you drinking 80% alcohol without making a sour face.

I just played for the first time ever.

Realistic af. Even got the older wounds bleeding

Vodka and oysters?

Boogers seasoned with hospital smell? That’s how I imagine it being, at least.

Edit gibe me dark rum and beef tartar instead

You’re right. Sure. We could do that.

Or we can just accept that the Wizarding World is actually made for children and not planned out in the same detail as Middle-Earth & Tolkien’s languages.

I mean I’m on your side sort of, but in the books most of the Elves do prefer having a master and not getting paid. Which one could and probably should equate to slavery.

Hogwarts is like a super prestigious job for the house elves and none of them want to be paid or freed. Although idk who their master would be technically. They sort of imply it’s the headmaster at least.

Winky is just broken after she gets freed. Or fired as she sees it. A hit to her honor, and then she becomes a drunk when they go to work for Hogwarts with Dobby, but even then Winky refuses to get paid iirc.

But yeah there’s a lot of out of context things. Fuck Rowling but I still like Potter. Not gonna give any money tho

Yes… and? (I’m Finnish.)

I mean, you’re right, sure, but it’s easier biting an outie than an innie.

Getting your chompers around someone’s chocolate starfish would be a challenge, don’t you think?