I’m just wondering in what strange and creative ways people would contort this into different fetishes.

It becomes a new issue. It doesn’t take much if you live in two different countries and one is much cheaper than the other. For instance five years of work in one country can afford someone ten to fifteen years or twenty years of vacation somewhere else. So instead of retiring at 65 you could retire at 35. It also depends on lifestyle and if you have family and friends in both locations.

I’ll give a small example. A shit one bedroom in the expensive country I work in will be 1600€ per month and an alright one bedroom just out of the city and near the beach here is about 70€ per month. So on one month of rent there I could afford nearly two years of rent here. So instead of waiting until I am old to relax I do whatever I want now.

Unfortunately things like electronics and cars are the same price, typically more expensive due to the import tax

I’ve been living outside the week system for too long. Everyday is Sunday now.

That checks out.

u/over_clox@lemmy.world asking dumb smart questions.

In the US a stop as a yield is legal in twelve states, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Washington, and D.C.

You can use a terminal browser a la lynks2 or w3m

Two years later, how’s the switch been?

Two years later, how’s the switch been?

Two years later and you are correct.

Yeah if your machine can be added to a botnet then it will be. Resistance is futile, we are Borg style.

That’s a fair additive although it can be difficult to define the boundaries. Particularly tech can have a far reaching influence and arguably global influence these days. If the scope of the policy is narrow then I can imagine that being functional, if the scope is potentially global then that may become an issue.

Calling democracy mob rule is really old. I would at least prefer representatives to be scientists or otherwise the most informed on the subject and policies they are deciding on. I would also prefer all policies to be tested to see if they actually create their desired outcomes. I would prefer the desired outcome to always be increasing human and environmental wellbeing.

He’s not the first but I was thinking about that. I can’t remember the critic but early on in the American experiment someone described it as mob rule.

Similar but I would prefer a representative democracy but where the representatives need to be national experts on what they are deciding. So for instance if it’s medicine then the representatives need to be physicians and medical scientists, and previous heads of hospitals. If it’s dealing with the environment then the representatives need to be environmental scientists, civic engineers, and so on. Aka have the most informed people for that which you are trying to make decisions. Even better, have their policies reviewed by a body of their peers the same way scientific publishing works to get a measure on how good or bad their ideas are. Even better, test their ideas when they’ve been implemented to see if they’re actually working.

Yup just tell group X who dislikes thing Y or group Z that X and Z are bad and you’re in like Flynn.

That’s why democracy is also known as being ruled by the hordes of idiots. It’s amazing when people are well informed on what they are voting on, the problem is that’s never happened in mass and never will. People will vote based on their feelings or just straight up not at all.

Mercator was high that day.

One time as a kid I found an offset motor with straps to strap to your hand to aid in giving a massage in my grandma’s room. It wasn’t until my adult life I realized it was likely just an OG vibrator (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

I often come back to the concept that every mental and physical state is a form of yoga, like there’s laughing and crying yoga aka we are bringing our breath, body, and mind into a posture to focus on a thing whichever that thing is. These days I’m so old and crusty that even the unpleasantness of the human condition is appreciated and something I’m grateful to have.