Why would anybody share any such experience just to be declared a lunatic. If anybody had such stories to begin with, they would be best advised not to share them, for fear of being thought insane.
No those seemingly harmless encounters are meant to be small games of chicken. whoever budges and makes way for the other male has just become the submissive male.
Actually we can: "Standing shoulder-to-shoulder, the entire world's population could fit within the 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers) of Los Angeles.". I assume your other claims to be just as easily disproved, but cannot be bothered, people can use search engines themselves.
You got it backwards, big corporations own the government, but not limited to big tech. Oil and gas companies, Telecommunications, transportation, arms, shipping, retail and so forth.
Small tech can be much nastier as they have less scrutiny on them. Think of all these companies writing spyware for governments/corporations around the world.
That there is karma and mods on lemmy. The community should have full control and no mods. Karma should be banned as a way to enforce conformity and a highly toxic.
Why not world wide shengen? Why shouldn't all human beings have freedom of movement on the entire globe? Why do you have to ask permission before being able to move freely?
And it is a false statement:
sometimes you stop looking without finding anything so in those cases it isn't in the last place you look
so the clam "It's always in the last place you look" is obviously false.
otherwise you could say up front "I'm only gonna look in one place!" and then you would HAVE to find it in this last place you look!