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I did not find your initial phrasing bothersome in the least bit

It's apparently very hard to solve such an issue since there's no procedures in place for reversing a death certificate. Wonder what the implications for the legally-undead person were, like when they actually kick the bucket, will they cause another issue with the inability of the system to have somebody dead twice? Did the initial "death" trigger any inheritance laws and other such things, I wonder?

edit: Is that person legally stateless now so able to claim citizenship from states that offer such to stateless people?

shhh, don't spoil the myth now!

Also adding to the list of nice things - a picture of the current dictator on all public offices and classrooms. Work and school weeks from Monday to Saturday and a Sunday in which you had to do mandatory free time activities, like go to communist youth clubs, participate in parades for the glory of the state, or plant flowers or do random maintenance work in the park.

I've noticed the arguments tend to center around the notion that 'that wasn't true communism' and that the notions presented by Marx et al. were not properly implemented.

Fair enough, I can agree with that, but I'd wonder what makes us think that we would do it better next time? How do you actually prevent consolidation of power in the hands of the select few (in any system, for that matter, not just the ideal communism)?

Obligatory capitalism is bad too (but at least I'm in less danger of getting vanned in the middle of the night for insulting random great leader - attemtping to undermine the social order or whatever they called thoughtcrimes).

I know your comment was light-hearted in nature, but I'd like to point out from the article:

"Investigators say the Rio Preto-Jacunda reserve is >bordered by ranches with a record of environmental crimes, >including repeated encroachments on the reserve.

Razing protected rainforest for pasture is an illegal but >lucrative business in Brazil, the world's top beef exporter.

The crime often hits remote, hard-to-police nature reserves, >overlapping with other organized criminal activities >destroying the Amazon, including illegal logging and gold >mining."

These are people looking to make a buck with a 'fuck you, got mine' attitude. And it's happening all over the world in grey-areas with regards to law enforcement. Burning down stuff is one of the favoured methods, especially if you can bribe officials to say that it was an accident (as does not seem to be the case here, however so props for that for what it's worth).

The article also mentions death threats by the ones doing the arson towards those against their interests. People are the reason we can't have nice things.

yes, immurement does seem like adequate punishment for his kind

Yeah, apparently working as a contractor apparently involves a middleman, a 'pimp', if you will, that brings nothing to the contractor, the person doing the labour, but instead just serves to make it easy for the company in need of services to skirt labor laws. Even unionized, what are you going to do, strike against the one with which you do the actual contracting by not attending the monthly check-ins with PimpCo and refusing to submit your timesheets?

I wonder, however, shouldn't not doing the work cause a breach of contract between the company requesting the service and the middleman and thus cost the middleman some valuable business?

The same nagging notion sometimes claws at my brain as well.

The notion of consciousness not existing is especially troublesome for me to wrap my mind around. Logic says that no consciousness means nothing to perceive said lack of consciousness, therefore no loss there (for the subject, of course). That somehow... does not make it any better.

First time I've been through general anaesthesia I was wondering what it'd be like and a bit fearful of it. Happened in an instant, and I woke up what felt like immediately. Afterwards my conscious mind fixed that with perhaps artificially introducing passage of time to make everything fit. If I think back now, I certainly know some time had passed. But had it? And how much? No idea. Clock said around 3 hours, so I'll go by that.

Shortly thereafter I had a massive bleed and lost about 1/3 of my blood (by looking at amount of hemoglobin before and after the event). The more I lost, the less coherent I was and the less anything mattered. By the time I got to the ER, I had tunnel vision and survival mode on. But I wasn't scared for some odd reason... nothing mattered much. Not sure how close I came to actual death then, but it felt pretty close.

What I can advise... enjoy what you can, and don't waste your hate on anything. It's pretty much not worth it. Unless your life or the life of loved ones is in immediate danger, screw it. Guy cut you off in traffic? Fuck'em. It's not worth shortening your life for some rando with not enough respect for himself or others as to break the social contract. Just choose your preferred intensity of sustainable (for you) hedonism and go from there.

I also hope it gets easier with age, but the prospect of becoming more jaded that I am now is not appealing. Though if it makes everything easier...

I will say this, though. Not existing was (probably?) fine. But being brought into existence just for it to be taken away after a blink of an eye (in terms of billions of years of non-existence vs the average lifespan) seems like cruel and unusual punishment.

Sometimes it's not lazy, as I see it, it's just the fear of being wrong. Somewhere, somehow, the processing stops when confronted with just the notion that something one builds their life upon might be wrong. For instance the people that wonder what's stopping atheists from raping and murdering. Perhaps that's because they based their notion of good and evil on some supposedly unbreakable laws (lest you suffer eternal torment) versus just pondering about why those laws were set to begin with.

So I suppose it can track back to lazyness, after all. Nevermind, then.

Resource conservation be damned. My grandma used to say don't mess with an idiot, 'cause his mind is fully rested.

Well articulated. I'm not from the US, but I've seen housing developments go sideways when they built four 10-story blocks (not in somebody's back yard, but in an area without proper infrastructure) and after 1000ish people had moved in there were 1 hour long queues just to get out of the complex because there was only one road with one lane per direction. And the only bus stop was not really reliable.

This was not built in the middle of the city because of land availability (and huge prices even if there was land available - you're near the metro and tram and a bus stop? pay 50% more. oh, you're near a park too? pay 50% more on top of that). Should we just tear down old buildings in low density areas in the city to make room for big blocks? Some might be worth tearing down because of age and overall condition, but good luck getting people to move out.

I brew my own as well, but I think I only brewed an IPA once or twice (I got black IPA once by accidentally being too liberal with my hop additions). Never saw the need for it since I can just head to my local beer store, throw a stone and hit an IPA.

L-Mao?

brioche tartare ftw

corporate speak joke is my guess. but let's do a quick round table and see what everyone thinks, we can circle back to it or follow-up offline.

Bread and circuses, working as intended. We wouldn't want people coming home after a day's work and putting anger and frustration into something productive, would we?

I also can afford stuff but sometimes stuff doesn't allow itself to be bought. Tried buying some music in mp3 format from Amazon, they wouldn't sell me digital music because I didn't live in one of the handful of countries they sell to. So I just ordered the audio CD and ripped it. Now I have the physical disk as well which, I'm not going to lie, I like, but convenience went out the window. This was a new release.

On a different occasion (older release), I couldn't find the audio CD version but found a site that sold to me (not Amazon, but what do you know, it is possible to sell digital goods all over the world. Whoddathunkit?).

And then I have some music I still cannot find neither digital nor disk except for some very rare vinyls which pop up once in a while. And I don't have a set-up to rip vinyls, so what does one do about that? Piracy is also a service problem.

'tought it out, buttercup' and other things along the same lines get (got?) pistoned into boys' minds as soon as they are (were?) able to understand it. would they even know what being on the receiving end of sexual assault is growing up? high school level jokes say that it's only assault if it comes from a source you do not specifically approve of. been a while since I've been in high school but I would imagine no significant change has happened lately? or, at least there was no significant change for the generations mentioned in the article.

point being, it's unpleasant, but different realities are, it seems, still a thing. maybe this'll get fixed in a couple more generations?

I wonder how many respondents of the traditional male upbringing were truthful in their answers (after all, admitting you were sexually assaulted is not the 'manliest' of traits in said dogma...)

I can get behind this flavour of evil. Keep doing satan's work, lad!

Then they have a weird way of showing it. They're doing an awful lot of hoarding and exploitation for somebody within pitchfork distance.

I honestly hope you are correct.

pluviophiles unite!