What’s rude is quoting me a price for your goods and services and then expecting me to a higher price anyway.

Yeah I just use bar soap and I’ve got fairly long hair. Works well enough as long as you’re not too aggressive with it.

I genuinely, honestly, 100% believe you should be able to option for physical punishment when being reprimanded for minor things. Pepper spray to the face, electric shock, mild caning, etc. Anything that would have little to no harm, even in the short term, but hurts like a bitch. I don’t think you should be able to sentence someone to pain, but that the person being sentenced should be able to choose pain instead.

Grain or labor, but one way or another you gotta pay the state your taxes!

Oh, sorry, yeah, I thought you were just asking about how those things with in general, not whether such a weapon could make someone confused. Yeah we don’t have anything that works that way.

Well, yes, but also if I actually had the power to make that change I would do it gradually through a market system for exactly that reason. One can dream, though.

Pretty much any power structure is going to coalesce into the “ruling” group and the “opposition” group, because doing so is strategically advantageous. But, proportional representation ensures that those two groups are made up of sub-groups that have to negotiate within themselves and can even threaten to change sides. Compared with an entrenched two party system, you end up with much a more reasonable government.

More like 70% of the US adult population if you include the asymptomatic carriers of both HSV 1 and 2.

Well, usually.

I wrote a whole thing, but honestly Wikipedia does a pretty good job on this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon?wprov=sfla1

I mean that username tho…

Gotta start local and work your way up. The system is fundamentally flawed. There are many problems, but the most fixable is the voting and representation systems, which can usually be changed at the local level through referendum. Approval Voting is an easy fix with big impact and when applied to multi-winner elections you can use a proportional variant to get proportional results in the legislature. Both of these changes would reduce polarization and make it easier for third parties to get in office. With more than two parties in power, the parties have to start working together and compromising on things, instead of just obstructing until they’re the majority and then jamming through partisan bullshit. But you gotta start local. Run a referendum campaign, switch your local elections to Approval, and work your way up.

All I want for Christmas is Approval Voting and proportional representation.

If I could fucking ban pesticides and antibiotics for agricultural use I absolutely would.

Depends on the weapon.

Buck-twenty-Gs, baby!

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Gay people are generally fairly slutty. Image if ever guy’s dream slut was also just another guy. Well, they all have the same attraction to sluts, so they all end up being sluts for each other. Sluts for sluts.

Generalizations cannot be applied to the individual.

Slut.

Beans do be pretty good though.

I’m pretty sure it’s ridiculously hard to stop government projects in your backyard there. The best you can do is refuse to sell your land.