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.
It’s less about respecting Cheney and more about excluding Trump out of something. He’s such a baby it will make him furious.
You mean billionaires who are murderers, not people willing to murder billionaires?
Because the latter is what I prefer.
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?
The ability to physically harm someone is only relevant if a) one chooses to believe someone will harm or then, or might or b) someone expresses that they will harm the other person, or might.
That is to say, “a person you don’t trust”. Implicitly you trust everyone in your society, more or less. Or in your “city”, if you will.
Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Even if a power dynamic is completely equal, it still exists. It’s just balanced.
The ability to commit violence is at the very core of our civilization. Literally. There’s a reason we still call them POLICE officers. They’re the only people “in the city” (“polis” as in Akropolis, Annapolis, Marioupolis, etc) allowed to physically harm other people, and that is what makes them literally powerful.
Your reasoning only applies when you’re already in the context of “we’re not allowed to do violence or each other or the police will come and threaten me with violence unless I obey them”.
I mean, insofar that violence is power, yes, the person with someone’s engorged penis filled with blood (the thing people need to live) between the sharpest and hardest parts of their body (teeth) armed with the strongest muscle (the masseter, the jaw muscle), does in fact have power over the other person owning the penis.
Power over life and death is very much “power” in my book, even if I don’t agree with it.
I do agree that they must have trust, otherwise it wouldn’t be smart to give that much power over you to someone else.
And when it comes to regular power dynamics, yeah sure it’s annoying they exist in the first place, but you can’t really deny them, even if they aren’t always one and the same. Not all men would be able to beat up all women, but in general, men have an advantage in physical combat. But that advantage is very much given away at least a bit when you put your dick in someone’s mouth.
Then again it could be a trans woman who owns the penis and a man doing the sucking, so like assumptions, power dynamics definitely aren’t always the same.
So while I agree with you that they shouldn’t be intrinsic, to most people they are.
My sensibilities are more in line with Deadpool.
I mean, same here, in a way. Rural Finnish town in the 90’s.
When my big brother first showed me the internet (once in the library as he had reserved an hour for himself) I actually thought it would be like a game or something, and was rather disappointed to see boring HTML sites. Why? Because everyone kept talking about “surfing the net”. “Browsing the world wide web” has much more boring connotations, I felt like. (Although back then I didn’t speak English so would not have known the phrase, but the equivalent term to “browsing.”)
Until my brother showed me how to find guides and cheats for games! GameFAQs.
I think this becomes even weirder if you consider a blowjob. The person with the dick in their mouth actually has all the power.
Yeah I tired these for the first time a while ago and was kinda disappointed in getting a bag of relabeled chicken nuggets.
Also I’d like to point out that currently what is considered perhaps the best countries in the world, at least for the average citizen, the Nordics, probably wouldn’t be here, especially not in this form, had the Soviets actually managed to come through Karelia.
Which my great-grandpa and uncle & other assorted family gave their lives to prevent. And we were technically fighting the Allies, mind you. (Finland wasn’t allied with Axis at any point though, officially. We “merely” cooperated a little, before having to fight the Nazis out of Lappland.)
Check on having heard those rumours ~25 years ago.
If deterrence worked the US wouldn’t have such a high murder rate and drug prohibition in general would actually work.
Looks like Nikita was right and 2A ppl wrong.
Anyone else bothered that they’ve used “pKg” to mean “package” and not “per Kilogram”?