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”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

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.

Iluvatar vs Morgoth?

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.

Also avoids drinking. Maybe he just can’t control teh gay if he takes a few.

To me all these people sound exactly like the douchey “I-I can’t never eevher geth theh slightestht bhith dhrunk” guys.

Tldr just because you’re not perceptive about your own perception doesn’t mean it hasn’t been altered.

Sexual awakening at 69.

The point I’m making is that I believe that people who have mac skills will need to also learn Windows skills just because it’s so much more commonplace.

Just like lefties can be more empathetic on scale, because they have to face the disappointment of things not being designed for them (us, but I’m more mixed-handed than pure lefty).

It’s not about the orientation of the hand, but the phenomena surrounding having to orient your hand / use a certain hand in a certain way.

Just like I don’t believe that Mac as an OS is inherently changing the kids significantly.

Please do apply adequate scientific rigor here!

And to be fair, I don’t really know anyone who’s only ever used a mac for those exact reasons. We had a few kids in graphic design school be like “well I mostly use Mac as my personal computer is a mac”, so they weren’t as used to using Windows, since they hadn’t done it since school.

Like if you compared the linguistic capacity of people in the US, I’m pretty sure that no matter what you choose as the primary language, those kids will still know English (as we’re talking about USA here), and if they know English, then they’re at least bilingual, which has a lot of cognitive benefits. But you wouldn’t be saying that specifically speaking some specific other language makes the kids smarter.

Some languages might give certain advantages, like say some aboriginal language which doesn’t have left/right but always uses cardinal directions. Due to them doing that it’s insanely hard to confuse their inner sense of direction, even if you chuck them if a van and drive them around blindfolded.

So I’m not saying using Macs can’t have some such small specific advantage, but I doubt it, and think it’s just general adaptation skills, which do correlate with positive cognitive development.

Mitchell and Webb - Four Candles

“Well the metric version is”

Oh, so you’re just reconfirming you don’t speak English. Ok. Best of luck, we can try again in a few years. I can link you some Simple English channels if you’d like?

And you’re wrong.

Just because some niche unit uses metric prefixes doesn’t mean that that unit is “in the metric system” as language is used.

Learn to use language pls.

Weird how when you open that “metric system” link your pedantry is nowhere to be seen, almost as if by and large “metric” refers to the SI-system, isn’t it? Oh I’m sorry, you can’t answer that with “yes”, because it would mean that you stop pretending like you don’t know what I mean, which you simply can’t do.

Lol, you’re the one who’s arguing youre right, despite me clearly stressing that I know that if we’re superanal pedants you could technically make the argument that “metric system” can also refer to non-SI units which use decimal prefixes.

That a lone doesn’t mean you we’re right. See that “metric system” link there? Give it a click, would you, and then rethink on who’s being pedantic.

You haven’t told me anything interesting. I’m well aware of things like the attempt of France to change the time to powers a decimal system as well. They didn’t. Time is still in SI-units and that system is colloquially known as THE METRIC SYSTEM.

Like I said, you’re not exactly wrong, per se. (But you definitely are now, being such an annoying pedant while ignoring the very simple points I made.)

So you’re just gonna ignore everything that’s not inline with what you’re saying? Yawn. Perhaps try rereading my comments.