The USA had lots of problems from having so many Civil War veterans, including lots of violence:

https://digpodcast.org/2018/08/04/civil-war-veterans-crime/

I wish people would stop conflating energy with electricity.

So Germany had ⅔ of it’s electricity from renewables, but still has gas for warming homes, petrol for cars, diesel for trucks, and so on.

This is hot, although I don’t think it counts as masturbation if it is a woman on her knees eating pussy, does it?

Maybe up until they stopped having “don’t be evil” as their company motto?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_be_evil

Stock options and grants are a tool to trick you into accepting lower pay and conflating your interests with those of the capital class. (Speaking as someone who has received both!)

Population growth hasn’t been exponential for a while.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#/media/File:World_Population_Prospects.svg

It’s worth a try!

Your pictures like this with a dildo deep in your ass are my favorite. Thank you!

Even if i know, I still want to hear you say it.

In both the US and China software developers get paid a lot more than an average job. Not so in Europe.

Dutch population started to decline a few years ago it you just look at births and deaths, and discount immigration and emigration.

From RFC 2804:

• The IETF believes that adding a requirement for wiretapping will make affected protocol designs considerably more complex. Experience has shown that complexity almost inevitably jeopardizes the security of communications even when it is not being tapped by any legal means; there are also obvious risks raised by having to protect the access to the wiretap. This is in conflict with the goal of freedom from security loopholes.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2804/

This was written in 2000 in response to US government requests to add backdoors to voice-over-IP (VoIP) standards.

It was recognized 25 years ago that having tapping capabilities is fundamentally insecure.

I’ve got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby Come with me Friday, don’t say maybe

lemmynsfw is awesome!

Hm, maybe. I know that de Tocqueville found Americans to be obsessed with money in the 1830’s. Nothing seems to have changed in the past 200 years in that regard. 🤔

I use it when shopping online because DuckDuckGo is shit for shopping in Holland.

I worked with a French guy in Amsterdam. His parents were Portuguese, but he was born and raised in France. As far as he was concerned, he was French.

Contrariwise, I worked with an American woman in Virginia. Her grandparents were Irish, and she considered herself Irish, in spite of having been born and raised in America, and both of her parents having been born and raised in America.

It is a kind of fetish in America to hyphenate yourself. Irish-American. Cuban-American. And so on.

My own theory is that this is because America has no culture going back many generations, so people try to find one.

I agree 100%.

Every article about “gen z is terrible” or “boomers had it so easy” should be viewed as a way for capital to divide labor.

Let me try again.

People cannot find places to live.

The government decides that is because landlords cannot make enough profit.

So the government tries to remove protections for renters, to benefit renters.

I have no idea what the situation is in Switzerland, but in Holland we had a pro-business, center right government for many years before their neglect of the common people caused so much rot that the far right has taken power and begun trying to smash up everything.

Anyway, their neo-liberal approach was that there must be a market solution to every problem. So, not enough affordable rental properties must mean that landlords don’t want to rent their properties because renters have too good of a deal. So the only possible solution must be to deregulate the rental market as much as possible, including getting rid of renter protections.

Again, I have no idea about the motivations or history in Switzerland, just sharing a perspective from a lower altitude.