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farm subsidies too, the only reason they are even here is because its a large voting block.

It works in communities of around 100 people, like those human evolved in. Which is why this is our default organization structure, every form of government devolves to sooner or later. Maybe we should give up the idea of countries or at least try to keep it in check with smart laws somehow.

People used to need religion to stop them from functioning the same as animals back then, but in this century, if someone needs to be told by a religion that murder is bad to stop them from doing it, then they should be locked up.

Also so much molesting goes on at religious places that people just sweep under the rug. And what batshit crazy is going on with women in religions? Like there is a stoning sentence for a married woman who cheats, she just cheated! Get a freaking divorce and move on.

Cults get so much shit but what exactly is the difference between a religion and cult? They sound pretty similar if you look from an outside perspective.

The most important thing is we gotta think about the children. Just imagine how cruel it would sound to an alien.

"We make our 9 year Old daughters up before sunrise every morning to pray but our sons can avoid that till they are 14"

"We make our kids go without food or drinks for 16 hours everyday for a month every year. It is good for their body! (Kid passes out in the background)"

"My daughter is having her first child too late. She is 14!"

"So we send our daughters to be nuns, they will live there until they die."

"I cut my son's dongdong."

A better understanding will flow from knowing that federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour.

So there is specific legislation in place to abuse restaurant workers, restaurant owners take full advantage of this.

Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, "they caught a case of child labor."

Easy to say, but I'd argue it's baked in.

“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”

― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

We did address it. And then everyone immediately changed how they pronounced every vowel.

We should address it again, and fix the way a ton of words have been Anglicized at the same time, but we're far from alone. French is loaded with needlessly silent letters as well, just as the first example that springs to mind.

(actually, can we just switch directly to the International Phonetic Alphabet?) (This is a bad idea for reasons that are probably obvious, it's a lateral move at best)

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