St Peter the Martyr!!
HamsterRage
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It helps if you are an old enough Canadian to remember the original "Hinterland's Who's Who" shorts.
I'm also not sure about the relative quantities that you would use between the two. Even if you could use MSG as a salt substitute, would you be using more or less than you would salt?
Taste issues aside, I believe that MSG still contains significant amounts of sodium, which is the issue with salt.
I'm not buying that. Slavery has been a staple of civilizations all through history. There's no universal law of nature that any being has any right to life, freedom or self-determination.
The "moral fabric" isn't some universal constant either. It too is a function of society. In the U.S., for instance, in 1776 there was no moral problem with slavery. Time went by and morality in the country evolved such that slavery, for many, was no longer acceptable. But it wasn't that the moral fabric of U.S. society was violated in 1776, it was just different in 1776.
Who knows, in another 100 years people might consider something that is normal today to be some huge violation of something that should be a human right.
Except, that many black folk in the US did not have a right to life or self determination at the beginning. So even these "inherent" rights aren't so inherent until society agrees to grant/create them.
Not really. Rights are a man-made construct. A social contract that a people agree on. There's nothing inherent about them.
A society could, for example, decide that certain people had the right to eat human babies, beat their wives. That would be just as legitimate as anything else.
By the same token, a society can decide that certain things are explicitly NOT rights, or to decide which rights take precedence over other rights.
None of this is defined by some divine ordnance, or law of nature. It's all people.
So write it properly from the get-go. You can get 90% of the way by naming things properly and following the Single Responsibility Principle.
There was a Zeiss lens back in the 1980's that had a special offer. If you bought one you got a free Volkswagen Fox.
That used to be really true when I was a kid in the 79's, but not so much today. Back then, a quality guitar cost way more than the cheap stuff and the cheap stuff was rubbish.
Nowadays, with CNC machines everywhere, there are lots of modestly priced guitars that are very playable. The junk that we used to have to settle with back in the day only exists in the realm of "toy" instruments that almost aren't intended to be played.
Seriously, $300 can get you a very playable instrument, especially in electric guitars.
The workplace should have a zero tolerance policy about abuse of the staff. If the particular location is one where there is a significantly non-zero chance of such incidents happening, then there should be a big red button on the wall that sounds and alarm, and summons security and possibly triggers a police response.
Employees should be trained to hit the button at the first hint of abuse. The employer should support them.
As a boomer (at the tail end, admittedly), I too have lived through all of these things. Plus the other thirty years of shit that happened before it.
The world threat that was the USSR and Mutually Assured Destruction. The Vietnam War, two Gulf Wars, and 9/11.
The "Troubles" in Ireland and IRA bombings in London. The Munich Olympics Massacre. The rise of global terrorism. The FLQ crisis. Kent State. Watergate.
Acid rain. Leaded gas and smog.
15%+ mortgage rates. The oil crisis. Wage and price controls. Multiple recessions. The Dot Com bubble.
Police raids on gay clubs. Racial slurs in everyday language. Massive gender inequality.
24" black and white TVs. It took a week to find out how your photos came out. Watching f@#$ing "Tiny Talent Time" on a Sunday afternoon because there wasn't any else better on the other 5 channels (if that doesn't traumatize you, nothing will).
You had to go to a library if you wanted to look something up in an encyclopedia.
Cars without seatbelts, crumple zones, anti-lock brakes, traction control or airbags.
F*CK me. "No experience". Maybe just enough to know how much better things generally are today.
Kids always think that they know more than their parents....until they don't.