I just checked. My own pooper is more or less halfway between my booper and my feet. So since I am a rept if I were a reptile I would be measured only half my current human size.
I can’t see what you see about the US. China yes, but the US has been circling the drain for some time now and getting increasingly desperate to cling on to global hegemony, but it’s slipping through their fingers.
The US has placed its assets in key leadership positions in Europe in order to stifle its growth and sell its states’ assets to American oligarchs. This is for example the root cause of all of the housing crises across Europe. Destroying any chance of European energy independence by its terrorist attack on NordStream forces industry to move to the US for cheaper costs of doing business. Its war in Ukraine has resulted in the state being massively in debt to the US as well as having its land stolen and sold to American oligarchs. The next stage of the plan is to get Ukraine into the EU to have European taxpayers foot the bill.
The US will finally fall when its currency loses its place as the world’s canonical medium of exchange. After that, this soft enslavement will become a much worse hard enslavement.
No. Reincarnation means they never really experience the consequence of death, so the latter is equivalent to no punishment at all. The more important consideration for both is how they exist between getting run over.
This assumes the amount of excruciating pain and horror of being run over by a trolley before death is zero, and while I haven’t been run over by a trolley personally, I’d have to imagine it’s not fun.
Is this an “Eventually, Kars stopped thinking” supposition? Because that’s a valid possibility, but we can’t know it for CERTAIN - nobody’s ever been doing anything forever, and chronic pain seems to be painful at least on the timescales of decades…
It really depends on the specifics of the top track. Are people added to the top track just in time to be run over by the trolley, or is the track pre-populated with an endless arrangement of people waiting to be run over.
If it’s the later case, how do people further down the track survive for an unbounded amount of time while waiting to be run over? Do they wait, bound and screaming for an eternity? How do they survive long enough to be alive before being run over?
I need to know if the top track reduces to running over an infinite arrangement of corpses. Or, if trolley time for the top track has some different meaning, such that the trolley brings an end to the finite life lived by each next person on the track.
I think that is a very negative view on Germany and Europe that comes mainly from reading too many news. The media always report when something goes wrong, but rarely if something is working right.
One example: passenger aircraft. Boeing is struggling and China does not seem to be able to make the strong impact that was theorised. Europe is the global powerhouse in that regime. And especially Germany is really strong in a lot of areas that dont make the news regularly.
Also look at the transition to renewable energy in the last decade alone. We have a lot of ideas for the future, just not decided what we should do on a big scale.
Tech is just a market where the circumstances in the US and China with their huge domestic markets produce the biggest companies. Europe will probably always lack behind in that.
Europe is in a transition period right now into the 21st century. But both China and the US also have internal problems that will hold them back in the future.
This is all just empty coping. Europe’s economy is fucked and there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. Cherry picking a single example of an industry doing well won’t change that.
And especially Germany is really strong in a lot of areas that dont make the news regularly.
Counterpoint, no it isn’t.
Also look at the transition to renewable energy in the last decade alone. We have a lot of ideas for the future,
Looking but not seeing, Missed all of our targets. On track to miss the next ones. Meanwhile China reached its 2030 targets last month.
When the US goes under things will get far worse. Our economies are very deindustrialised and our finance economies won’t be worth anything much. The EC under VdL will continue its march to fascism and since we can’t fight any wars, the imperialism will turn inward.
And dubvee.org if you’re from the glorious wild and wonderful state of West Virginia, America’s very second best Virginia (thus making it probably in the top 5 of all states in terms of my weird nationalistic appreciation of them)
There are specific visas for athletes that allow them to bring in regulation meeting sporting equipment.
Getting a firearm across country borders is not as hard as people think as long as you research the requirements of the countries you transit plus the airlines beforehand.
Some countries will have conflicting laws though.
From memory importing a firearm out of the UK requires the case to be stickered as contains a firearm where as US laws are the case mustn’t show it contains firearms. (My info on this may be out of date)
Also US law require it to be in a securely locked protective case that can only be opened by the owner.
Also US laws require all luggage to be opened with the universal TSA key that is both as secure as a toddler’s toy safe lock and easily available to the public.
While true, it definitely depends on your particular TSA team. I have flown multiple times with firearms within the US, and normally TSA follows their own rules pretty well. However, I have had TSA DEMAND my key so they could open the case outside of my presence. When I protested and gave them the handout of their own procedures, the guy said “you can give me the key, or you don’t get on your flight.”
When I protested and gave them the handout of their own procedures, the guy said “you can give me the key, or you don’t get on your flight.”
They did that to me once and when the Agent showed up at my gate with that line I replied that I was happy to tag along back to the case and open it for them. The Agent took me the back way through the service halls to their area where I opened my case and they did their inspection, then they brought me back to the gate through the service halls.
The agent wasn’t happy about it but I stayed cool with 'em and they made it work.
Story: I was on a bus once, another passenger was a guy with a big McD Coke. We got off at the same station. Here, each station has a trash can.
So this guy walks right by the trash can and drops his fucking coke right next to it. He could have extended his arm like 10 cm more, and the coke would have gone into the trash can. But he chose to drop it on the floor.
This was years ago, and I think this day broke my faith in humanity a little.
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