I am a “regular” flyer and a stoner and I never fail to bring with me a sample of devil’s lettuce when I’m leaving for extended period of time and never once I’ve had any issue bringing my hazardous material with me.

One time I even embarked with a small firework in my wallet I forgot I placed there after a party and none bat an eye.

Security level: top (not gun)

Content moderation is gonna be tough, especially when advertising for absolute freedom of speech. It’s possible trolls will ruin the environment in a very short time if moderation and its rules wouldn’t be very clear and applied when necessary

I’m really sorry to bother but the link provided does not work for me, I also tried to use the way back machine but it seems no one has saved a clear copy of the page so far… Have you another link to a non-paywalled version of the article to share by chance? Thank you for your help in any case!!

Absolutely. Poverty comes never alone, it usually brings other friends to the party. Like poor education, lack of security, stress, poor nurishment and poor social environment. All this together can easily bring out the worst of people, while the contrary can improve their conditions.

If you are focused on surviving you’ll never be able to grow as we are all supposed to

Because the movie does not hint at eugenetics as solution to the crisis, it’s a hymn against stupidity and a cry to better educate the masses. First of all about sexual education and the danger of unprotected sex and secondly about politics and civic duties. I mean, I really don’t see how one could interpret the message of the movie as “do eugenetics”, that’s all.

That’s not true at all, genetics only play a part in the mental development of a person, much of it is instead related to the environment where a person has been growing.

It is as with talent, some people are better than other at certain activities but even the most gifted person cannot compete with a professional who has spent his life training and studying his craft.

The same can be said for “intelligence”: if you are never taught to think you’ll never think once in your lifetime, even if you are the exact copy of Leonardo da Vinci; on the other hand, even if you are thick as a rock but you’ve been growing in a society focused on your development you’ll be able to become a normal person.

Eugenetic politics do nothing for humanity betterment, social structure is much more important IMHO

Here in Italy the first one to learn and adapt is always the mafia. The state is so clunky and unnecessarily complicated that it takes ages for it to change and adapt its ways, once this happens the mafia has already changed and transformed to keep away from the law enforcement hands as much as possible.

Nowadays mafiosi do not go around in poor clothing with weapons on them, the wear nice suits and briefcases filled with documents to keep on their shady businesses as they did from the Borbonic times

Yeah, I know, but even his story is far from being over. He might be dead but his clan and his way if conducting business are certainly not over: assuming the opposite is exactly what mafia would like us to know since it requires ignorance from both the people and the state to thrive at the best of its abilities.

Cave semper canem when talking about mafia and choose your words carefully as they are vmmasters if trickery and deception on top of being horrible human beings (if such kind of animals can be even called “humans” at this point).

Peppino Impastato forever an hero, Messina Denaro forever a shitstain on the heel of the Italian boot

puts the end to a story of violence and blood

Yeah, sure Biondi, we can rest easy knowing mafia has been defeated once and for all. /s

What a fucking clown in a fucking circus if a country. Mafia will never be healthier than when we think it to be dead, they thrive in the shadows and in the cover this kind of happenings provide.

Well, a fall from a high window is not the best way to survive captivity :)

I already did but you are too centrist to understand evidently.

Maybe you’ll grow up with time, maybe not.

Have a good centrist life :D

The issue is that you don’t even KNOW the law you are blabbering about. And please note that I’m not even American but still know your system better than you.

Must be all that not blind partisanship keeping you from understanding the reality around you

Problem is that communist views don’t threaten the American constitution as the case Yates Vs. United States has confirmed. With this decision the high court has set a precedent where a distinction was made between political positions that advocate for abstract points are not the same as advocating for immediate or future actions.

Since this beast of a woman has already shown her disregard for the American constitution by supporting the people who tried to golpe the political system, adding another tally to the treasonous list must not be a big deal for you, who are such an enlightened centrist.

Not a conservative but not an intelligent person either I see. You therefore must be a centrist :)

Of course he will be discredited as a doctor and he will be found to be a west-paid spy for a large number of years before falling from the window of his prison cell (in Russia they are so humane prison cells don’t have bars on them).

I sure hope Putin’s next doctor won’t be as careful when dosing his medications. I’d love to see some ipecac being distributed in the coffe cups of a closed meeting between Putler and the north-korean bimbo

Because that’s not how a functional society works. If Texas wanted to secede from the USA the whole USA would have to be called in this decision. You can’t do what Puidgemont did in Catalunya, call for a referendum in the specific region, count the votes and declare independence from the central government. You are part of the government, if you want to secede this must be a common choice.

If you were an adult you might understand this with a (non-perfect) similitude with divorce: you cannot divorce by yourself, you need to sign the documents as a couple for divorce to take place.

That’s also why Russia’s claim of annexation of the Ukrainian regions has no value for the international law, it’s a faux secession with no bearing on the Ukrainian national rights

Ah-eh, support of the sedicious insurrection happened on January the 6th 2022 is still not enough to be qualified as “something”?

I love when conservatives pull shit like these comments out of their brains to defend the human garbage they voted into Congress

As much as I’d love to agree with you I unfortunately do not. Disability can absolutely be a tool to teach ableist people how does it feel to be in the shoes of people on the other side of the fence. I’ve seen too many people realizing what meant living a disabled life following an illness or an accident to refuse the simple truth that ableists and people unable to empathize with lives lived with disabilities or illnesses can be thought the real impact of disability by disability itself.

I’m absolutely not punching down at disabled people, in the contrary I’d love for those who punch you down to feel what is like to live your life so that maybe they could understand why disabled people need laws and regulations which may help them in their day-to-day life, that’s all

I’d like to suggest a cancerous growth in a very painful area or a debilitating illness which may prevent them from functioning as a normal human being to make them understand the feeling of being in a helpless situation.

But it would be enough for them to lose their next election and therefore the right to issue legislations against the common good while seeing the American politic shifting towards a more progressive future and being unable to steer the course the modern world has taken.

God, I’d love nothing more than seeing this bunch of retrograde ape-men and women being forced to live in a world where their religion is tolerated but completely inconsequential to the democratic process. Let them rot away in complete silence and watch them ravel in their uselessness

Hello there, Italian here. As a foreigner interested in American politics I have studied the congressional district history and I’m fascinated by it and its developments during the course of the American experiment.

Mainly I am in awe of the idea created by the founding fathers to achieve a better representation in a very different time. These young men understood the implications of having a great population scattered on an even greater territory and they saw how society would have ended structuring itself up: a huge chunk of people living in most dense-populated cities and a smaller minority occupying the rest of the national soil in scarce-populated villages and towns. They understood that to keep the voices of these minorities heard you’d have to balance the voting system or, would the cities ally, the political system would have been tilted in their favour. Furthermore communication among long distances was not as easy and clear as today; news about a representative being involved in shady businesses in Washington would have had difficulty to travel to far away places, thus rendering the oversight duty of the people even harder to attain. That’s why you need state representatives, to have someone informed about what’s going on in Washington DC all the time.

The system has not yet realised tho that the times they are a-changing, as one of your musicians would say. In the internet era the situation is completely different as it was 250 years ago and this would require some tweaking in the machine’s clogs to update its viability. Gerrymandering should be abolished and states should move to a direct democracy system where each vote bares the same weight as all others; multi-agencies oversight should remain and should even be expanded to ensure the inclusion of as many points of view possible; recognize and face the change of societal structure by adding minorities in the legislative and policing processes.

All this must be centered around some civil assumptions which are already enshrined in the Constitution: personal responsibility and freedom, right to be happy, state atheism.

The reason why I sometimes bash Americans in my comments is because I see how strong their system is and how better and stronger it could become but they seem to choose always the worst possible option when are given that chance to improve on their ways. But then again, you are talking with someone who saw Berlusconi reign over Italy for a good 30 years, so what right do I have to be annoyed at you for having Bush and Trump in the past 25?

You seem to equate a family not having a body with not having news of that soldier. But Ukraine has been collecting and identifying Russian bodies since the start of the war, and notifying families wherever possible. Many of the soldiers also have their own phones, and those phones have told the west a great deal about what is really going on behind Russian lines. Yet you seem sure that none of those soldiers would use their phones to speak of deaths within the unit. Interesting take.

You seem to forget that, following the bombing caused by a massive presence of phone signals in a single spot, Russia has been much more careful in letting its trooper use their cellphones. Beside that I imagine a family not having any news from his relatives at the front would be anxious for their loved ones and would start asking questions, even if it meant facing criminal charges. Ukraine can identify a portion of the bodies from the battlefield I imagine, and they would be able to reach the families of an even small percentage I reckon.

LOL. Think that over a bit and get back to me. Seriously.

I’ve thought about it and I really can’t see who can pay Wagner’s operators salaries, let alone arming them according to their standards (much better than the Russian army ones, can we agree on that?).

As far as I know Russia pays its soldiers 300-400€ a month and Wagner mercenaries are paid circa 2k (those who are not serving instead of being in a cell). Prigozhin was capable of providing for Wagner through his affairs in Africa and through the money he got from the Kremlin, will Putin be able to substitute such an income? What will happen if not? I’ve got my answers but they are just hypotheticals, who will live will see.

True enough. But that does not make either of us an expert on Russian affairs. His article does make one of us a fantasy writer, though.

He certainly knows Wagner better than you since he probably met them on the battlefield.

Works for me, lol. It’s just an opinion, and everyone’s got one.

But it helps, when forming an opinion, to acquaint oneself with all available fact first. And to be completely honest, you didn’t even spot the most questionable opinion in my post. (Hint: Who is Sergei Shoigu?) But keep working on it, because as far as I’m concerned the more people that are interested in the subject as whole, whether right or wrong, the better.

Thank you for taking the time to state your disagreement.

No problems, it’s a pleasure to have a conversation about these thematics since there is always to learn about any subject. In this sense, who is Sergei Shoigu? What I know about him is that he is a Putin sycophant only good as a yes man and coming from a political career scarcely linked to any military activity. Am I missing any information about the man?