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or the inverse, where we fight hard to make something more permissive, and then immediately start rolling it back when we realize it sucks

the good thing is that it tends to be cyclical, and we sort of just loop between giving things away and then immediately regretting it and wanting them back

which is why they so freely trade freedom away so easily

en mass, people really believe in the concept of "I've got nothing to hide" Dialga i just think it's obvious that politicians are all liars with an agenda and that "protect the kids" is a cover for taking away freedoms, but i guess it's not obvious to some people

nuance isn't dead, but those 3rd rail topics are just a swamp that suck down good intentions

instead of just working around them

you'll spend 10x the energy trying

Convincing people that their base instincts about kids, pets, and nature are wrong is too intellectual for the average person

and real people will just continue to ignore the dumb laws

let people play pretend with politics, as a trade for getting actual shit done

so same with environmental BS or animal rights, I just don't care

I don't think the government needs to do anything, but these stupid "protect the kid" measures are wildly popular

but I just don't think there's any hope for some collective improvement on parenting

and sure, some kids are retards for longer before they become critically-aware or w/e

Or their parents were deadbeats who had given up before they turned 3

People either had absolutely no freedom, and were micromanaged wards of their parents

I don't even try to reason with parents, every problem I've heard from them always seemed completely insane even growing up, I feel like every interaction I had with other parents were always weird

and sell them on the darknet

because he's convinced the photos will get hacked, and some pedophile will steal them

and he was bragging to me that he's gotten his wife on-board with not taking a single picture of their kid

I work with a guy, he's 45-50ish, just had his first daughter, probably ~2 y/o

example from 2 days ago

and if you're a shitty parent, I honestly don't think a 10-part government sponsored pamphlet about how to not suck will fix anything

So in some ways, I don't really care about the federal laws, because I'd just allow my kids to circumvent them

my opinion is now that all parents just suck

Syren you can be the modern Johnny Appleseed

the MV of them just fucking around in a tiny car

They have another good song about the Balkans

seem almost eager for it

they want their own Chinese firewall

it's crazy to me how bi-partisan the UK/Europe internet bans are

you can't ban fedi nodes, which is probably the actual reason

we are all powerless

fucking magic shapes

and just be off in some annex gym

I figured it was going to be "on the White House grounds"

I didn't realize this was going to look this cool

everyone is just completely enamored by all the foreign tourists

and is just handing them out to cool Europeans

I didn't consider this, but someone I know who runs a brewery near one of the soccer stadiums had a ton of challenge coins made

Everyone is just fascinated by them

and the World cup is that x1000

Seeing normal Americans/Canadians interacting with a European like Fire was cool in-person

I just question why someone would bother

whenever I see posts saying "you can pick up the manga from chapter 74 if you want to continue where the anime leaves off"

I don't think I've ever picked up a manga/LN midway through though, I'd feel retarded if I didn't go back to the beginning

yeah, sometimes I'll casually pick up a source after the anime airs, but more often than not what I read/watch doesn't overlap a ton

If a series is interesting enough that an anime makes me pick up the manga mid-season, it usually ends up being one of my favorite series

can be fired into the sun