Build your “structure outside the political system” and wait until the first discussion where someone wants to impact someone else. Boom, it’s a political system again! Can’t have a few hundred million people without various governments forming, de facto or explicit. And frankly the idea of a society without any kind of regulatory bodies is a nightmare.
Green burial. No preservatives, no permanent structures, just natural decay and completing the circle of life. Don’t pickle me for a funeral just get me in the ground asap.
Sure, if it’s a nonessential business.
In left-leaning spaces it means “cognizant of the injustice pervading society”. On the right it means “uppity”.
Yes please performance class tiered licensing.
The service is “talk to your neighbors, find out who has what skills and resources, and share an investment in your community.” If everyone sucks… try to leave. But with the police being what they are it’s not more dangerous to posse up and give the Neighborhood Watch some teeth.
Too many M states, shoulda diversified.
The core voters are lost forever. Fuck them, don’t think about what they’re going to do.
The actual laws also don’t seem to matter, in all fairness.
We’ve already pretty much given up on everything east of Leavenworth.
It’s the cheapest commonly available option, of course it’s not good. (We have even worse stuff but it’s pretty much only seen around Easter)
The US has terrible and incredible options for pretty much everything. Beer, chocolate, beaches, whatever. It’s just never the mass-marketed stuff.
Cool, is there room for one hundred million Americans in your vocational school?
There’s so much more to it, but the short version is that a huge portion of this country doesn’t consider atheists trustworthy or even properly “American”. God is on our money, the bible is used for official government ceremony, most of our public holidays are Christian, the word holiday and tons of others are explicitly rooted in religious culture. In-n-Out has a little bible passage on their cups.
Being openly atheist is a radical position in this country, one that will limit you professionally and socially.
I would like to normalize non-belief though.
To be fair, we sorta knew it was possible because birds. I think it’s more impressive when we don’t know what can happen, like breaking the sound barrier or putting people in space.
I don’t need ignorance to feel wonder. I think things are cooler when I can marvel at the complex mechanics behind it all.
We keep living next to rivers because reliable water is the single most important consideration. Flooding happens. Most parts of the world independently developed sun and moon worship as well, and name colors in roughly the same order.
We’ve been a deeply racist and violent country for longer than we’ve been a country. Built on genocide and slavery. We didn’t properly address our failures when we had the chance (Civil War should have ended with a new constitution and drastically different political structure to keep militant bigots from gaining power) and now we have this.
Remote start of any kind is a luxury and it’s wild to me that someone would defend internet car controls as any way important or even desirable. That’s what I’m talking about. Physical keys work totally fine and add like two seconds of time to the process.
That’s a strange thing to fixate on considering it’s absolute nonsense. They work because they look cool as hell but nothing about them makes sense in a logistical way.
Why are the defense batteries manually aimed? Why are capital ships engaging from within visible range? Why do they only do the lightspeed-suicide maneuver one time when it’s clearly the perfect weapon in space? Why do they fly like they’re moving through air?