There is a degree of cult of personality but I risk that is more of performance to keep attentions on it. In shadows there may exist a whole, very well organized, “governing” body that will pick up the piece if the main stage is left empty.

That could work.

Doing nothing returns a substancially more probable outcome of sibling rivalry/hatred.

Family sense, notion and belonging are taught.

I do that as well but for some reason it doesn’t have detrimental effects on me.

I often hit myself on the nose with the phone because I fall asleep. In the morning, it helps get my brain gearing into motion.

Go barroque. As in absurdly elaborate on what you throw at people you dislike.

Spanish have a saying that gets thrown at people that like to run their mouth. Very loosely translated it says something along the lines of “May you swallow a peacock and every every feather turn into a straight razor”. Takes some time to put it out. Gives a person time to get their blood settled.

But please don’t forget insults have always been basic and directed or sprouting from prejudice. I understand and respect what you are trying to put forward but it will not be am easy task.

We are basic creatures. We still go for what superficially differentiates one from another. It’s about anger and fear. It’s primal. Spinning this off and putting something elaborate and as personalized or generic as possible is a tough endeavour.

I personally find amusing to insert some nonsense into my speech when letting out an expletive and for some obscure reason I tend to go for vegetables and gardening.

You can be asked to go tend your cabbage patch when you miff me and I would really want to see you go away.

But this works very poorly outside my language.

Good luck on your quest and have fun.

It should. Seeing in low light is a very useful thing. And we could dispense some of the light polution we create.

Low light vision.

I was always very sensitive to bright lights and sincerely fear I’ll go blind at my last years but I can see at higher definition under low light conditions.

My vision stops processing color and I get higher definition of contrast. I’ve walked through dark areas with no difficulty, where others simply said they could not see a thing.

It would be funny to see the karma converted to currency usable to buy awards to give away.

Interactions like:

“Take my hard won [insert currency name here] in the shape of this award and get out!”

Nothing for nothing, get your things for free.

I thought we had already invented that one. In two separate version. The first was the bathtub and the revised one being the shower booth.

I think I parked my only 775 about 10 or 12 years back. But paradoxically I ran an AM3 cpu from roughly the same era until this summer and it coped with my needs.

So it just disappeared? How long did ot last? And is the same skin usable or could it resurface or reactivate the old tattoo?

Now I’m even more curious.

How long will those last? Can you expand a bit on it?

Mine too but I always thought I was an odd thing.

The gross majority I am fairly confident they are.

But if you think recreational drugs are fine, campaign for them to be legalized, just like tobbacco, alcohol and guns. And pot. Those have been legalized. Less trouble when something is properly regulated.

We can. They are failling to do what I first mentioned.

You’re completely missing the point.

The most effective way to dismantle criminal organizations of any nature is not by guns and bullets but by eliminating their markets.

People resort to drugs out of despair and disinformation. They either want an escape of reality or they want to “have fun” and they disregard or ignore the trap drugs represent.

Give to people security and a good life, inform and educate them, create safety nets for them to crash when things go wrong and 90% of drug trafficking and related crime just disappears. The other 10% you keep at bay by having good, humane, well trained police, on which the population can trust and rely.

Going for an all out war on cartels is a nighmare waiting to happen, at your door.

Electronic, e-ink, price tags.

Centrally linked to a shop back office workstation. You can turn the entire shop upside down twice a week and the actual work to change the tags would be negligible.

And for what it matters, lets assume a very large nation wide chain, like Target. The stock leaves their supply wharehouses unmarked, as it should. The cargo is then delivered to the stores, the tags printed (waste of paper), with full price, and the shelves restocked. Each store has to deal with their local taxation or absence of it.

It is not a very complex endeavour.

Agreed

Regardless. It had a better chance to it. And nowadays a bunch of countries with wildly varying cultures, completely different languages and a lot of unsolved baggage is doing it better.

If it was to be another group of independent nations, fine. But the moment federation is considered and considering the duress it had to take from the start, against a common enemy, true, organized union would be easier and simpler.