As much as I loved reading your prose, don’t you think that you are giving this too much energy?
Besides, as bad as reddit moderators can be, any hate towards them is just a distraction from the real problem, the corporate ownership of the platform.
It is a black cat. Seeing ghosts as a black cat is as natural as breathing.
I don’t have an answer but I have wondered the same. Serbia, Georgia and Türkiye have currently some very large pro-democracy demonstrations, but the USA hasn’t. What there is seems to be pretty small scale.
Maybe pro-democrat Americans don’t feel like their actions matter? Perhaps the opposition just isn’t that popular? Maybe the USA just didn’t have all that strong traditions of civil action to to begin with. At least when compared to countries lile Georgia or Serbia.
While I don’t consider the system of governance there very good, I’ll have to agree. While I do absolutely worry for the American democracy, it isn’t a dictatorship in its current form. I also agree that the primaries do make the system better and more democratic. I still think that the two part system is abysmal, but the primaries do make the claim to democracy stronger.
Since the birth of my son, about seven weeks ago, I have had difficulties on finding the time and energy. I haven’t entirely stopped listening podcasts on my languages but meeting people to speak with and especially reading has suffered.
It’s not a crisis really but this time doesn’t lend it self for language studies as good as the time before fatherhood.
I would like to try out being a some short of cop in Sweden or Germany. I’m not 100% sure if this would be my answer if someone actually offered me this, but it would be interesting to see.
And where in the world would you like to have that employment?
If I may ask, what made you interested to learn latin?
I do believe that quite a lot of informal “rules” would carry over or form. People actually function pretty bad alone and would realistically have to co-operate with other people. In absence of any laws or governing bodies this would be a reputation based system.
If someone is known as a dangerous lunatic and/or someone who doesn’t keep their word, nobody would work with them.
ALL planes land. The question is, whether or not there is someone left to clap afterwards.
It’s really not that the Canadian government is necessarily any good or even better than the one in the USA. But in case of an invasion there would be a war going on and violent deaths would be expected. Although the part with penises in mouths would most likely constitute a warcrime.
Thats assuming that the current states are able to keep their voting rights.
While the situation in the US is indeed very dire, I would say that places like Hungary did fall first. I am also afraid that the US wount be the last to fall. Many countries in Europe are shaky at the moment.
Care to share whitch book did you borrow?
Beautiful place. I know next to nothing about Hong Kong, but I’m glad to see that it is greener than in my imagination.
Where in Lapland was this image taken?
Check BBC. They have pretty cood coverage of global news. Other might be Deutsche Welle, which despite the name is in English.
The best option would be to follow the news in Italian if at all possible. I actively follow the news in four languages and it really helps to show how differently they report on the same events. If you ever wonder why, for example, Sweden, Germany and USA have so different opinions on Palestine vs. Israel, just checking how their respective medias report about it in their own languages makes it clearer.
While I might make similar choices, it still sound like a horror story. My immortal soul stuck eternally among the empty make-believe-people of GTA or the solitary existence of Minecraft?
I might still prefer the peace of non-existance.
Do you have the means to reach this place? Lets say that you get the warning tomorrow, are you able to reach the island?
Very good point. Many of these alternatives with less traffic are much better if one doesn’t see them as 100% replacements.