Fair. There are a lot of bands that usually have a completely different sound from their popular songs (which can be pretty disappointing when you like listening to albums).

‘pop rock’ seems appropriate.

Yeah, power can be abused, what else is new? But people joining for a cause also doesn’t do much if they don’t have the means to enforce their cause with violence - usually they’ll just get overwhelmed by whoever does have the means for violence. Peaceful revolutions are possible (e.g. Indian independence), but they require relatively specific circumstances and a lot of people who are willing to stay nonviolent even as they’re beaten up (and worse) by the police. I suppose you can do almost anything peacefully if your group is large enough and has enough cohesion, but that’s incredibly difficult to achieve and I think it’s actually more difficult nowadays, because everyone has a handheld communication device on them at all times that’s filled with fascist propaganda.

/s, right? … right?

How do you do that, though? The rich and powerful aren’t going to suddenly start pouring their resources into progressive messaging, and there’s only so much you can do when you’re diametrically opposed to them.

Can’t believe I’m quoting fucking Mao, but: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

One thing that would probably help a lot is more progressive rolemodels who actually go out proselyzetizing, i.e. a more direct progressive equivalent to the likes of Andrew Tate. Though IDK how to actually make that kind of thing big, the fascist tech bros who rule silicon valley will surely suppress it even if it was gaining some momentum.

Because China is a lot more powerful than either Korea.

AFAIK, even rightwingers often hold many beliefs that are more traditionally leftwing, especially if they’re poor/working class. They’re just easily duped into blaming immigrants, LGBT etc. instead of the white billionaires who are actually responsible, and sometimes they even blame billionaires and still vote rightwing - rightwing propaganda is often very misleading about their actual economic policies.

Therefore, the ideal country (if we’re asking about policy items and not ‘like country x, y etc.’) might very well resemble one of the Nordic countries the most.

I’m talking about the various studies on the subject. Those might have similar issues of some women being unwilling to tell anyone about it, but AFAIK the experiences of (regular/sex/couple) therapists doesn’t really contradict the studies.

I think there are too many women who never do that to speak of ‘almost every heterosexual’.

I like pineapple pizza (as long as the pineapple pieces aren’t too big), but that burger sounds annoying. Not saying the flavors don’t combine well, but the amount of toppings makes it sound way too tall unless the slices are razor thin.

Depends on how long I’m inside, how dark the store is and how much of a fuck I give on a given day. I do think that most people think it’s rude/douchey/etc., but I’m not convinced that I should care about that kind of moralizing of etiquette (though I do care, to various degrees, what people think of me).

It’s somewhat harder to see inside with sunglasses, but I, too, wear prescription glasses so it’s a bit of a hassle to change to normal glasses.

I still want to share those with other people, just without the randoms at bars, music clubs etc.

Kinda hard to meet people while avoiding public transport (it sucks, and especially on weekend evenings) if you don’t have a car and live too far apart for cycling, though. Driving a car and having a drink don’t mix well anyway …

Which country?

That doesn’t really answer the question though, you just assumed that attackers would instantly figure out your system with a sample size of 1. How do they do that? Not saying that they definitely can’t, but I want to see logical arguments before I believe it.

I doubt it can figure out whether a password system is secure. I’d be surprised if “leumSWydThIThBaPl!690720” didn’t get a decent score, though.

On one hand, it’s probably not that unlikely that an attacker gets 3 samples if the email or username gets reused a lot, on the other hand I wonder how well automated password crackers deal with systems like this. ‘one good pattern with a couple of extra characters per site’ seems like a pretty common password system.

most humans were conceived unintentionally

I’d assume that most people who are married (marriage is a pretty old and widespread institution, even if the details differ between cultures) expect at least some children, even if they don’t have much control about the exact times and numbers.

That’s not how science fiction works.