France is definetly looking like it's winning the race of national disgrace.

Is the European Union not requesting biometrics of some kind for non-EU citizens. I might be wrong but this to me seems the greater infringement.

Tit-for-tat government data harvesting.

The Spanish IRS is known as Hacienda?

That's a good observation.

I wonder what would have happened if everything happened but we did not end up with a hockey stick. Would that be possible, theoretically, and if so what differences would there be?

Is parenting decentralized governance of children? I'm not a parent, but the notion just sprang to my mind.

I once had a charcoal colored coffee. I never found out what gave it the charcoal complexion. I'm surprised that coffee connoisseurs no longer concern themelves with ceramic cups!

Interesting. It leads me to think of 'The City of London.' I.e, 'The Square Mile,' I.e, 'The City' or 'The Corporation.'

I suppose that language and law are not always what they seem, unless you follow them to the letter (of the law.)

*Well, law v2.0?

About ACs, Europe is not a good example. Latitudinally, 90% of Europe is inline with northern US states or Canada. A better example might be China. If you mean central heating systems, I guess you might have a point, but it's not easy comparison, Europe has much less high-rise housing and I guess is more gas / fuel dependent than electric. China has a more mixed approach, but again this depends whether you live north or south.

I forgot what intrinsic means exactly: belonging naturally; essential:

Does anti-matter have intrinsic value? I suspect that it does and essentially, everything has, even some financial advisors.

Amazing cinema, but it has no intrinsic value ;)

Funny that you mention this, I heard via a podcast that clipped a recording of US 'MSM' reporting that the exact figure is 99%.

I find this extremely implausible. I have first hand experience of the region, and I can only say that there are so many questions with such a statement.

While I do take onboard the screams of the righteous, I sometimes ask those same people to carefully consider whether or not there is even a remote possibility that alarmism has become a consistant feature in many academic domains. Besides, if I were to just let my own critical thinking collapse, for the sake of argument, I'm left to consider what course of action, practically, do we take?

I suppose, I really do not like limiting myself. Around me there are consdescending voices telling me what I should do, according to them.

I eat meat for nutritional purposes, similarly, I eat vegetables for nutritional purposes. They are both sources of nutrition.

If you want to get into the sentience issue, that is another issue. I don't always eat meat, but nutrition is important, so at times, I eat meat. Other times I don't.

There's something erroneous in that statement.

Yes, we should all spy on our friends, colleagues and family members to keep ourselves safe. Jesus. I'm very suspicious of any kind of lecture where around 50% of the time is not allocated to an open question panel.

Don't worry about it, I'm middle-aged and it's quite normal for people to be like that. Your peers still have most of their life ahead of them to develop critical thinking.

What is a modern left approach. Does that mean stealing private property without wearing military uniform?

Interesting point.

I feel if this point is made, it is made equally for the other team. What floats the manufacturing jobs for one side, does for the other, and I bet the US is not the only underperforming region when it comes to youthful malaise and joblessness.

True. Belligirent politicians behaving like alcoholic, crack heads, going against the public who do not wish to further indenture their nations by 'doubling down' on financing war.

Brrr...

But non-war time drives complacency to look the other way when printers go brrr.

Suprised by that. You could argue that there are many more 'human robots' in some countries ;-)

This is our concern, dude.