I’m not german but how about a big “no” for that genious suggestion?

This type of idea puts me in such a state of mind I don’t even have the energy to curse.

Listen to science. Actually listen to experts and learn that people produce more and better in shorter work days. Want more work hire more workers, plan activities better and automatize repetitive, predictable, tasks.

Politians work for the people. The people owe them nothing. Stop trying to force socities back.

I am not into competitive gaming but I’ll be damned if I understand why the the anti-cheat modules are built into the game instead of being an aditional package that is installed and verified through the tournament platform.

That logic is completely adultered.

There is a very small percentage of individuals that take for themselves and control resources they have no need for.

Eliminate that and 90% of the problem is solved.

And what is stopping people to adopt? Pride? Or perhaps an overzealous system?

If you are unable to love a human being you conceived unconditionally, don’t have a child.

In my country, jury duty can be refused and is deemed as a role, not an obligation. It is an honor, as it is very rare to have such added role in court; takes very complex and often serious crimes. People called for it often accept but I have heard of situations where people object from personal or moral values.

And, again, in my country, voting is not an obligation, nor legal, nor moral. It is a right and the duty to vote is considered a matter of respect towards the right that was acquired through a revolution and the individual right to be part of the political destiny of the nation, no matter how small.

Maybe I’m splitting hairs, here, but I don’t care.

A duty arises from a personal sense of necessity to do something. Call moral obligation if it is easier for you. Being moral relative… Obligation is determined, enforced and enforceable by law.

I have the duty of cast my vote in any election, not an obligation.

A simple example.

You be the judge of it:

• punched through a tempered, textured, 3mm thick glass, leading to several cuts on a hand and wrist
• kicked a glass panel on a door and got a nasty cust on my toe
• several instances of cutting myself on different types of thorny bushes
• perforation with glasses rim on my eyebrow
• severe cut on my other eyebrow, another on the bridge of my nose
• broken arm, twice
• fall from a 1st floor balcony, landing on a bush, after breaking a cabinet with my back and legs, until finally reaching the ground
• hundreds, if not thousands, of small scrapes and bruises
• bitten by dogs, leading to deep gouges, on my calves
• severe tear on the back of my left hand, with a broken bone, not exposed, leading to surgery
• many, many, many sprained ankles and wrists
• three pulled teeth plus all the bleeding from losing my baby teeth
• minor burns on hands and fingers, from cooking
• several nasty cuts from kitchen knives and a perforation by a lobster spike, which led to a severe infection, with a piece of lobster shell stuck underneath a finger nail
• a few near choking to death episodes
• two electrocussion incidents (230V), for mere seconds

duty ≠ obligation

To need it explained and clarified into body of law is scary.

I disagree.

The company would need to start differently, to settle the rules on how it would run it’s activities.

First thing would be to set itself as a non-profit and a co-op.

Even machinery purpose built to last requires maintenance, repair and parts to do so. A company focusing itself on producing quality appliances, with proper warranty (3 years minimal), repairable, upgradeable and with plenty of optional accessories, could be viable.

Resorting to 3D printing to make parts in small scale/on order would remove a big part of the inventory management problem.

I’m going to risk there is none.

Many hand to hand combat weapons were bespoke to the user.

Using an example I’m fairly familiar with:

In Portugal, we have a martial art called jogo do pau. It uses a simple wooden staff. Today’s schools insist the staff has a standard lenght, width and shape.

An old school practitioner I had the pleasure to meet taught me the staff was always made to fit the wielder, not the opposite.

As a general guide line, it should have the lenght of the distance from the wielder’s armpit to the ground but there would be people that prefered longer or shorter staffs. Some people would prefer thinner staffs, nearly cylindrical in shape, others would prefers heavier, thicker, almost eliptical in profile. The amount of customisation and variation capable of being put into the weapon itself was so diverse, it made each staff unique.

I’d risk this same logic would apply to more classic weapons, like the flails you ask about.

I wouldn’t give to mine. Too high of a risk of them getting sick.

This is about value. It’s about pure, unadultered, punishment.

Holy cow and sacred broccoli.

Kuru is a thing.

Let’s not do that. Let’s put them to work. Proper work. Like plowing fields. By hand. Under the sun. From sun up to sun down.

There are a few EU alternatives. Why are those not being considered.

LiberaPay is one.

I’m not against supporting a software in a recurring form but the web browser is essentially the lock and key of accessing the entirery of what exists outside your machine.

That would garner an immense power to whichever entity developing one. Remember Microsoft and the IE case.

Firefox is not perfect and apparently on a downwards spiral but what made it stand out was because it wanted to be free and for all. Chrome is far from being a good thing.

Hey, Nelson! How are you doing? Are they busting your chops?

Debian is my daily driver and for regular people I help. Comes with a service card saying “it will work and you will like it”.

I help for free. If someone does not like it, they can pay to have what they want done. But they don’t get to ask for help again.

Debian

Enough said.

The Mafia and most, if not all organized crime syndicates, started as a way for people to defend themselves from abusive governments, officials, etc. Mafia thrives by getting along with people, not openly prey on them.

Syndicates also tend to be patriotic, in the sense that they are defending or at least looking to preserve their interests where they are rooted.

Mafia tends to arbour great disdain for police and similar forces. They can be useful if bribeable or somehow coherced to look the other way but they are still police. The enemy.

I’ll give you an extreme example.

In Brasil, the Comando Vermelho is one of the largest, if not te largest, criminal organization on the country. They are well known for their extremely violent and cruel methods. Yet they are the biggest employers in the areas they control. They build schools, pay people for their work (mostly unrelated to criminal activities), distribute food, run clinics. They act as de facto police, courts and punishers, to keep peace. They nearly replace the state because the state nearly abandoned the poorest of poor, amongst who they set grounds, in the favelas.

I can’t imagine the resistance they would pose to an invading force.

And, I can’t confirm this, but I have a memory of reading somewhere that during WW2, the Mafia helped the Allies infiltrate areas.

This brings back really sour memories…

In another time, I practiced a very intense sport. Not gym. Just something that over the course of two hours would make me sweat like…

Well, like a very phisically strained human. Enough with comparing ourselves with animals. Humans are extreme by themselves!

Moving on!

Never I felt sick. Never I blew chunks. Never I got told what I should eat or not eat.

Now that I think about it, I was only expected to go home after practice and eat like a starved mammal, sleep for 9 hours and go on with my life the next day.

Other people I knew, that would go to the gym to pump iron and workout, had strict diets to follow imposed by their coach or gym PT. And nobody was in the gym to lose weight or go for body building contests.

They all looked sad and malnourished. Shakes of never before seen colours were consumed in copious amounts. Of which I tasted a few and all tasted like wet cardboard. I won’t comment on the smells.

So… Why? Why this self imposed torture? You want to work out? Great. You want to work out safely? I respect that; it’s what the PTs are for. But allowing them to run your life?

“Just one more. Another one. Give me one more. Another one.”

Nope.