What's important is who's exerting control: are we as individuals exerting control to make measurements suit our daily lives, or are government committees forcing the results of their political engineering upon us in order to homogenize everything into the same shade of grayish brown?
Latīna, quod cāsūs lingua habet, superior quam Anglica est
I thought the Dark Ages referred to the period of Germanic migrations that preceded the Middle Ages, and were called that because we know little about them compared with the Late Roman Empire or the early medieval era.
For the most part, you are right, but I must point out that "democracy" is just a nice way of saying oligarchic republic, since every form of government is some form of elite rule. In the Roman Republic, just as in the American Republic, democracy means plutocracy: the rule of wealthy elites by means of the media.
It would be nice if real democracy, i.e. the rule of the people, were possible, but it just isn't.
Why must a programming language even have a moderation team?
Why don't you choose to get some bitches on your dick?
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You've made two posts in one day about this single subject. Sounds like you're the only one who's crying here.
No, Tuesday was yesterday. Though I suppose next Tuesday is coming, so the title is still technically correct.
You mean the Bavarian Soviet Republic? That's the one with a terrible government: its foreign affairs deputy had been admitted several times to psychiatric hospitals; its commissar for military affairs was a former waiter; the police president of Munich was a burgling crook. One of its ministers decreed that capitalism would be brought down by making money free.
Fēlīx diēs Nātīvitātis, meī amīcī!