Look, careers aren't about doing your job well, they're about being likeable whether or not you're competent. If people like you you'll get paid more even if you can't figure out how to export a word document.
I agree wholeheartedly, OP doesn't deserve the bashing, meme is dead on. My daily experience.
I see it two separate concepts. One is a celebration of the relationship you have which can be secular or religious but involves a ceremony. The other is a change in legal status.
Personally i don't see a marriage/union as more or less valid, formal, or dedicated than a long term relationship without that process.
Committing doesn't overrule consent, nor does it inhibit your choice to change your mind. I agree marriage doesn't give either partner a "right" to sex but neither does it give a "right" to a partnership.
I'm being a pedant, i assume you meant to use "committing" in two different senses there: agreeing while maintaining agency vs. agreeing and foregoing agency. The earlier comments could be interpreted using either sense to get a different meaning, and i think the former was intended.
Chancellor palpatine had the state backing him. That was the point of the election and padme's quote of applaus or whatever.
When a few people lose the support of the community they're just a few people, isolated, and a lot less scary than ice while being susceptible to the same community response.
Heat pumps work great and are super common to install on homes where winter temps drop well below that. They're so efficient they're worth it even if you use supplemental heat for the coldest part of the year.
If it's a community action empowered by the community they'll probably willingly stop when the community stops supporting it. Should they become a nuisance then the community has learned how to handle that.
Cops don't lose their backing when the local community wants them out.
By the mere fact that renting out a house is profitable means that you as a renter can already afford these and you're buying them for someone else. You can also sell a house. When buying a new one you'll only be taxed if the new house is chapter than the previous 🤷
This is what I did. Now at home the only animal proteins i eat are fish/shellfish, cheese, and yogurt. I'm lucky enough to have easy access to imitation soy substitutes. On the rare occasion I go to a restaurant i will usually order a nice meat based meal.
But it probably helps i always thought chicken and cow were mid.
I see no point in making a differentiation between mechanism and the methodology to which that mechanism enables the most exploit.
I disagree with your thought that capitalism optimizes work. It either ensures work is done many times over in parallel (competition) or arbitrarily based on the whims of the owner class (olig/monopoly), and that alternative/more efficient means are snuffed out where a more profitable option exists. It's an unstable and inefficient system that relies on civil expenditure (bail outs, infrastructure, etc) to function.
The capitalist system that requires you labor to for food and shelter is exactly the same mechanism that rejects people, pushes them out, exposes them, and props up the wealthy class. Your "Social Darwinism" is a fundamental consequence capitalism, not an unrelated ideology that just happens to exist simultaneously. Capitalism drives people to do [more] evil. Then they rationalize their behavior to protect their ego and power.
It's a kind of slang or dialect speech from a stereotype of people in rural areas(hillbilly, redneck, or just country), also as gold prospectors(1840's) are commonly portrayed in films.
"Them there hills", which means, "those hills over there".
Them/their are pronouns for non-binary people replacing the gendered he/his or she/hers.
I agree that wealth is not equivalent to power but I continue to assert that it is the fundamental concept of capitalism. It's rule by those who can exploit a market most effectively amassing the greatest amount of capital (by money/property value).
I find wealth in having hobbies and relationships that don't return monetarily on my energy investment. This is incompatible with capitalism. While living under capitalism, i could have the highest quantity of relationships of the highest quality with other humans and it would still be worthless compared to someone with more capacity than me for taking on debt.
I wonder if I'm being misinterpreted here so if it's unclear at this point; i see capitalism as a direct assault on our very humanity and a psychological disease that tears from us our empathy and feeling for one another through the pursuit of "wealth". I despise it.
Lies! Well the thermal plant is also fine but photovoltaics are really, really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM