@JeremyCherfas That particular species is very rare. It’s not indigenous to this area at any rate.
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totty
NOUN
mass noun
British
informal
Girls or women regarded collectively as objects of sexual desire.
‘the group on the table next to us were blatantly checking out the totty
@matigo It doesn’t matter whether it’s representative or direct. You still end up with careerist stiffs infected with institutional imperatives. Direct democracy through something like a rotating jury system would be better but that still leaves other problems…like how do you get rid of exploitative lobbying while retaining reasonable lobbying?
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@matigo With toddlers you gain relatedness but lose quite a bit of autonomy. :-)
I’m worried about the World's economic and financial state. A big ugly crash wouldn’t surprise me.
@larand He’s hated plenty of other jobs though. So he seems to have found something that suits him (delivering white goods into people’s kitchens with lots of travelling across the region).
My brother says he hates days when he’s off work…because it’s boring. Not a sentiment you hear often.
@matigo It’s not cool, but governments putting up slightly sinister, staring-eyes big brother posters isn’t very nice either. I think it’s an accurate telling of the relationship between us and them though. They see us as cyphers and interact with us accordingly.
@matigo People (or businesses) who can’t or won’t take their unwanted crap to the municipal tip and just dump it by the road when no one's looking.