Passports weren’t a general concept until the end of the 19th century. Before they were mostly to allow passage to certain areas inside one country, rather than for movement between countries. There have been Identifications for Nobels and Diplomats though.

Anyways the whole concept is mostly a concept of modern nation states not of ancient tribalism.

Ah sorry, my bad. I misunderstood it as “it is not possible” rather than “you must not do so”. You are right, it is what you already said.

Accept that good actions will not give an immediate or always measurable result for you to observe.

You are a social being. What matters most is often not what increases you in status, but what increases others in wellbeing or allows you to appreciate the beauty in lifem

On your death bed you will not wish to have worked more, but probably to have spent more time with people dear to you or that you had spent more time for actions that nudge society a tiny bit more towards your values.

Capitalism especially todays consumerism is built around manipulating you to identify yourself with superficial status. Breaking free of that will open yourself to value your time and actions as meaningful as they become meaningful, even if there is no number or title attachable to it.

A lot of people use “hedonism” as an excuse to destroy themselves with drug addictions and act egoistically in their relationships with others, causing a lot of pain and suffering.

Marilyn Manson and Eminem are the real culprits here.

The Banshees of Inisherin

i watched it in a theater, because i’ve heard the movie was good. Didn’t read up much on it beforehand and enjoyed watching it, albeit not fully getting it i guess.

It felt worth going to a theater for. Contrary to the last 3 or so Marvel movies i’ve seen in theater because friends dragged me and i ended up falling asleep every time.

I suggest using your political powers to move relevant things. Biden and the Dems dont do that. Instead they abuse it for nepotism

Oh you think the Democrats going low will benefit the people?

The Democrats going low will just mean that they’ll fully fuck over the people for their billionaire donors together with the Reps and then they’ll remind you that this is exactly what you asked for. And now back to work for minimum wage. The GDP isnt making itself.

So the implication of this meme is to starting shooting minorities, so they get back in line with voting for the party.

If that is the kind of “jokes” the “progressive” center makes, it is no wonder, that the fascists win the election. Seems like it does not matter, whether there is a D or an R next to the presidents name. The US will build concentration camps either way.

The one does not contradict the other. God uses the extreme weather to punish the destruction of his creation by humans.

Social harm is much higher with alcohol. There used to be a graph plotting both social and physical harm, but it got replaced with the one you criticise, effectively stating the same thing. Alcohol in its effects for both the individual and society is a hard drug, like coke, heroin or meth.

But the way you get defensive makes me wonder why aconowledging alcohol to be a serious drug with huge damage both to individuals and society is so difficult.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7308a1.htm

180k/330 Mio = 54 Alcohol related deaths per year and 100k people in the US.

https://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/suchtbericht-alkohol-und-tabak-toeten-jedes-jahr-zehntausende-menschen-in-deutschland-a-19d17c83-3439-4291-8034-a6f32325e8a7

60k / 80 Mio = 75 Alcohol related deaths per year and 100 k people in Germany.

More people per capita die in Germany from alcohol abuse than in the US. I have no idea which numbers you have there. They are way off.

Yeah, not drunk, just a little tipsy, its just to take the edge off, just to relax a bit…

See my comment here: https://feddit.org/post/4625794/3061984

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_drug_abuse

and “its just one glass of wine” can be equally said with “its just a small bump of coke” or “its just half an oxy”

Alcohol is a hard drug. The opiod crisis not being such a thing in Europe is a result of opiods not being downplayed and casualized like in the US, so the reason why the US has an opiod crisis and we have such an alcohol problem are similar. But you drew a line from casual alcohol abuse to somehow work against opiod problems. But more alcohol abuse doesnt lead to less opiod abuse or the other way round.

So did you also do other hard drugs because they were hidden from you? Heroin, Coke, Crack, Meth?

The opiod crisis has an entirely different basis to them, as tons of Americans were made addicted by reckless prescriptions first.

And again, seeing my and other parents drink regularly did not stop us from being reckless around alcohol. Instead what it does makes clear signs of alcoholism not be taken as warning. “Dad had two beers every day, whats the harm in three?”

There is things the US does badly, like not allowing alcohol until 21 and then giving access to vodka and beer alike, where many European countries have different ages for booze and lower strength alcohol. But the idea that people in Europe are more responsible around alcohol doesn’t hold to reality. The US had about 120k alcohol related deaths per year, which jumped to 180k with the pandemic. Germany is at a stable 60-70k a year. But Germany has less than one fourth of the US population.

And then you miscalculate your sip, or you have to break suddenly, so you spill hot coffee all over yourself. Now you are in pain and take both hands off the wheel and your eyes off the road, because you want to take your hot clothes away from you.

Voilá you are driving uncontrolledly and are a mortal danger to anyone within the possible paths your car could take for the next ten or so seconds.

I was almost run over by a driver at a crossing who was busy eating fries or something. She clearly didn’t know or care to pay attention and drive accordingly. Given her speed i most likely would be dead or in a wheelchair if i hadn’t stopped in the middle of the road. I will never forget the stupid expression on her face as she looked back up and didn’t bother to slow down.

It doesn’t matter the kind of distraction. If you dont have both hands free to operate your car and you have to look at anything except the road and mirrors, you are distracted and have no business of driving. This kind of behaviour should always lead to people getting stopped and at least made to walk the rest of the day, getting longer bans with repeated offenses.

Given that alcohol is a hard drug with severe social and personal consequences when abused i find that sentiment a bit shortsighted. We rightfully don’t accept casual consumption of cocaine or heroin around children. We shouldn’t set the model that alcohol is just a casual thing to consume on any given afternoon.

Me and many friends as teenagers wen we got shitfaced in unhealthy and dangerous ways just laughed at our parents critizising us, because of how normalized their consumption was.

So between responsible consumption and casual consumption is a huge difference. Especially when there is small kids around, who might end up just drinking from the jar right in their reach.