Humans are the true orcs. Our biology is border line insane when compared with the rest of the animals on this planet. Perhaps if we were aware that we are the orcs we might be able to move on to higher goals.

I won’t. I do not have the slightest clue on what you just said.

My take: people are too lazy to think. The majority acts as toddlers, easy to distract and quick to show a temper if their wants, ideas or preconceptions are not met.

Oh, and professional sports should be banned tomorrow. Be active to be social and healthy, not to live under the thumb of sponsors and the scrutiny of fans. Professional sports are also terrible for kids, as the adults already in the sport, acting as coaches or aids are in it to move up the ranks by finding the next talent and showing how good they are.

You are actually correct on that point. I’m not in favour of start disbanding societies left and righ but I am fully in favour of dismantling the “democratic system” as it exists today and reshape it to make democracies… Democratic.

I can’t find a picture to post but recently the building fad in my country for single family homes is cubes. Literally, cubes. The houses are made of grouped cubic structures. No rounded surfaces, no decorative details. A bit like watered down brutalism.

Can’t imagine those houses aging well.

Meanwhile, old stone houses just look… good. Renovated, awsome. Abandoned, creepy. No ghosts though.

You’re thinking about the VW Bus, now presented as the Buzz?

Unsurprising.

It was never about revamping the classic, in its concept, but capitalizing on nostalgia.

By contrast, Renault brought back their legendary Model 5 and regardless the car being a behemoth compared to the original, it captured and delivered a new car built on a nostalgic concept.

Can we get a transcript of a testimony of an escaped North Korean? I am sure we will all de delighted to read it.

Giraffes are often recorded killing and maiming lions. Those orange checkered XL horses are dangerous. It should be clue the food they eat and how extreme their biology is.

That is Portugal; those are our license plates. But the place felt awfully familiar to me.

Let’s build another fear to keep people entertained and busy bickering amongst each other instead of actually solving problems

Can we get an example? Because after reading the thread I am still as unknowing as I was about what you are trying to start a conversation on.

It is widely accepted that music, as an artistic expression, as been used to convey emotion, both to arise it and to lessen it, since its inception. To argue that “uncurated or just music in general” can be “overstimulating” makes quite the claim.

Music and songs are easily associated to states of mind and entire genres exist around one specific emotion. From classical, to blues, heavy metal, fado, jazz, ethnic, every song or music ever written by a human being conveys meaning.

If, and this is a elephant sized if, what you are trying to debate on is what most will call “elevator music”, that non descript, hollow, shallow, shell of ordered sounds thinly veiled to resemble music, then, personally, I’m glad it not a much more divulged genre.

If not, then, please, give us an example.

I’ll leave an example of what I listen to when I need a sound wall to fill the background while I work with my hands.
Dead Combo - Movimentos Perpétuos

Or, for something a bit more traditional:

Carlos Paredes - Verdes Anos

Pelo menos já dominas o idioma. Ainda bem.

Bom dia.

De que lado do Atlântico estás?

Oi, censura a matrícula do carro que está no canto superior direito da foto; vê-se perfeitamente.

p.s. as duas matrículas dos carros que aparecem nas imagens são legíveis; respeito à privacidade, por favor.

O imbecil que estacionou aí merece uma multa.

E onde é isto? Parece familiar.

If you manage to ingest and keep down an entire gallon of pure, raw, bee juice, without your body violently and explosively purge it in a very biological way to preserve your existence, I congratulate you.

The company I work for pays horrors for the full MS suite. That alone should be enough to force some thinking.

But I digress.

I’m not a desk jokey but I have to fill a sheet daily and occasionally a few other documents. I only use LibreOffice.

When I first received the models, they were filled with errors and bad formatting. And printing the sheet always put out shrunk versions of the document, hard to read. I got printed copies along with the digital files, “in case I couldn’t open the files”.

My spreadsheet jailbroke the document, allowing me to rectify the errors and the prints come out using the entire sheet, with better end results than the official version.

Someone, very well paid, is wasting a lot of money.

You act according to your own thoughts and ethics and denounce whatever it is you dislike in your country.

The usual lot says Excel is better. Haven’t found a difference yet.

In practical terms, there is nothing stopping you nor anyone else. To be cold and scynical, someone will clean up the mess afterwards.

But in what form do we want to see such right come into full fruition?

And I am not against the right to dispose of our life as we see fit; I’ve been too close to human misery in sickness and age to be that calous.

Put a couple of ideas into action.

I live in a very aged and old city. A lot of run down very old buildings left to crumble under their own weight. Abandoned houses left behind by families that sent their children away.

I’d just go out and buy all of those, to rebuild and return to the city as affordable housing, something that has been lacking and ignored.

I’d get instant hate, as I’d be more than willing to force the start of works even before permits were issued; that is another problem in this place: political and bureaucratic inertia and indiference.

From that point forward? I don’t know. I have enough. I’m trying to put down roots for my family to keep doing well and good after I’m gone.

This kind of question always takes me back to a conversation I had with my grandfather, where he told me that all the money in the world is worth nothing of we don’t make use of it for something good.

You could give me a billion euros tomorrow and I wouldn’t change as a person. I would change a lot of things around me but not myself.

I understand. Thank you for the clarification.

And, not to deter you from your goal, you have a lot to pick from.

There is a lot of background from which you can pick and build from but what would be the end result you are envisioning? I can tell I got to know a particular “tradition” where no rituals exist; initiates undergo a sort of tutelage under more experienced individuals but at some point it is supposed for each individual to set out their own path. No dogma, no saints, demons or higher powers; they just take the universe as a power source and it is the people tapping into it that can use it for “good” or “bad” endings.

The wiccans I got to know were essentially neo pagans, drawing from a favourite personal pantheon and ancient culture. I knew a Neo-aegiptyian priestess, a couple of neo-druids, a neo-norse shaman, one new age witch and one neo-meso american priest. Each just associated with an ancient culture they most closely identified with and delved into it. I watched magic circle drawing, offerings of food and items to gods and even assisted in a ritual of personal sacrifice, through fasting, sweating and intense physical exertion.

But I sense this is not what you expect as information. Feel free to pose more specific questions.