What are we but a collection of memories? Not much. A body, some desires, occasional suffering and joy.
The memories give context to everything else. Change them, and you change everything.
This is why my chronic illness is so terrifying. It’s in my brain. Literal brain damage. It’s being treated, but I wake up every day with a low lying terror that I have forgotten something important.
“We can hurt the bad people until they tell us what we need to know to be safe.”
It’s nonsense, but it can feel true.
That’s called a taint squeeze.
2001 you could use a pay phone to stay anonymous.
Most of us don’t pay the market price hour to hour. Our electricity provider absorbs the risk of price spikes and raises our rates if the math stops working for them.
Griddy was a provider that sells at the market rate, which is usually below the general price you would pay, but you take the risk of price spikes during peak demand.
Inns like that existed during the enlightenment up through the invention of the railroad. In the medieval era you slept in a church or maybe someone’s home.
Sandy Hook survivors are in high school now and some are getting into activism.
You give us too much credit.
Gonna have to do a whole lot of union drives to make that feasible. Good luck.
Edit: just read the additional info. If anyone can organize this, it’s Shawn Fain. I hope this comes to something real.
Anhedonia is horrifying if you think about it.
Sorry to come with “um, ackshuslly” but they didn’t ask if they were convicted of a crime. The question was "were they jailed? And according to your post, they were not.
France has a powerful executive. More powerful than even the US president, inside their own system.
I have heard the French presidency described as an “elected dictator.”
Macron wants people to see what the far right has to offer and hopefully realize they don’t like it before the presidency goes up for grabs.
France made childcare and education free and relatively high quality and look at that! They have just under replacement level fertility!
Some people do want children. Not everyone, but lots of people do. It’s true that wealth depresses fertility, but you can have a sustainable society if you give people financial security.
I’m willing to believe there are some cultural issues at play, not just the economics, but that is for demographers to tease out.
The American congressional representatives have an average of 2 children. Replacement rate. Get our standard of living up to that and you will see fertility go up.
In what country?
I’m talking about raising wages by 40-70% in the US.
Pipe dream, but if it happened the fertility rate would increase.
I’m a fan of sortition over ballot, but what is the purpose of this? To have fun?
Raise the price of labor to the point that a working family can afford to have children at the standard they consider socially acceptable.
That would devalue investment accounts though, so it won’t happen until there is suffering on a scale not seen outside of major wars.
I was told I looked young for my age. Then I transitioned and lost another 5 to 7 years.
It’s certainly possible that nosey co-workers have sussed out the truth, but also some people just don’t look their age.
A human that is cisgender would be cool.
Honestly though, how would I appreciate it if I don’t keep memories?