As a parent, I would prefer this to modern western environments for children that include TVs, video games, phones and no idea what I do for a profession.

I like how one person said they don’t use child labour because they are inefficient. If they were efficient though …

I wish the state boundaries were a bolder line overlay

It’s educational and a good initiative. I use stairs as an opportunity for exercise also.

This mini-doco on drone warfare in Ukraine is bone chilling:

https://youtu.be/s4uaKynSRx4

Violence towards Billionaires will only justify further well funded and aggressive responses.

Dronepedo?

"I want him dead or guilty!’

Even if they don’t the guy, they’ll still find a guy. The illusion of control must be maintained.

And a meme is born

If only you had put this much effort and consideration into your original post. Was it fun shuffling through your vocabulary for maximum effect?

It is possible to know one without the other, however the first experience becomes the baseline upon which other experiences are compared and measured against forming a spectrum.

Take a baby for instance, early in life they are exposed to milk, the feeling of being close to their parents during feeding and the feeling of a full stomach (happiness). However, this becomes the reference point to compare feelings of being alone and hungry (sadness).

If a child experiences nothing but absent parents and malnutrition, the child will not know it is sad because there is no comparative reference point. Its just normal.

Another example, a long time ago when life expectancy was much lower and daily life was very hard, the circumstances needed to feel happiness were much lower. A woman living a hard life in an isolated wilderness suddenly receives a fine dress from a distant city and, compared to her daily harsh reality, it brings her extreme happiness.

Compare that to modern times where daily life is much easier and we have access to almost anything we want. Not surprisingly, people find it harder to find happiness. Why? Because they don’t have the comparative negative baseline.

Common fallacies are well documented with generally similar names. Might be worth reading up on them so that when you label something a fallacy, you are doing so from an informed position. Labelling something a fallacy, without understanding whether it is or isn’t, is a subtle form of disinformation.

False Balance or Appeal to People, which one are you referring to?

Because happiness can only exist when outlined by sadness. You only know times are good if you have bad times to compare to.

Buck up, it’s only 4 years /s

With 7 working days, I think we might need a 13 day week.

The same could be said of someone who earns a low income relative to a billionaire (e.g. $80-120k) depending on the country they reside in. Money doesn’t buy happiness folks, life experiences do 🙂

Why do you want to be better? What is the problem?

I see this as just another step towards the extremes of ridiculousness that is fundamentalist Islamic religion. Imagine being so disconnected from existence, and being so hypnotised by words, that you would subjugate those in your culture who, through their natural virtue, embody the positive characteristics of the very god they describe and worship such as love, compassion, acceptance, understanding, yeilding, giving etc.