MouldyCat

I thought we switched to libre

Maybe some people did. Thing is there's a whole rest-of-the-world out there, and they didn't necessarily get the memo or are happy with the existing way.

You do have motorbikes with electric engines that are otherwise treated by law just the same as a petrol motorbike (riders need to have a motorbike licence, wear helmets, have insurance, the bike must have an MOT and be road-worthy etc).

Then you have electric bikes, which don't legally require any licence, insurance, safety gear. However they can't be very powerful - they can't go above 15.5 mph without pedaling and only have a 250W motor.

You'll also get electric bikes which have been modded to exceed those limits - e.g. a more powerful motor has been swapped in. That bike is then illegal and could be seized by the police.

These kinds of gangs often do use illegal bikes for their anti-social activities. It's just too difficult for the police to catch them.

Gardiner Bryant is great. So great, you don't have to suffer YouTube to keep up with his videos, he also publishes to PeerTube:

https://peertube.wtf/w/omBg7MPgFSZAB7YkWEYGdu

It's an American study, not sure if you are or not. When the authors describe some of the study's shortcomings, its clear they are not suggesting these results to be generalisable over the whole world, or even the whole USA:

“This study followed one cohort of people born in the late 1980s over time, providing fine-grained detail about their lives and relationship to religion,” Schnabel noted. “That zoomed in detail is great for some things, but ultimately it tells us about one cohort of people in one country rather than how religion is changing globally or even among other cohorts of people in the United States. We can infer some things and connect the patterns for this group to others, which could allow us to see potential explanations when we see similar patterns among other groups.”

We could.. weigh them? And, if they weigh as much as a duck, then we know they are kiddie fiddlers!

alright, but is the world really as black and white as that? Is there really a clear Good Side, and a clear Bad Side?

A collective can be a great way to run a company, for some cases. I lived with a girl who worked at a cafe that was run as a collective - it meant that people had a fair say in decisions that affected them. They could vote on their own wages, working conditions, and no one was barking out orders bossing them around. The owner was an old-school left-winger who was doing this out of pure idealism. He was still the one with the financial risk, he dealt with banks, ensured taxes were dealt with, and all the other tasks involved in running a business such as that.

Well I suppose there's still no proof that there never was a so-called "divine Y-chromosome" as believed in by Christians, but before we knew about DNA, or even human cells, the ridiculous legends of religion were definitely harder to refute. The ridiculousness of those legends was a big part of their power - the more stupid and unhinged a religious story appears to us today, the more in awe believers would have been about it 300 or 400 years ago.

So while religion hasn't become less real in recent years, it has become a lot easier to point out its absurdities.

If your religion leads you to hate, you aren’t worshiping God, you’re worshiping the Devil.

And this is how wars between religions start...

Maybe try to move away from that God/Devil thing. It's a foolish, naive, human-centered worldview.

Nothing stopping you trying!

How would this specific problem be better under another system?