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@TenaciousGoat I appreciate your sentiment though. Your concern is welcomed.

@TenaciousGoat I don't care about her opinion. I care about what force the government would bring down upon me should she and it decide that my complement was sexual assault.

Additionally, I do not regret abstaining from speaking to her. I would rather not speak to her, avoid potential disaster, and share my thoughts and feelings on the matter. I do not regret my actions. I act. I assess. I learn. I share my thoughts on matters which strike me as valuable to myself or potentially others.

@lain The best thing you could say to a kitten. Don't burden a kitten's mind with such things.

@susie Yes, you should have stayed in bed sleeping.

@TimeSpent lol

@YoMomz Under patriarchy, it'd have been a different situation, yes. If her guardian was her father, I'd likely have complimented him on having such a pretty daughter. For now, I will simply appreciate the human form from afar.

@sun @lain When the shoe is on the other foot, it's suddenly too expensive. Such is the nature of seeking one's own interest at all times: being human.

@wishgranter14 @lain The government is made up of people who desire what the believe will benefit them most. They will always put their own interests ahead of the interests of the population. It is a question of by what means they have been empowered to do so that dictates the extent of their ability to negatively affect our lives.

Today I was getting some things in town, and I saw a female in the market who possessed a cute face. I wanted to complement her, but I realized how many things could go horribly wrong simply because I wanted to express my appreciation for aesthetic features I found pleasing. It irks me that I must suppress my wholesome expressions and appreciations because this society is afflicted with the cancer of egalitarianism and is suffering its follow-on symptoms.

@lain He also didn't have glass in his window, the internal combustion engine, or modern medicine.

I get that it's a show and this is green text, but if someone wants to have a conversation about why housing is affordable to most people and why wives don't stay at home with children, we're going to need something more substantial than a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

@Justicar If you've never investigated the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet not India Pale Ale), I recommend it. It's fascinating reading.

@Justicar For example, it is easier to say "she shells she shells by the she shore" than to say "She sells sea shells by the sea shore."

@Justicar
The "s" is the Voiceless alveolar sibilant, but the "sh" is the Voiceless alveolar retracted sibilant.
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_fricative)

Languages change. The cause may be cultural such as happened with the Norman invasion of Britain under William the Conqueror when English gained many influences from Latin. The cause could be a shift in commonly used phrases that make the change of the tongue from one shape to another more difficult or easy.

@Justicar @VooDooMedic Charging interest is haram, but they can still loan money to people via premium contracts and other such instruments. See here: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/islamic_investing.asp

@VooDooMedic Hold up... I accidentally cut this little tidbit when trying to swap out the long-form text, and I'm sure you'd not want to miss this:

In 1907, there was a major financial panic which had a great number of causes. (Just search for "Panic of 1907".) One response was put forward by Paul Warburg and Jacob Schiff articles and speeches advocating for a central bank which was supported by multiple other influential bankers.

@VooDooMedic
Then in 1913 under the recommendations of a Republican-led commission a fellow by the name of Woodrow Wilson signed a bill creating the Federal Reserve System to create a centralize bank to control the regional Federal Reserve banks.

@VooDooMedic
* The 1863 National Banking Act created the precursor to what would be the Fed, and implemented many practices such as a uniform national currency with bank notes, which were different from the paper money the treasury issued, backed by government debt rather than precious metals.

@VooDooMedic I'd like to mention that the United states had attempted several times to create central banks:
* Bank of North America: charter repealed in 1785 due to corruption.
* First Bank of the United States: Charter not renewed before the war of 1812.
* Second Bank of the United States: Charter expired in 1836 under Andrew Jackson's refusal to renew it.