I enjoy the cleaning. It gives me purpose and makes me feel useful.

You could ask far, far worse of me.

Even if you do, it’s hard to tell if it’ll be legitimate human interaction or just someone using AI.

AI has infiltrated everything. There is a pen pal app that acts in a similar way to snail mail. You get a limited number of stamps and send letters to people that take the approximate time to reach the other user based on how far apart you are irl. A couple of years ago the app became infested with people using AI to write their letters.

People have become incredibly lazy in every regard. I’d rather be a recluse than bother trying to chat with a society that has to use AI to speak on their behalf.

I don’t believe in any religion, don’t like religion, but I also realize that it’s not the governments place to tell people what they can and can’t believe.

Besides that, given the specifics of this law it’s rather easy to see it’s not even about religion as a whole. It’s just more Islamophobia.

not a few on the left,

Nah, was a lot actually. I know a lot of people that were really upset after the election and after the first few months. Then it stopped being a problem. “You’re overreacting.” “Don’t think about it.” “We’ll be fine next election.”

You wouldn’t do this to your cat. Or your dog. Or any other pet. Why should they have to go through it?

Not even close to being untrue. I’ve listened to a lot of conservatives being anti-sidewalks growing up, complaining how sidewalks aided criminals.

Maduro was democratically elected and supported by the majority.

Forgive my ignorance, but didn’t Maduro ban opposition party leaders from campaigning against him?

I’m not saying or agreeing with the orange man, what he did was wrong. It’s not our place to intervene in other countries, but this is what I’ve heard everywhere.

I’ve been trying to do this, but the best I’ve achieved so far is having certain cords using adapters.

Wouldn’t call it the end result, but rather the practice of attempting to make people less empathetic is that of an aggressor looking to divide the people. It has nothing to do with the concept of sin, and everything to do with breaking people apart, making people singular, more manageable targets.

This is a way of convincing people to be less trusting of those around them to prevent them from wanting to organize or cooperate with others out of fear that they may be suddenly arrested by undercover agents.

Checked mine for such settings, and could not find them.

We don’t really care as long as they don’t get on the counter while we cook. You should be cleaning before and after cooking, so it’s not that big of a deal.

What’s preventing you from simply renouncing it then?

I’m familiar with a handful of people who have done so, mostly due to the tax burden that this country places on them. The fee is a bit hefty, but it was better than continuing to pay taxes towards a country you don’t even live in.