European guy, weird by default.

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  • My own country too.

    Now allow me too share a conviniently forgotten fact about most far right governments of the last century: they all were very at ease with having sex workers.

    My own very catholic and repressive country had a very detailed law on prostitutes, which mandatory registration, regular medical exams and visits, etc. It’s a good way too pacify populations.

    The current hunt on independent adult themed art/entertainment/etc is more about good old fashioned religious zealotry than anything else. Pornography gets some flak but it’s a lot harder to successfully target.

    This isabout forcing people into conventional set roles and definitions and closing minds and shutting down free independent thinking. And stopping people from being or becoming humane.



  • The Nederlands, Germany, Spain, if I’m not wrong, France and Italy have prostitution as legal. My own country abstains from legislating on it, instead opting to criminalizing procuring and the facilitation of prostitution, as well as human traffic for such end.

    Europe has a well established culture of sex work, with a good number of organizations lobbying - openly, through open public debate - in the way of making sex workers being recognized as any other worker and increasing their social relevance and recognition.

    If you inform yourself a bit, in my country, you can legally establish yourself as an escort, under a very specific tax code, and pay taxes according to the money you make and have tax deductions and social benefits.

    Currently, we already have a direct payment and transfer system, called MBWay, that through your phone number, allows for transfering, paying and collecting money, from one account to another.

    No fintech, no middle agents, no shit: direct transfers from one account to another.

    The Digital Euro takes this a step further. And even if the eEuro never takes place, this system is to be widened to all EU and abroad, to run against AliPay, Visa, MasterCard and others.

    Bankers want money.

    American bankers should spit out the “holy” book they have stuck up their arses.









  • Tone it down, “bud”.

    If it wasn’t clear from the start, pick ups are light vehicles in my country, which was my starting point.

    The longest vehicle, under 3500kg, thus retaining the light category and still built around a load bearing chassis is the van I showed. Emphasis on “van”.

    You showed a freight truck, which is a heavy cargo vehicle, not a touring one, like that monstrosity appears to have been built to pass as.

    Something like that, here, considering its sheer size alone, would be classified as a heavy vehicle and thus pushed into the same group has freight trucks, but it would still be commercially and coloquially designated has a pick up. Insurance wise, I don’t have the slightest idea how it happens but it would have to be insured in order to able to use public roads. Probably it would boild down to a matter of numbers to be paid. What would surely face, would be serious constraints and impediments to freely circulate, again, from its sheer stupid size and lenght.

    F150s are being pushed into the market recently but the pick ups are too large for many roads, with disastrous results. That aberration would easily get stuck here.









  • Stories carry ideas and ideas is what moves humans.

    We are not satisfied with what is. As a species, our survival at some point depended on changing the world around us, not just enduring it.

    Be it an uplifting story or a cautionary tale, the ideas inside carry meaning and individuals will build a part of their worldview around it.