No, it doesn’t.

The magic effect is on the triggering of the process to start to develop empathy. Forcefully. The empathy itself is yours, even after the event. And the magic being. Lets see if they like having a conscience. Does not get cancelled. The event does.

I did not state a temporary duration for the effect of the outcome of the process. There is no temporary clause on that. The time frame is established for the duration of the process.

And what is the down side on the first part of your remark?

The event lasts one year. And it is gradual. It is not a snap of a finger and people become highly empathic. Everyone else will have a more accelerated growth, granted, but I’ll be forced to grow in tandem.

If things improve around you, you’re benefitted yourself. Pay attention.

And there is no temporary clause in what I stated.

People undergo the process during the lenght of a year. The outcome permanence is not dependent of that window of time.

Okay, let’s try this.

Every single human being, gradually, develops empathy and awareness to how their choices affects themselves and others.

This is to happen over a period of a year and will not lead people to despair but to understand the poor choices they have made throughout their lives and lead them to live better lives, with no malice arbored towards others and themselves.

This effect will include the granter of this wish.

The issue with the systems being proposed and already in place in Europe is that the money flows directly between accounts. Banks don’t have a way to know what is being payed for.

And there is even another system, where blocks of payment references can be bough from a slew of independent entities (all must be registered as financial entities at central banks) and used to transfer money that way. The issuer either charges a token value for each reference, a % on the payment value or both. Money flows directly between accounts, instantly.

The all-mighty PayPal uses a third party payment reference provider for people who want to use their service but don’t want to put their card into it.

You’re describing the same system behind Wero and MBWay. We can just use cellphone numbers to move money from account to account, regardless of the banks at each end of the transaction.

This is definitely Mythbusters territory now.

The first thing coming to mind would be setting up an automatic pressure release valve. I’ve seen those used to do pressure tests on pipes. It would facilitate making small increments to the maximum pressure admitted.

For all we know, the tank may very well rupture when put to less than maximum normal service pressure

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 eEU is supposed to be one, itself. And even if it fails Wero and MBWay are growing, which are direct money transfer systems.

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.

Mythbusters would be proud.

It has its moments.

I would use it to test how much destruction it could unleash. Maybe bury it in a pile of sand or in ground. Set a long line to. Start it. Overpressure it. Wait.

But completely agree. It is unsafe. Do not use it.

Let the Digital Euro become a thing. It will wreck havoc on the current payment ecosystem.

And the Digital Euro is not a crypto. It will be a digital currency, backed by the ECB, at a one to one exchange rate with standard euro currency.

When I was 14, “Zombie”, by the Cranberries, was the music of the year.

I still go back occasionally but there’s a lot more to listen. And I’ve discovered other genres since then.

Euro pallets I’m aware that are usually pressure treated to prevent rot. I know some are not treated at all.

But it is simply difficult to get pallets where I live lately. Unless they are completely broken, businesses don’t discard it (which is not bad by itself; less waste) but they won’t even sell them.

You’re thinking about possible run-offs from cargo or chemicals from treating the wood?

So, if good sense fails me not: japanese goods imported into the US will have a 15% markup at border…

Right.

What makes me morbidly curious is what Japan waved in return of that “agreement”.

I’d more quickly turn my back on them and let them levy whatever tariffs on my nation’s goods they see fit and enter “negotiations”. Yes, it would be painful in the short term for my country but it would be worth it.

I wish I could do something like this but getting even old pallets seems almost impossible nowadays.

Great. Fuck’em. It is the most stupid “industry” we, as a species, devised. Although I’m not that much of a fan of synthetic fibers, it’s better than sustaining this barbaric practice.

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.