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You want gold? Tons of it? Go mine the asteroid belt. But if it is to become plentiful what value will it hold?

Will cheap gold plated circuitry be back?

We can’t see what the man is sporting from under that shirt neck line.

For all we know the man can put to shame Donkey Kong.

I’m in Portugal.

I’ve asked if such devices could be supplied and I was given pretty much the same explanation I supplied here.

Strangely enough, vehicles can be legally tracked, in real time, yet the company I work at has some union agreement that prevents such installation in the work vehicles.

It’s a mess.

It’s strange. Apparently it is one of those situations where the possibilty of something very useful being easily abused by companies to spy on their people is too great.

We all are, to varying degrees. Some are just more aware of it than others.

But I didn’t approach your last remark by the harsher side. All the images coming to mind as I read it were censorable out of being plain stupid and childish.

Therapists can easily suffer of professional bias. I’ve done therapy as well and it came to a point when I felt my therapists were overly concerned and trying to victimize me. It is their role to help us be aware of things that may be lacking or holding us back but their trainning can make them view things as so damaging that a person being to cope and manage trauma by themselves and lead a somewhat balanced life is an impossible concept.

Don’t know and don’t need to.

There is a lot to unpack in that sentence.

I’d be satisfied if women got to openly sexualize men and talk about it. That would level out the playing field and, hopefully, reduce the unnecessary sexualizing of trivial things.

Very hard?

Is that a woodpecker? It was the first thing coming to mind as I looked at the picture.

Meanwhile, I often work with immediate risk of death or injury and, by law, I can not be equipped with a panic button for rescue purposes, as it is deemed unlawful surveillance of the worker.

I am supposed to warn in advance what work I will be doing and agree on a reasonable time window for it to be done safely, before having to call in again to say I am not yet dead and if the task is done or not.

Yes and no.

It’s confusing.

I did not want to laugh but I couldn’t avoid it.

That gets worst as it progresses.

Terrible thing to go through. Parents are responsible for the wellfare of their children.

But I have to admit that I also ate bread with mayonnaise just because. It works. Not every time but it works.

Our opinions diverge.

I’ve been thinking about this the entire day and I think the only answer for any entity offering to magically grant any wish to try to introduce conditions to it would be “no”.

Let’s just consider it.

The average individual requesting a wish doesn’t really want the entire world to change, except for that little sliver they are wishing upon.

We are trying to think rationaly on something that is not governed by it.

Someone wishing for Hitler to have never been born, wants the horrors of WW2 to have never happened but does not want their reality to collapse in the process. The same way, a person wishing for fried shrimp to rain from the sky does not want to see shrimp go extinct or the world to burn due to some physical phenomenon.

They want to magically alter the world, with no further consequence.

If a magical being offers to grant you a wish, any wish, he can not hinder it in any way. It is not a business transaction, where you get something and he gets something in return (usually your misery, through preverting your wish outcome).

If the magical being, as in the case at hand, tries to do it, then it is not a wish but an offer and therefore you are free to refuse.

This isn’t a business transaction, where I ask for something and you take something else in return. It is a magical wish.

You don’t get to decide how empathy works between people. It is already an established mechanism. Your job is to nudge it to develop at an enhanced rate between individuals in a given time frame.

The world remains the same. Humans remain the same.

So, if this is what you have to offer, keep your offer.

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.