Why? This feels more like an unexamined emotional need than a practical one.

I would punch that guy right in the dick.

This isn’t Dull Men’s Birthright Entitlement, it’s Dull Men’s Club. We have standards here.

But really, it’s sold in every supermarket, right next to the spring water, in an almost identical package, with no warnings. I infer people are not dropping dead left and right.

Nah, I just process it with my mighty system of organs.

Distilled water. That tang. I’m told it’s stripping my body of minerals but 1) I don’t really believe it and 2) I really don’t care, it’s fucking delicious.

You do when you have the legitimate monopoly on violence.

The name on my Park Run card is “Do Not Resuscitate”

What is the practical value of logical consistency? It sounds like you are basically saying that it would look cool and satisfying on the map. But it doesn’t correspond to the political needs of the populace.

Why? What do you propose the point of this would be?

Apparently I was unclear by what I meant by “commercial porn”, which was: porn that you pay for. If you want to purchase commercial porn, you need a credit card. To use a credit card, you must reveal the verified identity associated with it. To answer your initial question, my point was to draw your attention to the many interactions you already accept that are strongly associated with your legal identity. Personally, I would rather not give up my legal identity just to buy groceries from my local corrupt corporate grocery store, and I find that a LOT more invasive than doing so for porn.

100% of commercial porn sites have always required you to identify yourself.

I will not be responding to comments.

Then fuck off. Like, actually. We’re not here for you to use to meet your emotional needs and not actually contribute.

I know tone doesn’t come across but I was only being partially ironic. I recognize that sometimes one just needs to bitch. My neighbour across the hall has no concept of being mindful not to bother people while in the halls. He’s a no-joke seven foot tall guy with a booming voice and no volume control. I know every single fucking time he enters or leaves the building, because he’s always ALWAYS on his phone in the corridors. He speaks some African language that I am sure normally sounds delightful, but when a literal giant is approaching my door while shouting in a foreign language, it’s kinda stressful. I can hear him in my entire apartment! Shit, now you got me doing it.

People definitely love you for your personality

Are they just assholes or is it something deeper?

Good for “Canada” (ie the neocolonialist state that exists to facilitate the transfer of wealth from natural resources and the public to private ownership) and, as a regressive tax, bad for the poor. Yep, that’s exactly the Canada I know.

They don’t have to do more interviews. It takes exactly the same number of press releases to explain themselves regardless of how large the public interest is. It doesn’t scale like that unless you are trying to monetize public interest.

Think of the precedent. Think of all the shady shit we do all around the world and all the human rights violations that result. “We” (ie the state) absolutely don’t want to.

Ooohhhh, you want to bitch about it. Tcchhh, my bad. They’re absolutely assholes and I think I heard them say they do it just because it annoys you. You’re the one on the end, right?

Okay? So at the risk of stating the obvious application of my previous comment: maybe kindly suggest to the occupant or the manager that their door closer needs to be adjusted?

Or maybe they’re just a different kind of autistic from you.