Given that one of the main defining things of fascism is a personality cult, yes it’s an indicator for sure.

Bucatini and linguine are pretty similar tbf

Smartphones aren’t the issue. You can access the internet in other ways. This feels very boomer yelling at clouds.

That said, as a recommendation, sure why not. People do seem a bit too glued to their phones overall. But I don’t think that’s anything new.

I also don’t know anything about japanese laws, so I have no idea if this is a concern, but anything potentially enforcable that cuts into people’s freedom arbitrarily makes alarm bells go off in my head.

While yes, the key thing is that at any point either party can say “nope no longer wanna do this”, it’s still a hierarchy, but it is mutually agreed upon. (Also, in reality, the sub has the ultimate control in bdsm because of the safe word, and if they don’t something is very wrong)

Static unchangable hierarchies are what no one enters voluntarily (at the low end that is).

Even outside of bdsm, it can make perfect sense to establish a hierarchy for e.g. faster response times, or because one person is far more knowledgable about something. It’s just important that the people on the lower end can always end it.

I have seen at least two different “BND Überwachungswagen 00x” here in germany as well. The BND is our national intelligence agency (and Überwachungswagen just means surveillance van).

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