Think about it. Their 1) a group of people, that 2) share a set of beliefs, and 3) try to recuit others for "their own" or "the greater" good.

Personally, I think women look better without makeup. To me, makeup reminds me of a war paint, but I guess some say that they are going to war when they put make-up on. :P

I just think imperfections should not be hidden and people should just embrace that they aren't perfect instead of trying to look flawless.

Just to clarify, he is notorious for using fake weights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35aYaOxjkc8

If i was a drug dealer i would use square. I would take everything except american express and personal checks. If you want to max your credit card for a 5 bag of dope every couple of hours id be cool with that. If you are concerned i would steal your card info, don't be. That's where building trust in your clientele comes into play. If you want a receipt just enter your phone number and I will text you a receipt. This will help my clients keep a better track of there monthly spending and better fill out their expense report. If I ever got caught i would just say everything you purchased was bottle of lotion and i was a lotion dealer and not a drug dealer. You would be in the clear. Also id offer a punch card system where every 10 $15 purchase you get a free chore boy or lighter. IF you try to make the punches yourself i would know. I wouldn't care if you were on bag 9, you mess with me, you have to start over.

Ever hear the term wage slave? Well, I think of that when I look at jobs in general. Many people just work to receive a paycheck. Hell, I don't even think most people would work for free. And we all know that money plays a major factor in a capitalistic society. Bosses can literally do whatever they want while the workers need to satisfy them.

I've heard stories where people run errands for the bosses. How ridiculous is that? That seems dangerously close (if not already) to slavery.

I think that dating sites have ruined relationships. Cheating has never been easier since the advent of dating sites. Anyone with internet access has access to a dating site, and everyone who wants to meet someone can with the click of a button. And people who want to cheat or a dissatisfied with relationships can simply sign up and lie about their relationship status since the Internet has given people the ability to be anonymous. Not to mention that there is always the temptation to cheat with easy access to "singles."

I think that anonymity and relationships do not mix. What say you?

Tl:Dr - Every citizen registered to vote gets to specify how their "portion" of the nations wealth gets distributed

Each personal who is registered to vote gets a specific amount of "tokens" (perhaps equal to the number of departments to fund). They then distribute their tokens based what they believe needs to be funded. The amount of funding a department gets is the number of tokens they receive, divided by the total number of tokens that get allocated among all the branches, times the total budget. Meaning if NASA gets 12% of the total tokens, they get 12% of the national budget (imagine that).

I suggest an equal number of tokens per department to fund per person, so that automatically each department gets one token from each person. Another idea is that each person has 100 tokens and instead of automatically dividing their tokens up equally, it is divided up based on the percentage of the budget each department is already getting. This is to avoid skewing the data if not enough people care to allocate their tokens, which would normalize the percentages if they are divided up equally. 100 tokens is just an example; we would probably need a lot more to account for how many departments actually need funding and fractions of percentages. In this idea people specify percentages of their total tokens to each department instead of individual tokens.

People can start distributing their tokens once they've registered to vote. Maybe once a month, or quarterly, or biyearly a voting citizen can change their choices. A government website could be instituted to make it accessible to everybody which would encourage participation. Or if security is too high of a risk designated locations could be used like voting. Using modern technology people could change their allocation any time they wanted which could be tracked in real time, but the change of budget wouldn't take place until the next cycle starts. This way branches could expect how much they would receive and plan ahead, and it would be instant feedback for the masses, and would make great news stories (Headline: NASA receives an unprecedented 12% of the Federal Budget!)

Any way this was just a fun thought experiment and I'm sure other people have thought it too and in some form some country probably already uses it. I like that this pretty much makes every citizen a shareholder in the country and we would feel like we might actually be making a difference. Thoughts? Additions? Dissent?

As you can see, Russian spend about $200K/year to keep Lenin's body "life like".

While reading it, I had a crazy thought, if the Chinese government one day decide to get rid of Mao's leftover body, how much will it cost?

Personally I think they can just toss it in the land fill and call it a day.

$200K body

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