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There is no way to save those people without destroying privacy.

I disagree. Legalizing prostitution and fighting the social stigma would prevent many of those crimes.

If you criminalize a service that will always be in demand, you won't kill the market - you'll just turn it into an unregulated black market run by criminals, who are much less inhibited than legal employers to use any means at their disposal (even threats and violence) to maximize their profit.

The exact same thing happened during the prohibition.

But if you have a legalized market... using threats and violence to force people to perform i.e. call center work is much less common.

Cheating on taxes is a crime, but in certain circles it's nit stigmatized.

The same goes for ignoring the speed limit in other circles.

A desperate mother shoplifting to feed her child would probably get compassion from many.

On a side note, it is also possible for something to be a crime and not be punished. It is a way for a society to condemn something, but acknowledge that is just necessary under certain conditions.

(Some countries use this trick for contentious topics like abortion and, yes, prostitution.)

Nah, I'd argue that you're both partially correct.

The romanticized ideal of starting a family/marriage on the basis of "true love" has been around forever.

Reality has been more of a mixed bag throughout large patches of human history. Accidental pregnancies, dynastic politics and plain economical necessities were probably foundations for many more marriages than actual love.

(There's also that whole can of worms of whether "True Love at First Sight(tm)" even is a good foundation for marriage, but that's neither here nor there.)

Whatsapp is encrypted. The problem is the Metadata they want - i.e. your whole address book.

I do not agree to Facebook having my phone number, but if you use WA and have my number, they have it, too - even if I don't use WA myself.

If you can convince your family to switch, use Signal or Matrix.

Otherwise, use Shelter on your phone with a limited, WA-ony address book.

Try to hit the aforementioned 6-8 encircled per LR.

Apply common sense whenever you find a mechanic interacting weirdly with this.

Don't spring an altered test model on your players unannounced.

I'm currently running a campaign that involves a lot of exploration, travel and a dash of politics.

Cramming a full "adventuring day" of 6-8 encounters into each calendar day was just not feasible - "interesting days" will have one, maybe two encounters, occasionaly with several days of travel/downtime in between.

So I've adjusted to "SR = a night's rest" and "LR = 24h of downtime" and it fixed the problem immediately.

A LR requires more creature comforts than a fire and a blanket, but if the party invest into supplies and hirelings, they can set up a "base camp" that allows a LR even in the wilderness.

As for spell duration: I've just set all spells that are supposed to cover most of an adventuring day (like Mage Armor) to last until the end of the next Long Rest and this has covered all problems so far. Remember to adjust the recovery of charge-based magical items, too.

Well, it works well for some people.

Once you get used to it, it can be a dang powerful tool. For people doing a lot of config-wrangling on the CLI (i.e. admins working a lot ovet SSH), overcoming the learning curve will pay dividends.

If you're working mostly locally and in a GUI environment environment, it's probably not worth it - there's a reason most devs use more specialized IDE's.

Midnight Commander has been around for ages. It's a straight ripoff/homage to the original Norton Commander, a full-fledged file manager and a godsend on week-kneed machines (like old netbooks).

The superposition principle says "no".

ps ax?

As long as people keep voting for deregulative capitalists and engaging in the consumer mill, megacorps with too much power are all but inevitable.

I am frustrated with human nature, but hating Google is just like hating a tornado because it might hurt you.

I really hop you're trolling, because you're letting out some pretty crucial parts here.

Democracy is also when you vote and your voted-for result doesn't happen. More than 40% of the state just had that experience.

Democracy isn't about you. Or me. It's about the majority.