Economics, easy.

Specifically monetary policy and financial regulations.

and you realise that we. as a community, aren't that dissimilar from other people.

How is it odd?

Because you still find yourself attracted to people.

You're obviously gay.

Terrorism Act (2000) - extended detention limit to 7 days without charge for terrorism suspects. The broad definition of terrorism allowed police to legally stop and search a Ph.D. student and journalist protesting an arms trade fair in Canary Wharf.

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) - allows government full surveillance powers of all kinds of communication. On average, about 30 warrants a week are issues.

Civil Contingencies Act (2004) - allows government, in times of "emergency", to deploy armed forces in any part of the country during peacetime. Also allows property to be confiscated without compensation.

Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act (2001) - in response to 9/11, this piece of legislation allows the government to indefinitely detain foreign nationals suspected of terrorist activities without trial.

Terrorism Act (2006) - following the 7/7 bombings, this allows people suspected of terrorist activities to be detained without charge for 42 days.

R v Incedal and Rarmoul-Bouhadjar (2014) - was going to be the first trial held entirely in secret. The Court of Appeal of England and Wales ruled that the names of the defendants and the outcome must be made public, but the rest of the details will remain in secrecy.

And I quote
Someone starts showing signs of Psychosis or Schizophrenia and one of the things that factored into that was spambots on twitter. It's not 'omg twittur causes suicides' and 'guiz i went crazy cuz of muh playstashun' and it's not a cause for sarcasm or facetiousness.

fkn rekt m80

Wouldn't reverting to a gold standard now cause massive economical deflation and really fuck with our markets?

If you did it with a central bank, then probably.

this fucking thread/10

Oh my god some you guys make me cringe so hard. I need to stop coming to the Serious board.

You need to chill, man.

Don't take it so seriously.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND. THERE IS NOTHING TO LOSE FROM IT, AND IF GOD JUST HAPPENS TO BE REAL YOU MIGHT GAIN FROM IT.

>pascal's wager
>lol

It's not that I'm an atheist and I feel I have betrayed my values, or whatever. It's that my intellectual integrity was broken, or compromised, if you like. I betrayed myself by acting in so weak a manner.

I PROBABLY MISSED THEM ALL.

The absolute worst thing I've ever done was stand above my sleeping stepdad with a knife, contemplating murder.

But that's more of a trope than a confession for me, now.

After you know that, there really isn't much to confess.

Other than the fact that during the time I was incredibly dysphoric, I actually prayed. Which is the only thing I can actually remember regretting in my life.

I'm not actually as sincere as most of you might expect. I am in reality a horrible person to have as company.

fucking lel

No, but they've stolen from me.

Damn.

How'd that feel? Did you confront them?

No, because I'm not a douche

0-13
Didn't give a shit about politics.

13-15
Started admiring socialism and somewhat of Marxism. (Why does this happen to everyone at this age?)

15-16
I went through a period of really admiring Noam Chomsky and his idea of Anarcho-syndicalism once again still liking socialism.

16-Now
I learned none of the above works in the real world. Mostly identify as Libertarian these days. Liberal on the social issues but still pretty conservative on the economic issues.

I'm noticing a trend here. . .

It's like an accelerated version of that notorious quote:

If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.

I wonder how many libertarians went through a socialist phase.