Still, the conversation is private, as in not public. Even if it is surrendered to the authorities, the'll probably never be released publicly (unless leaked).
Unless you divide China in 40, 50 states, you can't. There's just too many of them. Plus they used to have a 10 kids per family tradition, so... that's how you get to a few billion people and an endelss supply of workers.
No, long press colapses the upvote/downvote/comment bar below the comment. That always seemed kinda illogical to me, why would I want those collapsed, I have no idea.
It's easier to fall into comformity than to question things. One, the risk of someone killing you is lesser, two, it's not wort it for the pay, three, if you can get bribed not to publish something, even better.
These were the norm in public toalets back in the day (30+ years ago). They're easy to clean and maintain. Get a hose, water pressure to the max, 2 minutes and you're done.
I mean, come on, everyone can hear everything if you live in a building, that's normal... people have fights, they have sex, they have parties, they have kids... it's normal stuff, I really don't get what the big deal is.
The US is very good at playing the democracy/capitalism game. Democracy can't be sustained by a capitalist economic system by the reasons you pointed out. Once money is involved in the mix, there is no democracy. You can buy everything with money.
Completely agree πππ. Tastes like shit.