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If what you're saying is true, it doesn't explain why the greatest increase in capitalism has historically occurred under governments that were not liberal (by the dictionary definition. Or my simplistic one.)

Unless, that is, that what you're saying is that all the pro-capitalist governments were liberal by your definition (or some redefinition to which you and certain others believe is, or should be, correct). That, I think, is a ridiculous way to go about things, and smacks of trying to steal the word or besmirch people who would otherwise use that word to describe themselves.

In short, I think you're being disingenuous.

The belief that no-one is above anyone else and that everyone should be treated equally. The doesn't quite match with the dictionary definition, I grant you (I looked it up afterwards), but nonetheless I think I was nearer the mark than "capitalist = liberal".

Capitalists tend to think of themselves as more deserving than others which would seem to be at odds with that supposed equivalence.

And there's that the biggest capitalist booms of recent years have been driven by illiberal politics, by and large. Reagan wasn't a liberal. Thatcher wasn't. Today's billionaires are stumbling over themselves to swear fealty to distinctly non-liberal political parties, in power or not.

Wait, what? Liberals are the capitalists now? Or is it that Liberals aren't doing anything/enough to reign in the capitalists?

Keep going. We may be homing in on how the number order was derived for a dartboard.

The nasal infix for present or very recent actions which was a feature in Proto-Indo-European. Best example is how vicit becomes vincit in Latin. (You'll recognise the first one from "veni vidi vici" and the second from "invincible". Both have to do with conquering. Or not being.)

It might also be the root of the word "now" in English, but the evidence for that is scant at best and it's not in the Wikipedia article. Ditto the n in "recent", which would be pre-PIE if true.

Also Linux kernel version history and smear frame to double check what I was talking about in recent Fediverse comments.

Someone needs to yarn-bomb this thing. Perhaps something like a headband that falls to googly-eye level maybe. Perhaps, you know, with eyes on it.

Either way, I'd be tempted to put up a sign next to it that says "Help! I've gone blind!"

The solutions:

For the individual: Don't start in the first place, which is what the Maldives are hoping to help people achieve.

For governments: Copy whatever local legislation applies to heroin and make it apply to nicotine as well. The article doesn't say what the Maldives intend to do to underage smokers and those who'd sell to them, but I'd be making it unnecessarily draconian just so people get the message.

For people who are already smokers: Nicotine patches of decreasing strength over time and some sort of media teaching pen-flipping or other legal hand-based hobby. Having something for the hands to do is a big part of it. If these can be prescribed by medical or psychological practitioners, all the better.

Sounds like someone has butted heads with an HOA or enforcement of some other covenant on look and feel.

Some people apparently have unseemly feelings about everything fitting to a certain design plan.

At the other end of the scale, there's painting your house neon yellow. A house is not a tennis ball. It should not cause road accidents.

Ask the British (and apparently Australians too) about that and we might say meerkats are Russian on account of a very popular set of insurance TV advertisements.

That said, I haven't watched TV in earnest for a few years at this point, specifically before Russia fell from favour, so I'm not sure whether that's affected their popularity or not.

And I have no idea what we might have said prior to the ad campaign.

Came here to say something similar. And also to point out that this opinion is a perfectly sound argument in and of itself, thus making it somewhat paradoxical in context.

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There are so many. Perhaps because I occasionally go back and watch a compilation or two for the nostalgia - even though I missed the whole phenomenon when they were new - and weep not only for what was lost, but also for how the world was back then.

Here's just a handful:

Look at all those chickens.

Oh my God, they were roommates.

Five feet apart because they're not gay.

Fre Shavocado

Stahp! I nearly dropped my croissant!

Road work ahead? Boy, I sure hope it does!

The Kermit singing one. And the fact there's an extended cut which is probably the origin not the Vine. Also the fact there at least two more Kermit clips from the same car that are super hard to find.

There's only one thing worse than a r-pist... A child!

Someone already mentioned T-T-T-T-Target

Shalissa is not Beyonce. (And the fact there's at least one return of Shalissa in the super-rare Vines.)

There's a bunch of others, but I think I might be dredging them up now because I'm thinking about them rather than ones that come to me randomly.