Hey, darling, as a european feminist sex-neutral naturalist queer socialist, I tell you, you just replaced libertarianism with nationalism. Stop that.
And now to the annoying part of telling you exactly why you're wrong:
1. Unless you're working for Berlusconi sharing your sex life details with your management and/or press is probably going to get you in trouble. Even in Europe. For some values of "Europe" it's more like "especially in Europe".
2. We're not living in a perfect world. In a perfect world, there would be no implicit difference between "I pronged a bell pepper today" and "I sneezed today," at least not in the "how much people would ridicule you for that" department. We are not living in a perfect world, deal with it.
3. Because of 2 and 1, there is a significant difference between the reasonable expectation of publicness of statements like "ate a cheeseburger, vigorous effort, 15 seconds" and statements like "sexual activity, active, vigorous effort, 5 seconds." Ignoring said difference make you an a... I mean, a person generally considered unpleasant.
I'll try to be brief. It'd be nice if you read your old comments, so that you see this. I'm not going to login to hackernewsers to contact you.
I didn't (mean to) conflate nationalism (pro-US) and libertarianism. America is more libertarian than anywhere. It's obsessed with having a small state. I used to agree with that, the uber Thatcherism, anglo-saxon model. Now I don't. The Labour government embraced a caricature of being pro-business, leaving us with no stable banks. Even Lehman was doing its most suicidal and socially irresponsible stuff through it's London office while Gordon Brown kissed its ass. Nobody has disputed my point that governments are now mere facades of the banks behind the curtain. This revelation changes all politics, but the average voter hasn't noticed.
My first reaction was "So fitbit allows me to lifelog and PROVE that I had 75 minutes of sex today". Sign me up! That's not a bug that's a feature. I don't care even if my grandmother can read it. She'll approve anyway.
If facebook allowed you to do posts like x fucked y today, I'd love it much more. I know why people don't like that level of boasting and "over"sharing, which not even fetlife manages. It's because they don't see any status (or seek it) in broadcasting the fun you're having to the old schoolfriends in your friend list. I do. So they can see that I did grow up. Here's me in my private pool. Here's my model girlfriend. Yes, social networks ENABLE narcissism. It's only a bonus if the guys who bullied us are noticing this from their backbreaking job.
10 "I am only this way because have what YOU have made me." - Pink
If someone is techsavvy enough to be on this site, but isn't on fetlife because they're being modest / private / discreet, I'd still diagnose a shame complex of sexual hangups.
If they aren't on it because they're not kinky (enough), then that's even easier - they're boring. I just dont get it. You've got the amazingly good luck to have corporeal form, for a limited time, in a random universe, and you're not going to do those things with it. Baffling.
(actually, browsing old threads might become hard fairly quickly. Not that I'm not interested in them, but this medium makes that hard. I miss Usenet. I mean, it had its share of problems, but it made this far easier).
Um, what, boring? No, I have a lot of things I could do, even with my body, that don't include probing orifices. Actually, probing orifices offers only so much novelty, and at some point the appeal is much more based on the partner and physical/emotional closeness than the exact probing equipment and configuration.
As for nationalism -- fun fact, the office I worked in Europe is 90% male. I had the pleasure to work in a similar, corporate office in the US (the same corporation, actually). The proportions were much closer to 60-40 or close to that. Libertarianism is only a part of US, and not all US. Just by calling US libertarian and assigning all accomplishments to EU you become a nationalist. When EU worked on worker rights (which had some support from US as well), welfare state and other things that we're currently in the process of getting rid of, US was working on gender, racial and religious equality, political correctness, and a lot of other stuff that I don't feel like researching right now but US is probably trying to get rid of.
And, right now, Europe has a lot of its own problems with nationalism, racism, neoliberal economic politics and all that. We may have made some good decisions in the past that enable us to point fingers at US and say "haha, we've done X better than you", but so did they. Also, we have countries that are monarchies. Seriously. In 21st century. No kidding.
Yes, Europe is not superior in every way. I just think that while all banks, even French and German ones, were getting away with murder, it was UK and US govts who were really asleep or involved. France and Germany has had bailouts, but nothing like as bad. Canada, Australia and Sweden needed none.
Monarchies are pretty ridiculous. The British one takes in more money from stupid Japanese tourists than it costs. So there it stands.
Yes, probing, as you call it is eventually boring. But I never mentioned it. I go way beyond probing. Those other activities are (though)-- irrelevant to fitbit, because it'd never be able to identify them. They'res hundreds -Maybe you should start here: http://www.londonfetishscene.com/wipi/index.php/Category:BDS...
I'm more interesting than the people I was at school with are now. I don't mind demonstrating that via the net. In fact, I was more interesting when I was at school too, had I realised it. But Intelligence Equals Isolation. Most of them weren't worth the effort of trying to be popular.
And now to the annoying part of telling you exactly why you're wrong:
1. Unless you're working for Berlusconi sharing your sex life details with your management and/or press is probably going to get you in trouble. Even in Europe. For some values of "Europe" it's more like "especially in Europe".
2. We're not living in a perfect world. In a perfect world, there would be no implicit difference between "I pronged a bell pepper today" and "I sneezed today," at least not in the "how much people would ridicule you for that" department. We are not living in a perfect world, deal with it.
3. Because of 2 and 1, there is a significant difference between the reasonable expectation of publicness of statements like "ate a cheeseburger, vigorous effort, 15 seconds" and statements like "sexual activity, active, vigorous effort, 5 seconds." Ignoring said difference make you an a... I mean, a person generally considered unpleasant.
4. Yeah, in Europe too.