Consciousness is esoteric but easily understood if we change the question to “What are we conscious of?” In order to answer that we need
a feedback loop. I am conscious of the temperature in the room I am in 
but I am only aware that other buildings near me have rooms that have 
some temperature; I do not know if it is hot or cold in them. I am not 
conscious of the comfort state of those rooms.
 Another example is that I am aware of FM radio waves around me but I’m not conscious of them. If they all disappeared suddenly I’d have no
idea unless there was a feedback loop such as an FM radio on at the 
time.
 So consciousness is always specific to feedback. Now let’s factor in autonomy which is required to react to the feedback loop. If I am conscious I am cold in a room I can take action 
and get a jacket or blanket. Environmental Cause -> Feedback -> 
Reaction -> Repeat.
 This doesn’t work for awareness. I might be aware of the temperature but if I do not ‘feel’ cold then my reaction may not be 
appropriate. I could ‘hallucinate’ and do the wrong thing; leading me 
to freeze to death.
 You can see a natural example of this in people with congenital insensitivity to pain, (CIP) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by
the inability to perceive physical pain. These people cannot feel any 
physical pain. People with this condition might very well freeze to 
death because there is no pain associated with it for them. They are not
conscious of the problem!
 I’m gonna summarize. Consciousness is the general term we give to being generally aware of our environment through feedback loops. There 
is no such a thing as complete consciousness because there are 
attributes of the universe you cannot percieve directly or indirectly 
(this indirect part is always subject to change)

So very true.

I lived in Denmark for a few years, and no, it isn’t the same in all developed nations.

There never was a social contract, there never was anyone bound to look after your interest. That is why unions are the answer.

TOR. The answer is TOR

It’s pretty sufficient. I’m not British, I don’t sell products in Britain, I do not have British assets, and I’m compliant with all American laws. They can levy all of the fines they want but I’m not obligated to care.

Apologies, I didn’t check the paste had pasted.

Well, I’m not sure the fact support you on most of that but good luck.

The irony is that in the passing of sick leave and the repeal of it Missourians still got what they voted for. No sympathy.

I too feel very seen right now.