The issue is people have gone down this line of thinking dozens of times and it always ends the same way. Your inability to see that is how we get there.

It’s got most of the same issues as eugenics - yeah, it’d be nice if nobody had to suffer obvious and objective genetic diseases but it consistently immediately turns into “well but I think being a red head is a genetic disease”. You have to consider how a solution can be achieved to really weigh its benefit versus alternatives.

We can feed everybody by Luigi-ing a rounding error’s worth of billionaires. Or we can reduce global population by a factor of 10, which is almost certainly going to disproportionately favor rich white dudes, do nothing to that handful of sociopaths, and they’ll still burn the planet to the ground.

They do, but given everything Purdue’s done I felt it was fitting. Fine as a concept, awful when the sole goal is extracting money.

That feels an awful lot like saying opiates are fine just don’t get addicted. It’s easy to say when you aren’t susceptible, but clearly some people are and it’s not very productive to be dismissive of the primary way they make money.

Your “fatal counter point” is that you like it, and surely every single human brain feels the exact same way?

Belize was the Brits, not Americans.

My only issue has always been that I cannot throw more money at the ape. So I buy the game for gaming-adjacent friends and almost always ruin their lives convert them

The tax being on your income and not entirely on corporations always felt like a fairly biased distinction. If companies paid the entire income tax long before it got to you, and you were simply paid ~2/3rds as much, I feel like people’s opinions would be different despite not much changing.

Whether or not this splits them is up to the useless old geezers who should have retired decades ago.

I’d have traded Bernie for axing all politicians over 60.

There are 3 years and 11 months many of us spend fighting for that. Then there’s one month where keeping the literal modern nazis out of power requires some unsavory choices.

I was sleeping in my parents room, on the floor, till I was embarassingly old.

Turns out I had/have Tinnitus and found the background noise of whatever show they were falling asleep to made it infinite easier to sleep.

I have three bottles, still sitting neatly in their half of the 2 pack packaging. It hurts.

Chaos like… basic social policies most of the modern world embraced half a century ago?

Seems like that isn’t going to be particularly productive for anybody but russia?

It’s really simple. If you aren’t a sociopath, you never reach having so much money.

The list of “American Presidents that weren’t deeply problematic as individuals” is a very short one, and I think the only one I’ve heard a good argument for is ole Jimmy Carter.

But Trump is still magnitudes more problematic than any of the other individuals listed, and it’s whataboutism like yours that led us here.

After finishing the game and giving it the detailed look it deserves

I never thought it was possible to concentrate so much middle school english teacher energy into a single sentence, but here we are.

long term

If you can remember THACO, tabletop games have survived needing to change a few systems in the past

Data labeling is a real and useful task that adds value.

It makes sense for a public figure trying to reach people. It won’t work because of the algorithm ™, but I can understand still wanting to try.