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*: and by "common" I mean "as I believe most Christians understand it.". I'm sure some don't, and that there's at least one sect that would call me funny names for saying anything.

Common* christian theology posits that God is a perfect judge of law and fact, seeing as she has both infinite patience, infinite subjective time, and accurate knowledge of everyone's points of view.

"Why does evil persist on Earth then" comes down to either said evil being necessary for some unseen purpose, said evil being irrelevant to God's plans, or said evil being the consequence of some mortal privilege. Or some combination thereof.

There has been a lot of christian thought about why evil persists, and settling on an answer to it is essentially the base of all persistent ecumenical schisms. Other religions add even greater complexity, because once you examine perspectives off the abeahamic tree you quickly find that not even "Good" is consistently defined.

The moral and philosophical questions don't get much easier if you remove God from the equation, or even if you adopt a nihilistic "only the momentary physical now matters" perspective.

If you don't believe me, try coming up with an answer to "why is killing bad" that you can get agreement on. (Not just "is killing bad," but an actual casual why.)

According to snopes, it looks like you need either fraud, professional misconduct, or an interaction beyond an anonymous donation.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/woman-sued-sperm-donor-for-child-support/

'course, it's easy to imagine a woman telling some guy she wants a "sperm donor" and then being awarded child support. Which, in fairness, is also usually a strong argument from the guy to have partial custody.

And "dance", "on", "the head of", and "pin".

"Can" weirdly enough doesn't have sufficient variation to introduce uncertainty here.

They didnt just leave a gun lying around, and they're not suing the gun company. To get a gun you have to go to a store that sells deadly weapons and give your money to someone who will tell you that it's a deadly weapon that will kill people. A gun that kills someone is doing exactly what you bought it for.

The parents in this case left an electronic stuffed animal lying around, which they had been given by someone who almost certainly didn't say "be careful, this toy may convince your child to kill themselves.". So they are suing the manufacturer, the same way they would sue a drug maker whose medicine made their kid suicidal or they would sue a therapist who told their kid to commit suicide.

"Oh, you're just a bad parent" may be an accusation of contributory negligence, but it's not an assertion that should keep a third party from having to answer for their actions.

There are some applications where "industrial energy" isnt electricity or motion but instead simply heat.

AFAIK synthetic fuels would be more dollar-effkcient for many usages than an equivalent electric heater, even if we ignore the tooling cost.

But if its not a blowtorch and instead just motion, electricity is electricity and the only thing really special about "industrial use" is the amount demanded.

The customer for anyone selling PC components or accessories is whomever owns the PC. And if you dont have admin rights, you essentially don't own the PC.

Would you let your teenage kid approve a mechanic you don't know making changes to your car?

Graceful degredation is a choice, made in the negative by survivors of the dot-com bubbles that fiercely want to extract a level of customer loyalty that mere "actual companies" could never dream of.

Business software is a weird world. Made weirder than there absolutely are people paid by Intuit (not OP) whose job is to convince people who don't currently pay for QuickBooks that paying for QuickBooks will solve whatever quickbooks-esque problem they have.

It's worse in the IT side. I'm modestly sure that COBOL and Java are only still around because of IBM and Oracle sales staff.

(Maybe less so for Java than COBOL. Or maybe Oracle's sales team is just better.)

Starts reading.

"Hmm, I wonder where the presumption that pre-colonial values were entirely different than colonial ones comes from."

Get to the part about all the speakers at the conference being white

"Oh, there it is."

Racists and regressives do come in every color, but looking like the khlam or a meeting or the "my great grandpappy helped conquer Africa for Europe" club is something else altogether.

Honestly, at this point I'd settle for just "AI cannot be bundled with anything else."

Neither my cell phone nor TV nor thermostat should ever have a built-in LLM "feature" that sends data to an unknown black box on somebody else's server.

(I'm all down for killing with fire and debt any model built on stolen inputs,.too. OpenAI should be put in a hole so deep that they're neighbors with Napster.)

Clear reporting should include not just the incremental environmental cost of each query, but also a statement of the invested cost in the underlying training.

That's like asserting that a self-defense claim is an argument that you didn't hit the other guy. You really did hit him (copyright infringement / assault), but you have a defense that admits the literal facts but absolves you of liability (fair use / self-defense.)

You don't need to argue self-defense if you can convince the court that you didn't actually hit the other guy.

Fair use doesn't even enter the picture unless it's a copyright violation.

When you use someone else's copyright work in a way that they could take you to court to stop you, you can in some situations argue that the way you infringed on their copyright should be allowed: that is, that your use of the thing was fair.

OP's question smells like a software development question. Which would be well served by a straightforward answer of "if the parts you cut out are still protected by copyright, then your assembly and trace would be a derivative work".

If you think either Apple or Microsoft wouldn't do that,.you've likely too young to know about "hackingtosh" computers or too nerdy to have read the windows 11 coverage.

That neither company would do it without a profit motive is a good argument to ban both from running "app stores".

TY and YM.

Worth noting is that "transgender" is not a shortened form of "transitioning gender", but instead itself derives from the same latin root as "transition", as do "transfigure" or "transform".

So, "transgender" is closer to "changed gender" than "gender in flux."

(Which is similar to how "transphobe" or "homophobe" mean exclusion, as in "hydrophobic", and not fear as in "arachnophobia")

FWIW.

Just based on the MCU portrayal:

Barnes was a WW2 soldier who was captured and tortured as a POW, only to be saved by his now-buff 95-lbs weakling best friend. He fought alongside Rogers for an unspecified number of months, until he was thrown from a train.

After that, he was captured by the same mad scientist and brainwashed into a remorseless killing machine. His recovery from being so was long, and involved first being on the run, then a superhero civil war, and then some years as a guest of a mythical African kingdom.

Then endgame happened, and the whole darn world had one of two traumatic shocks. Barnes had some lingering trauma afterwards, but can be seen working through it in Falcon and Winter Soldier.

It's been a few years, but not once did they show him screaming at hydra in Russian.

In Thunderbolts, Barnes is literally the only team member to have actually come to terms with the terrible things he did. (Followed closely by Red Guardian). Whatever trauma he did experience was almost certainly something he had already processed.

US patents only last for 20 years. Technically, nothing is stopping you from making a part-for-part copy of a good laser printer from 2005 and selling it the same way some companies do replacement toner.

It's just that making a cheap and reliable appliance is HARD if there are dozens of distinct parts that all have to move together. Heck, id expect a near-clone of a Cuisinart stand mixer before I'd expect a printer.

(And, even then, i doubt it'd be much cheaper than just buying one used.)

Edit: patents, not parents.