HandwovenConsensus @ HandwovenConsensus @lemm.ee

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I see, so the idea is that they're responding to external pressure from governments and financial institutions? I guess I could see that, though it shouldn't be hard to prove by pointing to specific policies and loan conditions.

But also, some of these companies own those buildings. If they’re not in use, their value in the market drops.

How does that work? Why would a buyer care if the seller was using the building? If anything, I would think using them would depreciate their value due to wear and tear.

Also, it's not uncommon to call a creation after it's creator ("that painting is a Van Gogh"), so calling him "a Frankenstein" works too.

Yeah, I've been having the same issue. It clears the page after a BRIEF period of inactivity.

Here I thought I was doing OpenAI a favor by keeping garbage out of their training data...

I think it's possible that people are simply confused because the answers are the same for most decades. But one thing I would try maybe is setting the "value" of the different options, since that's what you're reading.

As I understand it, if no value is set, the browser should return the name instead, so the way you have it should work, but that may vary depending on browser.

EDIT: I tried to give an example, but lemmy keeps filtering out my explanation even if I enclose it in code tags. Hopefully you know what I mean.

Not to mention that even if one inventor decides not to release their creation, eventually someone else will make something similar.

Haha, fair. But, even just based on the quote, I don't think leftists are very known for caring what their ancestors think.

Interesting you hear the Skyrim quote that way, because I would interpret the character who says the quote to be more like a conservative nationalist.

Henry George wrote about this extensively. The solution is a tax on all land at just under 100% of it's rental value. That allows landlords to profit from the structures they build and maintain, but not from the land itself. It disincentivizes real estate speculation, lowering the cost of land and housing and improving accessibility to people who use it productively.

What turned me off of ESO was the class system. I just wanted to be an orc warrior or rogue, not a "dragon knight" or "night blade." While I would normally applaud the creativity, it seems out of place in an mmo. When I'm the legendary world-saving hero in the single player games, I get normal skills. When I'm one face in the crowd, I get these grandiose titles and flamboyant costumes that everyone else gets. Seems backwards.

They're written differently, but pronounced the same.

Ah, I see. I didn't realize there was more than one John.

John 3:17 is "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."

What's Johannes? Never heard of that book.

As an uninvolved party, after reading the thread, I understand that you feel frustrated and misunderstood. But I'm sorry to say that I feel like the failure of reading comprehension was on your part more than theirs.

It seems like the majority of people who responded to you argued that there are not two evils, but two parts to the same whole evil.

No one, that I saw, claimed you were saying that the Democrats were not evil. But the disagreement was that you see the Republicans and Democrats as two evils, while your opponents see them as one.

Whether or not you agree, that seems like a logically coherent belief to hold.

Having skimmed the original paper about the trolley problem, I think what the author was trying to illustrate was the difference between direct and indirect harm.

If you redirect the trolley, you're not trying to kill the man on the other track. You're trying to save the five on the first track by directing the trolley away from them. While the other man may die because of this, there's always the possibility he'll escape on his own.

Whereas if the judge sentences an innocent man to death, that is choosing to kill him. The innocent man MUST die for the outcome the judge intends. So there's culpability that doesn't exist in the trolley scenario.

In one case you're accepting a bad outcome for one person as a side effect, in the other you're pursuing it as a necessary step.

I agree. But there were a few moments where the Ferengi were shown not to behave consistently with the principles they espoused.

They shouldn't have had any problem with (Edit: Rom) forming a union, for instance. After all, what's wrong with a little collusion and price-fixing between the sellers of labor?

I guess some hypocrisy is to be expected in any society.

Star Trek: Picard has Picard too...

Am I the only one who's having trouble processing the fact that Leela and Nibbler casually murdered someone early in the episode? I mean Futurama has always shown a lot of dark or mean humor, but that really threw me. Especially when they followed it up with such a sentimental story. I don't like it when shows try to mix the two. Either I'm watching the show with the mindset that nothing matters, or I'm getting invested in the characters and their arcs. I don't know about other people, but I can't do both at once.

That makes sense.

And you never left there until you were 17?

(I know you're not OP, but still.)