HumbleFlamingo @ HumbleFlamingo @beehaw.org

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Spoiler, it's a trap. Today it's trump being removed from all the ballots for legit reasons, tomorrow it's AOC being removed from ballots from half baked fever dreams. The GOP does not operate in good faith, they will abuse this as they see fit.

Realtors get paid when they sell a house, but it's only 2.5%-3.0% of the sale price. Getting someone to pay an extra 10% on a house nets them an additional 0.25%-0.3%, it's chump change to them. Selling a one million dollar home for $1.1 million nets them $27,500. Selling 2 one million dollar homes for $900k nets them $45,000.

Over the past year I'm averaging about 1.1 kwh per day per square meter on my system.

Houses that I bid $30,000 over asking price and someone still swooped in and bid even more.

Asking price is such a lie. But also keep in mind that it's not just about price, it's also about contingencies. Hyperbole but if I have 2 offers, one is $450k all cash no inspection, and the other is $550k contingent on their cat liking it, I know which I'm going with. That being said DO NOT waive the inspection. Unless you're a contractor who can handle anything that goes wrong, you don't want to risk it. You could get a great house, or you could buy a money pit.

It's crazy, I got my offer accepted because their realtor liked my realtor better than the others. They talked to my realtor on the side, said they had another offer for 4% more than ours but didn't like the other realtor and if we met it they'd accept with no counter.

I get everyone hates HOAs, but this is flat wrong. HOA rules are material facts about the property, they must be disclosed before buying. They will be disclosed in escrow, if not earlier. When they are disclosed, read them over and bail if you don't like them or ask for a price reduction.

I’m going to have to respectfully disagree here.

If people can’t stay reasonably polite, they should excuse themselves from the conversation. Once I realized there was no way to steer the conversation back to reasonable polite, I disengaged from it.

I think it’s perfectly fair to expect people to excuse themselves if they are unable to be reasonably polite and operate in good faith.

And to be clear the discussion from my point of view, and I believe others in the thread was not “when are civilian casualties OK”. It’s a trolley problem, and there’s a ton of people on both tracks. Both tracks have civilians and both have soldiers.

The big difference between your genocide example (and I understand you believe it is an extreme example and not a perfect analog) is no one was taking the ‘Harm is OK if position if X’. Both sides wanted to minimize harm done.

Sounds good.

I appreciate the comments.

From my perspective, everyone was having a good chat/debate about the moral issues of cluster munitions, except one person who unable to remain respectful. I called them out but instead of being introspective about it, they doubled down. Other users called them out and they tripled down.

I think everyone in the thread was operating from the standpoint of ‘do the least harm’, and I think reasonable people can do that and remain respectful. It would be very different if some was taking the ‘kill them all, war crimes are neato’ standpoint, but that’s not the case.

I think it should be entirely possible to have a respectful conversation on difficult and controversial topics as long as people operate in good faith. To the euthanasia parallel, I think the analog to what happened would be one person believing that euthanasia should be allowed no questions asked, and another person thinking there should be the simplest of non-binding reviews done first. And even though they are nearly identical in opinion, and miles away from the other side of the spectrum, the first blows up at the second because of the slight curtailment on individual freedom.

Honestly I kinda think a weekly thread about tough moral questions could be really informative and open peoples eyes to new perspectives.

I’m frustrated too.

I’m trying to comment on things, and have genuine and engaging conversations. But it feels like if you’re not 100% aligned with the community, there’s free reign to be harassed. We’re supposed to Be(e) Nice, and I was. I was arguing in good faith, I wasn’t trolling, or anything else nefarious. My view was twisted in bad faith, they claimed I would be first in line to defend heinous acts. I corrected them, saying in no uncertain terms that I would not. They could have just apologized when I set the record strait but they just kept coming back lying about my views and continued to slander me. I reported it, nothing was done.

So I’m not really sure what to do. The conduct was inexcusable. A quick and simple ‘sorry for the misunderstanding, glad you don’t support heinous acts’ would have sufficed. But no, because I’m not as far to the left as they were, I’m wrong, every view I have is suspect, and free to be slandered. A few users did come to my defense which was nice.

I don’t know if others are experiencing the same thing. But I know I’m very hesitant to comment on anything that could be controversial.

I was under the impression that there were passengers. I recall from the testimony something about non-human-biologics being inside, or something like that.

It sounds like BS to me. We’re asked to believe there is an alien civilization that is so advanced that it can travel the stars. So sure of their ability they would travel themselves. However they are also somehow incompetent enough that they crash a ship on our planet? So highly advanced we can’t even fathom how they could travel so far to us, but they don’t have redundant systems?

This is political theater and a distraction. I believe there is life out there, but it’s out there, really really, REALLY far away.

Someone with more experience can correct me, but I doubt you’ll get enough energy transfer via the radiator in the house.

I think you’d get a lot more mileage out of an attic fan. Keeping the attic cooler during the day will slow the heating of the house.

You may also want to take a look at better roofing materials. There are roofing materials designed to reflect more of the sun’s energy as well as radiate what heat does get absorbed better than others.

https://www.energystar.gov/products/cool_roofs_emissivity

Could you try and split up some things you normally cook into parts then add the flavor part to everyone but his at the end?

For example roast some chicken thighs in the oven, salt pepper basic seasoning. Saute some veggies and tofu (for the vegetarian) in a pan, again with salt, pepper, maybe garlic etc. Server over rice. Then give him just that, but then you add some sorta sauce to bring it all together? Maybe a curry?

you’ve spent a bunch of time complaining that i’m being uncharitable to you

Because you are.

how can your position here be anything but explicitly in favor of that?

I. Do. Not. Support. Ukraine. Executing. POWs. Full. Stop.

I’m done, you’re arguing in bad faith, and clearly have no intention of stopping.

okay but…

No buts, this isn’t about cluster munitions anymore. This is about your conduct here.

Stop trying to put words in my mouth. Stop setting up straw men to tear down. It’s not acceptable for normal users, it’s not acceptable for moderators.

under your established premises

You clearly do not understand my premise if you think the accidental and tragic death of civilians from a unexploded ordinance is the same as executing POWs. I don’t even know how to respond, there is a clear difference.

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Using cluster munitions has consequences, not using them also has consequences. This is a trolley problem with 2 shitty outcomes. However the people who have the most information, the most to gain, the most to loose, and have to deal with the ongoing consequences believe that adding cluster munitions to the arsenal is the best option. They have weighed the consequences of using them against not using them and they’re going to use them.

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I have been nothing but polite and arguing in good faith. You have not. Be(e) nice, Be(e) Better.

how is it suddenly beyond the pale in such circumstances under your premises to execute Russian soldiers

No, that is NOT the issue. You said I would be first in line to defend them executing Russian soldiers. Which is absolutely false.

Don't put words in my mouth.

this is sort of what i mean here, by the way. you are the sort of person who is going to, if Ukraine starts executing Russian soldiers or taking retributive action against citizens of Ukraine who support Russia for whatever reason, be the first in line to defend that on these frankly horrifying grounds.

How dare you say I would find that acceptable.

That is not acceptable conduct for a moderator.

Ukraine has thought about this. They are bombing there own territory. They know this will leave unexploded ordinance. The know the more they use them, the more risk it is to their own citizens. They know if they use them in civilian centers they risk killing their own citizens. They're not stupid, please don’t pretend like they are.

i also don’t think “the bad guys are doing this” is justification for also doing a bad thing that is widely recognized as a crime.

They’re fighting for survival, that’s plenty justification. They were invaded, Russia kidnapped their children and disappeared them. War sucks, people, including civilians, die. The longer this war goes on, the more people will die. The longer this war goes on, the more unexploded ordinance, conventional or cluster, will be left.

I’m sorry I just don’t understand your perspective. It seems like you believe that Ukraine would use these without caution within their borders because other aggressor nations have used them without cation outside their borders. That they will not put any effort into cleanup of their borders at the end of the war because other aggressor nations didn’t cleanup outside their borders at the end of a war.

It seems like you think they’re going to bomb their own cities and just leave them to be stumbled upon later. There will be a massive cleanup effort after the war is done, it will go on for years, or likely decades. Cluster munitions will help end the war sooner, that’s just an objective fact. Yeah, they suck, so do conventional bombs, so do mines, so does war in general.

The big difference here is Ukraine is bombing their own territory. Ukraine is not going to use these indiscriminately, they're not going to target civilian areas (like Russia already has). They have an invested interest in using them carefully and cleaning up the mess ASAP as soon as the war is over.