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This is so far above my head that I’m not certain what to be excited about, but I’ve always been convinced the answer is magnets so..

I would put a lot more weight on her choice to live with you (pretty good indication she likes you quite a bit) than on a quip she made in a single conversation. It’s very hard to make a relationship work if small things like this can destabilize things to the extent that you’re questioning marriage! Try to measure your relationship by zooming out a bit more and considering whether she seems to enjoy your company etc. If you’re very upset save the assessing for a time where you’re calmer and focus on something else for awhile.

Broo I knew something was off about that saga. Pretty bold, Coke.

A friend who is a recently new medical Dr. also told me about an unintended (well—lobbyist intended) consequence of Obamacare (USA specific ofc). Basically the bill included a clause requiring providers to use electronic healthcare records. This was supposed to be partially so that the hospitals could coordinate patient information better but that bit didn’t work because everyone implemented their own system and the systems largely don’t talk to eachother. But who now gets a tidy copy of all the patients’ charts? Their insurance companies ofc! Insurance companies are using the more detailed info to reject reimbursements if the chart doesn’t include extremely specific language the insurance company can say “that wasn’t documented to standards” and just not pay for it. If providers (doctors as well as hospitals) want reimbursements they have to keep up with all this language specified by the insurance companies and make sure they train everyone on the updates about once every six months. Obviously this puts more strain in smaller systems (and economically disadvantaged ones) that don’t have the money to basically hire lawyers to keep up with the documentation required in order to receive reimbursement. It’s absurd to me our doctors are having to put so much time into paperwork (and apparently having to wait 15 seconds between every click in the EHR databases but that’s almost a separate issue).

If someone has institutional access to the research article linked pls share the info!

they mention a long track record of harsher treatment of queer content but I wish they linked to that data or mentioned a couple comparisons for context.

Unfortunately, yes. It connects to the engine reader and also has a gps. It’s pay per mile but with a cap on per mile charges so nice for people who don’t drive a lot. It costs $30 USD a month generally (which is cheap for my area). Lemonade (the rental insurance company) just bought it out. When I was with Progressive (a big American car insurance company) they offered a similar device though without much of a discount from what I could tell (I did not opt in). It also had a gyro device of some sort to tell if you were an aggressive driver. thought it was creepy at the time but here I am.

No More Deaths / No Más Muertes Is a great organization that helps put water out.

Selfishly want Canada to road test some ridiculous tax for residential properties that you own but don’t personally reside in. 50% progressive increase in property taxes for every residential property beyond the one you live in or something.

Sounds great! Unfortunately insta is the only site I’ve kept to keep up with irl friends and family and I use it almost exclusively for that purpose (I don’t browse strangers’ posts) so it’s a much harder shift than Reddit — kbin

My insurance device already tracks my car (can be useful in a crowded lot).

I cherish my job a lot more (when before I was happy to switch every year). If companies want to retain good employees they’re going to have to adapt to the changes in the market.

Edit: guess I didn’t really answer, I agree with teleporter guy and private office guy. It’s ridiculous to ask people to return to a shared office.

There’s something about knowing there are hundreds of others listening to the same station at the same time that makes my local EDM station somehow more interesting than just shuffling the same playlist at home. Could your issue with albums have a social element similar to how watching a live sports match is just more exciting than the rerun an hour later even if you don’t know the outcome?

Also, I disagree with people saying that albums tend to be more boring because only the radio hits are good! I have many albums I like to listen to start to finish.

If you adopt a utilitarian perspective I agree (and I also totally agree that this is a matter of philosophy, clearly the norms do not support my hot take). If only the end matters and not the reasons, I agree that the ethical quandary falls away.

I tend to think utilitarian ethics are quite useful for states or organizations, but I don’t think individual ethics are typically the utilitarian kind (though we are surely influenced by utilitarian analysis for example a lot of vegans are vegan for straight up environmental reason and therefore wouldn’t even need to contemplate the ethics of fake meat beyond environmental impact). I think there’s a more innate sense of ethics that makes me not want to eat something as vital and curious as a cow or a chicken. I’m not trying to reduce the total amount of harm in the world, I just don’t want to be the cause of the death of another entity when I can help it. Eating a vegan burger that looks and feels like a beef burger feels like symbolic support of a practice I don’t support. Perhaps if all beef were pseudo beef that would change things.

Hmm “murder” is usually a legal term but I think a lot of people believe in justified killing in a lot of cases. Usually in a movie or game the character is put into a narrative or context where it’s okay or understandable for them to kill. Even in cases where the character is supposed to be evil and depraved the story teller is kind of playing off the viewer or player’s preconceived assumption that, for example, killing innocents is wrong.

Serving someone what looks like a cut of beef (but really isn’t) doesn’t similarly problematize the product with context like storytellers usually do in games and other stories. It’s simply mimicking the real thing. Maybe a vegan restaurant with gory peta imagery would be a good comparison to how we might problematize meat subs similar to how storytellers recognize the depravity of killing in their creations while still including killing.

A game or movie that included rape or reasonless murder in a fully positive context/narrative would either be art or really bad taste.

Yes but I like the cannibalism example because it usually does a good job bringing forward the intuition I’m getting at with the hot take.

Another one is robot child sex worker—not hurting anyone directly (unless you believe in robot rights) but I think most people would deem it a problem. Looks like a duck sounds like a duck sort of thing.

meat substitutes go out of their way to mimic the taste of meat. Some even add characteristics that are supposed to mimic blood in the meat. To me, that is symbolically adding back in the violence and harm you are originally opposed to. If you just really like Jack fruit and it happens to taste similar to beef in some preparations I don’t think you’re a part of my ethical quandary.

Take robot or AI childporn as another example if cannibalism isn’t bringing home the intuition. It’s not harming children (at least directly) but it could reasonably be argued that it’s perpetuating and normalizing a violent and problematic practice.

If it is unethical to eat a thing than it’s unethical to eat something acting like that thing. Consider my cannibalism example.

Consider my cannibalism example (which is not actually cannibalism) or the example of whether AI child porn would be acceptable (I think most would find that it is not).