On Thunder, no complaints. The only other one I've used is liftoff so I can't give you a good comparison. All I can say is Thunder checks all the boxes I'm looking for.
I hate tipping in general, but I understand some people like to show their appreciation for a service done well. If that's the case, tip the repair person doing the labor, not the landlord!
Just in general, let's stop tipping like the people doing a job need my generosity to survive. Pay the people what the job is worth and stop asking me to make up the difference.
The Christian Old Testament and the Jewish Tenakh are basically the same book. "Useful Charts" has a great 7 part series about who wrote the Bible that I found fascinating as a non-believer. The book has so much influence over today's society that I think it's good to understand more about it even if isn't spiritually significant to you.
Thank you for the context. I feel like you could find similar sentiments today over less severe harms.
Honestly, that type of retaliation is happening right now by the descendants of those that wrote the Psalm. Goes to show we really haven't progressed much in how we treat each other in 3000 years.
While aeroponics are cool and interesting as hell, I'm pretty sure this is a bromeliad which are adapted to living on tree branches. They collect and hold water using funnel style leaves, not through aeroponics style root mist.
A great point! I feel like the overarching end goal is a meritocracy - people are rewarded for their talents and hard work. I'd wager most people agree with this goal.
The problem becomes disentangling history and circumstance from our ability to measure talent and hard work. The only way we know to break some social norms that hinder a true meritocracy is to unfairly manipulate the playing field in the short term, which in itself does not follow a meritocracy.
I think there are a few main obstacles:
Perceived talent and hard work that was actually the result of circumstance - those that think the system is currently working and therefore their position is justified.
Lack of acceptance that the goal is long term / generational. Those that are unwilling to accept a temporary 'manipulated meritocracy' in the short term that would allow a better one in the future.
The perfect use case is tickets to live events. One entity creates one NFT for each seat or spot available and can initially sell them. The owner of that NFT (ticket) can then do whatever they want with it without the need for a third party (Ticketmaster) to scalp the shit out of any subsequent transactions.
Proof of ownership of a single ticket at the time of the event is the end goal, which is what NFTs do.
Why this hasn't been done is pretty baffling to me.
What's better, is if artists want to provide a subset of tickets that are not resellable they can. Those tickets will only be accepted if a single transaction has taken place.
Ooo there's a great video on Minute Food about vanilla extract vs synthetic vanilla. It basically comes down to: if you cook the vanilla, synthetic will taste the exact same, if you never heat up the vanilla it might be worth getting the real stuff.
I assume the same is probably true of most oils, if you use EVOO for salad dressings it might be worth it, but if you're using it to saute you might as well use sunflower oil and save some money.
It does feel like we will reach the point of no return within our lifetime. It'd be really nice if we had established a universal basic income and universal human rights before we reach the point where human labor no longer gives us political influence.
Damn, everyone could have been right if the OG just relented. He changed his mind to agree people don't change their minds? Chess grandmaster move right there... What a missed opportunity.
Yes, I'm being nit-picky. All I was trying to say was the original phrasing was "democracy at large says an insurrectionist cannot run for office" which is untrue. It is a US implementation of democracy specific case.
Another country could have no restrictions on candidates and it would be completely democratic for an insurrectionist to run for office.
On Thunder, no complaints. The only other one I've used is liftoff so I can't give you a good comparison. All I can say is Thunder checks all the boxes I'm looking for.