Alien Nathan Edward @ reverendsteveii @lemm.ee

Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short

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Precisely this. The few rights that feudal peasants did have are being ferreted out as "inefficiencies"

okay but land ownership and rent seeking are inherent, inevitable parts of capitalism. Even Smith talked about how rent-seeking is an unavoidable outcome of a system where one person can own what another needs, and about how in order to succeed capitalism will require some way of discouraging or taxing rent-seeking. “As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.” This isn't a new phenomenon and it's not a return to pre-capitalism, it's capitalism doing what we all new it was going to do from the beginning.

Silicon Serfdom?

No that's still capitalism. Capitalism is still the problem. To call it anything else is apologetics, the core issue is that the private ownership of the means of production leads to a concentration of power in the hands of precisely the wrong kind of people after selecting for and reinforcing the most selfish behaviors in them. It then allows them to essentially usurp whatever form of government exists.

this, but doubly so with Eve. You'll notice that we often skip over Cindy and Dave and go right to Eve, so often that I don't even know off the top of my head whether Charlie and Deandra are the conventional names for persons 3 and 4 in this construct. That's because this construct is used a lot when talking about secure communications and the convention is that "evil" "eavesdropping" Eve is the person trying to destroy, intercept or alter the communication between Alice and Bob. Her role is built into her name.

Huesephine, Dewbert and LeBron

funny, that's exactly what a retraction is. you don't destroy the original stuff, you just publish a statement that says "Hey, that stuff? it's no good." individual journals have their own policies, of course, but that's the template from which reputable journals build their policies. so the problem you're trying to fix simply doesn't exist.

no it's important to have a mechanism by which to say "this was wrong. we fucked up. don't use this as a source, attempt to replicate it, or use its results as a basis for new research." intellectual honesty and rigor are more important than "balls".

the fact that he can't restrain himself long enough to stop dumping RNC donations directly into E Jean Carroll's pocket is absolutely delicious

the fact that Republicans are either going to win this next election or commit a bunch of terrorism (and I'm using the inclusive "or" there) is a little less tasty

Did you bring enough for the whole class?

95% of weapons do and they have a bunch of things designed to detect weapons in particular. They don't exactly have a rotten fish scanner.

Oh man my bad, I thought you were like me and enjoyed this sort of shit for its own sake. Hope you have a good one too!

we're on the verge of a recession I gotta cut back

someone should make and serve my meals for me

this is certainly why you have primaries. not participating in the primaries is like saying "I don't care" when someone asks you what restaurant you want to go to then complaining about the menu selection when you get there.

assuming an even split between republicans who think they're both too old and democrats who think they're both too old, roughly 30% of the population voting would be enough to sway either party's nomination process should these people decide to.

Let’s say your three months in on a new rental home. Landlord may be averages $100-$200 per month profit, so reasonably they’ve only collected $600 in total profit from you. AC now breaks and needs a $10,000 replacement. Who pays? Have they collected enough money from you so that you are paying for it?

This only seems to not make sense if you assume that the landlord hasn't rented the property in the past and won't continue to rent it in the future, and also that you assume that revenue is the same as profit, which it fundamentally is not. If they're only making $100-$200 in profit how do you account for the rest of the money that's paid in rent? There's no way they're renting me a house with central air for only $100-$200/mo, is the rest of the money I pay in rent maybe, and hear me out here, going to cover expenses like a new AC unit?

you might as well start arguing that every business ever pays for things because of money, they’ve collected in their patrons.

I'm arguing exactly that, that every business pays for things with or in anticipation of revenue. It's built into the idea of seeking profit. I'm a W2 employee and the business that employs me pays me with revenue they bring in and in anticipation of being able to use my work to bring in more revenue than they pay me. It's kinda fundamental to the rationally self-interested profit motive that's supposed to drive this whole economic system.

you've abandoned your original point, now you're just saying "not all landlords are shitty" when you started by saying "the money to fix rental homes comes from landlords". it doesn't matter how we look at buying a new AC unit for a rental vs an owner-occupied property, the money spent on that AC unit will come from the people who live in the property. The occupant always pays for everything.

my mobile PC cost $600 and is more powerful than the next gen switch.

Where does the landlord get the money? Do landlords often rent property at a loss? Is being a landlord a charity, where someone takes their own money and uses it to subsidize a stranger's housing costs?

Of course not. Landlords set the rent such that rent - costs > 0. The money to repair a rental home ultimately comes from the renter. The landlord may pay up-front, as in your example with a derelict property, but that's with the intention of making back what they pay and more in the form of rent. Like all businesses, the cost of doing business plus all the profit the market will bear gets passed on to the consumer.

Torchlight is Torchlight. You might like it because not Diablo, but Torchlight.

I play a lot of single player shooters. One thing they all have in common is that I know they exist, which I'm thinking could potentially be part of the problem with this one. Based on reactions in this thread it seems like a lot of people are in the same position I'm in, where the first they hear of the game is when it's being pronounced a flop. I'm getting big The Producers vibes.