I like how it’s only graded 9.6. I take it a true perfect 10 grade must be worth infinity dollars. It’s like warp speeds!

Aye captain! See you at Warp 10!

Yeah. When you’re breaking your back out in the fields all year and you’ve just barely managed to fill your granary with enough food for the winter, you’re not going to tolerate a band of marauders coming through and stealing all the food. Property was a matter of life and death for the entire village.

We’re all descended from these agrarian cultures (except for some of the indigenous folks who hail from hunter gatherer communities). These strong property rights are deeply rooted in our cultures.

It was definitely there with agriculture. Hunter gatherers had a lot of different ways of organizing their societies but early agrarian societies quickly developed a military caste and despotic governments.

We’ll have to agree to disagree then.

Have a great day!

You didn’t have people like Musk or Bezos, you had people like Stalin or Beria. If you’re going to try to argue that that’s some kind of improvement, I can’t really take you seriously.

I would caution anyone who thinks life is better under another regime just because the numbers are smaller. That’s a pitfall many people here seem to keep falling into. Numbers are meaningless without a discussion of quality of life. We’re ALL living like kings (yes, even people struggling to afford a 1BR studio working a retail job) compared to people under Stalinism.

How does the state-run alternative system avoid being captured by an elite class?

I see bits and pieces of the argument you’ve presented here, but this is the first time I’ve seen the whole thing. It’s illogical. It does not follow whatsoever. If elites can capture the system we have now, they can also capture a state-run system of services.

If you can’t trust the government right now, the thought of giving it even more power should make you trust it less, not more.

Ever since I realized that was a meme (trying to look cute with deliberate pigeon toes) I notice it everywhere. It never looks cute to me!

That’s a nasty case of pigeon toe! Might want to see a physio!

Yes, which they open with a key. Not exactly a fortress of security but at least a modicum more secure than a mailbox by someone’s front door, or worse, leaving the mail on the porch right in front of the door.

The only issue is for older folks or people with disabilities that limit their mobility. Thankfully, Canada Post already has delivery accommodation services for people who need them, including home delivery.

Chess is not segregated by gender. There are women’s tournaments and there are open tournaments. There are no men’s tournaments. Men are way overrepresented at all the open tournaments, but women do compete in all of them.

Women’s representation is increasing at the top levels but it’s a gradual process. Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan (侯逸凡) are so far the only women to reach the top 100 players in the world and regularly compete with success at the top open tournaments.

Yeah and since what they add doesn’t come from you, it’s not your idea, so it isn’t coming from you anymore. It’s like if you commissioned an artist to paint something for you and then gave the painting to a friend and told them you painted it for them… no, you didn’t!

Love how the truant officer has a sign in his car window telling everyone who he is! That kid should probably get back to school so he can learn to read (or at least learn the meaning of the word truant)!

Of course it will be correct: the prompt contains the idea you wanted to convey. I’ll read that and know what you meant. Feeding that prompt into an LLM doesn’t add any new ideas from you, it just inflates the text like a balloon and gussies it up with useless window dressing.

If anything, it obscures what you meant!

Too small too! Better to get a projector and just fill the entire wall with a gorgeous 4K image!

If you’re going to send me the output of some LLM, do me a favour and just send me the prompt instead. Otherwise I’m going to spend as much time reading it as you spent writing it.

Bananas are perishable, so yeah it’s kinda dumb to hoard them unless you are planning to bake a lot of banana bread. Mmmmm banana bread!

Depends on how powerful they are.

I’m sure millions of Ukrainians would love to tear billionaire Putin to shreds, they just can’t get at him.

Live during a 4th of July address he steps up to the mic and opens his mouth to speak, then sharts very loudly as his eyes roll back in his head and his tongue lolls out.

We tried that. The government took the money and spent it on bombs instead!

Skeleton crews are overworked and burn out faster, leading to more turnover. They may save you money in the short term but they cost more money in the long term. They also open the door for more shoplifting, as an understaffed store is an easy mark. Lastly, they reduce sales because a poorly staffed store is a messy and understocked store. If things get bad enough, people stop shopping there outright. No one wants to shop in a place that feels dirty and unsafe.