The doing it doesn’t bother me so much as the “Hey so I was browsing through my downvotes and noticed you downvoted me. Justify your actions to me!” PMs.

That is not healthy behavior.

Well that’s consistent, if you accept their belief as true. Who cares about the mortal body when it’s a blink of an eye before eternal heaven?

Unfortunately, they are almost certainly mistaken. This is probably all they get.

Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.

Competitive markets are hated by private business owners

A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don’t like, and will actually act on at the polls.

I would have agreed with you before Trump. The power of conservative in-group solidarity is powerful, especially when multiplied by media support.

I did not intend to claim my college dinner conversation was a flawless political system, heh.

It may have come from the idea that in firing squads, some of the executioners have blanks.

But you’re probably right, its probably simpler and fine not to have fake voters. Though it would be funny to have some honey pots…

I remember in college sort of independently coming up with the idea (there’d be a large pool of representatives, to make bribery harder. And I think we had an idea of like some of them their votes secretly won’t count at the end, so your bribe might not even count)

Then one of my friends linked me to the wiki page and I was like “oh”

Rich people don’t want to give anything up.

Assholes don’t want their out-group to have anything nice. Even if it means they suffer.

Many people don’t know shit about fuck, and they’re just trying to get through the week.

My dad used to rant about how government should be run like a business,

Anyone who sincerely believes that is too fucking ignorant and or stupid to be taken seriously. They’re a hazard to themselves and their polity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_3%3A16

In the King James Version, this is translated as:

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Management are assholes and idiots.

Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.

But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.

Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office

Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don’t exist.

Buying drm free music is a good long term plan. You build a library you can share with friends and family.

Rich people are stupid.

You know how someone who plays a shooter using an aim-bot and god-mode is going to be bad at the game? Same principle. They have money, they don’t have to really struggle or practice, they never get good.

Seems like another example where the people making decisions are not qualified to make those decisions.

My current cat does not help with bugs. One time a giant centipede looking thing came into the bedroom, on the ceiling. He looked at it, got up, and left the room.

I see a lot of Nirvana shirts on the youth and I’m never sure if they like the band or just the shirt, either.

I did see a blue-haired youth with a My Chemical Romance shirt the other day and I’m pretty sure they were a sincere fan, though.

Sure, for a generous definition of “possible”. However I don’t see how you get from there to “either all are, or all are not”.

Like, you could at some point have said we don’t understand magnetism. You couldn’t from that argue that either all metals are magnetic or none are.

Ehh. It’s hard for me to relate to low executive function, but you’re not wrong.

I think the key metric isn’t time to reply. The stakes matter- replying quickly to a meme is less important than, like, making plans. If someone isn’t responsive about if they want to go, then I probably don’t get a ticket for them, and they can’t come to the show with us. Sorry. You were busy.

And the quality is also important. I’ve got friends that will reply like a day or two later, but then we usually have a whole conversation.

If someone is replying every few days with “lol” tier responses, it’s going to feel like a waste of my time.

either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not

man what