You’re basically saying: Christians don’t read the bible, they just act like their peers and all the bad habits that can go with that.

They’ve spent decades demonizing the left so thoroughly that any idea that they dislike and can associate with the left hey do so ad nauseam.

So any idea that would help those on the right just has to be called liberal and they’ll vote against it even if it hurts them too. It’s literally an unthinking knee-jerk hatred and reaction at this point. No thinking required.

What? No matter how bad a diet I’ve had this has never been a thing.

Used to be they expected you to dump money into gambling, even cheap single-play slots, that’s why you could get $7 buffets and $70 rooms. It’s become like everything else seeking to extract every last $ from visitors. Expensive rooms, expensive food, and even the 25¢ slots want you to dump several in for a single play.

I went to Vegas several times as a kid and was always surprised at how “cheap” stuff was because the gambling paid for a lot, but it’s insane now.

Never heard of them, had to look it up. Seems kinda a spotty record depending on the manufacturer.

I instantly skip anything AI that attempts legitimacy. I’m irritated at the attempt to grab my attention with complete fakery.

I do occasionally watch some of the disturbing fever-dream clips simply because they are hallucinatory and seem to flow the way a human mind might grasp facets of something and amplify or distort the flow.

Did we forget? I kinda feel like this is an extension of the BLM persecution. It worked so well they decided to keep using the same techniques.

Pretty simple and effective.

I have no doubt the world will be fine, but the hypothetical we’re discussing isn’t just one or two rich bastards knocking off a year with their legal estate already taken care of in a will…we’re suggesting more direct action assisting their departure en masse - which isn’t going to happen without a lot of other upheaval causing all kinds of economic turmoil that we’re ignoring for the sake of this argument.

Ok, let’s look at this…

IF billionaires were removed from the picture, what would be the result?

There would be investment assets in various holding entities that would then be what, up for grabs? Sold off? Put in probate? Trillions in stock alone would suddenly be ownerless. How would that affect the market and the regular person’s investments?

Multiple BoD positions and CEO positions opening up. How would those be compensated? Just make more people rich?

Material possessions originally worth absurd sums now up for grabs to nobody who could realistically afford to use or maintain them (yachts, palatial homes, etc). Manufacturers of luxury goods would vanish (stupidly expensive watches, clothes, cars).

How would you prevent some other greedy, power-hungry f_cks from taking up the reins and putting us right back where we started? There is no point in civilization’s history where greedy f_cks haven’t existed, so how do you prevent their grubby fingers from tipping the scales right back in favor of piling all the money and power in their corner?

What are the unintended consequences?

(This is NOT an argument implying we should keep billionaires, just asking realistically and pragmatically what the result would be should they no longer exist)

Or save them redundantly to several archive-quality hdds. Why have 20 blu-ray dvds for one copy of a collection when you could have 3 complete copies on 3 hdd. Both are life limited media, both will eventually require re-archiving. One has potential for mechanical failure, the other more likely to physically degrade. Pick your poison, or do one of each.

You really need to “research” it after already laying blame? Quire apparent your mind is made up.

I’m not going to suggest european/western companies be “better” for a country and continent that has suffered centuries of abuses by those same people, but at the same time it is perfectly sane to question whether or not a military junta, in an area historically also terrorized by those same kinds of “leaders”, won’t just siphon off all the money to foreign bank accounts until they too are killed or run away to another country and live off their gains.

That’s not an argument in favor of either group, it’s saying maybe out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I have yet to encounter an automatic tip calculation that doesn’t base the tip on the total bill including taxes. It’s a pretty infuriating cash grab. Not only am I directly having to pay an employee’s wages so the restaurant doesn’t have to, I’m having to tip the government, too? (Yeah, I know the government doesn’t get the tip)

Talking about online privacy has become the “safe sex talk” of the last decade or so. You have to keep reminding kids so that it sticks. Nothing you say online is private, it can all be copied/screengrabbed/recorded/photographed and shared by the recipient. What you say, any images you post, etc. On school or work devices they can essentially see most everything, nothing is private. Even if you make efforts to cover your tracks, a truly determined agency with enough resources likely will find out who you are if they want to.

They don’t come out with original work that gets people interested and/or they enshittify the franchise. If GreatGame was good, we’re on GreatGame VI with microtransactions, paid skins, fortnite play, no immersive single player campaign, and ads with no real change to anything else.

Plenty of jobs for non-poor have random drug testing as well, for instance some jobs that are DOT regulated in the US, like flight crew.

Assuming anyone involved in building that place will bother listening to a judge.

Your entire comment assumes the state of the art for lab growing proteins is static and will not enjoy economies of scale.

Vs the plastic surgery and bottle blonde Fox News clones that the republicans prefer?

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/feb/20/women-fox-news-dress-alike-republicans-blondes-pundits-ann-coulter-kellyanne-conway-rightwingers