Yeah, a situation like this can easily wind up where even if you’re asking for consent on every little thing, and making them know they can say no, there’s no real way to KNOW certainly whether or not they’re actually consenting eagerly, or just think that saying no isn’t allowed or whatever. They might even justify it in their heads that “I signed this contract” or “I’ve got nowhere to go” or whatever.

This is the real issue. Their values systems are broken because you can literally do ANYTHING with that much money. Wanna become a world class athlete? So long as you’re choosy with your definitions of both world class and athlete, you can hire people to teach you, hire chefs and nutritionists and doctors to plan every single thing that goes into you to make you good at your Thing.

Money is truly a superpower, but that superpower is reality warping. After you’ve created your fourth harem and played poker with Einstein, metaphorically speaking, what else could you want to do? It’s part of why all these guys believe in some sort of apocalypse, space travel, AI God, or metaphysics - with money alone, they can basically shape their entire world to their whim, so you want something that you’re still nominally able to ride out, but that will radically alter your reality so there’s SOMETHING new you can experience.

A lot of this is just the loss of proper third spaces where kids can get outside. Now if you and your friends are walking around the mall, you get security hassling you. Hell, even if you’re just in a park or wandering your neighborhood, cops/rangers/randoms will give you shit if you don’t have a specific reason to be there. Don’t even think of trying to hang out at your school after hours, or using their fields/playgrounds to play on.

Yes, some of it IS cultural. But at least from my N=4 between my nieces and step nieces, kids really enjoy playing outside weather permitting. It’s just that they don’t have places to do that. Sure, you might have a park in your neighborhood - does it have sidewalk access? Sure, your kids might have bikes or scooters or skates - can they safely ride them without getting turned into a speed bump by a high-line truck or SUV?

“Also we’re just doing this to make HR happy, we’re already gonna hire my nephew.”

Hitler actually sent material support to India during WWII (because keeping England bogged down fighting a revolution is obviously a good thing if you’re trying to stop them from redirecting those efforts to either Japan or yourself). So there’s that too.

Nah, that’s a mid-30 to 40s design. By that point, you could absolutely hit highway speeds if you had open space. Clyde Barrow (yes, Bonnie and Clyde’s Clyde) preferred stealing Fords when he was robbing banks in the 30s, because one of the more popular Ford models was a V8, which could hit 60mph and outpace a lot of older police vehicles.

Yes, it’s full-steel and the thing will likely decapitate you in a crash if you don’t get a steering column through the sternum, but old cars got fast a LOT faster than you think.

No, we definitely are trying to use rich whites as a patch on the leaking dam now that we’ve been trying to deport all the “illegals” as fast as we can (and to get the administration filthy fucking rich). “Rich” in this case being "over $50k/year so we might be able to get them to buy a car and rent an apartment Considering they’re talking about lifting the immigration restrictions on white South Africans specifically.

Yeah, this is basically where I’m at. We don’t want to make Canada an actual state. What we want to do, is make it a colony, in the 17th century idea: we rule everything, and whatever you do, it just gets shipped southwards to prop up what’s left of the imperial core.

If you’re not a Pokemon fan, there’s also a pile of quality hacks for the Fire Emblem games.

And to shove justification off to a black box. Awful hard to put an algorithm on trial.

Actually basically yes. NASA has had decades of practice at minimum viable operation capability, making their spacecraft and rovers all but drag themselves along even when anything else would stop working.

That being said, it’s important to know how to sanity-check the math, especially in the era of Copilot in Excel. We just found that our company’s configuration enables it by default on new workbooks, as we found when it was just…making up numbers when asked to do simple addition.

There were some survivors. Some died willingly knowing what they were doing, a lot of them wound up being forced at gunpoint. The entire compound was being guarded by men with rifles, since they were rightly afraid the US was just going to come down and kill them because the cult had legitimately just murdered a US congressman.

Fun fact: the actor ad-libbed in “locked” instead of “encoded” originally, and it worked well enough that it became a thing right then, pretty much.

This mission especially brought the “space travel is fake” crowd out. The rocket launch explodes over a deserted area, nobody’s onboard, all the missions are faked, and the splashdowns are in restricted waters to sell the simulation.

Usually this is on top of “well you can’t survive the Van Allen radiation belts”, as if radiation safety and shielding is not a problem we understood and solved before we even lit off Mercury.

Ultimate reasoning for it is either a vague notion of “control”, bread and circuses, or “they do this to defy God”, because space isn’t real and the Firmament lies above the sky.

You’re not throwing propane bombs at libraries if you’re doing some sort of “precisely targeted attack”.

My work phone for my old job, lived at work. When I clocked off, unless management really wanted to go dragging my actual cell number out of my resume, I was unreachable. If it’s that much of an emergency, you can get someone else.

Yeah, I thought the larger body of evidence all but proves that it was a wet market source.

Nah, “conditional approval” is written into the regulation. You might know this wording better as “pay us a large sum and we’ll give you approval.”

Yeah, their sales team is incredibly fucked over from their only significant revenue being various AI farms.