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we'll see wrt cause. situation sucks though. i doubt any deliberate sabotage, this has all the makings of a tragic accident where maybe they'll find someone to blame and maybe (or maybe not) that will be fair to assess on someone who didn't have benefit of hindsight. my family used to drive...

not intentionally violating the constitution many times over would be nice. between lockdowns, osha abuse, and conspiring with big tech as agents to suppress speech, biden admin has far surpassed trump in flagrantly violating rights. trump admin was marginally better at that. but he did...

the problem with the police trying to claim imminent threat of harm is that they created imminent threat of harm...very little showing they were "law enforcement" and not potential felony assailants...probably because they were, in fact, criminals. the one thing i will agree with is that this...

you can test for "consciousness", the problem is first defining and accurately modeling it. the problem with "testing for it" right now is that we don't really know what we mean when we say the word. it's not the same as testing for magnetic force or how much friction there is...

it's hard to be optimistic about long term gdp growth when population is nearly guaranteed to contract at a scale only seen in history very rarely over the course of a few decades. accurate financial reporting isn't something i'd bet on from china too. population shrinking won't just be a...

has not been debunked. with civil war, we had evidence of insurrection. they headed a rebellious state that started firing bullets. with trump, there was not even sufficient evidence to charge him or literally anybody else with that specific crime. thus a judge ignoring that fact and...

he isn't even charged with that. the ruling class hates him though, which is one of the few things i like about him. it's amusing that somehow an out-group arrogant narcissist riles them up so much that they're expose their own corruption blatantly in broad daylight to go after him.

i voted 2+, but this isn't every session. it depends on the game being played, to some extent where i am in that game (late game eu 4 can be grueling, and i often run that < 2h so that i don't lose play quality to fatigue), whether i have somewhere else to bee soonish etc. this while many...

the evidence simply isn't there though. in this case, judges made the ruling against available evidence, not with it. it is an extreme outlier for a judge to (effectively) convict someone for insurrection while even people responsible for charging didn't make those charges in the first place...

it's true there are hundreds of pages and i've been gone a long time. that said, if you don't have a conviction, what's stopping anybody from claiming x participated in insurrection generally. even the people who were actually convicted in relation to 1/6 activity were not charged with...

something over 50% i guess? i'm not sure if that's enough, but for it to be what the game is "fundamentally" about that seems like it would require story to be at least half of what makes the game. ultimately this is an arbitrary definition though, i don't have a good basis for drawing the...

the hubris, perhaps, is believing that human brains are doing anything special to separate themselves from these things on the spectrum beyond merely being more complex (aka a "bigger program"). even in the definition of "awareness" used here, things are casually disregarded. when animals...

you would do this, even conceding that this man would take all possible actions to avoid harming people of his own volition, since he's a paragon of virtue? such a stance is a greater threat to the general public than this hypothetical man could ever be, even if he existed.

i guess it comes down to "fundamentally". what percentage of the experience depends on a defined story, vs one that player makes up on his own each time or having none at all. i suspect most people would put rpgs and point/click adventure games into "fundamentally stories", and games like 4x...

if only it counted consistently that said, for people who are legit insane and this is correctable via medication or other means, it doesn't make sense to treat them the same as people who maliciously victimize others...we reasonably expect different behavior between the two in the future. i...

it will be fun to see criminal charges against some folks in colorado and maine after all, election interference has been thoroughly established as a crime and threat to democracy. taking someone off the ballot alleging crimes for which that person wasn't convicted (or in one case even...

government interventions in healthcare, housing, and education subsidies do not appear to make these cheaper or more effective. private has a healthier set of incentives at baseline than government unless you can somehow constrain government to such a local level that it's trivial to identify...

i'm not opposed to the idea of infrastructure built for the public coming from government. i'm a bit more skeptical that government spending on all of this will be even reasonably efficient. that said, it's still something that a government should actually be doing, rather than illegal loan...

sometimes doing nothing is preferable to exacerbating an overspending problem. depressingly, i could put the above sentence in a forum that leans left or right and they'd both (correctly) assume it's true for the other party.

depends what you've already seen and/or what you're in the mood for. my "power level", as my friend puts it, is only so-so in that i probably won't be able to recommend good stuff that's relatively obscure.