The fall of Rome took over two and a half centuries.

Sometimes you need to accept things are broken and move toward fixing them, not blindly stumble forward expecting everything to right itself.

But now my ice cream has cold spit on it

i have 1 until i learnt not everyone has one

What?

No I think it’s pretty clear that capitalism will point guns at them, and we will either win and exploit their resources for ourselves or die.

I think their point is that if the people making the games were given fair compensation that they would be more willing to sacrifice IP rights.

I don’t see what makes them think that other than their own personal feelings on the matter, but I think that’s the message.

Squelch in my ass

Listen, cut him some slack - it’s really hard to keep your hands dry when you’re writing inside of a bubble. They’re very soapy, and you can’t move too much or they’ll pop.

People don’t like the things they believe to be challenged, and many people fail to recognize what is a belief and what is a fact.

It’s the problem with knowing enough to not know how little you actually do (know).

Yes, oil and it’s byproducts are indeed a blight on the world. At least the way we use them, anyway.

You mean to say it’s stigmatized as a bad thing, and I’d accept that.

There’s an apple called Cosmic Crisp that has to be the worst thing I’ve seen come from the Honeycrisp variant of apple. Genuinely just awful taste and texture, like it’s got sand in it.

That being said, these are only a problem at supermarkets. Farmers markets are hard carries and don’t typically have the ‘grown for shelf life’ produce you see at your typical Walmart.

Just breathe better, god how simple do you need it to be? /s

You can certainly make an argument for young kids, i.e. teaching fractions and literally how to count (counting seconds).

Teenagers? No, not really. They’ll all have phones or something to tell the time by a certain age and hopefully they know their fractions / how to count. It might as well just be digital at that point.

When trying to scam people, why pick something that they will believe?

I think you answered your own question

Purge the bowels, cleanse the soul

Idk, I don’t think they’re that blurry if we compare them to similar “conundrums” in other unethical circumstances.

Like, would you think the same of someone owning child porn? They don’t distribute it, they don’t film the children themselves, they just own the recordings. The law says they’re a criminal, but it seems like a similar ethical conundrum - no? (To be clear, I think eating meat sourced from someone who did not consent is wrong. I hope that says enough about how I feel about CP.)

How about owning the schematics for a ghost gun? You haven’t printed it, you haven’t distributed the schematic - you just own the schematic (and, for the purpose of the example, a 3d printer capable of printing the parts needed).

Seems like the answer is “it’s unethical”. Gonna need a third party to weigh in.

Unethical??

I feel very badly for your poor colon.

A strawman that may actually be true, given how much poison the rich have dumped into our environment.

It’s likely a capture from a video, so more like an improvised photograph.

Excuse you, that’s Wide Argentinia