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In that case if we remove tipping, the prices of everything on the menu goes up 40% (because you know damn well the business owner isn’t going to give up that sweet sweet cut of profit) and the poor folks can get nothing and like it.

Please note that I am NOT in support of the tipping culture system. Only pointing out the inevitable backlash of removing it without proper support in place. Prices of all food will increase everywhere to make up the difference and we either reach a point of equilibrium where the price goes back down because nobody can afford a pizza anymore, with the associated lowering of quality to make up for the price lowering; or else a few hundred thousand folks are suddenly out of jobs.

If we just remove the ability to tip and follow it up by telling the business owners “fuck you, figure it out”, they will ‘figure it out’ by firing a bunch of folks and raising base prices. This might even be healthy for the industry, but I doubt it. It’ll just end with most folks never going out to eat again.

How is the game becoming f2p equivalent to it being taken away from you?

Oh, it’s not. The game being removed from my library is equivalent to it being taken away from me.

Well that’s just the thing though. People (allegedly) used to do loads of magic, now they dont. Makes sense the spells and rituals would be in the language of the time.

Also lots of the books and grimoires we still have access to are in Latin or translated from Latin. So there’s a connection there too.

Perhaps. I am American, after all, it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest. But I view pretzels the same way I view tortilla chips - a bad chip can ruin a pairing, but a good chip will serve as a vehicle for salsa and otherwise stay out of the way of the experience. Pretzels are the same with their salt to me. The bread part, so long as it is prepared properly, is mostly structural. I’m here to eat the rocks.

The pretzel itself is unimportant so long as it can serve as a vehicle for big rocks of salt.

You tried to edit any significant Wikipedia pages recently? Go ahead, I’ll wait. If your edit exists longer than 6 hours I will personally wire you $50 through your choice of carrier.

Edits are tracked on Wikipedia through a large and obnoxiously thorough community of fact checkers and editors. Posting random bullshit on there will get it deleted nearly instantly and if you do it again you’ll be ip-banned. They don’t fuck around with that anymore. Wikipedia is humongously crowdsourced and because of that, is actually probably one of the most trustworthy and accurate information sources we have available to us as a species. Every edit made to any page will be scrutinized by 480 community members within 2 hours and if any of them find you’re spewing bullshit without sources it’s gone.

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Numbers are just an abstraction for physical properties. Aliens with no contact with earth will have no idea what our Arabic numerals mean, they won’t recognize a 3 or a 7 as being numbers. But they will surely know what 3 means, as a trio, that it is one and one and one.

When we get into things that have units, like the speed of light for instance, things get a little muddy because we have no concise and effective way to define our units to an outside perspective. Sure, c may be equal to around 300 million meters per second, but what is a meter and what is a second to someone who has no reference to either? It’s at this point that I think math becomes more of a reflection of ourselves. We define things in units and with relations to other objects and other units because we have that frame of reference, and by defining those units and using them in relation to other maths we’ve created this grand interconnecting web of mathematical axioms and theories and proofs and units that all refer to four other theories and axioms and units in their own definitions. But at the base of that web holding it all together are numerals. Two is two no matter what it is two of, and that is an illustration of physical properties of the universe irrespective of units or home culture. Two is two is two even if it’s called dos or İki or दो.

I would argue that we, humanity, do not invent math any more than we invented gravity or atomic weights. We merely discover principles and relations between principles and define them to the best of our understanding.

Philosophy memes are cool, in fact I’d love to see more of those. Philosophy memes that incorrectly make fun of other branches of science, not so much. Let’s get some Plato’s Cave in here, or make fun of Freud saying one thing but meaning your mother. Let’s not try to delegitimize other branches of science by pointing out solipsism.

To be fair though I do think it’s fun to have conversation around this matter, like discussing Brain-in-a-vat theory, where you can just accuse your opponent of being increasingly less real as the discussion goes on. But in the modern age of mis- and dis-information, you have to be careful how you approach those subjects. In this particular example it seems like you’re calling out the scientific method as Fake News, and while it’s a bit funny, it’s also a hot button topic for folks these days and will frequently be taken the wrong way because tons of idiots have ruined it for you long before you made this meme. Let’s please not give people another reason to distrust hard science.

My greatest ADHD superpower is being able to nuke my train of thought by forcing myself to think about song lyrics or character stat sheets for 5 minutes and being able to completely stay off my previous painful tangent nearly indefinitely

Once I’m not stuck panicking about it my ability to just flat ignore upcoming danger is legendary

It would also allow Exxon to install an oil rig 15 feet away from your backyard privacy fence and there’s not shit you can do about it. Zoning laws exist for a reason. They’re a bit shit, yes, and changing the way they work would go a long way toward improving America’s reliance on cars. But blanket removal of regulations is never the answer for any industry anywhere. We should know better by this point that unregulated capitalists will extract every last drop of value from a given proposition with no regard to anyone else impacted by it. It’s happened hundreds of times already.

But, you can’t get in a fight inside a pokecenter, so you should be safe.

Or, can you…?

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Tons of those folks who lost jobs had children. I didn’t know what a recession was but I do remember my mom crying a lot and then us moving from a nice house in the suburbs to an apartment in the bad side of town.

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about

Nuclear could be extremely effective right now, if only someone put money into it and people stopped jumping at ghosts. We have the technology, it’s not like we have another 2 decades of research to make it viable. The general public is just uninformed and when someone says “nuclear” they hear “Chernobyl” and this has caused quite a lot of general mass panic, despite the fact that nuclear is one of the safest and most environmentally friendly power production technologies that exist today.

This is what will really happen. AI will never completely replace a development team, but it can (and will) cut it to a third of its size because all the bulk work is done by AI and just tested or proofread by humans. This will happen over all sorts of industries as different AI models are trained in different skills and fields.

At the end of the day though it doesn’t much matter if you have 66% of people or 90% of people out of jobs, you have a major problem either way. If AI takes over the workforce something must be done for the people it is displacing.

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Yeah. I’ve moved away from where I grew up and I miss the sound of the cicadas, weirdly enough. Summer just doesn’t really feel like summer without the BREEEEEaaaREEEEEEEaaaREEEEE of the cicadas in all the trees.

They’re annoying until you get used to them and then they just become part of the ambience.

Uh, the news. According to GunViolenceArchive (link here ) who are not themselves necessarily a reputable source but do gather their information from relatively reputable sources, mostly police records and government sources, they actually don’t have one listed for today! Hooray! But there was one yesterday in Florida and three more the day before that in Michigan, Indiana, and New Jersey.

Days without shootings do happen but are shockingly rare. Just take a look at the list there.

The problem is that people take quotes like this as an excuse to slippery-slope into loving everything else Stalin did too. Why, I couldn’t say. It’s pretty fucking obvious that Stalin and Mao and Mussolini and etc. were horrible people but yet we still have people in the modern day tripping over themselves to suck off dictators that died a century ago.