Oh for sure, I was being tongue in cheek. I do think they should make a system for returning things stolen that would be appreciated more where they came from (I’m fine with guarantees of quality preservation and public display, but I think that’s as far as can be justified). We really can’t justify keeping things that we couldn’t buy today because they mean more than money to the people we stole them from.
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To be fair, I’m sure there’s some British things in the British museum, I assume those could be kept.
I really think we need to distinguish between terrorism in the sense of “are they going to keep blowing people up?” and “terrorism” in the sense of “are my taxes going to go up because of this?” I feel like the word is being stretched for the second example…
Yeah, “I don’t like this proposed change to the law because it has an effect” is not the compelling narrative they seem to think it is.
There are 2 schools of thought. Those that are against the entire concept of software that tries to control how you use it, drm/anticheat/etc in any form is malware to them. And those that accept it might be acceptable in principle (eg for anticheat especially), but believe denouvo and certain other drm programs go too far and cross a line (especially when they hook into the kernel or start tracking things outside the game that they have no business tracking).
Yeah, only men can consent to strangulation because men are adults who can make their own choices, and we must protect the ladies since this is the mid 20th century and equality doesn’t extend to the bedroom don’t you know.
That was in Greek times, it’s been thousands of years. These days he’s the embodiment of the mid life crisis.
Sounds like they need to speed up the test, if it takes 10 years then they won’t be babies anymore by the time they get results.
people improbably survive plane crashes all the time. It’s not likely in a crash like this, but there was 241 opportunities for it to happen, 1 seemingly got lucky.
People survive falling out of planes or getting struck by lightning sometimes too. Shit happens in both directions.
Yup. Johnson and Truss were “worse” leaders, but that just means they were ineffective leaders. Cameron was disastrously effective and will be remembered for the devastating effect he had on the nation, fundamentally Johnson and Truss were his fault.
On the one hand, the ship was one of the most fun parts for me, but on the other, I do wonder if it was a mistake because it makes the game so much more frustrating for anyone who hasn’t been trained on kerbal space program or some other Newtonian space control game to get the hang of it.
It’s like riding a bike, if you know how to do it you have trouble even imaging why it’s hard, but nobody can do it at first, and it takes ages to get the new instincts to actually enjoy it.
If you’re worried about cultural factors, you might find removing any significant percentage of the total population will likely run into even more implacable “cultural factors” than meat reduction would.
This is regardless of the method of population reduction, save perhaps “slow decline” which seems to be promising atm, but that obviously has the downside that it’ll take a few generations to really have an impact.