While I agree with parts of what you said, and disagree with others, can you explain more about how India and China are the same team? Is that a reference to them still buying crude oil from Russia? That seems like a, cheaper prices, let’s take advantage. Last I knew they were still having border fights, but maybe that has stopped now. For the good of the innocent civilians forced into those scenarios, I hope it has.

I rarely have used pressure cookers and when I did it was usually for beans I hadn’t re-saturated over night. So my first thought was well, the beans were going to cause an explosion anyways, why not chance it being in the pot?

I can’t see it being more affordable to use humans to farm asteroids than machines. Life support systems seem expensive long term. That said, I also can’t think of a resource that would be worth mining off planet in that time frame.

That thought process would say patent law was incorrect though right? If you break something down to parts and say, well all those parts exist on their own, you just reordered them so you never created anything new. A fun case people refer to was against Ford I believe, when they tried to steal the intermittent windshield wiper idea from someone by claiming that resistors already existed, it was just placed elsewhere, so he couldn’t claim it as a new invention. Ford lost and had to pay to use the idea.

I see it as the same premise. All programming and language breaks down to words that already exist, so either rearranging them and using them in a new manner is a new work, or none of it is. Thereby saying all books, music, and code wouldn’t be able to have copyrights or patents. Which I believe that would cause a bit of chaos.

I wouldn’t say GenAI caused that problem, I’d say it was advertising practices and the structure of key words prioritizing responses in search engines.

I moved to this place 2 years ago starting a lease on November 1st. Got here a day early, so third Halloween. Bought candy both of the first 2 years, and never got a knock on the door. Figured they just don’t do it in this area, all going to local Halloween events or such. So I didn’t buy candy this year, and poof sudden knocks on the door and I felt like absolute poop telling the kids sorry. Waited till they got down the drive and turned off the entry light so no one knocked after. I’m guessing since it rained all night (including when they came) some of the Halloween events may have been canceled, which made the kids finally come trick or treating… leaving me tricked and the kids without treats.

You know Cuba trades with Canada… France… Italy… no issues.

Need to ship goods to/from Cuba from Canada, here you go https://www.latinamericancargo.com/shipping-from-canada-to-cuba/

Think this qualifies as a civil suit, not criminal as it is the DA sueing him. Theyby nothing can be pardoned. It will likely be thrown out or some shit. He’ll get away with it as always

Why should a person who goes to the park care about the park?

If people are dumping trash everywhere and all the plants and animals are dying, I assume you wouldn’t like to spend much time there anymore.

Sure another park might be opened, but constantly changing parks isn’t what you want to do long term. If someone buys up the basketball court and turns it into a cesspool of hate, you can unsubscribe from that court and remove it from your park. Adding another one that is nicer, without completely going to a new park.

So if I’m understanding what you are saying correctly this is pro “book” burning. Only in this case it is games. If a group or entity wants to make a piece of history more scarce or wipe it from the planet because they disagree with it, buying up or destroying as many physical copies that exist would work because people legally can’t back them up or print more copies essentially?

Yeah, the Lutherans were the first split from Catholicism and sort of what I would say would be the start of protestantism. Not that Martin Luther initially wanted that, but he wanted a return to basics and a simpler less controlling version of what the church had slowly become. (95? Thesis and what not… maybe it was 99 can’t recall)

Now we have thousands of denominations of Christians, and they all do their own versions of how they believe things should be. Haven’t studied the historys of religion in a long time, it’s crazy to think about how much I’m sure things have changed and I’ve distorted in my brain throughout time when I reflect on the fact that it has been more than 15 years since the last real class I would have taken. Getting older is strange.

Some day it’d be nice to start studying history more again.

I mean isn’t the story that conservatives killed Jesus and 3 days later he woke up?

When protestants started the logical stance that the bread and wine is a metaphor being used in the Eucharist, Catholics stayed with saying it is a ritual that transformed the bread and wine to having christs blood and body imbued into them, like an act of magic performed with superhuman abilities, not people just worshipping him. If they would choose to say cannibalism is terrible, except when we do it, I cant see the stubbornness lapsing when it came to say women can suddenly perform magic after a certain date. But who knows, crazier things have happened in life.

Saw a comment yesterday where someone was saying Iran wouldn’t counter attack before the election because it would help Trump, I don’t understand how that thought process works. Iran sells drones and missiles to Russia, who would benefit greatly from Trump being president… And in turn help Iran more. It comes to a basic, who can line Trump’s pockets more, and my bet is Trump thinks Putin can more than N.

Wicked! I’m glad some people are benefitting from it.

Exchange programs better schools, which is why we have them. Also research between schools and countries are highly beneficial which I would argue is the most important part of higher education. If you want to send all American students to trade schools they wishto go to and qualify for, I’m on board with that. The value of Universities is being diminished and viewed as grade school by to much of the population.

Maybe if their retention rate drops they’ll just lower their costs to those rates, or better their services.

Also don’t we have large weapon caches there?

Arya? It’s the pointy end right?

MTG is to much of a nut job, and also a woman so half of MAGA wouldn’t follow her. Boebert failed her GED 3 times if I remember correctly and has the woman issue again with MAGA. Desantis is the only viable option there, but after trying to subvert the populous of Florida being able to vote for whether abortion should be legal in the state, I doubt he’d make it anywhere ever again. (Hopefully)