Do you have a source for this? My understanding was only credit card balances mattered.

I am legitimately confused about how none of the cops involved in that have not been vigilante’d.

I also think about this a lot. There’s like a mass shooting every day but it’s never cops, politicians, billionaires.

Seems fine.

I wonder if we can also teach people delayed gratification. People’s inability to do that is I think a root of a lot of problems.

I’m not aware of any harms from using a no-fee credit card that you pay off in full each month. You get 1% - 5% back, and it’s easier to deal with fraudulent charges.

I bet a chunk of those republicans are mad that the court is “too liberal”

Republicans are the worst

The first paragraph on the wikipedia page linked says

"The statement “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”, variously misattributed to Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring, was in fact a corrupted version of a line in his play Schlageter. "

So no, I don’t think so.

That’s what I always say. Targeted advertising should be illegal. Contextual advertising is acceptable.

If I’m on the star trek wiki, serve me ads for star trek, sci-fi, and whatever. You don’t need to know anything about me specifically.

We’d still need to do something about like ads that take up too much space, hurt page performance, or introduce malware, but removing the stalking would be an improvement

“When I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”

Seems that’s a slight mangling of the line, but it’s a common Nazi trope

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst

I imagine if you had a lot of competition, prices might stay lower. But the reality is that monopolies or cartels or whatever will form

Healthy parenting would go a long way. See some of the other comments in this thread.

You can also have settings on your local network. If you’re afraid of your kid casually finding something inappropriate, you can set that up stuff locally without involving the government. A determined kid will still find a way to get stuff, so this is more a safeguard against accidental discovery.

Investing in quality education would also benefit everyone.

the only way to protect kinds (like little me) is to block the porn.

This is false.

Parents have a number of options available to them that do no need to involve the state.

Suburbs are expensive, inefficient, and bad for the environment

This is what I’m always saying! Car-centric spaces are also bad socially. They’re dehumanizing. You want people walking around if you want a community, and having a strong community is good in many ways.

Using AI seems extremely excessive compared to a regular interface or human.

I mean this is kind of true of all people everywhere. The marshmallow test has flaws but I think it’s still revealing. A lot of people are really bad at self control and delayed gratification.

I’m pretty sure rejecting facts based on partisanship, political ideology, religion, of cultural values can easily qualify you for being stupid.

On the other hand, the us has done idiotic things to tarnish it’s reputation in the past.

I kind of feel like anyone who spends $20 on a video game skin shouldn’t be allowed to make any financial decisions for themselves. Like, it was a test and you failed.

Fallout 4 is like 4 different games crammed into a trench coat.

• high emotion story game. Go rescue your child!
• high action shooter. Boom! Headshot!
• stats driven RPG. That naked bandit is level 40 so you can’t kill him even if you shotgun his face
• settlement management game. Build and decorate a little town! Set up trade routes!

All of these are kind of badly done, and mashing them all together didn’t make something greater than the parts.

This is what I always say. Put the tickets in order and we’ll do them.

Management always pushes back.

I understood that reference

Friend of mine never got their driver’s license. They live in NYC and don’t need one. They also were concerned about safety- they have ADHD and are prone to inattentiveness, and they didn’t want to be driving a car when that manifested.

I have a license but I also live in NYC. I don’t need to drive. It’s pretty great. It’s expensive in time money space and externalized costs, and it’s often less effective than just taking public transit.

Unfortunately most of the US is resistant to investing in mass transit and density, so it’s going to be shitty car-first spaces for a while.