The Overton Window cuts both ways!

I didn’t grow up a centrist. But the window moved both to the left and to the right of me!

Survival. The emotions are ultimately just crude tools the brain and body have for promoting the survival of the person.

Their crudeness is probably best illustrated with phobias.

Oh good call! All parodies would actually fit.

What I wrote wasn’t exactly what I meant though! What I meant was that Starship Troopers the film is an adaptation of a book that satirizes the book rather than being faithful! It’s the only film adaptation that I know of that does this!

Love it. It’s the only film I know of that satirizes its own source material!

Wow that is awesome! I have big nostalgia for the early B&W Macs as well, having played on a Mac Classic my uncle had when I was a kid. He actually gave me that computer years ago and it’s still in my basement collecting dust. I powered it up a few years ago and it still worked but then promptly powered it down and put it away. I need to go through it and recap it. Hopefully there aren’t any disastrous leaks.

And they’ll pass the costs of extra security on to… yep, you guessed it: the customer.

Not proof but high grades are definitely correlated with family income.

He’s from a rich family. He went to a $40k/year all-boys private high school and was valedictorian.

Yes and they’re yet another collectible product that exploits the psychology of a subset of people who compulsively collect things. I put them in the same category as gambling and note that there’s a lot of crossover with these things (loot boxes and CCG booster packs being prime examples of a gambling and collectible combo).

It’s legal for Ukraine to defend itself from Russia.

I am for progress towards a goal.

None of the assassination advocates have laid out a concrete plan as to how assassinations will achieve their goals. All I’ve seen is:

1. Assassinate the CEOs
2. ???
3. We win!

No discussion at all of how this could backfire and lead to a dystopian hellscape, or how to avoid such a backfire. Things are very different from 1917. Technology is far more advanced and it’s not in the favour of citizens’ militias.

They’re doing so lawfully.

Oh that’s a whole other issue: inter-university competition. They’re all competing with each other over the same pool of students. Each one spends money to attract students away from the other schools who then spend money to attract them back.

Ukraine is working toward making that happen. They’re much closer to achieving it than they were 2 years ago.

And that’s great but honestly that’s still peanuts if your goal is to have a proper public health care system where no one has to go broke because they’re uninsured when they get sick.

I’m a Canadian. I want Americans to have a proper health care system. I just don’t think a campaign of assassinations is going to get you there. I think it’s far more likely to backfire and turn the US into a Robocop-style dystopian hellscape where all the big companies have their own private armies working security and regular people aren’t even allowed into their city’s business district without going through security checkpoints.

Why not nationalize all of the health insurance companies, fire all the executives, and turn it all into a public health insurance agency?

The Baumol Effect is killing us here. The more productivity gains we make in manufacturing, IT, and other technology boosted fields, the more unaffordable education will get.

Unless he made the sailboat himself out of recycled materials!

Too bad they can’t read!

Imagine the Russian commander’s surprise when he realized North Koreans don’t know anything about StarCraft!