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Celestial-body-NOS
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1yr ago
second-degree murder is “not as bad as first-degree murder."
That's why they're different charges!
If second-degree murder is equally bad as first-degree murder, then you'd just charge them as murder.
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1yr ago
but until we magic up batteries that can store 60 days of electricity use for a trivial price
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1yr ago
In some dialects, "$NAME1 was like, '$TEXT2'" is used this way, while "$NAME1 said, '$TEXT2'" is used for direct quotes.
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1yr ago
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Migrants are not harmful to a community.
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However, Mr DeSantis believes that they are harmful.
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Therefore, for Mr DeSantis, sending them carries a different moral/ethical valence than it would if an open-borders advocate had done so.
If a man were somehow convinced that a particular rock drains people's life force and turns them into undead husks, and he sent that rock to his ex-wife, would he not be guilty of attempted murder if the rock is actually the Philosophers' Stone?
A Steelman of Anti-Gouging-ism
Market-based allocation, in emergencies, denies the poorest access to $RESOURCE1 in any quantity, no matter how dire their need; meanwhile, the wealthiest have no requirement to consume less $RESOURCE1, as even 100x inflated prices are, to them, couch change.
Under direct allocation, however, the emergency has the same effect on everyone: they can get essential quantities of $RESOURCE1, but cannot consume as much as they might desire.
If it is possible, but expensive, to maintain reserve capacity of $RESOURCE1, such that, even in an emergency, supply will be sufficient to meet even non-essential demand, then the outcomes for a rich person are as follows:
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Market-based allocation/build stockpile: plentiful $RESOURCE1 in emergency for self and others, higher expenses in other times.
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Market-based allocation/no stockpile: plentiful $RESOURCE1 in emergency for self but none for others, lower expenses in other times.
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Result: Rich person has no incentive to maintain reserve capacity.
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Direct allocation/build stockpile: plentiful $RESOURCE1 in emergency for self and others, higher expenses in other times.
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Direct allocation/no stockpile: limited $RESOURCE1 in emergency for self and others, lower expenses in other times.
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Result: rich person has more incentive to maintain reserve capacity, as they can only continue their normal consumption habits in emergencies to the same degree as their impecunious neighbours.
Thus, prohibition of price-gouging falls under the umbrella of "ways to align the incentives of the powerful with the public good".
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1yr ago
This is probably a Metaphor For Something.
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1yr ago
Or 'I don’t want you to do x despite it being a better idea than whatever you're doing currently.
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For starters, what sort of thing is fascism? A table is a physical object. A family is a set of people. What's fascism? Is it a tribal label? Is it a coherent ideology? A (pseudo-)intellectual heritage, with a set of mandatory heroes and demons? A form of government? An economic system?
I'd say it's a cluster in political-ideology space.
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1yr ago
It was my understanding that 'sleeps on a friend's couch' would be considered 'homeless' but not 'unhoused'.
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1yr ago
Wildcard: Russian saboteurs, but they intended to blow up the Baltic pipe instead.
Isn't this the "no right to yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre" exception?
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1yr ago
What would America do if China controlled a vast amount of the world's rare earth mineral mines and decided that they'll no longer sell the products of those mines to America or its allies?
Reopen Mountain Pass?
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1yr ago
Are these also, therefore, bad?
The first one is, and for the same reasons. (Except between consenting adults.)
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1yr ago
To what degree if any is gender related to sex?
They are strongly correlated at a population level; individually, it varies.
\2. How many Genders are there?
Two primary genders (man-male-masculine-he/him-♂ and woman-female-feminine-she/her-♀), plus some number of derived genders (defined by reference to other genders).
\3. Who or what determines what a person's gender is:
I don't know.
\4. Sexual orientation(gay/straight/bisexual) is primarily related to the [Blank] of the object of attraction:
It depends on the individual.
\5. Are the differences between how men and women behave more socially or biologically derived:
I don't know.
\6. How much can an individual's gender change over time?
It can be fluid, but for many people, it is nearly or entirely constant.
\7. Is the relationship between men and women or the relationship between males and females the primary focus of feminism?
Both. Feminism, as I understand the term, refers to all movements and ideologies opposing the placement of 'him' over 'her', regardless of whether these are defined by chromosomes, natal anatomy, current anatomy, hormonal configuration, gender identity, social roles, appearance....
\8. How is gender felt from a first person perspective?
It probably depends on the individual.
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1yr ago
One could say that the household has been the smallest recognizable unit of government.
Which is why, like larger governments, it needs checks and balances.
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1yr ago
Not 'no longer' so much as 'never could'.
(I've known children who didn't even grasp the concept of "I can't take the phone to him, it's attached to the wall." #getoffmylawn)
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1yr ago
Or when the 'on hold' music is interrupted every minute with a recorded voice so you can't even stop paying attention until someone answers.
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In Unitedstatesian politics, the same rhetorical function is filled by a yellow dog.
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1yr ago
Different people have different 'pinions;
Some like apples and some like inions.
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1yr ago
grooming or grooming-adjacent behaviours
And who defines what counts as 'grooming-adjacent'? What happens when a homophobe calls it grooming-adjacent to mention the existence of same-sex couples like the Buttigiegs? What happens when an abusive parent calls it grooming-adjacent to teach children "These parts of your body are private and if anyone touches them, you should tell an adult you trust."?
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1yr ago
(1)
Earth circumference c. 40,000 km (from original definition of meter).
Sun c. 100x size of Earth -> 4,000,000 km -> 4e9 m.
Guess size of baseball c. 1 foot circumference? 40 cm? 4e-1 m.
Ratio c. 10 orders of magnitude.
Proxima Centauri distance = 4.3 ly.
c. 500,000 minutes per year -> 2e6 light-minutes -> 120e6 or 1.2e8 light seconds.
c c. 300,000 km/s -> 300,000,000 m/s -> 3.6e16 m
Apply ratio -> 3.6e6 m -> 3.6e3 km -> 3600 km -> continent scale
Los Angeles?
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Milky Way diameter c. 100,000 ly
Andromeda distance c. 2,000,000 ly
Ratio c. 20:1
Still in New York.
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1yr ago
People forget that if China was a democracy it would have attempted to invade Taiwan like five times by now.
I suspect that a democratic mainland would find Taiwan much more willing to re-unify peacefully.
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1yr ago
the right-wing attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade can be seen as a defence against a very questionable attempt by the left to impose their preferred policy decisions on states which would not otherwise have adopted them.
And Roe v. Wade can be seen as a defence against attempts by the right to impose their preferred policy decisions on women who would not otherwise have adopted them.
Also, cows can eat more of a corn/wheat plant than humans can. Thus, even after we eat the human-edible parts of the plant, there are still parts we can't eat but that can be used for animal fodder.
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