If you’re in danger until I offer to rescue you only if you comply with my demands, your options are the same (either harm or compliance) but the two situations don’t intuitively feel morally equivalent to me.

"Wow, your house is on fire! Shame, that.

…Would you like to be rescued, for only three easy payments of $99.99 USD?"

Also, I originally set the fire in the first place, but you don’t know that. Six months after your last payment clears I’m going to do it again and the price will increase.

Because we had the technology and the money to create that world back in the 90’s. Now we’ve got twice as much money and twice as good tech in the world and yet 95% of people still have to fight for their survival. This could be a reality if it weren’t for hoarders.

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

Not trans, per se, but Jesus (or at least, symbolic representations of him and what he stands for) have been hermaphroditic from the very beginning. The source point of divinity is the Union of Opposites according to alchemists - who were quite Christian for the most part.

The assignment is fundamentally flawed.

My windows partition takes upwards of 2 minutes to actually be ready to do anything, my Linux partition is ready to rock ten seconds after I push the power button and four of those seconds are intentional delay to choose a boot disc.

I didn’t care about it before, but I sure do now. Booting into windows these days is torturous in comparison.

No. Many people are going to die. I will not have that be erased.

You and I know this because we paid attention in high school. The Chief Justice does not.

2016 in the mountains of North Carolina a girl was taken out of my high school because some of the kids were bullying her so bad for being a “n****r-lover” cause she dated one of the few black guys in the area

They had to learn that from somewhere and enough of the school was doing it that she and her mom felt she was unsafe there

Overt racism is still alive and real in more places in America than people want to admit

I’m much more comfortable wasting government money at this time rather than letting them enact what they actually plan for. I support my tax dollars going to this right now.

Hey, give credit where it’s due.

Some people work quite hard to make sure their jargon laden flim flam has no ultimate literal meaning nor legal liability.

They don’t need to move there, they just need to base their business there.

As a smaller example that is happening today, Delaware is a corporate tax haven state in the US. Over 2 million business entities are registered in Delaware including more than half of all publicly traded American companies and almost 70% of Fortune 500 companies. If you go to Delaware you will see maybe 20% of those have an office location in the state.

Delaware will never change this because if they do, every corporation immediately pulls out of the state, sets up a new ghost office in Texas and then continues business as usual.

This is the same dynamic on a larger scale and is subject to the same problems. It requires cooperation from many entities who are not well aligned to cooperate with each other, and it also requires regulations with teeth, and the regulators are also not well aligned to cooperate because they share in the profit.

Black people say it, therefore it must be a work of the devil.

I wish I was kidding. That’s really what happened.

Tom wouldn’t be caught dead in the same hemisphere as either of these fucks

crickets

I don’t think there’s any practical way for that to happen and I expect you’d want to put tires over top of these anyway. Which will themselves be very expensive because they won’t be able to mount regular tires on them.

On the other hand every time you need to replace a wheel (one of the most easily damaged parts of your car) you’re probably shelling out a quarter of a car in cost.

Am I an influencer now?

You aren’t making any money from it, so, no.

Like it or not, people make a living doing this.

By absolutely lying your ass off, that’s how

Such as grifting idiots with promises of fortune and glory.

But if you explain to the children why it’s important to not abuse this one button, it will hopefully reduce the number.

I had actual bomb threats called in to my high school weekly for such reasons as “I didn’t want to take my math test”. I can guarantee with certainty this button would be constantly abused in American schools.