Thanks for taking the time to reply :)

This is why I hate games that scale enemies based on your level.

Takes the joy of beefing up your guy away.

As a burgeoning DIY:er, are there any particular tricks to fixing up old screw holes and wall damage or is it just a case of plaster, wait 'n paint?

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You posted this in /c/[email protected] a few months ago. Here’s my wrinkle that I posted back then too.

Money (and hence profit motive) is an analogue for being able to acquire and do things we need and want.

There’s two kinds of miserable people in relation to profit motive - those who can’t acquire enough money for the basic things they need to be happy, and those who took the analogue so far that they think money = happiness.

There is generally very little issue getting people to do things they want to do (things that feel meaningful) as long as they manage to cover their basic needs somehow, but there are definitely issues getting people to do things that they don’t want to do - which is where profit motive shines.

There is much more garbage to collect than there are people who want to collect garbage, more deliveries to make than people who want to make them, more places to clean than people who want to clean them.

Luckily, there is someone who wants the garbage collected, someone who wants the toilets cleaned, someone who wants their trinkets delivered. Hence, we get people to pay for that, and thus we can use profit motive to incentivize someone to do those things, at least until we manage to automate it.

I’ll also add the following. I think a key problem in modern economics is that the arbitrary creation of money/capital (need) via debt (promises) has become far too easy. It allows entities and individuals that already have large balance sheets (control a large amount of capital) to get incredible leverage in a way that is very difficult for any working individual to compete with. This skews the entire productivity of society away from outputting what regular people need/want to acquire through their work (that they trade for money).

Yes, really it’s the worst of both worlds. In the western sense of the word, there aren’t any homeowners in China. They have to pay the premium of ownership for the privilege of still having a landlord that can evict them or demand extra payment without any legal recourse for the tenant whatsoever.

My current is now going on 8 years and I have no intention of replacing it. About time for a new battery tho

How is this new or original in any way!? This has been a feature in many kinds of games, for ages

The real tragedy is that of the victims who got stuck in the middle between two doctrines hell-bent on global domination.

The case of Imperial Japan is equivalent to that of Nazi Germany. A fascist regime that saw millions intentionally slaughtered and worked to death across Asia.

Here are some links for reading more about the killings related to:

• Imperial Japan

• North Vietnam & the Vietnam War

• North Korea & the Korean War

Yes. Restaurants, bus stops, train stations, public parks etc.

Oh for sure! It’s a well known problem that’s been subject to increasingly strict regulation (for good reason), and modern cars are a significantly less pollutant. Ending the addiction to fossil fuels would be a huge win, but also a much larger undertaking than preventing the effects of SHS.

So where would smokers go?

On their own private property or designated smoking spots (which should be away from people and high-traffic pedestrian areas).

may be trying to escape but are tied by addicted

There should definitely be publicly funded measures to help people get rid of these addictions (ideally to no or very little charge). In the long run it’d save the public (and former smokers) a lot of health and money.

It takes a bit of effort to shake an addiction but especially with the right tools it’s very doable.

No no no, you misunderstood þem… þey meant you don’t matter, because you’re not “most people.”

Don’t put words in my mouth or claim that I mean things that I don’t. It is a very simple observation that the demographic group everyone matters more than a smaller group of people. It’s not that that smaller group “doesn’t matter”.

Smoking causes negative health effects for everyone - this is not the case for perfumes. As I said, the argument could certainly be made to ban strong perfumes, but it isn’t the one I’m making. I definitely reject the case that Adm. Patrick made that public smoking should be allowed because strong perfumes are allowed.

Loud-ass exhausts, booming subwoofers…

These can indeed have negative health effects and are banned in many places, the latter at least after certain hours (noise complaints!). MOT inspection fails vehicles with excessively loud exhausts and in many places you can get a “rolling inspection” from a traffic officer on the road resulting in a fine or “fix-it” ticket.

Strong colognes and perfumes…also banned in public.

Don’t have negative health effects on most people, though you can be asked to leave from many health care institutions if using too strong scents. Not really comparable to smoking but the argument could certainly be made.

Ugly sweaters, poor fashion choices, and shitty cars with anime girls painted on the side?

Only causes death by second-hand embarrassment. Maybe not excessively scantily clad anime girls at a… kindergarten? but apart from that only emotions will be hurt.

'tis a perfectly valid and rather unpopular opinion.

You can bet on basically everything somewhere. The betting market is the way to go if you want real odds of what’s happening tomorrow. They have a financial incentive to be accurate (half-joking).

Because it’s about the discussion and exchange of information & ideas, not about individuals.