I broadly agree but there’s not necessarily anything altruistic about the “good” that they’re doing—they’ve just found a way to justify what they want/decide to do, same as everyone. They don’t have to believe it’s good for people or the world. As long as they can find a reason why those harms don’t matter, or convince themselves that those people/the world would’ve been fucked regardless, or figure at least they’re not doing [insert some other scenario they can imagine], they can live with themselves. And they can focus on who it is good for (their kids perhaps, and all the people in their lives who are undoubtedly pressuring them to abuse their power).

I just wanted to speak up for that nuance, because to me “they think they’re doing good” implies that they value the ideals of doing actual good…and I don’t think there’s necessarily true.

There are no mainstream Christian denominations that don’t believe that the Old Testament is the word of their God, so I’m not sure how the student could have prepared for that particular nonsense juke

The people at the bottom, yes, probably. But it bears mentioning that the world’s simpletons are just repeating rhetoric that was carefully engineered and fed to them by powerful people who are smart enough to know it’ll make them more powerful.

Why does her button look like AI tried to finesse the letters so you can’t even read IWUA anymore?

Yes. And the second best time is now.

It’s not a limitation but a matter of precision. The position of the minute hand tells you how far into that minute you are. You don’t need that information, of course. You can just say whatever mark it’s closest to. At 1:00:58, although a digital clock would still read 1:00, it is by all accounts much more accurate to round the minute to 1:01.

So if you just call the time by the minute your minute hand appears closest to, you’ll often be more accurate than a digital clock. It won’t matter. But you’ll know it’s true.

Yeah he looks stunning in blue

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I mean all seriousness aside, that photo is pretty fucking cool

In the context of the premise, absolutely not, because there is plenty of suffering to go around already.

Still ought to be discounted since it’s eliminating jobs.

I agree with everything you’re saying, except my john is just down the hall…so when we’re going, we don’t need roads

Oh man, I envy your opinion of other people. Hold onto that as long as you can.

More than one thing can be bad.

Was R2D2’s narration intended to be subtitled…?

I absolutely agree, and having lived through it, it’s infuriating the way they intentionally exclude/call out kids whose parents haven’t signed them up or who haven’t sold any trash. They’ll send the kids home to sign up 10 email addresses and on the second day they’ll come back with some piece of shit stuffed animal for everybody who did it. A little kid doesn’t understand that the whole thing is a fucking scam. They’re just sitting in school watching the rest of their class play with cool new toys.

Public primary and secondary schools do not typically have stadiums.

Scratch is a simple drag and drop app kids use to learn to code. I’ve seen kids create pretty elaborate games with it. Maybe you could play with that and figure out if your concept is in fact simple enough to create on your own.

Wouldn’t you be installing a new set of elites with incredible power, though? After all, someone has to count and interpret the votes. Hopefully the minimum number of people required to check and to balance is not larger than the maximum number of people capable of fruitful collaboration.

This may have more to do with the instructor of your second language, because pronunciation is taught. If your German teacher is French (or French Canadian) or learned German from someone who otherwise accented it in such a way, then that’s how you’re most likely to accent it. Only about one in five Canadians learn French as their first language, so outside of Quebec, they’re really not secret French speakers masquerading as English speakers.

With French as Canada’s second official language, though, it would not be surprising if the majority of Canada’s foreign language teachers spoke French either first or second (but I say this without research or evidence, so it’s just an irresponsible hypothesis.)