DuskStar

If someone says "here's a portal where you can report wrongspeak" my general intuition is that they are then going to punish people for wrongspeak.

Depends on the basket, the location, and the time period!

Seeing what it would cost to replace the things directly extracted from India today would be extremely interesting, actually. Price of cotton * quantity, etc.

The problem with this logic is it means that the largest ever theft was some hunter-gatherer stealing a spear 100,000 years ago. That's worth almost 10^3000 dollars now, you know!

At some distance in time, returns on capital are no longer adequately approximated by "x%APR". I think this distance in time is at most around 150 years, and even then only in the USA. In most of the world, it's far less than that.

IIRC that is an absolutely bullshit number based on taking what the Brits actually did steal, giving it the most favorable conversion to USD, and then applying a few hundred years of compounding interest.

7% APR for 300 years is a 650,000,000x return.

Sometimes the last bad thing means that good things are coming. Other times, it means that nothing more is coming.

If you made all the alternatives also pay to capture their carbon cost, I think nuclear would be very competitive.

Obviously it blows fossil fuels out of the water, but hydroelectric also uses huge amounts of concrete, and IIRC the energy return on investment (MWh you get out per MWh it takes to construct) for solar and wind is quite poor and so I'd expect that to take a while to pay off too.

There's perhaps a difference between an original DaVinci and whatever the latest paint splatter on canvas modern art is, though.

As opposed to a standard contributor covenant based CoC, which is totally not religious at all.

I'm not sure the one that says this is the worst option here: (22-34)

Do not give way to anger. Do not nurse a grudge. Do not entertain deceit in your heart. Do not give a false peace. Do not forsake charity. Do not swear, for fear of perjuring yourself. Utter only truth from heart and mouth. Do not return evil for evil. Do no wrong to anyone, and bear patiently wrongs done to yourself. Love your enemies. Do not curse those who curse you, but rather bless them. Bear persecution for justice's sake. Be not proud.

Ah, so now the goalposts have shifted to "the primary content is something I find objectionable". Why not just take down every site with that kind of content, if the "deaths linked to the site" isn't actually why you want to ban it?

> New Zealand apparently wanted to take legal action (up to ten years in prison) against any New Zealand citizen who simply watched the video on Kiwifarms forums?

Sounds like the owner was right to say "go fuck yourself" then.

The Germans came for the Nazis. The Weimar Republic was very much in favor of imprisoning them for their (detestable) ideals and proposals. The Nazis were able to parlay this persecution (and Weimar failures) into an increasing share of the electorate and eventually total control.

> a forum of people for quite some time organizing online hate and harrassment which has lead to swattings, and at least one death. Can anyone dispute those accusations?

Could you not also say this of Facebook, Whatsapp, YouTube and more?

> twitter makes genuine, good-faith attempts at mitigating calls for violence.

...when they're made by people with the wrong opinions or politics. Attackers from the left seem to get the benefit of the doubt.

> The amount of metal dies required doesn't seem to be hugely different.

The number of dies you need for each page is different than the number of types of dies you need to print any arbitrary page.

If there's a character for 'war', how many copies do you need? It'll change greatly depending on the subject matter, of course. But how many 'w's, 'a's and 'r's per page won't change to nearly the same extent.

Or, you know, CRISPR.

Or Kent State.

The US population may not be decreasing, but the US has a lot of immigration. Essentially everyone else is far worse off, from China to Germany.

Policy is political and will change if the situation changes. If China was the only one in the world with nukes, of course they'd use them.

China's warheads are also generally higher yield - they're intended for counter-city ops, not counter-force.

The idea with the currently deployed warheads is that even after losses to a hostile first strike, they can still respond and cause unacceptable losses in the enemy. How many nukes does it take to cause 10% fatalities in the USSR? How many in China? And what percentage of those nukes are destroyed before launch, and how many make it though enemy defences to detonate where they should?

And of course, nukes decay.

At least in the screenshots posted, "other" was only an option for offenders, not victims.

5 minutes for each is better than 10 for Hitler and none for anyone else.

And just about everyone thinks they're the oppressed ones, and includes it in their messaging. Including literally Hitler. (His being thrown in jail is arguably the best thing that could have happened to the Nazis in the mid 20s IIRC)

Pretty sure the Maus case was on no longer using it in the syllabus.

It was still in the library.

> books on how to commit murder, torture, arson, or mass shootings in a school?

The Anarchists Cookbook used to be found in libraries. I'd hope it still is, along with books on energetic backyard chemistry. Not a 100% match, but in the ballpark.

> photo books portraying motorcycle crash victims or war casualties?

Not sure about motorcycles, but I'm sure you can find war casualties. Napalm girl https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc at the very least.

> Hard core rape pornography?

Libraries do not typically carry porn. In fact, that's part of what the detractors would say this is about - that the pro-trans books sometimes contain pornographic images. (Of course, no one cares about 50 Shades or bodice rippers...)

So this controversy started with people protesting pro-trans books. Did the library carry any anti-trans books, like Irreversible Damage? (As a nice big radioactive example)

If so, being able to point to things like that would (IMO) be a good political tool in situations like this. "We're neutral and carry both sides" goes over better than "we carry books with the correct opinions, how dare you ask us to remove them" - and the best response to bad speech is more speech anyways.

If the US dollar keeps getting stronger relative to other currencies, it will be better to manufacture things offshore and import them.

That is what a strong currency does.

Absolutely fantastic. I bet that first paragraph gets said seriously within the year.

Tap to pay is a big one.

CNN is indeed way far left. But there are three major news networks - Fox, CNN and MSNBC. Of those, Fox is pretty far right, CNN is far left, and MSNBC is farther left than CNN.

https://adfontesmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Media-B...

It's closer to the center than the other major news network, MSNBC.

> Re: the second point about demand — the Pokemon Pikachu has its own Wikipedia page, because people expect Wikipedia specifically to have an article about Pikachu. Other Pokemon do not — because there's already Bulbapedia around to satisfy the demand for an encyclopedia with articles about Pokemon, and the pages from it are easily found in any search engine. If a different set of editors are willing to take on the maintenance burden for those articles in their own domain — and are doing a decent job of it — then why should Wikipedia's editors duplicate that effort?

You've got the chronology here backwards IIRC - Bulbapedia exists because Wikipedia got rid of "non-notable" Pokemon.

Not building nukes guarantees a nuclear detonation will occur on earth, because The Other Side (TM) will use theirs on you.