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If there was already adequate housing for everyone then yeah, cause otherwise you're going to make getting housing harder for the countries poor, just look at the cost of living in Paris

Your comment I responded too seemed more general, which is how I was responding to it, the article can eat my ass tbh

> I 100% have control over how I feel about that.

You do, that's great, sincerely, I mostly agree with you, but I feel it lacks a bit of nuance. Adults should have control over how they interpret reality, but not everyone does, and some people want to use perceived offense (Oppression Olympics) as a means for some sort of change, even if it's just padding their wallet.

Some folks are immature, some folks have PTSD or some other condition and/or problem which makes it harder for them to have the discipline you have. Can we acknowledge both that words are interpreted by the listener, and that the listener might not be able to handle them?

I try to not be affected by things, why should I respect someone who's trying to insult me, and if I don't respect them why should I care at all about what they are saying? It boils down to self preservation ultimately I think. Ostracism might not be the death sentence it used to be, but it still can be seriously deleterious.

For profit health insurance is IMO not pro social.

They could, it's just more of a DIY situation.

Yes, but they are also paid by taxes, and they hardly are going to pay the entirety of their salary in taxes.

> “companies are people” is not true

`Citizens United` was a mistake yes.

Not exactly relevant. However, a company does not exist without people.

Maybe so, but individuals who are salaried, will pay taxes.

One pays taxes, the other is paid by taxes. I'm not disagreeing with your statement, I just think they're currently/contextually dissimilar.

It's a general comment about governments and bureaucracy.

It would be nice if they had to justify their existence much like those in academia.

Would you say you're physically impressive/powerful?

Complete anecdote, but you might find it useful.

I started running seriously about three years ago, now I run 10k almost everyday.

Being stronger (and in constant pain) has made me much more assertive.

I actually mean it terms of thermodynamic energy requirements to exist and using as little energy as possible in order to exist comfortably. There's probably a better way to phrase it.

People select for entropy minimization. Intelligence can to help with that. Or does your own minimization strategy prevent you from considering it?

> The problem is nobody can entirely think for themselves.

Good luck proving that.

I meant that the magazine is not literally dead, but in the sense of "dead to me".

Purely speaking for myself, but I could tell it was metaphorical. Given the "magazine" is still operating, and that I read some of the article.

Joe Biden and Rachel Maddow

To name just a few.

> Remember people, you have to be vaccinated and boosted to prevent the spread of the virus even though being vaccinated or boosted does not actually prevent the spread of the virus.

I would say it does prevent some the spread of the virus, but does not completely prevent spread, and any one claiming that it did prevent all spread, should be removed from any position of authority.

I owe much of my personality to Chris Morris ;)

And if you read into it you see that it was brought about to subjugate some voting demographics

https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past...

Whether this is true or not, it's certainly enraging.

I too can make claims without substantiation or evidence.

Or no other trademark should get any TLD maybe?

Corporations are not the owners of the the internet.

I am frankly, it's an abuse of power that's forced on the populace without recourse.

It's polluting the namespace.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

It's quite simple.

you can get what you want when you can bribe enough people apparently

hey now, let's not give them too much credit, it's probably a bit of both

Depends on which scale you pick I guess