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Yikes.
I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.
Not going to downvote you, partly because I only downvote spam and partly because kbin doesn’t federate downvotes so I can’t even see downvotes from you and vice versa.
But I fundamentally disagree. One of the lessons of Nuremberg was that obeying orders isn’t a good enough reason to commit war crimes.
One of the corollaries to that, for me, is that obeying rules isn’t a good enough reason to be complicit in covering up war crimes either.
If a secret is a crime it’s more treasonous to keep it a secret, because the people of our nations haven’t voted to leave the Geneva Conventions and go out and commit war crimes.
The material was used as the basis for an investigative series exposing war crimes committed by Australian defence personnel in Afghanistan.
If it’s war crimes the good of humanity should come above the good of a regime committing war crimes.
Cool, I still have my pw but haven’t been there in years. Will go and feed my immortal pets.
This is what I took from the article. The point of the exhibit isn’t really relevant since it doesn’t fall into an existing carve out of permitted discrimination.
users and contributors need to stop feeling entitled to maintainers’ unpaid labor and time
And the rest of us need to stand up for maintainers against bullies.
I’m not trying to misconstrue you, I was just pointing out that you seemed to be arguing two opposite points of view. This is the crux of it:
mortgage rates go down the buy in cost goes down so rentals go down.
@DarkDarkHouse was pointing out that in practice doesn’t really ever happen, and I would agree with them.
the value is still the value. You want to live in that $500 a week house
That doesn’t make any sense. 5 hours ago you were saying the rent had to reflect the cost of repaying borrowing on the asset.
That cost is dependent on equity and mortgage rate.
But now you’re suddenly saying living in the house is inherently “worth” a sum of money that isn’t tied to borrowing costs at all. Seems arbitrary.
In reality, rentals cost what the market will bear, in some markets that’s well below the cost of a new mortgage so those investors have to top up for a few years. In other markets it’s not.
Over the years, the “High Chaparral” torrent achieved cult status among a small group of people who likely keep sharing it, simply because it’s the oldest surviving torrent.
If someone launched galactic war using clones of me, I’d be laughed at all over the galaxy.
For now. The US is a victim of legislative capture by corporations and it’s possible that in the future lobbying by insurance companies will open the door to them using some of that data.
At first I thought the notorious kbin thumbnail mismatch bug struck again but no.
You’re right and I have since read the article properly.
I’m not a coder, just a casual, but it’s interesting, though I still disagree that it’s a good way to go.
@Spotlight7573 thanks for the heads up. I’m an idiot.
Yeah I was being a bit of an oblivious dick in my comment.
I still disagree with him though.
I suppose I can grant papal indulgence
Heh love your wording there. I actually started that train of thought with various “relics” like the vial of Christ’s blood, statues weeping tears etc some of which were eventually debunked iirc.
Ponzi schemes are quite possibly as old as granaries (or the pyramids), but I think a better contender for scope is something like the Mississipi Bubble which was absolute madness…
Kbin really is a work in progress. I’m sticking with it, but I have backup accounts for the times when it’s too buggy.
If it’s a scam then at this point it’s one of history’s biggest and longest-running.
Kind of an overstatement. It hasn’t even been 20 years. If it were a scam it’d be nowhere near the scale and timeframe of, say, Papal Indulgences.
This isn’t anything to do with your wider argument btw, just me nitpicking. Didn’t know you’d relocated to fedia.io, was that during the downtime?
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I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.
This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.