I love that movie. The way they run with blades is so good

When I wonder what heaven is like I imagine going a day without thinking about this Elon Musk motherfucker, then I imagine doing that every day forever and I feel a little closer to Jeebus.

If the owner improves the home and the appraisal goes up, wouldn’t rent go up?

The renter pays extra and receives part ownership. So the owner receives this extra money and… just has to keep the money on hand in case the renter leaves years down the road?

The whole thing is a legal nightmare. Owners would just sell. And who would buy? Corporate landlords who have lawyers who can cut through all this confusion.

Wonder if OP thinks “right side up” means the left side is down

Or The Peacemaker. He killed a lot of Russians in that movie

I switched in the late 90s to attract women. I still think it’s going to work someday.

I would have gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor you piece of shit

Look, Mike Johnson is an innocent hard working man who saw a large group of morally corrupt assholes who won’t do anything unless it makes the life of a woman, child or minority worse in some way and said “Hey, I’d like to be the head asshole of this group.” I think he deserves some respect.

/s

I botched that post, especially the first sentence. I meant to say that it relies on human life being real at some point, either in the present or in the past, and doesn’t really rule out alien life at that point

Bostrom’s theory relies on life being real too. If I could rephrase it, his theory is:

1 if humans can simulate a human mind in the future, they will 2 they will probably simulate their ancestors (us) 3 they will probably do it trillions and trillions of times 4 this means that out of trillions of consciousnesses, some are real humans and some are simulations 5 we are either one of the few billion actual living minds or one of the trillions of simulated minds and math says it’s the latter because trillions is more. (He never says trillions, just unspecific words like “countless”)

I think Bostrom is genius but I’ve never found this argument very interesting.

Is this you?

https://youtu.be/3Lyex2tSUyA?si=g1RFxQfBvCS5R2Y0

Oh man, I loved True Names, A Fire Upon The Deep and A Deepness In The Sky. I never got around to read ling the rest or his stuff but maybe it’s time

Ok I think I get where you’re coming from. It’s membership in the nation group that makes it genocide. But that would make almost all war genocide. We could think that but it kinda takes away all meaning. If all war is genocide then no war is genocide.

It also ignores the second part of the definition, “with the aim of destroying that nation or group.” That is a basic Google/dictionary definition and it’s not bad but the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defined it as “…acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”

First, there has to be intent. Second, “as such” means destroying the group so much that it is no longer a group.

US law isn’t applicable but it is a little more clear.

USC 1091 defines genocide as “…specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such.”

USC 1093 defines the term “substantial part” to mean: “a part of a group of such numerical significance that the destruction or loss of that part would cause the destruction of the group as a viable entity within the nation of which such group is a part.”

I believe they’re both saying “destroy the group so hard it is no longer a viable group.”

If nation group is the gauge, the question is: During WWII, did the US intend to destroy Germans so thoroughly that there was no longer a Germany? Did the US intend to destroy Iraqis so thoroughly that there ceased to be an entity called Iraq?

No to both of those.

Ba’athists aren’t a nation or ethnic group either.

No not really. Just because we can put the enemy into a group doesn’t make it genocide. Every war is fought against an enemy we can put into a group. The Germans in WWII were Christians. We weren’t committing genocide against Christians.

The goal in Iraq was to change the people in power. We didn’t target Ba’athists, we targeted those in power who happened to be Ba’athists. And if you recall, we did that in like 3 weeks and thought we were done. We didn’t go around rounding up Ba’athists trying to eradicate them. We got them out of power and said “mission accomplished!”

Then it turns out a lot of people, Ba’athist and non-Ba’athist, didn’t like us being there and it became a huge messy “us vs everybody.”

At least they didn’t try that with toilet paper

I keep plenty of scrap parts and supplies but the only “garbage” I tend to hang on to is large foam padding. I have one that I land the end of my kayak on when I’m getting it off my vehicle roof, one that’s big enough to lay on when I’m working under a car and one that I put under heavy parts when working on the workbench. I have a small stack that I will throw away when I realize I’ll never use them then slowly rebuild when I see one and think “I’ll use that for something.”

I work in an industry that uses razor blades and if OSHA comes in and finds one laying around it’s an automatic fine ($500 last I heard but that was a decade ago). They make disposable jugs for used blades, we put the blades in and throw the jug away once it’s full. So, basically, the same as your method. It seems to be the best anyone’s came up with.