I’m also okay with harsher penalties for people that demonstrably can’t be trusted to do the right thing, for example by panicking and fleeing the scene.

Which is a good philosophy outside of the military! That’s the same thing the Puritans wanted, for people to not be reliant on a few to do their thinking for them.

From a broader perspective “school” has been a thing since before Socrates and humanity pendulums between “a broad education is the foundation for a strong populace” and “we need a giant pool of disposable labor”.

And the US public education philosophy is similarly inconsistent. At the earliest it was Puritans who wanted everyone to be able to read the Bible for themselves and so pushed for literacy. At times it has been guided specifically by the business economy but it’s inaccurate to say that schools were designed to produce factory workers.

Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)

Took me a second to remember that the US is the weird one with the red conservative party.

I don’t see a point to AR without cameras. Text translation and context-based information are all I would want, maybe a navigation aid, everything else just seems annoying to have right in front of me.

Every layer of the legal system is broken, and lots of people benefit from not fixing it.

Microwave popcorn hits different.

Well then you have to wait for the gardeners to tell you what you’re allowed to do, stop asking questions.

By leaving your walled garden.

Allowing religion to continue to fester is a mistake, people.

Skill issue.

The Pacific Northwest was very mild all winter so I’d bet BC.

https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/ruralPopDisclaimer.php

False. Well, it’s true there was that one study but it wasn’t accurate.

I have a good relationship with my family, but they are still miserable and draining to be around.

Why would you tolerate this?

Hey look, it’s both sides of the trolley problem.

It’s called “sealioning” and the only solution is to not engage with these types. They aren’t interested in honest answers, just controlling the conversation with a veneer of legitimacy to shield them from criticism.

Developed very similarly? On what time scale? Inuit, Salish, Cherokee, Aztec, Inca, and Rapa Nui are all pretty distinct. Post-colonialism there’s lots of differences between French, English, Spanish, and Portugese influence. And topographically the North Andes are a pretty solid border (though in many ways it makes more sense to extend out to the coast).

Imagine if “exciting” was the only metric all art was judged by.

They’re just awkwardly presented, the core mechanic is essentially the same as what we have now the numbers just go a different direction.