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Of course they could be balanced. Lots of the modern greedn movement is on how we can utilize tech to save nature, like windmills etc. However we humans have the wrong hardwiring for this to be feasable. Our brains have a hard time figuring long term profit vs immediate profit. Even when we are in ...

Indeed, forcing everyone to have an equal share in all parts of the production of everything would be impractical for many reasons, including some jobs needing specialisation. But probably we shouldn't focus too much on the specifics of an explicitly simplified example meant to illustrate the point;...

Robotization of cleaning is already underway, so I'm not sure there's much work left for a janitor in advanced industrial economies. Even industrial workers themselves are now a smaller percentage of population than they used to be. Yeah, exactly. It was apparently estimated that in 20 years time, ...

As for those concerns: I don't know. I think the idea is intriguing, and perhaps even a good goal for the future, but I was essentially playing devil's advocate here to try and build something of an argument of how a moneyless society could work vis a vis trying to weed out cheaters/slackers. I'd s...

Who's going to define what constitutes "useful work", and why would a truly socialist economy need to keep track of such a thing? (Unless the original document, now deleted, advocated some sort of money-less capitalism, but that would of course be silly, as any other way of keeping track o...

Eh, I don't see how Jasmine lacks agency. She actively refuses to be married off to some prince dude or whatever and if I recall she helps Aladdin defeat Jafar. Although she did need some rescuing, Aladdin himself is rescued all the time in that movie, including by Jasmine twice (momentarily at leas...

Well I don't know about you, but my life was greatly enriched by reading "it creates a vacuum in space that sucks victims in". A vacuum in spaaaaace ! Apart from outright stating it contains a powerful vacuum cleaner, I don't know how you could come up with a more retarded explanation of s...

And there you have it. It works by planarexplodium.

The "lol all clones are Boba Fetts" thing was always stupid. But I don't think anyone expects a bounty hunter to be super loyal for decades, so if the commonwealth of independent states leadership would notice the clones all look like that guy who hung out with Dooku for twenty minutes tha...

Here's what real sources say about paranoid schizophrenia: The key feature of this subtype of schizophrenia is the combination of false beliefs (delusions) and hearing voices (auditory hallucinations), with more nearly normal emotions and cognitive functioning. (Cognitive functions include reasoning...

Is this fair ? Quite. You tried to make money from selling a game identical to theirs. I'm curious as to why you would even think this was a good idea. Can gameplay concepts be owned like this ? Son, you didn't just use some "gameplay concepts", you copied the whole design straight off. T...

I didn't realize that "Al Qaeda" was a sovereign nation capable of issuing citizenships; alternatively that being member of any organization voided your current citizenship. Previously there was a crime called "treason", but score one for Americans enthusiastically signing their ...

Uh, yeah. This thing seems more analogous to the "classic controller" for the Wii, seeing as it also seems to add more buttons, and will probably "change the way games are made" to a similar degree. Ie. not that much.

Attitudes changed but prostitution remains. But it has decreased, and trafficking has almost vanished, compared to other countries. What is your opinion on this? I'm vehemently opposed to forced prostitution. Women who trade sex due to psychological trauma or mental illness should be helped. But as...

I am no expert, but it seems to me that one of the big problems with prostitution is exploitation: the fact that prostitutes have to do business in an environment full of crime and predatory classes of criminals who take advantage of them. "Just moving prostitution to the Internet" might ...

Prostitution is older than humanity itself so trying to abolish it is kinda pointless. You seem to agree that prostitution is problematic, so why would you not try to get rid of it as much as possible? Surely you do not think it's pointless to try to abolish other "really old" undesirable...

The debate has merit in that if people have to actively whore themselves out to afford going to school, it may be shocking enough to wake other people up to the need for serious change. Of course, it won't if everyone pretends that "oh yeah, it's just another sucky (rofl) job hurf durf", b...

To put it another way, if I invite someone into my home, and they shit on the carpet, leave a mess in the kitchen, and insist that they don't have to follow any rules, would anyone criticize me for being pissed off and/or wanting to kick them out? Would any serious person actually argue that I need...

After all Communism, National Socialism and Social Democracy and the various permutations of socialism share some common stylistic traits which are plain to see for anyone who doesn't suffer from ideological blinders No, Julhelm. You would in fact need quite thick ideological goggles to see any sim...

It descends into the insane: It descends into typical extreme right conspiratorial hurf durfing. Seriously, all that kind of talk about huge multicultural conspiracies and "cultural Marxism" (which basically means they think the commies are secretly trying to subvert the system by critici...

He doesn't seem to be a neo-Nazi to me. I've read one of his posts where he compares Islam, Nazism and Marxism together as hate-filled ideologies (and he thinks of them as bad things). Note however that with many of these extreme nationalists, their objections to Nazism are little more than lip ser...

87?! Jesus fucking Christ, it was "just" ten when I went to bed last night. :shock: Fucking paramilitary nazi shitheads. A Neo-Nazi, eh, blowing away claims by bigots who fingered Muslims and tinfoil hatters who cited Mossad? So he did his "duty" by... blowing and shooting up......

Nothing wrong with hitting children. But you can't hit adults because they are very fragile and might die. BTW, if you still cling to this absurdity of a notion, you should try to go smack yourself and see if you learn to be any smarter. They used to do it in schools you know, but I guess it's bad w...

It's always fun to see where the deep seated contempt some fans hold Lucas in leads them. This time it was an obvious joke taken as confirmation that he is, in fact, the devil. I'm still not so sure on the "why" though; it is a most perplexing behaviour.

Okay, so this recently came up in a discussion: Humans do view cleanness as a status symbol - throughout history, those of higher social status could afford to be cleaner than those of lower social status. However, this is not just due to the fact that those of higher social status will perform les...