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I think they're like mold or cancer cells, or even a fire. You can't decide to be a billionaire just like a plant species can't decide to grow in crack in the pavement. It's a system of interactions that decides that. Pure chance and a lot of failures that had as much right to succeed as any other.

Billionaires are byproducts of our system weaved into a physical human body. It has a human life to confuse you and camouflage what it really is. It has a human brain and human emotions to generate reasons why it deserves to exist. It looks and feels like a person.

Reminds me of mandrakes from Harry Potter. They scream like they're alive but they're just there to be harvested.

"It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop." applied to serious topics.

A single shove never did anything. It was a combination of this boulder being perched on this ledge, and you standing 3 stories below it.

That place is eerie. Their sidebar has zero rules for me. But more importantly, who uses Corporate Memphis art? Feels like an outsider set it up.

I figure we can round that stuff to the center in many cases since we're dealing with IQ which is scuffed and because people subtly change day to day / year to year. Like we're fuzzily clustered around the hill top and the fuzzy groups to either side are pretty tiny.

Edit: oh you mean more stratification. I never heard that before, I need to learn about that.

Leave stupid and smart people out of it. Average people are 96% of earth. Don't you think it's a little mean for 98 people to blame 2 village idiots for everything? The problem is perfectly average, intelligent, reasonable humans. They're destroying everything.

Why not couch the article as "a vulnerability was found and patched" instead of "something bad could have happened"?

"STORE COULD HAVE BEEN ROBBED!! A bystander noticed the door wasn't locked, with the owner realizing he hadn't been locking it correctly. There is no evidence anyone broke in."

News in the porcelain village in Oz.

Looks like tiktok engagement bait. That will never work here! Oh...

I think it's a bad idea to give points for things that don't matter in a race. Highest speed trap, fastest single lap, coolest livery, most spicy team radio, fan favorite overtake, dotd.

They're in a race and they should get points for doing the race well. They shouldn't "fix" the randomness of motorsports by letting unlucky but fast cars+drivers still get points for this or that.

I did like the extra... strategy that can be applied to the gaps between cars though. Instead of just driving to the end with nobody in front or behind, it added a dimension. But a kinda gamey one.

Conservative women are objects so I don't really know what it means by rape and trafficking. Aren't those terms that apply to people?

Valve will let players (including kids) gamble on skins because it boosts player count. According to them.

Big publishers will still give you rewards for signing up somewhere, entering something, going to an arbitrary website and watching their stream, etc.

But for the small devs: you're not allowed to even give a player a reward for watching an ad. The choice doesn't even matter. It just can't be done.

It's a private corporation so Valve can do whatever they want though.

Say shit about Canada, our friends. Stoke anti America shit. Decrease odds of friendly relations.

Might as well.

Edit: not like people aren't already talking, or woe is us, it's just... bullshit. It's like someone who hates Lincoln Park going up to people and making annoying statements about the band being the greatest and shitting on other music, hoping some people get mad and start trashing Lincoln Park. It's a circus.

Am I not getting it? Is this instance / community botted?

Why is there "The FBI is suing the DOJ" but then inside it's "there's these two agents, a class action, and an organization that represents agents who are suing."

Aren't those two things very different? Why would you want to tell people that and then clarify with something much less noteworthy? Am I just fucking weird and people know what others mean when they exaggerate/theorize/aesthetically dress up real life?

Edit: like is the FBIAA effectively the FBI? What is it about that information that makes it so the FBI is suing?