I guess, if they answer “No” or “Your simple rebuttal has made me realize the problem of free will is nbd actually”.

But if they say “Yes. It does matter.” Then suddenly it isn’t defeated and you’d need to provide a compelling argument for it not mattering, which would make for good conversation.

Add another one for the ugly fucking tailoring job on that suit.

True that. Our tax dollars could be spent much more effectively if our government was more focused on the wellfare of its people.

You get other benefits though. Like the few social safety nets we actually have, public school funding, social security (unless it runs out/gets cut), fire departments, regulatory agencies that keep your food, water, and drugs safe. Etc. It costs a lot of money to have a society. Even if you don’t directly benefit from them, they still make society less shit.

That said, it’d cost a lot less if we didn’t spend so much of it murdering children.

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Depends on your goals. I’d say learn the one you have the most use for. If you don’t have a use and are just learning for fun, then pick the most interesting one. If you’re learning intending to acquire the language as quickly as possible, then either Italian or French would be good choices.

I am learning Chinese (mandarin, aka 汉语, aka 普通话) and I personally find it very logical, interesting, and fun as a native english speaker who used to be conversationally fluent in Spanish. There are definite difficulties with the language (soooooo many homonyms, characters (汉子) take some getting used to, tones, etc) but if you learn it, there is a lot of reading material and media that will become accessible to you. Additionally some things about it are easier than other languages - like the grammar is very simple, you don’t have to worry about conjugations and tenses as much. Also, I think that it provides more cognitive benefits because of how different it is to romance languages.

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Except, since each vote toward good/rotten is binary, it really means that a high score is not “best” but is instead “least objectionable”

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It’s illegal unless there’s a bonafide occupational qualification that your disability prevents you from performing. Like you couldn’t apply for a job as a furniture mover if you’re a quadriplegic and cry discrimination when they don’t select you. And the employer can ask things like “this job requires that you lift heavy objects of up to 600lbs with the assistance of another person and a back brace. Do you have any medical or other reason you could not perform these duties?”.

Now if that weren’t a real occupational qualification, that’d be discriminatory. Like if they said you had to be a man for that moving job - there’s no reason you have to be a man, you just have to be able to move 600lb things.

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But they weren’t for the purpose of killing. They were for the purpose of keeping people alive and contolled for forced labor. Auschwitz existed to exterminate people, so death/extermination camp is a word that conveys that meaning. Dachau largely existed to keep people alive (temporarily) for forced labor, but we wouldn’t call Dachau a plantation. It wasn’t someone’s private property with a big manor house on it and people they bought and kept for slave labor.

Plantations may be (are) romanticized in some places among some people, but that word means something specific. If we want to coin a new word without the baggage of it being romanticized, okay. But it’s going to be hard to convey that precise meaning with new words. Imo it’d be be better to call them plantations but do a better job educating people (especially white people in the south) that plantations were very fucked up and were a type of forced labor camp.

That said, labels do shape perception - especially among poorly educated people who just have a passing knowledge of the thing in question. Like if it were common to call the civil war “the war of northern aggression” like some people in the South historically have, that would be inaccurate as a label and would be misleading.

I don’t like calling plantations labor camps. While they were labor camps in part and needed forced labor on the premises to exist, they were also quite distinct from labor camps in many ways. Similarly, we don’t refer to Auschwitz as a labor camp, typically we’d say that it was a death camp - a specific type of concentration camp, which is an important facet not present in “Labor Camps” more broadly.

Plantations also typically had large manor houses on their grounds and used slave labor not only to achieve economic goals but also to maintain the slave-owner’s house. Additionally, they often had small-scale economies and cultures where slaves were either issued tokens to trade for essentials or bartered among themselves. I see plantations as a farm-labor camp with a slave-owning family’s home present on the premises and elements of village life for enslaved workers. Plantations were typically too large to contain the slaves in locked barracks or in a walled/fenced section, so their imprisonment was enforced by a system of bounty hunters, legal enforcement for the return and punishment of runaway slaves, and other legal and cultural mechanisms that made escape difficult and dangerous rather than (typically) by physical confinement. Those are features not adequately captured by “Labor Camp”.

Well that sucks

The main problem with the train would be that once you get to those cities, they are massive, sprawling, and lack good public transit.

So hopefully they improve the transit situation in the cities & surrounding areas as well.

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Like 80% of the serotonin in your body is in your intestines iirc.

Autism is a spectrum. If the label of autism describes the symptoms you have and helps you to understand and contextualize them, who cares about what some test says tbh - but if your doc also thought it fit, then even less reason to doubt it.

I generally agree. Still, cocaine is super addictive and the risk of OD is pretty high