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To be fair I don’t think people would comprehend how insane a billion of anything bigger than microscopic would be. For example 1 billion grams of sugar is enough to fill at least 3 3-bedroom apartments. 1 billion cats is probably more than there are household cats on the planet.

People are likely to underestimate how much a billion is so a billion of something that your life depends on probably doesn’t seem like much, because you need it anyway and you can spend it. Except you can’t. I imagine if the average person was given 1 billion dollars and they’d buy everything they could ever imagine most people would still have 950 million left. To spend 1 billion in 30 years you’d need to spend almost 100k daily. You’d have to spend more in a day than most people make in a year. It’s been normalized because it’s incomprehensible to begin with.

No. The message was that to solve racism you need to crack open some skulls. Racists will stop being racist when you show the some brains.

Now apply that same statement to what you said before.

Well shit, someone should’ve told me that before I was born.

How does one work as a main character?

Depends on how accurately you want to stick to Batman. If all the gadgets and batcave are necessary then yes, he need to be rich. If it’s just the physical and mental capabilities then he doesn’t need to be rich because he’ll just be Rorschach.

I might be misremembering the timeline but I think he was brought on board after the market was created because Valve started to see the same economic patterns (and issues) Varoufakis had talked about. He was brought in to make sure the skin economy would have a solid foundation. So he isn’t really responsible for TF2 hats. CS skins however he could be considered responsible.

So like cure a sinus infection or something?

I have hammers for driving nails, 12 shaped hammers for doing body work, rubber hammers (mallets) for banging on softer materials, and 4 different sledge hammers weighing between 3lbs and 50lbs. I also have screw drivers in sizes from itty bitty eyeglass / watch to computer to jumbo. I also have air canisters, a 3 gallon pancake air compressor, and 50 gallon shop sized air compressor. You use the correct tool in the correct way to accomplish the job. Your attempt at making a false equivalence is rejected.

Aren’t you missing your analogy of getting a separate tool just to train? I too have different hammers for different jobs, but I don’t have an extra set of hammers just because I love hammering so much and neither do you.

So in the first half of that sentence you admit your own argument is false, or at least not universally true. It IS sensible for at least some gun owners to have different firearms for different purposes.

No, because what is sensible for the individual might not be sensible for a group of people and what might be sensible for a small group of people might not be sensible for the larger group. If we take your argument, which is that what is sensible for one is sensible for all then it should be sensible for everyone to spend a few grand on setting up a home server to have all the services big tech provides at your home so your data is actually yours. So why isn’t everyone doing “the sensible” thing? Because for most people it’s not sensible because they don’t have the technical know-how how to set something like that up, they don’t care to keep it running, they don’t care to backup their data and they don’t care to spend money on something they feel they don’t need.

As for the 2nd half you do realize that there are between 15 and 16 million hunters in the United States, right? This is not a small number of people.

Do you really want to go down the statistics route? For starters, 16 million is less than 5% of the American population. I couldn’t find a credible number of gun owners but that percentage would be bound to go up significantly considering how marginal it is for the entire American population I’ll give you that. But there’s a caveat and that’s hunting itself. By far the most popular game to hunt is deer, which is about half of all the hunts, and a third of the hunters don’t even use a modern firearm. So not only does that 16 million drop to 10-11 million hunters with modern firearms, half of them are getting by with just a single hunting rifle. Now for the multiple game hunters we’re below 2% of the entire American population and that’s under the assumption that the whole 100% of people within that 2% regularly hit the shooting range to justify owning a separate set of firearms.

Okay first off, false equivalence again and second…what’s wrong with sex dungeon? They’re pretty easy to build if you have the right tools. :)

I didn’t say there’s anything wrong with a sex dungeon. I said that despite it being sensible for someone practicing BDSM it’s not sensible for the vast majority of people for the similar reason everyone doesn’t have a home server, they don’t know how to set it up, they don’t have the space to set it up, they don’t want to maintain it and they don’t want to spend money on it when they can just use the bed/couch/floor/whatever. What might be sensible for a BDSM practitioner is not sensible for everyone having sex.

Yeah, I totally use my training hammer to be prepared to use my real hammer when the time is right. I also have a set of training screw drivers to be prepared when I need to take my computer apart for cleaning. And to be proficient with the air canister I have a training canister.

I get it, you like to shoot and if you shoot a lot you want to make it cheap and it’s cheaper to shoot small bullets because they’re cheaper. But most gun owners are not hunters nor do they go regularly shooting. Your individual experience may be sensible for your specific scenario, but it’s not sensible for the vast majority of gun owners. It might be sensible for a BSDM practitioner to build a sex dungeon, it doesn’t mean a sex dungeon is sensible for everyone having sex.

I agree. The main reasons for crime are social and in America that should definitely be improved upon, but have you questioned why specifically gun related crimes are so high compared to let’s say knife-related crimes? Because in Europe it’s probably the opposite, knife-related crimes are higher than gun-related crimes.

Let’s me rephrase it then. You can want to have all those guns but it’s not sensible to have all those guns.

The argument here is that it’s sensible to have so many guns. It’s not sensible because even among Americans the median gun owner owns 2 guns. You don’t need a shotgun, a handgun, a concealed carry gun and a whole other set of guns for hunting and whole other set of guns for the shooting range etc. That is not sensible, that is just someone wanting a whole lot of guns.

Yes. What’s the point of owning a firearm if you can’t have a gun for when you’re sleeping in your bedroom, a gun when you’re on the toilet, a gun when you’re on the couch watching the TV, a gun when you’re at the front door greeting guests, a gun when you’re driving your F150, a gun for that second amendment right, a gun when you go grocery shopping, a gun when you go buying clothes, a gun to go with your Tony Montana cosplay and you know, a gun just for fun. What are you supposed to do? Go outside without a gun? Use one gun for all those things? Don’t you know switching to your sidearm is always faster than reloading?

You don’t need all those guns. You want all those guns.

Someone should sell him the idea that to terraform Mars you need the kind of tech that would also terraform Earth. Let him spend his money to solve climate change.

And why exactly does Hamas exist in the first place? Surely not because Isreal has been killing Palestinians before Isreal was even an official state.

I’ll bring up a few shows that haven’t been mentioned yet.

Band of Brothers. It’s probably one of the greatest TV shows ever made. It’s about the Easy company of the 101 airborne division in WW2. The show follows the company from bootcamp (where you get to see David Schwimmer give a performance that could shock you out of seeing him as Ross from Friends) all the way to the end of the war. It’s a must watch and that’s all I’m going to say because if I say anything more I’m just going to start praising it to high heavens. I’ll only add this that if you’ve finished Band of Brothers and feel like you want more there’s also a sort of a follow-up miniseries called “The Pacific” which focuses on the Pacific front of WW2. It is good definitely worth watching if you enjoyed Band of Brothers but it doesn’t reach the high that was Band of Brothers.

The other miniseries I’ll mention is Bodyguard. It’s about a British Police officer who ends up becoming a bodyguard for the Home Secretary (Minister of the Interior or Homeland security of however it’s named it your country). I won’t spoil anything else about the plot, I’ll just add that the show does an excellent job as framing conflicts and building up suspense. It’s an all around great thriller.

And now something from the left field, Attack on Titan. This is the only show that I recommend that isn’t a miniseries and it’s not even live-action. It’s an anime based on the comic (manga) of the same name. It’s set in a world where humans are forced to live behind walls to keep out giant man-eating humanoids called the Titans and the anime (and the comic) follow Eren Jaeger, who wants to rid the world of the Titans. This one needs a PSA. Anyone who has watched anime knows the trope of the hero putting together a band of companions and they go on their merry adventures. That is definitely what you will feel on the first half of the first season so if you start watching and think “what is this boring bullshit” it gets way better. It’s a really well written story with a lot of hints that will make sense in hindsight and some borderline Dark (if you’ve seen the show you know what I’m talking about) moments that make you go “what the fuck is even going on?” It’s one the few stories where I hope we get a proper “Edge of tomorrow” level adaption of the whole story (as a show not a movie because you’re not fitting that into a movie) to make it more digestible for western audiences because that’s how great Attack on Titan is. It’s the only anime that I recommend on the basis that if it had a a good live-action adaptation I would be recommending that. But because there’s no live action version we have to make due with anime and if you’re not going to watch it because it’s anime then it really is just your loss.

In this AI bubble Playstation is also a marginalized platform. Sony is also struggling under the memory shortage and rumors are the PS6 has been pushed forward another year because you can’t launch a new platform in this economy. They will fare better because they can make special deals to get the hardware they want, but at what price? If PS6 starts costing something like $700 they’re not going to be all that successful.

The only ones I was remotely interested we’re Demons souls remake (which never came to PC) and Bloodborne remake (which never happened in the first place). For the rest of Sony games I gave most of them a fair shot but none of them made me think “wow, this was a must play”.