I highly recommend reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Depends on who gets superpowers, and how such powers are acquired.

The broad strokes of The Boys makes some degree of sense if we start with the premise that some megacorporation controls the manufacture and publicity of all supers. However, if supers can come from other sources, then what limitations are we putting on the premise?

I am of the opinion that most people are inherently good. Most people are also inherently stupid and cowardly, but keep in mind that these circles on the venn diagram are independent of each other despite some overlap. However, if given an opportunity to choose between helping and hurting, without any fear of repercussions either way, most people would choose to help.

There’s a popular quote: “power corrupts”, which is a shortened version of “absolute power corrupts absolutely”. I think this quote misses something fundamental: “power attracts the corruptable”. In a world without gods, no one I’d ever trust to be one would ever actively make the choice to become one unless it was forced on them somehow.

If superpowers were distributed more randomly, then the odds of us getting a superman instead of a homelander improve greatly. Still a dice throw though.

Something I’ve noticed, and it’s consistent enough that I suspect that microsoft does it on purpose, there’s a 50/50 chance that your windows instal will either be fine forever without problems, or plagued with constant issues that get worse with every update. 2 identical machines with the same install media can produce very different experiences.

I use linux now, and I no longer do tech support, so I’m glad I don’t have to deal with that shit anymore.

anonymous, not private. the two ideas are not the same.

that’s one of the common excuses that the mills quote. It’s bullshit of course, but it sounds plausible so they continue to get away with it.

Another bullshit excuse is that they’re providing an additional service by milling and planing the lumber for you, and that the nominal measurement is before that process.

It’s all just greed. If they could get away with selling a 2x4 that was half an inch thick, they would. At least it’s all standardized now.

We don’t have a monopoly on stupid, it’s true. The most stupid though are american.

Does it? I’m using a vpn and I’m on .world and it seems to work just fine.

yeah, but between now and next time I need it I’ll have forgotten wiztree but will still remember windirstat because I’ve been using it for years.

fault isn’t zero sum.

both the driver and best buy can be 100% at fault.

idk, it was the first result for “doubt meme” for me.

this can be easily avoided by using linux.

unfortunately, i setup all my accounts on .world which blocks piracy communities.

so many fixes, this is great

Anyone else have the problem with newpipe that it simply doesn’t work when connected to wifi?

1 year and 6 traffic collisions later (all the fault of the car drivers), I still drive a scooter (not the same one I started the year with) and do not have a car. I believe that I do not have brain damage.

Firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block (for youtube).

i don’t use apple products but it works on everything else

why don’t you have an adblocker? I haven’t seen / heard an ad on one of my devices in 15 years.

I’m imagining it and that sounds hot

eh, pandemic, epidemic, what’s the difference?

I know there’s actually a difference and the difference does matter, but I don’t know what the difference is and I use the two words interchangeably. My point was that shit’s fucked.