Surely someone has done a thesis on this, good luck finding it with modern search engines. In principle a steady and significant rate of inflation could be positive, but you've still got to have some mechanism for people to build wealth or else the best you can achieve is that everyone stays poor together.

Being in denial about how people are is a big part of how we got here. I constantly run into people saying "oh I can't believe how hateful people are" and shit like that because they weren't exposed to it. I live in a part of California where logging is still a primary source of employment and spent a couple years fixing trailers and I heard all manner of ill shit that other people don't experience because they're not a big white guy wearing carharts and turning wrenches. If you think you have some idea of what kind of repugnant ideas are out there you haven't heard a damned thing until they take you to be one of them.

It's a simple fact that people who haven't had as much exposure to other people and cultures are ignorant about them. And it's also a fact that people who don't know shit typically don't have any idea how much they don't know. But that works in all directions, see?

You have no idea what consequences I'm facing.

Oh, I've been looking carefully all right.

Sorry I guess I wasn't clear enough but no random online people they meet online aren't included in the heading people they know.

People they know means people with much closer social ties. Basically it's people who are in a trusted position of power.

This is not to say that you still don't need to worry about it but it's very unlikely your kid is going to meet somebody randomly online and get taken advantage of there.

It is infinitely more likely that a priest or a counselor or a medical quack is going to be the one taking advantage of your kids and what's worse you are likely to facilitate that unknowingly.

Parents know to watch out for random weirdos. And they teach their kids that. What they don't do is teach their kids to recognize when they are being taken advantage of by somebody who is trusted.

This is also by the way why the right wing religious extremists oppose sex education. Sex ed teaches kids when they were being abused and religious extremists want to keep the abuse on the down low.

The bottom line is we continue to ignore the primary vector of attack because well, I don't know the fuck why. Seriously.

Colorado for example passed a law requiring priests to report when they were told about child sex abuse and the priests managed to get the law overturned.

There is absolutely no reason for the priests to want to do that except that they want to be able to hide child sex predators inside their ranks.

Again I cannot comprehend why except maybe, and I'm literally just making wild guesses but this is the only one I can come up with, they have so many sex predators that they cannot imagine rooting them all out. That it would fundamentally break their organization if they tried.

Thank you for proving my point there.

We have decades and decades of studies on this. Children are going to be assaulted and taken advantage of by people they know who are in positions of power.

Most commonly this is going to be priests or pastors. The reason why isn't terribly difficult to understand. You've got some people who already have a screw loose so they join the priesthood to be celibate and then they're stuck in compromising positions with children.

What I haven't quite figured out is why every single organized religion goes out of their way to hide the pedophiles when they find them instead of just giving them over to the police. They all do it (except for the ones like the episcopals that don't care if their preachers are gay or married or gay married). But I don't get why.

But whatever the case going after Roblox isn't going to save any children. It is however going to be great for somebody's political career.

My side didn't suddenly get a quarter of a billion dollars from Elon Musk right at the end when it was needed most.

And that that spending only applies to the presidential race. If you take all the other races across the whole country the right wing outspends us two to one at least.

We get a lot of money from a lot of small donors to the presidential race every 4 years and it just barely lets us be competitive on the national stage for the presidency and nothing else.

It's like dude, don't you ever get tired of being wrong?

Corrupting unions. They just shut them down entirely.

Again you're just spouting right-wing propaganda and it is so damn sad. I can't tell if you're doing it to get a rise out of me or if you genuinely are that dumb.

It's Poe's law. Right wing opinions are indistinguishable from people parodying or pretending to be right wing. Because right wing opinions are so fucking absurd on the face of it.

No.

Let's abolish listening to clowns who think all taxation is theft, they only want to burn everything down instead of fixing it because they are weak minded and lazy.

10-20 years is a long time in semiconductor process technology years whether China knows it or not.

I've never encountered any real conservatives that I know of. They all want to turn the clock back, not slow it down.

Wow!

The FSF finally discovered FreebSD?

will they be switching over for their internal use?

I buy food at the airport and take it on the plane because even with airport prices its still much better than the buy-on-board cost.

hmm. How about

ALL WAYMO
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INITIATE
SELF DESTRUCT.