Orbán also revealed before Thursday’s EU summit that Putin had warned the Hungarian leader that Moscow would take countermeasures if the EU tapped Russian assets to help Ukraine. […] “So we Hungarians have protected ourselves,” Orbán said.
Submitting to extortion is a dubious policy; advertising your susceptibility to extortion is practically an invitation.
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Montreal is just a subspace of Montcomplex.
Probably the same way Putin feels about Dobby.
Sign language isn’t just another way of expressing English that can be picked up like learning a different alphabet or a secret code. It’s a full, independent language with its own complete vocabulary, syntax, inflectional system, etc. that takes as long to learn as any other natural language.
It would be great if more people knew it for the sake of communicating with the deaf, but as a means of foiling surveillance, there are many other approaches that would be more effective for less time investment. (Hell, you might as well learn a really obscure spoken language that would be less likely to be recognized or deciphered than ASL.)
Assuming that
human phenotypic traits that correlate more closely with mouse traits have more-predictable outcomes with mouse-tested medicine, and
more-predictable medical outcomes correlate with higher survival and reproductive rates,
can’t you plug that straight into the Price equation?
In the long run, using mice to test human medicines will result in selection pressure for humans whose physiology more and more closely resembles mice.
I’d say devices like metaphor and synecdoche are compression tools for meaning, and devices like rhyme and meter are checksums for error correction.
It’s like a double negative: a cool dog is the opposite of a hot dog, but a cool cat is the opposite of a cool dog, so you end up back where you started.
Being good and being cheap are both indications that public transit is being properly funded. When funding is short, they have to raise fares and cut services.
Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).
I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.
If your criterion is that the theater isn’t making as much as they otherwise would, then failing to donate your entire paycheck to the theater is also “objectively wrong”.
I generally don’t eat in the theater anyway, but when I do I buy from the theater’s concessions… as a courtesy, not because I think it exemplifies some kind of objective morality. And if I did bring in food, I’d be supporting some other business that may be equally or more deserving.
Nah—see Goodhart’s law (“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”).
As soon as Santa published his lists, people would start figuring out ways to game it.
Historians don’t talk about “good” or “bad” unless there’s some unambiguous metric within the historical context.
There’s not much value in money that can only be used to purchase land/raw materials.
On the contrary—with automation converting raw materials to finished goods essentially for free, raw materials would be worth more than ever.
There are still (some) consumers—other capitalists.
Labor might become worthless, but money would still have value derived from ownership of capital (factories and raw materials). A tiny capitalist class would still produce and sell to each other, while the rest of humanity would be left with literally nothing to work with.
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Or you could condition yourself to have a negative reaction to all advertised products, then charge the ad companies a fee to block their ads.
Capitalism incentivizes risk-taking, which can be productive when there are potential opportunities that are otherwise too risky to explore.
But after they’ve exploited the productive risk/reward opportunities, capitalists increasingly rely on amplifying the risks—but now the risks are at the expense of the rest of society, while the rewards accrue only to themselves.