Tobberone

Human knight in the demo: In the real game i am much funnier.

What? Won't creditors accept real estate as security from a man found guilty of fraudulently overvalue his real estate in orde to use as security for the exact purpose of lending more money in a money lending scheme? Shocking!

I wonder, though: if the state of NY expropriate real estate to sell to highest bidder and those auctions fail to meet market value, won't that create chain reactions? A) the creditor(s) which had that particular building as security will see the value of their asset turn to zero because of negligence from their customer "billionaire", which should open for a case against Trump for both immediate repayment of the loan and subsequent damages, and B) send a clear signal to all other creditors that they need to secure their assets asap?

One wonders, with such a slim majority, where the speaker and a few others would swing the majority, if they've realised they could negotiate bi-partisan agreements which would push conservative policies at the cost of some democratic ones. It would crush the magas, while still pushing conservative agendas and get som form of government working again.

Well, while I agree it is happening to slow, compared to the 90ies, or even 10 years ago, it isn't slow. It is happening in an unprecedented rate. And some bodies, like EU, has taken som massive steps in legalisation last year addressing huge areas, from energy use to transportation. And in both China and the US (and everywhere else) renewables outperforms fossil tech in new investments. And seasonal energy storage issues are addressed as well, which could adress one of the big ones, seasonal heating needs (that's 40% of total energy usage in the north).

As for your example of coal mines. They are already dead tech, although it will take a little while longer for everyone to realise it. And that is by affecting decisionmakers and without violence. As for oil use in general, we need an alternative to the car. When people stop using cars, be it by better commuting options, electric scooters or electric kickbikes and "follow me home" carrying drones, oil will see it's days counted to.

And coming around to my first comment, these are corporate and government decisions outlined. As a part of the public, we have a choice to either stick to our old ways, or try to learn something new and add our weight to the bandwagon.

Well, there are things done, but not enough and not by many enough and many actions, like cutting down on travel, consumption and beef, are seen as undesirable.

I know there is a common view that it doesn't matter what the common man does, that it's the corpos och governments that hold all the power, but that isn't entirely correct. Governments and corporations have power and need to be influenced by actions and, when it gets rolling bandwagoning, but the decisions of the billions of people have consequences to. Not everybody has a choice, nor means, but some (most on these boards?) of us have in some capacity and we need to consider how we can act in accordance.

And dont critice something for being inadequate. The next iteration will be better. That's how we get the ball rolling. Waiting for the perfect solution will leave us incapable of action.

As i said, by definition. If there is anything holding such a deity from doing one thing, or the other, it is unable to do all things, thus not omnipotent.

Well, omnipotency is out, I believe. An omnipotent god needs, by definition, be equally able and likely to be exceedingly cruel as wellwilling. The question is, why would such a god hav given Noah the task of building an arc in the first place?

And the question of humanities "free will" is another nail in the coffin. Either humans only have free will for as much as whatever whim the omnipotent god allows for, or of the free will is immutable, then there is one thing the "omnipotent" god can't do, and thus omnipotence is out...

Po-tay-toes! Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.

In theory I agree, in practice other stuff, as the need for heating/cooling, really muddled the theory and puts the sweet spot speed way up. And if we turn the Aircon off, 150 is a really high number.

AI will bring back the personal meeting as the only information exchange worth while. Phonecalls can't be trusted and anything read on the internet. Imagine an ai calling to sell something, that gets to talk to your ai call recieved that you use to weed out sales marketing calls? They'd talk forever trying to convince eachother they are human.

Access to a pre 2020-encyclopaedia will be a an information advantage and "if I can't prove it myself I can't trust it" will become norm.

Dead internet theory on steroids☹️

"Leftist", "centrist" and "conservative"? This is not a the open discussion it is made out to be.

Having said that, those "traditional" values mentioned could easily be replaced with conservative values, especially when compared to the very individual, almost liberal, value of freedom to express oneself it is hard to see anything being "leftist" in the premiss of the discussion. Unless you are so far off the scale to the right that everything looks left...