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That's a bit of a false dilemma though. The two options aren't "it's a magical elixir with absolutely no downsides" and "people deserve to be locked in a cage and have their life ruined for possessing it". Plenty of legal things can cause harm. 35% of people are lactose intolerant, do we ban dairy?

Hell, you can give away 990 million of it, buy a house, put what's left in a high yield savings account, and live comfortably on the interest alone for the rest of your life.

The fact that Windows hides file extensions by default is just absolute insanity to me.

Jury nullification isn't an enumerated power, it's an emergent result of jury deliberations being secret and their verdict being legally binding.

+84 doesn't mean an increase of 84 percentage points, it means 92% approval, 8% disapproval.

Is there anything morally different between pretending to be ICE to break into people's homes to rob them and actually being ICE and breaking into people's homes to rob them?

Gandalf corrupted by the Ring would be a really interesting what-if scenario.

Only suspected to be. Bukele himself concedes a roughly 20% error rate and it's probably much worse than that.

"Oh but we used to live in fear of gangs!" You still do, you just traded one gang for a different, state-sanctioned one.

Better do 3 more to make it a nice even 20.

He also does it to ensure all his kids are XY because he's a raging sexist, which explains why he's such a shitheel to Vivian.

How exactly do you define advertising? An overly broad definition would forbid, for example, a dentist from putting a sign in front of their office saying they're a dentist.

Maybe they shouldn't be throwing out sieg heils and getting swastika tattoos if they don't want to be called Nazis.

15 year generations don't really make sense though, the whole concept of a generation is that they're the previous generation's kids.

For comparison's sake, Hitler killed 13.6 million people. History is very likely to end up remembering Trump as the single deadliest regime in history.

You have one of each number except 7, and you're deliberately avoiding doubles and runs of consecutive numbers. Human attempts at randomness tend to be very idealized in that way, and as a result, less random.

I prefer Great Value Goebbels.

I don't think the administration will publicly admit his death. They'll just deepfake him and claim he can't make any appearances outside of video communication for national security reasons.

Unless the government collapses in the next 20 years and can't pay it.

"Why do we eat the fungi that taste good and not the ones that give you explosive diarrhea?"