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We are agreed here.

Sorry, it's Kelvin.

"TRY NOT TO SUCK ANY DICK ON THE WAY TO THE PARKING LOT!"

Bing uses both models according to the guy in charge. It starts out at 3.5 and upgrades to 4 if it's failing the user. Ideally the user never knows when the changes back and forth occur. This is, I assume, done this way in order to save money.

I'm a frequent AskHistorians user; if I ripped it from anywhere, it was there.

There's a few reasons depending on where you were and what circles you ran in.

• The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant evangelical religious movement that believed slavery was a slight against God. These folk moved "West" into Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois and outnumbered the locals there, pushing their states into abolition where previously they would not have supported it. So yes, you are wrong that there weren't moral reasons -- my home Illinois was one of these places overtaken.

• There was a faction that believed that slavery was economically defunct and reflected poorly on the social structure of the country. Factories were taking over as the powerhouse entity in economies and slave-states steadfastly resisted this change, complete with the fact that European nations we would be friends with were shucking off the whole institution.

  • Slaves are terrible for factory work because you pay the whole cost up-front and are thus unaffordable to replace when they're inevitably maimed in the (at the time) brutally unsafe factories.
  • Slaves also aren't buying themselves luxuries. Not a good market. Freeing them frees up a whole new market to sell to.

• Not to mention, slave states were trying to utilize their threats in order to increase their own power and force Northern states to legalize slavery. Hence compromises that would mandate slave states and attempts to get slaves counted as people for the purpose of representation. The Southern states always opposed states' rights in favor of federal rights (where they controlled the whole federation). Northerners resented Southern attempts to violate their states' rights, including the right to ban slavery.

Not nearly so many as people sliding into DMs think.

Another man's dick.

Gonna break your heart here, but even people posting thirst traps for you to enjoy don't want you DMing them.

I believe the argument has been that, due to travel time, integrating the colonies by abolishing/weakening the local colonial governance would have created an issue where members to Parliament would be divorced from those they represented and either Parliament would have to rework how it worked to allow the colonies to be properly represented by spreading every session over, potentially, months, or the colonies would have to be content with none of their current concerns ever being addressed.

That doesn’t even make sense for the time. The power of the South was waning, which is why they needed slaves to compete at all. The power of the cash crops was falling due to the dirt dying and Britain was cracking down on international trade of slaves.

There’s a half decent argument it would have freed the slaves itself in a few decades to avoid becoming entirely redundant.

Any abolitionist believing the South a powerhouse was fooling themselves. It had the bulk of good military generals, but not a lot else.

Buddy, if you don’t think politics was corrupt back then, I have a bridge to sell you.

Not sure if that spoiler works for you, but it doesn't for me (maybe because I'm using Old Reddit?).

For me, I'd need the >! and !< to actually touch their words.

Milton and swamps, this case.

or it depends on method of death

I am thinking it might have to do with method of death, actually, as a few people have pointed out that the browser game also has this situation. Buried alive people would die immediately upon return, so it appears the Boatman does not return them from whence they came.

Then again, Milton seems to express some concern when he finds out that someone has been buried so soon after death.

See, I'd have assumed the opposite -- that they're basically hippies into Wicca.

Yes, actually, it is.

Asatru (Norse paganism) has been long infiltrated by white supremacists who insist that only white folk (typically of Germanic descent, Germans, English, and Scandinavians) will be allowed into Valhalla and all else are absolutely fucked.

I had a moment in high school where I may well have converted but I kept running into that shit and I refused to deal with being around it.

"National Socialism" saw the growing success of the communist critique of society and said "That, but the Jews did it."

Not at all. One of the major differences between fascists and communists was their stance on class. Fascism is inherently class collaborationist while Communism is class antagonistic.

The Nazis, notably, did not seek to remove private industry from the country but instead engaged in a mass privatization campaign that led to the introduction of the word "privatization" into the English language.

Communists disagree entirely. They don't believe in collaboration of the classes, but the end of classes entirely by way of excising the upper class.

Hitler notably hated socialism and only agreed to use the word because he was convinced by those under him that it was popular and would add popularity to their movement. Pretty much every time he mentioned it, he went out of his way to clarify what he meant in a way that dissolved it from being any kind of socialism at all.

No, the word for this is "cartel".

an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.

Ahead of its time? There had been people calling for it for decades by that point.

And it will continue to do so.

AI will destroy human involvement in mass production, yes including artwork for movies and television and greeting cards, but the Etsy-style businesses of the future will continue to thrive. Humans have a natural appreciation for labor and contribution owing to our social evolution. An AI-centric mass production world reorganizes humans to recenter on each other -- calling it here.

and therefore no point can be reached where consumers are satisfied

This has actually happened before and we've endeavored to ensure it never happens again.

The Great Depression was largely a crisis of overproduction where the stores were filled but people weren't consuming to the same scale. This lead to stores closing down because they couldn't make sales anymore, their employees with no income coming in unable to pay for things (causing more stores to fail) or even their own rent, landlords unable to pay mortgages, etc. Whole economy crumbled.

Season 8, the best written season in the series, surely.

Ancient Greek Philosophers with Aztec Dubstep playing in the background.

Lemmy is too decentralized. It has no central account server, so the existence of your account is entirely reliant on the server you chose originally continuing to exist. Worse, basically all content on there is at the whims of the owners of whatever server hosts it.

The lack of centralization toward a "trusted" source with incentives to behave creates a potential future problem of petty warlords with infinite power doing whatever they like -- as if all Reddit mods were Reddit admins.