The moment you start selectively deciding who is and isn’t a thief is the moment the justice system starts breaking down.
Isn’t this exactly what a jury of your peers is intended for? So people - the members of the affected community - can decide who is and isn’t a thief, after ensuring they’re provided with all the facts of the case?
The difference is that the data centers aren’t part of the community. They’re invasive, coming in to steal the water and power and spoil the area with heat and noise. The locals have no say or control over them.
Turning a blind eye towards damage done to them is a form of self defense.
I think I’m mapping the negations of negations correctly - that link says not only is it still current, but seems to be very nearly universal?
Eh, it feels to me like the dumb kids are as dumb as always, but the smart kids are smarter than they used to be
One of my kids freaked out the other day when he realized it was July and we still hadnt gone to the pool! My wife and I had barely noticed, our weekends have been busy, but the summer is already 1/3 gone!
We went Saturday
Some of the older people do that. Others are 85-year-old wal-mart greeters.
…huh. That’s kinda exciting, but I’m curious if that’s still accurate.
…then again, I’m also hanging out at the bottom right now :p
Hell, the xenophobia goes away when populations are mixed. People who look different are a lot less scary when they just look like Carl down the street.
Guess who controls who can buy into what neighborhoods!
I feel like capitalism and free market are a lot more intertwined in people’s minds than they should be.
Capitalism is some people owning property that generates resources, and those people pick where those resources go (usually aiming for whatever makes more money).
The free market is allowing goods and services to be sold to the highest bidder, with varying degrees of oversight.
A free market can optimize resource distribution, with several caveats (hence the oversight). It can be argued when and where it’s ideal, but I think what’s being complained about here is proper Capitalism - that the ownership class is in charge of distribution. The free market is just their excuse, as there are cases (such as renewable energy) where the most profit-optimal choice is ignored in favor of whatever is more palatable to the ownership class.
You can have a happy ending! Just wait until a nice moment, and declare it’s the end!
Anything happening after is a separate story :D
Smashing your phone does not reliably disable it.
Similarly, shooting the computer monitor won’t do anything but make it so you can’t see things!
(I liked how it flipped in Into the Spider-Verse - Miles takes off with the computer and monitor, and Peter catches up to him while they flee, and says “Good news! We don’t need this” and chucks the monitor behind them)
The story Foxfire, Esq on Royal Road is written by a lawyer, and goes into all kinds of detail about the processes they go through, and just how long things take.
Also goes into a little detail about what kind of legal adjustments the system makes for superheroes, because it’s a superhero legal drama :p
Nah, they’ve swapped actors before, with just a quick callout. They’ll be big shoes to fill though
Congratulations!
The rest of us, flawed creatures that we are, sometimes slip - we may even think we’re actively attending to our environment while also chatting, thinking, or paying attention to something else. It’s a shortcut our brains take: when they get accustomed to things working (or sounding) one way, they’ll focus on those cues instead of other, potentially subtler, cues. Even if we’re actively trying not to
When you’re habituated to the sound of ICE engines, if you’re not focused on your environment, the quieter tire sounds absolutely can sneak up on you.
And when you’re just strolling, it’s pretty natural for your attention to wander. Just because you can hear something doesn’t mean you’ll notice something.
Yep, I’ve seen 6+ month wait times in the US for some of the specialists my kids have needed. Some of those were fairly urgent issues
Some are. My kid just got some in a few months ago, look just like what I had in the 90s
Not as extreme, but one of my kids had to have a cavity filled. He struggles with some sensory issues, so I was staying close by to help keep him calm.
Knowing what happens and seeing your kid’s tooth enamel getting drilled away are two… very different experiences. Like with you though, they were quick, clean, and precise!
My wife writes it with her left hand, to avoid this very issue!
Not a fan of Robin Hood, then?