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Who do you think has that position?

why do you measure people's worth by their salary?

You do seem to be emotionally invested in it though

I see

@The Renaissance Man so basically if I've had 100GB of storage, even with images and videos, I would have to try really hard to fill it all up, right?

I don't remember where or what exactly you've said, but it was something along the lines of you practicing not wishing death even on horrible people like Putin or Trump. Is this somehow different to death penalty, in your opinion?

Got it. I do generally think that you are right, but I still think that we could find a better balance of strictness without going all the way to the death penalty. I feel like what's causing the most backlash is not some crazy serial killer getting a life sentence instead of a death sentence. It's seeing a bunch of thugs go completely unpunished or severely underpunished for much smaller crimes. Like random thugs doing street takeovers with their cars, or vandalizing public property, or harassing people and then seeing how nobody does anything at all about them. At least that's what causes me to have this feeling of emotional backlash the most.

Do you mind elaborating on this?

And? It's what would actually happen. The only reason why your average company isn't paying you less money or is paying you more money is because they can't. Either due to the market conditions or government regulations. I don't see what's so defeatist about stating the facts. It's responsibility of the government to make sure that people are not treated unfairly and are paid enough money. You can't give that decision to individual companies and then just try to moralize to them and cry how evil they are for paying their CEOs millions of dollars. Even the CEO salary issue could be systemically resolved by simply introducing a 100% tax over a certain net worth level. How is this in any way relevant? A company is not some rapist who attacks you in a dark alley. You are willingly getting employed there, with all the terms laid out in front of you beforehand and usually work there for many years.

True, but I was asking more in terms of storage space on your hard drive. Now I actually wonder what's a file size limit for a word document, lol.

@The Renaissance Man that's a cool idea

This doesn't seem to align with actual data though. What do you think about the fact that 9 out of 10 least corrupt countries (according to the CPI index that you've shared yourself) have abolished the death penalty?

But it's true. Most people who make a lot of money are not somehow supremely intelligent, they are just really cutthroat/bold/shameless/audacious.

@fabger Why does it matter to you how companies handle their finances? This shouldn't matter as long as there is no tax evasion or other illegal practices. Most companies goal is to make profits for shareholders and to be as efficient as possible. So even if they stopped paying millions to CEOs and instead used AI that does CEO's work for free, those extra money still wouldn't go to you. If you think that your company is paying you unfairly, you should leave them and work elsewhere or create your own company, that treats ordinary workers better. Otherwise, you are enabling them by providing them with cheap, underpaid labour.

@Emerald Do you think there are more bisexual women then there are men? If so, do you think it's because women are just more universally attractive so it's easier to be into sleeping with them, no matter the gender, while men can be seen as ugly unless you are actually biologically wired to be into men?

I see, that makes sense, thanks for sharing.

I've decided to settle on Obsidian after all and I really like it so far. For filing system, I've watched this video And am using a plugin that automatically creates pseudo folders for the tags you have. This allows you more flexibility and also allows one note to be in multiple "folders". I just hope that it doesn't get discontinued and causes issues in a few years, lol.

Yeah, that's bad.

Yeah, that's my opinion now as well. Initially, I was not sure because I thought that regular women feeling comfortable and safe is also important, but after thinking about it more, I've realised that you can't regulate access to public bathroom based on how comfortable someone is "with other people". And the safety argument like: "what if some pervert guy pretends to be trans" is bad because trans people should not suffer and be held responsible for actions of other bad actors in the society. Also, like mentioned by @Elliott, nothing is really stopping some perv from sneaking into a women's bathroom and hiding in an empty stall anyway.

You could say the same about black people using the same bathroom 50 years ago. So I don't think that's a good argument.

@Emerald I wanted to ask about people's opinion on the male/female bathroom question when it comes to trans people. And also about trans people in competitive sports. I actually had some good discussion about this on reddit (before I got perma-banned, lol) and am now leaning mostly towards thinking that both of these are not such a big deal and that: - trans people should be able to use the bathroom of the gender they transitioned to - trans people should be able to compete in sports as the gender they transitioned to, unless there were some factual studies done for this particular sport that show trans people having an unfair advantage. If you have any thoughts on the above, I would still love to hear them though. Regarding being bisexual, I was actually curious about it too. Do you think most bisexual people are like you? As in, can most bisexual people be fine with just being in a relationship with a single partner of whatever gender and that's it. Or do most bisexual people are bisexual in a sense that they feel like they need to have multiple partners?

I just went bowling and then went to a bar with my co-workers. Nothing crazy, just spending time together and chatting about random things. And I just feel like living now. It is like I am filled with natural motivation for life. I was hesitant if I should go, I was actually regretting promising to go and wished that I could just spend some time at home as usual. But now I am super happy that I did. I didn't even contribute to the conversation all that much (although I've contributed more then I usually do, and I think I did really well in general). If someone reading this is struggling with depression and anxiety, I think this might be a super simple, almost magic pill solution to it. You don't need to become a pickup artist and turn it into some crazy self-improvement journey. I think that simply finding people to go out with once in a while, in a casual, friendly way, can be life changing.

I feel like it has brought more awareness to the issue than ever and people are more willing to do something about it than ever.

How about starting with not having a joke of a president? What would prevent the creep of laxity is if there wasn't a 5 year old kid in the president's office telling the president of the United States to shut his mouth. You can't expect people to have respect for laws and government when the ruling elite is bending laws however they see fit. Most people feel like Elons and Trumps of this world could literally do anything they want and face zero consequences. How is it a surprise when they grab a gun as the last recourse left?

So you are trying to say that the time of rebellions and pitchforks has passed? Maybe that's the case, idk. But even so, I am not sure how this changes my main point about how our current justice system isn't actually always just and isn't actually always right. You yourself acknowledge the corruption. And I know your thoughts on Trump. Why would you believe that a society so corrupt that it chooses Trump for its president should have a death penalty? It's basically guaranteed that it will be abused and misused. And your only argument for why it's better than a life sentence is that you don't want to waste precious resources on criminals? How is this even relevant considering all the other wastefulness that's going on? According to chat gpt: In 2022, 20 people were sentenced to death. In 2021, 18 people were sentenced to death. How much can it possibly cost to keep those people alive, for it to be such a concern? A year of Trump golfing for their whole life time?