Basman

Most people are busy just surviving and don't have time for non-local issues. The (psychologically global) issues of faraway foreign nations are not an individuals problem fundamentally. Malaria is an African problem, for Africans to solve. That's why it's a "donation". Your not obligated to save the world. You only have a right to your own work, as they say. It's funny, because there's a subtle implication of looking down on Africans and thinking of them as useless children who need to be saved. There's truth to that in the sense that they are less developed, but I don't think they need to be saved necessarily. It's a subtle western arrogance, where we see African countries not as nations with an agency of their own but as kind of token. We don't every refer to them as countries. Just "Africa" (which is an entire continent). Let them sort their shit out at least with the dignity of not being infantilized.

It might get worse. More of an echochamber. Less checks on bad epistemics. Bade ideas might circulate more. More redpilly. I'm not very confident, but who knows.

But it's not blind. It's relative to serious crime with a high burden of proof. Beyond a reasonable doubt. Like Breivik. There's no doubt about Breivik's guilt and morally there's no reason to not kill him in my opinion. The game the Norwegian government has to play to keep him locked up, as the maximum sentence is 21 years, is ridiculous. It's not an accomplishment to keep a mass murderer in jail indefinitely. If Lindsay Clancy is found guilty I see no reason why not give her capital. It would be more than fair in that case.

It's not just cosmetics sold in an official capacity, but also stuff like gold or accounts. The value applies to within the game itself. An immutable asset is only practical for speculation. It's not in of itself relevant to people playing a game and whatever market sprouts around it. And making nfts that can be used across different games is bs. Different games have different code and assets. You can't just port stuff in. It has to be made specifically for that game. At that point it doesn't make any sense to not make people buy thing separately.

NFTs took off entirely as a speculative market. When the rug had been pulled and people realized that you couldn't use NFTs for anything it crashed.

I feel like blockchain stuff and nfts are just a solution looking for a problem. There exist already successful digital markets long before nfts where a thing, like Runescape and CSGO. I don't see why you even need blockchain technology in the first place. Backend doesn't make a commodity any more valuable.

Magical thinking. The real answer is that war and carnivory is caused by finitude. The lack of resources. If you can decrease finitude, you take away the reason for war and carnivory. It's probably not possible to do that maximally though. Your better off accepting reality for what it is than for what it should be, metaphysically.

Social media used to be an escape from life. Now reality is an escape from social media.

Whenever I play as Franklin, cops start shooting me when I walk past. I think that's pretty realistic.

It's relative to class. Actually hispanic, black and native americans are the least educated in the US. White people are among the most educated on average. Maga is an exception because they are poor.

I think it's an extremely bourgeoisie standard to require many years of education for non-specialized work. Especially when you have to pay for it yourself. It's like elitist gentrification of the job market.

It's not a high bar to not kill someone. It's really like you care more about the murderer than the victims. 21 years is nothing compared a life. It's a liberal dogma to think that death penalty is inherently wrong. There's no real reason why it can't be worked with.

Technocratic delusion. The world operates on feelings and intuition. You don't want to live next door to a child murderer. You don't want Breivik to be your children's school teacher. Releasing him after 10-20 years on good behavior is completely unacceptable, even if technically he'll never kill again. The community themselves will kill him. He would get curb stomped at Majorstuen station by a drunk bearded middle-aged man

No, that's stupid and overly idealistic. With that logic you can kill people and be released again on good behavior. It completely shits on the victims. 21 years is nothing compared to a life. It's a joke. This liberal compassion undermines the victims of serious crime.