Nope, “major” still implies a power structure. Let’s go with Bedroom 1, Bedroom A, and Bedroom α [alpha]. And nobody needs more than three bedrooms. :-)

But what if you’re in Frankfurt and one of the other bedrooms faces the Main River? :-D

But the way I figure is that perception is reality

Conversely, why are you so adamant about protecting the term? It’s not like it’s even particularly accurate, you’re just used to saying it.

OK, here’s the problem:

Unless you live in a town with a good Samaritan law :-D

OK, so I’ll preface this by saying that the trolley problem is obviously unanswerable:

Humans are not inherently lazy. Humans are inherently bad at “monitoring” systems passively. It’s not something that we needed to learn to do to survive, and so our nervous system has never needed to evolve to becoming conducive to developing the skill.

The vast majority of road fatalities are people not wearing seatbelts and drunk drivers. Only about 6,900 fall outside of those two categories.

Isn’t it the same story? FSD/Race Director seems to be doing something reasonable, then makes last-second buffoonish decision that leaves one driver with no chance to react carefully?

Hey, they’re the only state within 400 miles who seem to know how to plow I-95 during a storm.

Trotsky.

What evolutionary pressures would weed out stupidity at all? I can’t think of many beyond, “don’t put your head in the wood chipper.” Everything else is education.

Yeah, I think that the overwhelming Republican idea is that capitalism should be an inequal relationship between the strong Machines of the Economy and Job Creators and weak, individual workers and consumers. Any attempt to organize the latter two groups to act as a bulwark against this power dynamic is decried as…

The sad thing is, there are green capitalists who believe that our economic system can be adapted to, for example, internalize the costs of environmental degradation. These green capitalists completely miss the part where capitalism is inherently exploitative and needs to be sandboxed (mostly) or eliminated (in some…

What it really is, though, is a way to protect the companies most responsible for destroying the climate.

Sounds great. So let’s take out the middleman and just make it free to the user and paid through progressive income taxation.

Common sense isn’t common, especially when it comes to Internet comments which can often be taken over by market libertarians who actually do believe that all goods should be priced.

My bones!

Do the homeless not have a right to transportation?