Do you own your games though? If you’re buying physical disks, there’s at least an argument, but if you’re buying through digital stores like steam, then it’s technically just licensing, and those products could be taken away in the future.

I mean, this small local shop that had no online advertising is showing up in an article today that we’re all reading. Seems like she’s pretty great at her job.

“No remedy at law” just means that they’re not looking for money, and instead wanted the injunction against Local on North from opening (which they got for now).

Exactly, so if you don't like how someone is going to spend the money you give them, don't buy things from them. Hence why many people boycott this particular bigoted organization 

No, at least not for strongly held personal beliefs. I would not ask someone who was a devot Muslim to eat pork because of social norms. Just because you don’t put much value in a particular personal belief is not a good reason to treat others like they are less for holding it strongly

I agree that it’s not fuck you money to many people, but with a median household income of ~50k, 450k is 9 years of work. Even bump that down to 5 years of work with higher taxes, and it’s still a lot. If I could quit my job tomorrow and not have anyone in my household need to work for the next five years without…

You're lucky that you weren't in my mom's class. She'd give everyone Dum-dums as a reward for finishing tests

Of course you give up the option of eating a steak; steaks, in the sense that you’re talking about, are made of meat. But why do you care what other people call their food?

Because a large percent of the people who don’t eat meat aren’t avoiding it because they don’t enjoy it; they just don’t think it’s right for them to eat it. Most people who don’t like meat aren’t vegitarian (which is a hassle to stick to); they’re just people who don’t eat much meat

I’m not a scientist, but since you don’t combust underground, just decay, I would assume the results would be significantly different. Much of the carbon that would go into the CO2 would remain other forms of carbon during decomposition, and just add to the soil in the area. Certainly there would be some emissions,…

This is an excellent thread

I agree with all of this other than your last point. The failure rate with condoms is about 1/5, it’s in the article. Sure, that goes way down if you follow all the best practices. But most people don’t, and most people won’t, and that should factor into choosing what precautions to use.

He sounded a lot like Nathan Fielder at the start. Funny bit

“Using words in context is never insulting.” I assume you mean, it’s never insulting to you. Since obviously, as this conversation demonstrates, it can frequently be insulting/hurtful/dehumanizing to others. But thank goodness we have your permission; that’s what matters

Or not? I like having sex with my spouse, and I suspect many people do, and should be encouraged to continue. But our relationship isn’t roommate + sex. If sex is something both people desire, great, these are good strategies to keep on having it. But they’re not less of partners either way.

A better approach to consent. The idea is that instead of “no means no,” the standard should be “clear, unequivocal yes means yes” and everything else means no

Sure, and what judges see as constituting an undue burden is likely where we’re going to see more inroads being made by anti-abortion activists. I just was pointing out that the portion of Roe establishing abortions as a constitutionally protected right is still good law and would be heavy blow to lose.

Aspects of Roe v. Wade were overturned by Casey (mostly the trimester approach), but Casey affirmed the portion of Roe saying that there is a constitutional right to an abortion. But, like any court decision, there’s plenty of room for narrowing it later and saying more restrictions can be placed on it, or just fully…

Probably because people like to eat those foods, and now can’t, so they’d like to eat something approximating it

And the standard of evidence, and the procedure we should follow, and the philosophical justifications for action, and the law governing, and so on and so forth. This isn’t a criminal trial. It isn’t even a civil trial. It’s a hearing to determine someone’s fitness for one of the most powerful positions in this…