That’s why I use tungsten. The superior metal

So you’re okay with sending someone to a work camp if “they probably did it, more than likely”? Because at least it’s reversible…

So what if they have to spend 10 years breaking rocks in the sun. Oopsie daisies

That’s why death penalty shouldn’t exist for crimes like a wife killing a husband. You might be 99.9% sure she poisoned him, but you cannot know for sure.

However, a school shooter caught red handed shooting a school?

Some crimes and scenarios can warrant the death penalty in my mind

Next argument is “what if the government framed people to execute them?”

Why in the world would the government point out that they are executing someone?

If the government (the rich controlled government) wants you dead they would do it quietly.

Even something as simple as cutting your brake lines. You really think local police are going to figure out that the government had soldier 65478 tamper with your brake lines?

Sending someone to a work camp is more humane than taking their life?

You might like Rollerball

Haven’t seen either in a long time but you reminded me of it

Yeah the official term genocide was specifically crafted to avoid including Joseph Stalin. Sure.

https://news.stanford.edu/2010/09/23/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310/

Athiest Joseph Stalin performed mass killing of his own people

No Stalin was an athiest and he caused mass genocide.

Google says it could be 20+ million. Anyways, how many he killed isn’t the point.

He killed people because they were in opposition

Yeah he killed them for non-religious reasons. Religion didn’t play a part in the mass genocide.

Stalin wasn’t religious and actively tried to stamp out religion.

He killed what, 6+ million people?

Disagree.

You can get all the practice you need during school hours.

Maybe we should stop learning about the Ming dynasty and memorizing the Canterbury tales if we needed more time for math practice.

On my s22+ you can double tap the power button to open up the camera or any app that you’d like automatically.

Motorola shake flashlight was the best. Just a quick chop chop and you’d have a light

I now have a little flashlight button on my lock screen I can slide to turn on the flashlight. Not as convenient but way better than not having it there.

Best feature in a phone is the Motorola shake flashlight

Getting a new card will temporarily drop your score a few points.

If you’re like me that charges everything to a credit card, then you need a lot of available credit to keep the credit utilization low. You want it below 10%.

High credit utilization is going to drop your score more than opening a new card.

Say I have 1 card that has 15k limit. If I spend 10k on it. I have a 66% credit utilization. My score would be horrible.

Now, if I get 7 cards and each have 15k limits. If I spend 10k on them then I have less than a 10% credit utilization and my score would be good.

Can I get 1 or 2 cards that have credit limit of 105k. Yes. But I have found increasing limit is harder than getting a new card.

With a new card you can get 0% apr which is free borrowing of money for 12 to 15 months.

You can get a welcome bonus which are usually very good.

And you can set it up so that you might be getting more rewards like 5% cash back on dinning or other things that another card might not give.

Getting more cards has it’s advantages

I’ve always found it difficult to increase the credit limit on cards I have had.

My first card started at 400, and then after a while, I finally got approved for a credit line increase, and it went to 1000.

A couple of months later, I opened a new bank account and got their credit card. I had like a 15k credit line at the start.

I’ve never asked for a credit line increase again

However, add on some more cards, and now I have a hefty credit line

The best thing about getting a new card is the rewards and perks.

For example, I just got a new card with 0% apr for 15 months. I get to borrow money conveniently for over a year while making interest on it. I get to keep my money in my investment portfolio while making interest the whole year.

More cards with higher credit lines means I can spend more during that 15 months while not affecting my credit score. It keeps credit utilization low.

Yeah, credit cards are easy to abuse. You should always be able to pay off a credit card if need be. You shouldn’t be overspending. Emergencies unfortunately happen, but unless you have the money, you shouldn’t be swiping the card. Treating it like a debit card is the best policy.

My credit score is over 800 and I have 8 cards plus some store ones.

Getting more cards helps your credit score in the long run

No you don’t have to have a lot of cards to get a good credit score

But it does help

You want a ton of cards to get good credit

5% is a lot bigger than 1%

Rewards add up

You missed the point of what I was saying

2 tb flash drives are expensive but exist

Pigeon could carry 4 tb in 2 flash drives worth of weight.

But simply 3 1 tb drives a pigeon can carry so they did that.

If they had to transfer 5 tb of data to win. 3 2 tb drives would have worked.

This article just states that a pigeon can carry 3 1 tb drives and deliver it faster than gigabit internet.

They didn’t need to push the envelope anymore

So yes they calculated that the pigeon could carry 3 drives and that 3 tb was all that was needed to carry to win.

But they didn’t set up the experiment to favor the pigeon. They set it up to prove it could be done that way.

Yes and no.

If you could put a 1 petabyte flash drive on a pigeon, it would easily crush the gigabit internet

Does a 1 petabyte flash drive exist? Could it exist?

They put 3 stripped-down terabyte flash drives on the pigeon. Could it carry more weight?

You get to the point where the pigeon can’t carry the weight.

All this is saying that sending data by pigeon can be faster and using 3 tb sticks proves it.

If it needed to be 4 tb, then they would have had to use 4 sticks. If it couldn’t carry 4 sticks, then you have your answer that the pigeon can’t do it with current technology.

Even if it’s not simply fact, you have to take into account people who want to abuse the system.

I’m male. How much do I have to change to be considered female?

After getting X amount of estrogen?

In things like running or swimming, breasts are a complete disadvantage. Am I required to get a certain cup size?

I could be decent in Tennis as a male. But if I started playing females tomorrow I’d be one of the best. Just how the sport works. No amount of training is going to get a female to serve and return the ball as hard as I can (Which isn’t even top male speed).

How many days from today until I can play females?

What if I didn’t want to subject my body to hormones just to be considered the gender I feel like I already am? That should be my choice.

You’re basically saying that I need to do enough “damage” to my body to be considered female.

Yes much of gold’s value comes from the way it looks. Not disputing that.

I suppose you could tie some sort of value to technical application, but it isn’t intrinsic to gold itself

It is

Gold has properties that are unique. You can’t just use iron as a replacement. Apple can’t be like, “You know gold is expensive, I think we will just use cheap iron in our phones instead”. Not going to work out. There is a demand for gold over it just looking pretty.

This technical application is what gives gold it’s intrinsic value

Even if that value is really low it’s always going to be something

Well not always because, like you said, if society collapsed, Apple wouldn’t need to make phones. But at that point, all economic stuff is out the window. It would have to go through a bartering system until some kind of currency system could get started again. Eventually gold will be needed again. So really it still has value just not at the time.