It's pretty incredible how out of step Alito and Thomas seem to be even with the other conservative justices. Anytime there's a 7-2 or 8-1 ruling you can almost guarantee they'll be writing the dissent.
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I'd take both boxes.
We've been given no information on the accuracy of the machine's predictions. Therefore, we have to assume it has just as good of a chance of being wrong as being right. There's essentially a 50/50 chance that box B has $1,000,000,000 regardless of my choice, so I would choose the option that at least guarantees the smaller prize while still giving me the same chance at the larger prize.
It sounds like he realized he had a problem prior to the study, and perhaps the MDMA helped him take the leap into recovery. It would seem there was at least a feeling of regret and uncertainty stemming from being exposed and losing his job.
I wonder if it's a similar mechanism that we've seen with drugs like this and treating addiction and PTSD. The drugs make the brain more pliable, but the desire has to be there to actually see the change.
It also doesn't get you off when you don't pay your lawyers, for whatever reason.
I enjoyed the original playthrough despite all it's warts, been waiting for it to get to "2.0" before picking it up again. Will have to wait to hear reviews on it, obviously, but everything sounds good so far.
I know Wikipedia isn't the ultimate arbiter of truth, but this is how it's article on Fascism begins, and I think it would be fairly common for people to consider fascism a form of authoritarianism:
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
FWIW I'm not meaning to attack democracy here, I find it to be far preferable to the other systems we have at our disposal. But it is a tool that can be used for good or bad.
How so? If the majority votes in authoritarian laws that are violently enforced on minority populations, is that not authoritarian?
That answer assumes democracy can't be authoritarian, which isn't true.
A large part of Trump's initial rise was "draining the swamp", right? Cleaning up the corrupt of D.C.
If we can't indict a former President for stealing nuclear secrets, what the fuck are we even doing here?
If anything I think that'll be what us users end up calling ourselves.
Getting signed up was a bit hairy. I tried going through the lemmy.one server and still hasn't gone through, so I went back and signed up through lemmy.ml and that got approved pretty quickly.
Aside from that still getting a hang of things. Not sure how to search for communities for specific interests, not sure how many of those exist yet.
I downloaded the Jerboa app on Android and the UI is pretty familiar coming from the Boost reddit app.
This is just bizarre...what's the goal here? Putin already declared their acts as treason, how can he let this go unpunished? Is the Russian state really so weak that they have to forgive literal treason just to maintain power? What did Prigozhin gain from this? What about Kadyrov's movement towards Rostov, does he stand down as well? Was this all a weird performance?
Just...bizarre.