Think buying an apartment on credit vs renting it. The apartment bought on credit you’ll eventually own, but not the rented one. So assuming you need an apartment, buying on credit can easily be the better decision.

Fun fact, but you can’t really do much if the police decide to just take your stuff, because they have guns. And likely more than you do.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact wasn’t just a non-aggression pact. They carved out eastern Europe into spheres of influence.

I’m in favor of a land value tax. See Georgism.

Snowman has about the same visibility as a child. So if you can’t avoid hitting a snowman, you’d also hit a child on the road.

If you can’t stop for a snowman, you can’t stop for a child.

I’ve read about guilds literally banning innovation in a 12 part series on German history.

With horse armor, its, you buy it once, and you have it for ever playthrough of Oblivion thereafter. A lot of these microtransactions are for advantages that are only good for one playthrough of the game. Though most of these games are designed to be played forever.

Nobody did that by hand even before Gen Ai was invented. Even before photography or computers, there were techniques to get textures without manually drawing them. The splotches, for example, could be accomplished by shaking the brush at the canvas.

Aging sucks though.

1. Low level thugs tend to not earn that much money. Also applies to organized crime. There’s always superiors taking a cut.
2. Going with follows you for the rest of your life, it could easily be that a later regime decides to hold you accountable for having been part of ICE. (Funny thing though, in Germany, the Nazis who got sentenced earlier tended to get more lenient sentences, assuming they weren’t at the top. For example, Hans Bodo Gorgaß, vergasungsartzt in Hadamar, who was after the war convicted of 1000 counts of murder, got out after 11 years and got to live a mostly normal life afterwards. Today teens who worked as Death Camp guards get life sentences. Though, those “teens” are by now in their nineties, so life sentence is not that long)

It comes at the cost of being an ICE member, and that will follow you for the rest of your life.

I wonder if vampire brains freeze mentally once they’re turned

“Vampire: The Masquerade” has that as a downside of being a vampire. Vampires are less creative than humans, to the point that being turned into a vampire is said to hurt their talent worse than aging ever could. They also can’t properly adapt to new technology. Basically, vampirism comes with creative sterility.

So, do they just keep buying 40% of the production in perpetuity? What if production of those chips gets scaled up, do they just buy more?

This could use some context, like where was this comment removed from? Who was yanks replying to? What comment did they reply to?

People claim to be effective altruists when they can’t claim that they’re altruists.

Not so fun fact: Gun suicides are far more common than any other type of gun related death. Having a gun in the house is a big risk factor for suicide.

So, what’s the pun behind “Light Yagami”?

Sees article about a new and innovative embezzlement method. Concludes that they’re out of ideas.

Oh, I think OOP replied to me. Small world.