He was just released from prison and kidnapped shortly after. This raises the suspicion that his release was a sham. If that’s the case then he wasn’t really kidnapped since he was never really free, despite being briefly outside prison.
A $552 bill is more than most parking or speeding fines I’ve ever seen. I don’t think that’s a very important distinction. If you don’t pay it you’ll get hit with more trouble.
Here’s a case where a woman who called after a car crash got a $552 bill because no one was seriously injured in the crash.
I’m not defending billionaires. I’ve never defended a billionaire. I’m pushing back on the idea that a billionaire is the same as a regular person but they have a billion dollars in their bank account and they can just give the money away with no consequences. It’s almost never like that!
So like let’s say you owned a company with 10,000 employees and your company was worth over a billion dollars. Congratulations you’re a billionaire! But if you’re gonna give away a billion dollars that means selling off the company and those 10,000 people losing their jobs! Or you’re selling the company as a whole and the new owner is a billionaire who is responsible for those employees.
Other suggestions I’ve heard are things like having the government take over the business, like that worked so well in the Soviet Union! Great way to create another Putin!
So do you have any suggestions for what to do with a billion dollar company without tearing it down, selling it off, or handing it over to the government?
We have free health care in Canada but if you call an ambulance and it was determined not to be an emergency you pay a fine.
Groups of people don’t act the way individuals do. Sure, individuals can do some unpredictable things sometimes (but often it’s predictable in hindsight, they were just hiding their feelings) but groups are extremely chaotic. You need look no further than how crowds can spontaneously panic and create a stampede for no apparent reason.
Elections might seem a lot more predictable because of polling but there have been many cases where polls were wrong and the election completely flipped!
It’s not even an apology. When you apologize you take full accountability for what you did, you don’t make excuses!
Safety of the tank in terms of evading capture. If the tank explodes instead of just being disabled, it’s useless to capture.
Don’t concede any ground. There’s no need to make it any easier on them.
That’s not the logic we’re operating with here. The GP claimed that if you’re not giving away your excess money, you’re committing the bad deed of inaction. Thus no one should have any savings whatsoever. Every penny beyond what you need to survive should be given away or it’s a bad deed.
We forgetting something? Doesn’t matter who the Dems shove out there, Trump can’t run again.
Nintendo has never sold their consoles at a loss. They sell them at a small profit which then grows to a larger profit as the cost of making them decreases.
Home video game sales peaked at $3.2 billion then fell to $100 million, a drop of nearly 97%. This collapse, largely blamed on Atari shoving out low quality games, lasted for 2 years until Nintendo released the NES in North America.
How much of your excess money are you giving away? 100% of it?
Italian food = heavy tomato sauce
That wasn’t my original claim. I said it would be impossible to imagine Italian food (as a whole unit) without tomatoes.
You can say a similar thing about Indian food and hot peppers. Yes, there are loads of Indian dishes and staples that don’t have any hot peppers in them but when you ask a random person to think of Indian food they’ll almost certainly be thinking of dishes with mild chilis at the very least.
As a side note, you’ve also confirmed my observation that Italian food is the most heavily-gatekeeped cuisine on the planet, and Italian-American the most disdained.
You nailed it! I love that old school vibe!
Pasta dishes containing tomatoes are eaten in every region of Italy. The two most recognizable Italian dishes in the world are easily spaghetti marinara and pizza Margherita. Northern Italian food, with its cured meats, hard cheeses, risottos, and stews are far less well known and recognizable as Italian cuisine (not to mention distinct from French, Swiss, and Alpine German cuisine) to anyone outside of Europe, not just Americans.
I kinda want to play this game. Looks so badass! Reminds me of the drawings in the D&D 1E monster manual!
you’d technically have a good person who was a billionaire, so my declaration would be wrong
And if we instead create a program of hyper inflation so that even minimum wage workers become billionaires overnight, the world will be filled with bad people? Or perhaps this idea is so simplistic as to be meaningless.
There are no good or bad people. There are only good and bad deeds.
Seems like the psychological tests were right. If the system were set up properly, he should’ve been kept out of the police no matter where he went. A well-kept police force has a guardian mindset, not a warrior mindset. That’s the point of the psychological tests, the education and training.
I’m so sorry you lost your childhood best friend.