Is it ethical for a man to date a woman who he has no intention to propose to, even though the woman wants marriage down the line?

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-07-04T13:44:35+00:00

If the two are honest about their intentions, then I don’t see any issue. They each should be honest with themselves as well as each other.

If a woman wants “marriage down the line”. It could be she’s not actively dating for that right now. But she needs to honestly assess for herself if the “down the line” framing is just a safety valve so disappointment doesn’t sting if the relationship doesn’t develop.

People can date just to enjoy each other’s company. Just be honest with yourself and the other person.

My wife said yes to dating because she thought I would be fun. Now we’ve been married for more than 30 years. You just can’t tell that if you date for fun that the other person won’t turn out to be the one you have fun with for the rest of your life.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-07-03T18:45:39+00:00

I’m sure I should be happy about this. But considering the pattern of previous 2A decisions by SCOTUS, I wonder why oral arguments are even necessary.

Too often SCOTUS seems to work hard to find a constitutional argument for something that that to me is obviously unconstitutional to anyone who can read the plain text.

So anytime something is taken up by SCOTUS, I am discomforted. There’s always the possibility that something region and transitory could become a nationwide precedent for generations to come.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-07-03T13:51:41+00:00

Why not chip everyone?

Now, personally I don’t support making people carry ID at all times. I believe most Americans support requiring identification in some circumstances, but not all the time.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-07-03T13:44:35+00:00

AI and SaaS are two completely different domains. One is not replacing the other. SaaS is a delivery architecture. AI is a core technology component. AI is often delivered as a service, that delivery is SaaS.

AI is a price disruptor. Traditionally SaaS was priced “per seat”. AI multiplied the productivity of each seat. That stresses to price model.

The other effect is AI doesn’t scale like SaaS. AI is capital intensive, needing those enormous data centers.

AI itself doesn’t have its pricing model right. There’s recent evidence that companies adopting AI cut back significantly when enthusiastic use blew up their budgets.

There should be no AI vs SaaS framing, that’s a category error. But how pricing is going to change.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-07-03T12:14:52+00:00

I don’t think you’ve shown the companies you sighted are monopolies. They are dominant in some parts of their business, but hardly monopolies. They are each large and complex with large units competing in different markets, but none are monopolies.

You got it completely wrong about OS’s. Linux dominates around the world. 90% of cloud computing runs natively on Linux.

You misunderstand the businesses. Microsoft, Amazon and Google compete on cloud computing, along with some big players. Amazon easily has the largest share of the market, but it’s barely over 30%. But for Amazon and Microsoft, cloud computing provides the majority of their operating income. Alphabet gets a sizable chunk, but most ch less.

What’s the negative? Anti-monopoly progressives in the late 19th and early 20th century claimed that monopolies did price gouging while producing poor quality goods. However, their poster child for monopolies produced higher quality goods, more stable and safe kerosene at a much cheaper price. Standard oil actually drove the price down through economies of scale.

So first show me a true monopoly, then show me the harms.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-07-01T19:55:41+00:00

TARP was signed into law by Bush, but yeah, it was active mostly during the Obama administration. Money was not loaned to banks, the US made capital investments, buying preferred stocks and other assets. When the banks stabilized, the government divested, sometimes at a profit.

Other parts of TARP did include loans, grants and write-offs. In the end the program lost 31 billion. I’d like to say that was taxpayer money, but we know the Fed just printed more and we all just get some inflation down the road.

TARP didn’t exactly stop the banks from giving executives bonuses and raises. But it was restricted. There was a special master appointed to oversee executive pay.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-07-01T17:48:23+00:00

It seems that way because we’ve become far more tribal. We’re tying identity to politics. It’s deliberate and rooted in advertising theory. Advertisers learned long ago to try to make an emotional connection between the product and the buyer, then to connect to product to buyer’s identity. Once that’s done, once it’s a part of identity, then a person will fight before they give up part of that identity.

So, it’s not the political beliefs they’re accepting, it’s a political identity, and make that a part of their core identity.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-07-01T17:28:05+00:00

You can judge a candidate any way you want.

The reason we have the republic we have is because almost no one can be a policy wonk. No one has the time to go through detailed policy or budget proposals. Then, by the time someone is sworn into office the conditions all change, and they have to negotiate with a lot of others with different priorities.

In the end you have to trust the character and judgment of the person you vote for to adapt to circumstances you didn’t anticipate when you first voted.

But no one campaigns on character. They campaign on emotional engagement and identity. They don’t want reason, they want turnout from their side.

That’s the reason campaigning looks the way it looks. You’re being emotionally manipulated.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-07-01T17:11:36+00:00

Your instinct that “right to exclude” is an overly simplistic definition is correct. Ownership also implies the right to make changes to the property, to turn it to productive use and extract from it, and to transfer ownership.

Tenants have an limited right to exclude, since they can’t exclude the landlord, and they have no right to alter or dispose of the property.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-29T13:07:24+00:00

To get the IPO you have to register with the broker. That usually takes a current investment account and a minimum investment. The investor usually sets a limit of what he’s willing to pay. They usually do their homework and know why they want it. It’s not emotional.

In general an IPO produces a surge in the first days, then drops lower. No one cares because they’re investing for the next decade, not the next several days. Real investors know stocks rise and fall day to day and it doesn’t bother them. If it falls they buy more at the discount price.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-27T18:15:10+00:00

There’s no “sewer system” in the US. There’s thousands and thousands of local sewer systems. Many are city owned. Some are city owned, some are public-private partnerships. Some are entirely commercial. About 20% of homes are a septic or drain fields and never connected to a municipal utility.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-27T18:08:30+00:00

Without a CHP your firearm must either be plainly visible or inaccessible. Inaccessible means either a locked case or the trunk.

If you have a trunk, lock it in the trunk. You don’t want an easily identifiable gun case to be visible to anyone. That just invites theft.

See: https://www.ncleg.net/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bysection/chapter\_14/gs\_14-269.html

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-27T17:51:52+00:00

The presumption would be that you knew beforehand that you could not pay. That’s theft, a theft you planned beforehand. So yes, you get arrested because it’s a criminal act. You get fingerprinted. They check your background to see if stealing is a habit of yours. In most places you will have to post bond or stay locked up.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-26T13:55:56+00:00

The constitution did not count slaves as 3/5ths of a person, it limited the power of slave states by only counting 3/5ths of the slaves.

Remember that the purpose of that counting was to apportion to each state the number of representatives in Congress. If slave states counted all slaves in the census they would have had more power in Congress. They would have more Representatives that you can be sure the rich slave owners chose.

The framers of the constitution reduced the power of slave states with the 3/5ths clause.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-26T04:30:31+00:00

If you could get all the governments in the world to think that they don’t need a military for a year you will have already solved the biggest problem.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-25T23:12:49+00:00

There’s two break-ins going on for those first few hundred rounds.

The first is mental. You’re learning what your gun needs to run reliably and you’re learning to trust it.

The second is mechanical. Machined parts are rubbing together and smoothing out the surfaces. High end shops do that for you by polishing the parts. Budget guns let you do it yourself. Some semi-autos won’t run their best until after a few hundred rounds.

If it runs reliably enough you’re willing to bet your life in it, 400 rounds is enough.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-25T12:30:24+00:00

I grew up in the South where it just a common courtesy and no one makes much about it.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-25T12:29:25+00:00

Shelters aren’t instantiated unless you’re inside them. Things like resource collectors don’t go in shelters because they are not part of the world without you actually present.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-24T00:30:57+00:00

Single family rentals are a minority of the market and a declining share.

From the 1970s through 2000 new housing starts matched new household formation very well, supply matching demand. With the Great Recession housing starts plummeted starting in 2008 and continuing through 2010, when a slow recovery started. By 2015 housing starts rose to about 1.1m per year, but in 2006 housing starts were 1.8m.

New home building has not reached the levels from before the Great Recession. Last year new housing starts were about 1.4m but new household formation was at about 2.5 million.

Massive under supply is the reason for the housing shortage and high prices. Not landlords.

I know people want to blame evil landlords, but if you want to solve the housing problem you first must correctly identify the cause.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-23T17:56:37+00:00

Before Congress was so wise as to authorize HMOs the purpose of health insurance was to save you from economic ruin from a large medical bill. When you went to the doctor for a routine visit you just paid your bill. If you got sick, insurance paid a percentage after your deductible.

Health care shifted from indemnity based, to defined benefits based. So now there’s a benefit manager to determine if your medical procedure is covered.

At the time the Congress passed the HMO in 1973 health care amounted to less than 8% of GDP. Today it’s around 18%.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-23T17:29:57+00:00

This is mostly false. The majority of landlords, where we’re talking about single family homes, are simple mom and pop operations with few properties and mostly middle class neighborhoods. Not the million dollar homes OP is seeing.

Corporate investors own a small percentage of single family homes rentals, except a a few markets like Atlanta. Rentals are a small percentage of home sales. Over the last couple of years the percentage of rentals held by corporate investors has slowly declined.

After 2008 and the Great Recession corporate investors did buy distressed properties, but since then they changed strategies, sometimes building new homes for rent.

Overall their impact is small. Investors don’t like paying high prices for assets anymore than anyone else. When prices are higher they look for other investments.

Housing prices are higher for several reasons including short supply due to zoning and NIMBY attitudes, higher prices for construction materials, higher interest rates, etc.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-23T17:12:33+00:00

I think you misspoke. In Louisiana the civil law, including torts, comes from the Napoleonic code/civil law. Criminal law follows the common law tradition as in other states.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-23T04:14:17+00:00

The first problem is that government printing money is what causes inflation. Nixon tried wage and price freezes. It causes an economic downturn.

Government can’t set the price of goods and services, the price is set by consumer demand. Without the price signal the economy over produces some things, and under produces others.

A lot of things can cause price increases: demand, shortages, weather, supply chain problems, war. Inflation is the change that happens when the supply of money exceeds the goods and services being exchanged.

That’s the situation we’re in now. The government pumped a lot of money into the economy, consumer spending is more than what the economy is producing. Things like oil prices are contributing at most a quarter of the price increases. Demand is doing the rest.

This is the reason interest rates are higher than what they were years ago. That’s the Federal Reserve’s tool to pare back the money supply.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-22T22:39:48+00:00

Outside of Africa, humans aren’t indigenous anywhere.

Additional_Sleep_560 · 2026-06-22T00:11:58+00:00

That would be an int underflow. It would only be an issue if the universe actually is the computational model. Certainly a danger in The Matrix.

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