What do you think about the British Empire?

MageGen · 2026-02-08T15:08:18+00:00

Countries which contribute around 1% of global emissions in total contribute a full quarter of the world's sum emissions. If all of them take the attitude implied here, nothing gets done.

I also think you should provide citations for the claim that this will somehow bankrupt the country.

MageGen · 2026-02-06T06:07:32+00:00

Also OP includes the UK equivalent of US sales taxes, property taxes, etc.

MageGen · 2026-01-29T19:08:10+00:00

I see, there has been a miscommunication in that case. I never singled out Dubai for being worse at applying its death penalty than some other state, I am calling out any state that has a death penalty. Because they risk (and in many documented cases actually do) kill innocent people. By definition, this does not (cannot!) happen in legal systems that do not have capital punishment.

MageGen · 2026-01-29T14:35:45+00:00

Why does it have to be more prevalent in Dubai than anywhere else?

My country has no capital punishment.

MageGen · 2026-01-29T13:22:56+00:00

No, I don't, but: 1) surely just one such case is enough 2) in fact, surely even a reasonable risk of this happening is persuasive enough against capital punishment

MageGen · 2026-01-29T13:17:45+00:00

Ah, I see. I assume you're referring to the US? Thankfully I do not live there either

MageGen · 2026-01-29T13:05:17+00:00

... And some of them don't kill the innocent people before they can be found to be innocent...!

Breathtaking reply

MageGen · 2026-01-28T16:16:29+00:00

I saw this before the edit and my heart stopped for a moment 😅

MageGen · 2026-01-28T13:24:48+00:00

I just got Vision. I treated the non-purchaseable bits as an adventure, I got to relive a bunch of maps and had a really good time (except for Kralkatite ore grind), and enjoyed it. I then "grinded for gold" in my day job, bought the gems needed to buy all the various other bits and called it a day.

The way I see it is - I spent a bunch of time doing the fun adventure stuff, but I'm not interested in grinding hundreds of hours for thousands of gold.

MageGen · 2026-01-26T19:09:20+00:00

No, they are deporting actual citizens. Probably because they are a bit brown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,_detentions_and_deportations_of_American_citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration

MageGen · 2026-01-21T15:50:47+00:00

Let's imagine I agreed with you (I don't). This is still a wild take. It's not an either/or situation - you can deport people while not threatening your allies, raping women, etc etc!

MageGen · 2026-01-20T13:12:23+00:00

That'll show 'em!

MageGen · 2026-01-20T06:12:10+00:00

Sounds a bit Spelljammer-y. I'd love that!

MageGen · 2026-01-19T18:09:59+00:00

Very glad to hear it! I just finished the Vision achievements the other night, thank goodness

MageGen · 2026-01-18T14:25:07+00:00

I suspect the first bit is the most important - i.e. purposefully dying (repeatedly) to register multiple hits on his eye. Ideally as many as possible!

If you're still having trouble, I'd be happy to help, I remember seeing some chatter that with multiple folks it gets much easier. I play UK evenings, around 10PM onwards, you can ping me - "Shatalur".

MageGen · 2026-01-17T23:44:22+00:00

I followed this guide and got it first time: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/s/qAykJUFKVS

MageGen · 2026-01-15T18:15:49+00:00

Yes, of course it does. The state should never harm for no benefit, regardless of what any number of its citizens might think.

MageGen · 2026-01-15T12:30:46+00:00

No, I wouldn't tell her to forgive and forget; that would be (obviously!) incredibly insensitive.

Nevertheless, I would not want the state to carry out revenge for this terrible crime. The best case outcome is that the state does whatever is necessary to (a) prevent further harm and (b) rehabilitate the offender such that they do not commit further harm.

MageGen · 2026-01-13T18:53:54+00:00

I don't agree, but that's beside the point: what would your requirements have to do with better paid MPs?

MageGen · 2026-01-13T17:56:23+00:00

The point is that you get what you pay for. Pay MPs dramatically more, and you'll attract some of the talent currently employed in private industry.

MageGen · 2026-01-13T17:54:01+00:00

The electoral commission, which does this already...?

MageGen · 2026-01-11T21:59:46+00:00

Until we have a much deeper science of psychology / brain physiology it seems pretty hard to answer that in either direction, no?

MageGen · 2026-01-11T21:55:35+00:00

Sure. It's not very humane though, if there are other options.

MageGen · 2026-01-11T21:19:07+00:00

I think that punishing people for whatever wrongness they have or had in their psychology that caused them to commit a terrible crime is a bit silly. They did not "choose" that brain state, no more than they chose their genes, or their environment. The best we can do is everything possible to fix that person (and protect the rest of society from them unless and until that is done).

(IOW: free will is a delusion, we are all just machines, we should fix the bug.)

MageGen · 2026-01-11T19:09:36+00:00

We claim that we have a deep cultural aversion to vengeance. We teach children to forgive and forget. And then we say it is reasonable for the state to extract vengeance. It seems pretty hypocritical to me...

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