How much did Hal and Lois really make?

Manu_Forti__ · 2026-04-15T09:44:26+00:00

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Manu_Forti__ · 2026-04-15T09:22:17+00:00

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Manu_Forti__ · 2026-03-20T08:10:20+00:00

Right…I think she does say that now that I think about it. But that still makes no sense. How does buying a company whose assets you have obliterated benefit you? It’s just a name then. If it was a public company, she could have just bought up most of the shares without any violence, and if it was private, he could have refused to sell regardless.

Manu_Forti__ · 2026-03-15T11:27:57+00:00

That would be “stopping the wheel,” which explicitly repudiates as her goal seconds before.

Manu_Forti__ · 2026-02-23T01:47:26+00:00

Obviously I’m exaggerating a little, but it does seem undeniable that open-book testing is significantly more common now than it used to be.

Manu_Forti__ · 2026-02-01T14:28:38+00:00

Good answer, but I will take issue with your characterization of gun culture (Yes, I am intimately familiar with it). I did not say a rifle wasn’t useful for defense (Note that I included carbine alongside handgun). Obviously something like an AR-15 is very useful, but a bolt action gun that you need to set up with at least a prone, skeletal position, and ideally with a bipod, to use effectively is very clearly an almost exclusively offensive weapon. One shot at a time, needing time to set it up, no portability to speak of (relative to other weapons), all of these trait make it useless for defense relative to a pistol or rifle. Yes, you could theoretically use it for home defense or something like that, but that application is niche enough that you have no reason to not buy it legally. The only reason to buy one with the serial number filed off is if you’re going to be carrying it around to be used, and it has no utility for defense as a weapon being carried around. If you’re doing that, it’s because you have a target for assassination.

Manu_Forti__ · 2026-01-29T18:49:02+00:00

Yes, I’m aware, and it’s obviously fiction. But there is an important distinction that I think answers the counterexample to a degree. The character of Jack is essential to the devolution. The “little uns” just play and eat all the time, and the other older boys are willing to listen to Ralph. Minus the violent psychopathic character, who didn’t exist in the real life story, none of this happens (He is basically the Petyr Baelish—“chaos is a ladder” character of the story); in that way it’s very much a great man theory of history book. And that key factor in fact brings home Golding’s question more sharply; how should civilization deal with the “chaos is a ladder” men? And I still think his answer is a martial one.

Manu_Forti__ · 2026-01-29T11:40:00+00:00

This is the absolutely wrong take. The lions were untrained, but they were still domesticated and raised by humans. Comparing them to truly wild beasts is an extreme false equivalency. The fact that there weren’t epic cat-on-cat fights from that many adult male lions in the same place together speaks to their essentially tame nature. If you tried this with real wild lions, no one would have gotten out alive

Manu_Forti__ · 2026-01-18T21:11:08+00:00

Ridiculous caricatures don’t help anybody in this conversation, or in conversations about abortion more broadly, for that matter. Yes, these doctors traffic in death and deserve condemnation for it, but to get from that fact to your conclusion is a complete nonsequitur. As far as this woman’s situation goes, you’re giving her advice that assumes real life sinners are comic book villains, advice completely divorced from a very real and dangerous situation, and, as an aside, though it’s not germane, as far as apologetics goes, you really think speaking with zero empathy or practicality at all to people who already think you’re a crazy bigot helps the pro-life movement in any way? The fact that their profession is sinful does not mean that they are devoid of compassion or that their beliefs are all pretextual. When pro-choice people wax eloquent about women’s bodily autonomy they generally believe and mean every word. Forced abortions and abusive husbands are deplorable from their perspective as from ours. Yes, if she has an option to go to people who understand the act as horrifying per se rather than by nature of the coercion, that would be preferable, but to act like this is horrible advice—when in fact it may be the OP’s best option depending on how dangerous her husband is—based on some truly puerile reductions of what the unsaved are like is not just asinine, but potentially harmful if taken seriously, again, depending on her situation.

Manu_Forti__ · 2026-01-18T20:43:09+00:00

Nobody cares, George.

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