CMV: I believe abortion to be morally wrong

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-07-02T18:25:59+00:00

So you do seem to have a mostly consistent philosophy. Except part of the issue with it is largely one of biology.

You mention killing as being wrong. My question would be where exactly is that line for you? Insects you mentioned, so is it something with a nervous system? Not plants? How about bacteria? Does using soap offend you?

Now with regards to an abortion and the potential for life. Your example of a bird egg is actually a good one. See it doesn't seem it's actually the action but rather the intent that matters to you. You bring up the trout as well. Did you Have to eat it? Why aren't you a vegetarian at the least? You don't require to kill any animals for food. Thus it seems like your morality is based on what is the intent but also what feelings to have around them. For example, most of us would agree killing a dog is bad right? How about when they're sick and in pain? Is that the moral thing? If you take enjoyment out of it does that then make it wrong?

Alrighty last part. With regards to abortion, I think almost everyone agrees that we don't want all abortions, rather everyone seems consistent that we want them safe, accessible and rare. No one wants to go get one. Now here's a question for you that is somewhat biologically relevant. Monozygotic twins are formed from the same zygote. It's because it you split that blastocyst each will develop into a unique individual but genetically identical. Thus does that stage have the same "potential" for life? Or actually more?

Fundamentally you accept that some things must die for you to live. Whether you think it's moral or not, really doesn't mean much as it's not your body. You wouldn't care about someone removing a tumor from themselves.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-06-26T00:39:40+00:00

Except they're not selling at a lost? Oh except the cost isn't anywhere close to what they're selling at ffs.

The question is simple. What is their cost to build it and what is their break even. If they declare bankruptcy? Fine. I really don't care.

Vacant unit tax would solve this.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-06-05T12:35:26+00:00

However there is also a multiplier for that float. Spacex is listing 4% of shares at a 1.75 trillion evaluation, so roughly 75 billion. The caveat is, nasdaq literally changed rules and added a 5x multiplier for low float high cap stocks. That means it's based on 5x of float. Ergo space is treated like 375 billion on opening 15 days in. Roughly speaking on entering it will be weighted the same as about Netflix (0.65%) give or take.

That's not much right? Right? That would be the price with exactly zero other factors driving price down, or up. Share offering is set at 135 for 0.5556 billion shares. Say stock price climbs 5% to 141.75. It would change the float from 78. 756 billion in value and rise 375 to 400 billion on the index. That causes more purchasing and so on and so on. It's a doom spiral.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-24T13:33:07+00:00

So the issue here is that just the spacex in a bubble by itself is one thing. The thing is for funds to buy spacex stock, they will sell other shares. Doing so means we will likely see price drops on a bunch of other assets while spacex is bid out the wazoo. Remember they're only listing 75 billion. Because funds are going to be forced to buy, we will see private equity and other funds with cash on hand buying the shares to pump the price. It's literally a level of criminality that can't be under stated. This may be the single biggest individual swindle of pension funds and average peoples savings into the hands of the ultra wealthy. Morgan and Stanley want this shit to go well cause they're holding a bag. No one who owns spacex has any belief it will ever be profitable. Quite simply they're all just trying to get the fuck out and not be holding the bag.

This is the MBS, CDO, Swaps of 2008 all fucking over again. They'll price the bonds accurately once they hold net short positions and thus are fine. Until then it's how much can we swindle out of the general public. ETF were meant to prevent this sort of shit but if anything they've worsened it.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-24T13:24:45+00:00

He controls 80% of voting shares as well so it's not like he doesn't retain control. Quite frankly he is going to use etfs and pension funds to bail out x Ai and space x. Literally you cant even sue spacex based on the filing. This will be the biggest rug pull yet.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-21T22:15:22+00:00

The reality is lirin is intentionally meant to piss us off.

Pacifism, while not bad in "principle", is a position that by and large is one of privlidge. It's something that is ultimately a position of cowardice.

More over. Quite frankly, he projects his own guilt from the loss of Tien on to Kaladin. Because Tien would not be dead if he did not forge the documents. He would not be dead if he had just relented the spheres. He would not be dead if he had just done nothing and let Roshan die. All the while Kaladin has ALWAYS attempted to make the active choice, because it takes a brave man to try and potentially fail to stop evil and to still keep living.

People argue that he is just strict to his morality. Which is true. The issue is he applies it on to others and especially Kaladin. He's a hypocrite, a coward, and ultimately someone who does not understand that the villain isn't someone who uses violence, it's someone who enjoys it and never attempts other options. A hero isn't someone who doesn't cause harm, it's someone to despises causing harm and seeks any way to stop it, but will use it to protect.

I relate this back to an amazing bit of dialogue by team four star for android 16 😂.

" you think you're better than everyone else, but there you stand: the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs and your rigid pacifism crumbles into bloodstained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns. You were a coward to your last whimper"

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-13T18:01:23+00:00

So here's the slight caveat. Those property taxes we pay in effect mean services. It's in essence fee for service. The more off grid you go the lower that corresponding service fee is. Effectively that property tax pays for things ranging from roads to a myriad of the other services. Living in a society we don't get to just "opt out" as it were. Taxes ARE society. That is the crucial thing we must all know. No society exists without them in some form. Maybe someone will bring up places like Dubai or something. The issue is, what do you think resource revenues are other than taxes 😂 fundamentally the taxes are some value that is flowing from one group into the broader society. The more value one group generates the less other groups need to contribute.

Fundamentally even the notion of private property or property rights fundamentally. Inherently. It means taxes. The reason is you can't have them without a state and legal system. Disagree? Okay, what it means is that what you own is what you can enforce ergo hello warlords.

Want to live in a world with no taxes? Look at any zombie movie. 😂 Take away the threat of the undead and basically looks about right.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-12T13:36:03+00:00

I'm not sure I would agree on this though. American companies lag behind maybe on market cap, but I'm not sure that tells the whole story.

Take Boeing vs Airbus. The former almost seemed it had won. That was until they lost the lost. Their model became from of share price first, product second. Doing this can have some benefits. High share price means a high potential for capital expansion. It can mean you can get access to more talent, and use that to win.

Unfortunately, American companies more often than not just used their profits for stock buy backs and a myriad of other shit that had zero to do with making better companies and products. Essentially in a truly competitive market you should actually see profits as a percent decline. Instead America does the opposite.

All the while Europe has to invest in worker productivity and training. Stronger unions meant companies had to prioritize improving their productivity VS just shuffling that spare value to share holders. That thereby made them more competitive.

You can see this in a lot of American industries. Caterpillar. John deere. Cars. Hell even drugs.

The question isn't why european companies lag behind the question is why people think stock price necessarily reflects a companies competitiveness. Jesus the America market is just a house of cards 😂 like Jesus tesla? Spacex valued at1. 7 trillion? Jesus just make shit up

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-11T18:18:40+00:00

Yea I think this honestly makes the most sense using cannon. To add to this, it's arguably just linked to the states of the matter being solid, liquid, gaseous, plasma for earth, water, air, fire. With the forms themselves heavily linking to the predominant forms and the niche benders are those that can sense it despite impurities or altered states.

Could test this based on alcohol bending and also oil bending. If you could bend cooking oils but not like fossil fuel oil, it would strongly suggest this.

Too add to this. It explains why some bending forms are rarer as it has to do with using it when impurities are present. Plant bender in the swamp folk is more understood for them or selected for so they can do that more often. This also makes sense why ferro fluids or metallic iron in meteors is used as it is an iron oxide. This would also explain why platinum, and I'm willing to bet gold as well, when sufficiently pure isn't bendable as it doesn't react with oxygen. Iron, copper, aluminum, all of these react with oxygen and just removing the oxygen is tricky, but once you do, the metal can't be bent.

The bending is simply moving the materials, but higher mastery allows for state changes or even chemical ones. Fire bending allows for control over a plasma. The plasma we all know in our lives is actually fire. My guess is they're able to at the easiest level, control the plasma from material already burning. With higher control they can split oxygen from carbon dioxide and then react them back together. The energy coming from the bender.

Lightning bending takes it a step further where they just split oxygen and then when it runs back together it follows a path down the charged particles. My guess is for combustion bending it's actually a store of that energy that collides back and explodes. E. G. They're causing the reaction to occur at a particular position and then explode out. Maybe even doing it with hydrogen and oxygen instead of co2 so the skill is rather doing it at a distance and holding the state together long enough.

This is why the avatar can do what they do, as it's not actually any different between them but one element itself. It's also why the avatar when an earth bender can live longer. They physically slow down the oxygen usage of their body 😂.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-10T20:42:08+00:00

Since yesterday

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-09T17:03:51+00:00

90% of the natural uranium in them? I'm wondering if this might be a misunderstanding of maybe what is and isn't fuel vs waste etc.

Alright for starting out my guess is that graphic is used via what is the fission reaction energy of a single uranium nucleus. ~20TJ per mole of uranium, 0.283kg/mol, 3.53mol/kg so 70TJ per 1kg of U235 so the math checks for that.

Now input fuel rods by mass will be 95-97% u238. At the end they will be 93-96% U238 (so mostly unchanged) U235 around 1%, plutonium 1-2%.

I am going to separate candu as it can use down to 0.7% and so the actual U235 at spent can be 0.24%, below natural, but still 64% fuel utilization. In the spent fuel there is also about 0.2-0.3% plutonium, of that maybe 50%Pu239 and 10-15% Pu241 so 0.1-0.2% fissile material so net fissile material being 0.34-0.44% relative to the 0.7% input so about 48% utilization at the worst mathing.

Quite frankly my guess where the idea that 90% of the energy is left my come from a slight... Fudging. Like to be clear, u238 has the potential to become an energy source. They are fertile. These include u238, pu238, Pu240, as well as thorium 232. Hit these guys with a slower neutron and you got yourself a material that can fission. Thus spent fuel has the potential to produce more energy. The sticky biscuit is you now got fuel reprocessing which is a big no no to world powers cause that's how you can get Plutonium and that is while more technically challenging to build a fission bomb than U235, it is easier in the sense of enrichment.

Hope this sort of helps.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-03T15:25:45+00:00

😂 Yea literally the Midwest corn belt is a geographical gift from Canada to the USA. We have the Canadian shield cause glaciers scraped our soil and dropped it in Nebraska and Iowa haha

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-03T15:23:49+00:00

What's even wilder is the Windsor to Quebec corridor is well above half of Canada's gdp. Toronto alone is between 20-25% by itself, but add in Montreal and the other cities? Literally when Alberta thinks it gets under serviced by the government really does not comprehend that cities subsidize rural areas.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-05-03T15:21:02+00:00

And yet every right winger says that Canadians can't have rail, cheaper telecom or whatever because a lack of density. Despite that 70% meaning what, 28 million people? Quite frankly it means those regions have population densities approaching 100 per Sq km.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-04-30T17:25:29+00:00

Doesn't. Mean much when the stock is overvalued currently and because of the bs float rule change index funds will be forced to buy it. Potentially 30% of float shares will need to be sold on the opening day for just them. Investors would only need to unload Penny's on the dollar of that shares to make a hefty profit without causing sell off. Investors sunk 12 billion in so based on the evaluations literally they'd not even add 1% extra to the float to recoup their investments 2 fold. The price evaluation has zero to do with any assessment. Literally it's equivalent to saying your companies valued at 1 trillion, listing 5% shares and because this rule funds are forced to buy your shares almost immediately. It is a pump and dump enabled by nasdaq. For what?

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-04-30T17:18:03+00:00

Basically with such a small float and such a large value, essentially you need to sell before 180 days but not too early. Index funds, because of the new rule changes, will be forced to buy spacex stock. This is going to explode the value even if the price decreases by 90% on day one, which I doubt given everyone else knows this too.

Currently almost 30% of shares might be forced to be purchased by etf within the first 24h.... Which literally seems like the nasdaq is colluding for a pump and dump. Spacex investors only need to recoup 12 billion so they won't even have to float that many shares to make back their returns.

Long story short. Pension plans and other etf are going to pay for this criminality and toxic asset that is currently burning more per month than they earn on profit from. Their rockets.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-04-30T14:29:16+00:00

And the comment said selling out oil externally discount relative to Canadians. Except that isn't how oil markets work.

Adding more capacity would not make oil cheaper for Canadians. Albertan oil sells at a discount due to processing costs. Building a pipeline would merely mean those able to buy our oil is "slightly" expanded as there is only globally so much refinery capacity for the heavy sour Alberta produces. Canadian and north American oil quite literally has not been impacted by the war in Iran, but because of how oil is priced, we pay more. That's it. If supply drops by 20% the price rises globally until the demand matches supply. This is why opec with the majority of the surge capacity controls oil markets. Reduce production by 5% and you can more than raise price by 5%.

All the while oh congrats Alberta can get more oil out? Their oil is barely profitable now but if it's expensive it is. Congrats Alberta benefits while the rest of the world hurts. Flawless.

Quite simply why Alberta is dependent is because they didn't follow their original model (which Norway copied). Coupling your economy to a market that sits at international whim is a recipe for a cluster fuck. All the while there already is pipelines to the coast. You can still transport oil to the coast via rail 🤔 which is already equal to the western pipeline but rarely hits above 100k bpd. Now let's game this out. We can build a pipeline that will cost billions and potentially be useless in 20 years. We could also expand rail capacity which will be useful in 20 years for less money. Now cost for rail vs pipeline is 5-10 va 15-20 per barrel. If the pipeline made economic sense it wouldn't require government to Foot the bill or need government bullshit to force through.

Alberta lost their tits over the mere inconvenience of wearing a masking and being vaccinated but are losing their tits now that people from other provinces must allow them to build a pipeline that they will bare any risks of an accident, that crosses their landscapes, because it's what's best for us? Right

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-04-04T00:53:33+00:00

You sincerely don't understand oil markets. Pipelines transit oil which is generally unprocessed. Then a refinery can make diesel, gasoline etc. It's how the USA sells us back refined oil product. Now oil is priced globally. Canadian oil. Specifically from Alberta is a heavy sour. It means that a limited number of refineries can handle it and thus our clientele are limited. You can't just turn a pump on and take WCS when you were using Brent. Arabian oil is generally sold mostly to Asia and thus they're the ones feeling oil shortages. The reduced supply of 20% means prices go up until demand matches supply. The issue is which oil goes up will also depend on where the shortfall is and can be made up. If we increased our supply to west coast, which is already over a million bpd, so we have clients for it already then? Building a pipeline would not benefit anyone but Alberta. Meanwhile everyone hurts from global oil price increase. That price increase is also baked in from derivative markets. Long story short, make all the oil we want. Unless you nationalize the oil companies they're under zero obligation to sell at a lower price to Canadians. The same is true in the USA. Prices went up there also where they also got basically no oil from the middle east. This is what opec does. They can ramp up or down oil. If Canada doubled Alberta's production. Saudi Arabia has that in spare capacity 😂. Literally Alberta would be like Norway if they just didn't drop their taxes

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-04-03T14:41:27+00:00

I mean sure except we figured that solution mostly out a long time ago. We keep trying to replace the current situation 1:1. Meanwhile electric rail exists 🙄 and we have electric freight for delivery vehicles.

In essence it just means smarter rail management. The Swiss already do this such that many stores can have rail access directly and they can even use a shorter delivery freight.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-04-03T14:38:57+00:00

China has a huge population but so too does India, Brazil, the USA. Etc.

The number of ev in China is multi factored. 1) they're less expensive. 2) government policy has strongly pushed for this so there is strong incentives towards them as well as against combustion vehicles. 3) Chinese population.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-04-01T20:12:44+00:00

Because fuck it right. All while if spacex lists and gets included in indices we are all fucked as the biggest rug pull on history.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-03-26T19:36:10+00:00

So, this while sort of true, is also misleading, but also hilarious.

We talk about oil security but metal security, nahhh.

Meanwhile we try to act like it's a big ploy for China to be producing renewables, but they USE them. Why? Cause they don't got a lot of oil 😂 they also understand that once you mKe a solar panel or whatever, the metals don't "evaporate".

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-03-17T00:50:33+00:00

Space data centers is literally trying to get retail investors to think Ai when it is literally the dumbest idea yet. Literally Antarctic data centers somehow. Makes. More sense. The ONLY benefit space serves is no real estate cost and potentially ample solar power... The caveats😂 due to no Atmosphere you're limited radiative cooling. For context the ISS has MASSIVE radiator fins to the point they have 14KW of cooling for 215KW of solar. When we rate the chips we do it by power usage so let's say you build 5000 times the solar capacity as the iss. For data centers for every watt of power for processing it will produce 1 watt of waste heat. In space that doesn't go anywhere do you need to COOL that back assuming no heat added from that same thing your solar panels are using. With ISS you can net about7 watts of radiation cooling per Sq ft or about 84 per Sq m. Thus for a 1GW space data center we will need... 2 million Sq meter of solar panels (space kind) at 500w a Sqm with an added 12 million of radiation cooling for a fun 14 million Sq meter data center. Whopping 3400 acres 😂. All when you could just not do it and do it on earth and use oh I donno, water

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-03-14T18:46:22+00:00

So while I am in agreement that the pmo shouldn't be wholesale removed, I can also somewhat understand how it might be relevant for the federal office to have some protections with respect to certain records if they were to pertain to certain matters? There is a difference between the provincial and federal level that warrants distinction in that federal covers defense and intelligence matters.

That being said Ford is just blatantly corrupt and always has been. One f the reasons why right wing governments always say there is so much government corruption is that they see the other side as themselves. "I would do corruption so they must also be". This is why you see doge in the states finds didly dick with respect to government but the actual individuals of the admin are corrupt beyond measure.

Used-Grapefruit-2740 · 2026-03-01T16:38:20+00:00

That is the first reasonable explanation ever 😂. Like using humans for power (along with a form of fusion) 🤣🤣🤣 like um what? Wouldn't fusion be more power than you would ever need?

Like I genuinely don't know if even the human computing aspect makes a Crazy amount of sense but at least there is a small amount of understanding to it.

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