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I don't think the ethics of the corporations in question has any relevance to whether they can create moral persons tbh.

If you're going to amend the constitution to make a shitty imitation of Parliamentarianism, just abolish the Presidency at that point lol.

No. The best way to "nudge" is by just raising the cost of cars and fuel. People *shouldn't* be able to afford it.

This is the only shot we realistically have to get ppl to stop eating meat!

No! That's the result of SMDs, not of democracy itself.

If Mamdani wins and he’s half as politically astute and reasonable as he seems, within six months all the liberals will adore him and the left will regard him as a betrayer, a la AOC

It's a big balancing act because you want prices high enough to deter, but not high enough to drive everything black market. Viz tobacco.

Only some currently illegal drugs should have licensed recreational sale. The more dangerous ones, via govt dispensary with a paternalistic approach

Most substances that pose issues, including legal drugs, illegal drugs, alcohol, and even food, should have government price signals pushing people in the right consumption direction, as well as easily available medical and behavioral treatments where applicable

It's not super helpful to get too in the weeds, and you have to take candidates like Harris (or Clinton/Obama in 2020) with a grain of salt, but the fact that Buttigieg and AOC are at the top is actually quite meaningful.

I mean, the 2020 primary polls from all the way in 2017 basically nailed the top 3.

That did not work and was never going to, because the US refuses to have an adversarial relationship with Israel.

Obama working with Netanyahu was bad though.

I mean, yes. This describes me, and I'm pretty repulsive to the median voter.

I still broadly agree with the point that politics are very fluid and you can't just read polls and follows Downsian models for everything.

Not really. One of the most commonly cited pieces of data supporting that idea at the time was interpreted completely inaccurately. (urban% on the 1960 census)

A fairer comparison would be Gen 6 vs Gen 9.

No, Matt! Not you too. ):

Modern video games are nonrival. The marginal cost of production is virtually zero compared to big physical cartridges.

A lot of leftists complain that the lower classes don't support their own material interests, but the shock of sudden mass unemployment would make a massive pro-basic income social movement basically inevitable.

Why? It seems obviously good to produce the same things without requiring human labor.

In econ 101 world, the cost of production should have essentially nothing to do with the price other than that it increases demand by creating a higher quality product.

Video games are club goods now. It's a fundamentally different type of pricing model.

The cost of producing a new copy of a video game dropped to near-zero after the release of the PlayStation and the following moves by Xbox and Nintendo to discs.

(tbf, idk if the Gamecube's tiny disks were pricier or whatever)

Absolutely!

Is there a structural explanation for why Democratic legislators are consistently older than Republicans on average, though?

I think #6 is aimed at, like, the people who are supposed to be "running" the movement, not voters themselves.

Spectacles made a good video about it

I also played Hollow Knight before any Souls games. Beating Absolute Radiance on Radiant mode is almost certainly much more difficult than Malenia is, but I was far more discouraged and quit (used summons) on the latter.

This was apparent to me even as a gaming zoomer, since my first introduction to capital-H *hard* games was Celeste, which is far more difficult (with all the B/C sides + Chapter 9) but was as frictionless as possible. I played DeS and then the rest of the FromSoft catalogue a few months later.

This is why Lies of P is the best Souls game btw.