It goes even further than that. After vigintillion, you have steps of 10^30 that go trigintillion, quadragintillion, quinquagintillion, sexagintillion, septuagintillion, octogentillion, nonagentillion and centillion, with the 10^3 prefix in the front. If you really need to ramp up further, centillion can be prefixed by any of the other major prefixes, so 10^30 centillion is a decicentillion, and so on.

It’s a whole system that I had a hyperfixation on as a kid so I remember it quite well.

It’s actually worse than just debits before credits. It’s debits in reverse order of amount, then credits. So if you get your paycheck deposited in the morning, stop for gas, pick up a coffee, go shopping, go home and pay your utility bills and rent, they can order it so the rent goes through first, then the bills, shopping, gas and coffee all trigger separate overdrafts, then the paycheck is added last, stealing hundreds of dollars from you when you didn’t spend a cent you didn’t have.

This is where they have the leverage to push for actual copyright reform, but they won’t. Far more profitable to keep the system broken for everyone but have an exemption for AI megacorps.

Christianity would do the same if given the same level of power. All theocracy is evil.

Ok, strictly speaking, the language is called the Egyptian language and hieroglyphs were the writing system used to write it (until Greek influences evolved it into Coptic). But that’s an extremely pedantic distinction to anyone who isn’t a linguist.

Yeah, this is a classic example of a problem that looks very simple if you haven’t researched it at all, but it’s an absolute mess once you start digging into the details.

You’d think someone obsessed with masculinity would realize there’s nothing manlier than two dudes fucking.

In other words, “we trick our clients who paid us for financial advice into having children they can’t afford”.

Not all at once. Fascists target a series of out groups, starting with the most marginalized, making the in group smaller and smaller. The more of the rich white cisgender heterosexual Christian male boxes you check, the further down the list you probably are, but you will be targeted eventually.

I thought they didn’t like participation trophies.

Most of the Confederate monuments were put up by the KKK in the early 20th century as an intimidation tactic.

It’s a bit frustrating that it doesn’t make any of them actually reflect on their hypocrisy though. They just double down on the hypocrisy with no questions asked.

The ÷ sign isn’t used by “Americans”, it’s used by small children. As soon as you learn basic mathematical notation in your introductory algebra class, you’ve outgrown the use of that symbol.

It’s just an inconvenient one. It makes it a lot harder to jerk about how “complex” the situation is when there’s such an obvious villain. Everything Hamas has done, Netanyahu is an accomplice to.

Cost of living is outpacing it. Housing in particular.

There should be some sort of law where if you want to offload decisions to AI, the person who decides to let the AI make those decisions needs to step up to take full civil and criminal liability for everything it does.

That’s why they say “unemployment being too low is bad for the economy”. Low unemployment means higher negotiating power for workers, which means higher wages and better working conditions. The only way that statement makes any sense is if they’re exclusively talking about yacht money.

That’s what protests originally were for. The reason they’re called demonstrations is because you’re demonstrating the number of people that will be armed and angry if the people in power ignore you. Without that implied threat, they’re at most mildly inconvenient. It’s meant to be a final check and balance, if you fuck up badly enough, the people beat you to death and burn your house down.

It should never have to come to that, but taking it off the table entirely renders the first step a bit pointless.

The only reason I could imagine for someone to believe they choose their sexuality is if they’re in denial. “Of course every man wants to fuck another man, resisting that urge is a test of righteousness” is a common thought among religious homophobes.

There are plenty of studies. The “no studies” thing is a bad faith argument from deliberately misunderstanding the way medical studies work. The theoretical ideal of a double blind study has serious ethical problems when it involves giving a placebo to someone who would be seriously harmed by being denied care, so not all studies are done that way.