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  • It's not just the delivery fees, it's the markup of the food. It used to be that you paid the same menu prices for delivery or pickup, and the only additional fee was the tip for the delivery driver if you didn't pick it up yourself.

    Here we have the food being significantly marked up (a Whopper meal is usually ~$8 dollars depending on where you are, not $18), on top of a delivery fee, on top of platform fee, on top of a delivery tip.

  • If this technocratic psycho was more concerned with actually contemplating the morality of the question, and less focused on rearranging the insides of a parrot, his takes might be a little less monstrous.

    It's always funny realizing those who think they're asking the tough questions that others aren't smart enough to consider only ever talk about the same handful of topics: putting down minorities, advocating white supremacy, whining about anyone to the left of Pinochet and fucking animals/kids.

    Like that's 95% of the content on the Motte or "I"DW.

  • Same reason they don't talk to any of the minorities they Bayes about all day long: everything is a thought experiment to them because of their extremely sheltered lives and there's no way they're going to talk to some blue hair SJW, scary poor, or dumb immigrant. They'd be too woke, stupid and biased to be worth hearing from, anyway.

  • What a bunch of fucking ghouls.

    From the replies:

    Thanks for this, really valuable work!

    I'm curious what the qualitative description of child marriage usually looks like in these cases- I have two very rough mental images:

    A 14 year-old girl learning very little at school/ barely attends school. She's very unlikely to continue studying past the age of 16. Her (very low-income) parents struggle to continue supporting her and would rather she married earlier to reduce their burden and make a bit of bridewealth money (maybe to concentrate resources on another child). She gets married, her husband takes on responsibility for her (he might be more responsible/ caring than her parents), and her life outcomes don't change much from if she were to get married at 17.

    A 14 year-old girl is learning quite a lot at school. She dreams of going to college/ sixth-form/ university and could even afford to if she got a part-time job, but family/ cultural pressure leads her to get married early. She has a child at 15, is forced to stay in her village, and all of her plans go to waste.

    Could it be that people like to imagine something more like the second scenario when the first is more common?

    These people are completely fine with child marriage/rape if the kids didn't do well in school like they did. Their ability to empathize completely breaks down the second it meets their contempt for non-nerds.

    These are the psychopaths who think they're effective altruists.

  • This is one of my favorite things, as well. Hopefully someone can find him. Do you have a link to the Mercer's Reddit account, that sounds hilarious.

    If you want a weird internet rabbithole to go down, look up the guy who is running for president in Alaska and check out his social media.

  • It's always been a way to replace all welfare programs with a check, instead of being a supplement to existing welfare programs.

    The goal isn't to help people, it's to eliminate the welfare system entirely.

    In lieu of Mecaid and Medicare, you better hope your $800 UBI check can cover your healthcare costs, because now you're on the hook for paying for health insurance, too. Same thing with housing assistance and SNAP.

  • Both groups exalt the dictatorship of the market and ownership class and see it as simply the just enforcement of The Natural Order via survival of the fittest.

    You can't have naked market capitalism and violent enforcement of private property restrictions without it being the groundwork for proto-fascism, IMO.

  • Yeah, that always perplexed me. Copilot is a terrible tool if you're using it in a domain you aren't already proficient in, because it will mess up. And even worse, it'll mess up in subtle ways that most people wouldn't do themselves. You need to know what you're doing to babysit it and ensure it doesn't fuck everything up.