Quoting Jefferson's First Inaugural in fn. 2: "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union or change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
@Brian_Jaxson @HoernerMVP Wonder what the minimum HR/week average would have to be to make it worth it. There’s probably an objective optimal number that someone could figure out
@J_Sanchez45@RousseauFTW@patafianek2000@no_earthquake This is a fairly silly framing of the question. You could just as easily say non-English speakers are screwed because they don’t know what the labels mean - I think it’s implicit that the population we’re talking about is all making an informed choice.
@RousseauFTW@patafianek2000@no_earthquake You’re not really responsible for the death of people who had the option to press the “don’t die” button and elected to press the “maybe die” one instead
@cjarrett74@dpr_porsche@rylandsgrace Grace learns Rocky’s language pretty fast too though - he talks about how he depends less and less on the translator and eventually doesn’t use it at all
@notabotRachel@emileeprod@_RobertSchultz That’s fair, though I think bringing extra kids is still a weak wealth signal. I could see a normal (upper) middle class family scraping pennies together for a once-in-a-lifetime extravagant trip. But that family is not bringing extra kids; if doing both, you’re def rich.
@emileeprod@_RobertSchultz Pretty easy tbh… Even just a standard 7-10 day trip to Europe, you’re talking $1500 to $2k for the extra plane ticket, probably extra adjoining hotel rooms to accommodate more kids, plus the extra kid’s meals and activities (tours, museums) probably gets you close to that.
@hitbyacar2@jmhorp Not true, especially if you have decently high status with the hotel brand. Just ask the front desk, you’d be surprised how often they happen to have a room open.
@cmonjussthetip@Brandon93Smith The whole point was that he was posing as a quasi-intellectual but he was actually an idiot too. Took one community college class that he didn’t even understand and tried to reshape the whole game. Blows up in face immediately when an actual smart guy enters the room (Marlo).