That’s not the issue, though. The age of consent is a scape goat to distract from the actual source of the sex tourism problem. Colombia’s laws for example are on par with the Canadian example quoted above. Yes the age of consent is technically 14, but there’s a ton of nuance, like access to sexual rights (which was a big issue, like contraceptives and medical care). As well as strict rules regarding no more than 5 years of age gap.

The real problem is that both Thailand and Colombia have armed criminal groups controlling large swaths of territory where they engage in drug and human trafficking. With both, forced and sex labor intentions. Effective modern day slavery, due to a complex web of factors that make establishing the rule of law very hard. They’re far from the only ones, tons of countries all over the world suffer from this issue regardless of age of consent.

That’s not how you calculate car costs.

You only accounted for gas. Which is only part of the running costs. I also think that 46 mpg diesel is ridiculously optimist. Double check the source’s numbers. They seem off.

What you do is count in the total cost of the vehicle and amortize it over your use case in a given period of time. Count in all running maintenance costs. This is the cost of purchase, plus insurances, registration, oil changes, scheduled maintenance and fuel. Over a period of time, divide by the total kms done or expected to be done in that time. That would be the real cost per km.

Do the same with the ebike and realize the difference is magnitudes more than comparing fuel and battery alone. Also, there is cualitative analysis to do as well. You’re comparing an ebike, assuming it will be used as an electric motorcycle exclusively. An ebike with a dead battery is just a heavy bike, you can still pedal it. A car without fuel is a useless steel hull.

If you were to do the cost analysis this way to a plain old bike, even including food costs. It comes out to be virtually free, except for the most expensive carbon fibre performance bikes.

Even in 2015 it wasn’t about keeping the copy unopened. Games came in CD but internet was barely getting fast enough to download large amounts of data fast and efficiently. However, CD has little collecting value or preservation qualities. They go bad fast, half of commercial CDs go bad in less than a decade. Organic layer CDs that were used for home burning are dice rolls. Only inorganic archival medium burned at very slow speeds theoretically can go for more than two decades, and it is still recommended to keep redundancies

On the contrary, I think it was, again, about convenience. CDs were part of DRM. A type of DRM that had to have the CD in the PC’s CD tray in order to run the game, even if all the information was already locally installed. While later consoles acquired the capability to install the games to a hard drive for faster load times, this type of DRM was also adopted.

It was not rare for people to buy a game for PC, then immediately look for a crack online to play without CD. People were rigging hard drives to their consoles to install games there. Etc. So you could play your library without having to stand off the couch to change disks. Piracy offered the convenience at no cost.

Was about to say this, it is the exact same layout. Yet, most motels in the US probably share the same 3 or 4 floor plans as they are part of chains or simply bought off the shelf contractor blueprints.

Thanks for the honest insight. I will not be contrarian to what you said. But I do want to point out that honesty without emotional responsibility is cruelty. It might be a costume party, but it’s not always born out of malice, often it is self preservation. After all dissecting living beings usually kills them.

I agree with your dad. Everything saved to the cloud is a privacy and usability nightmare. Many people have lost data forever because cloud services misplaced their files.

To correct, you have to measure them first. How else would you know how much to correct. Measure the variable to control for it is basic good practice.

I appreciate the honesty, however, cynicism and lack of patience can be challenging for others to deal with in communication. However, I believe very thoughtful of you to keep it on the internet. Even if it makes the internet more toxic, at least you keep real life more sensible and that’s very considerate. I can see how it can be challenging, as I struggle with civility and empathy online as well.

Wanna have a ton of fun? Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller, has a documentary following a guy who sets out in an adventure to prove that Vermeer used a primitive form of camera osbcura to make his paintings so realistic by making a painting himself in the theorized way. It’s called Tim’s Vermeer and it is incredibly fascinating as an insight into the obsession that Vermeer’s work still creates today.

I heard that even Disney wants to forget about them. There’s a rumor they will make new movies retconning the JJ trilogy off the canon.

I would rather go see a really bad musician live, than listen to the greatest AI.

Interesting, such a strong insight is actually part of soft skills. You know yourself, what you don’t want to do and stick up to it for your own moral preservation.

You think most people lack soft skills

Here’s an interesting example you just gave me. I don’t think that and never said as much. As I said, my impression, while anecdotal, was developed doing psychological evaluations professionally. Our understanding is that soft skills are not a given, there are actually several dimensions and degrees of different soft skills involved. Some people might be very good conversationalist, but completely emotionally inflexible at work at the same time, for example. Certainly, different social advantages derive into different opportunities to develop different soft skills. This complexity is exactly why I said that soft skills are hard to teach and learn. Also, why some people on the field are calling to rename them something else. The soft adjective is perhaps inaccurate.

Now to the example. It’s extremely frowned upon in a conversation to affirm what others think, when they haven’t explicitly expressed so themselves. Specially when the other person is still a complete stranger. It could be interpreted as hostility or an attempt to misrepresent other people’s positions in order to attack them.

Latinamerica, no caste system. But tons of colonialism.

It is usually easier to rent a vps with a domain to run as a reverse proxy or a tunneling server between your server and users. Dynamic DNS and static IPs depend on the internet provider offering real outbound access and not a NAT. Plus any internet facing service should be hardened for security in some way, which it is usually provided in service packages for the vps.

Well, curiosity, openness to new experiences, motivation to both learn and meet new people, tolerance to frustration and failure. Or at least be amicable enough to successfully navigate a learning setting, they are part of soft skills. In my professional experience, these are far from universal traits. Lack of soft skills is definitely not a minority, but it is also a gradient.

Fun fact. In psychology assessment this are being called hard skills: very technical abilities for doing specialized tasks; and soft skills: social and emotional abilities to navigate social contexts, manage conflict and self regulate emotions.

Hard skills are easier to teach, while soft skills are very hard.

Must be a cultural thing. Where I’m from, if a doctor doesnt call you by name it is a red flag. It means they didn’t read the patient’s file. Teachers would flag student doctors negatively for it. You treat people, not loosely grouped collections of symptoms. Nurses are also strictly trained to call people by name (perhaps by Mr/ms surname, but that’s part of a holdover from reinforcing hierarchies), you know why? Because our hospitals have wards of anything between 12 and 30 beds and up. Calling “Sir please return to your bed” means nothing with 40 men in the same room, you have to be specific.

On the other hand, if you work a position of power, most people will call you doctor. It’s lawyers fault, really, as they historically used to hold all the political positions. They insisted so aggressively to be called doctors that now anyone in a position of authority or hierarchy, however slight it might be, is called doctor, even if they aren’t. Including in the medical field. Tons of people who aren’t doctors in medicine are called doctors, students of medicine are called doctors from day one, administration staff in medical settings will be called doctor, etc.

It also reinforces the first part. Lowly patients must call everyone inside a hospital doctor, but doctors don’t owe any title to anyone below them. Sure, it might arise from general ignorance about how the education system works, but it also illustrates how titles are always about separating people into hierarchies. It’s just an academic dick measuring contest.

Because it is false.

Sorry, but, source?

There’s nothing I can find that suggests this is true other that Tibetan names are usually regular nouns and usually given by Lamas to the family. But in general it seems kids are named on their third day by the Lama, but also before they are born. Not at 13 years. There’s nothing to suggest that they’re just called child until puberty.

I found this, about way of life in Tibet.