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That's not completely true. My landlord can't kick me out over what I post on here without other reason, I can't be fired, I can't be arrested. All the social consequences in the world are perfectly kosher. If everyone feels like unfriending me, it's my own fault for digging the hole.

You must not live in an at-will employment state. Good for you :V

Never. Move.

Must have damn good renter's protection, too, or at least paid close attention to the contract.

Also I'm pretty sure there actually is a number of things you could post here that'd get you arrested. Just throwing that out there.

Ah, no... was talking about this. Not sure how much it's been followed up since, but th'study mentioned apparently found the same type of fungal infection in the brains of every alzheimer's effected cadaver they checked, within a fairly small sample group.

Anyone who has ever threatened my career, educational career, or legal standing over being polite is an enemy of free society, yes Maniac.

So... every business (try cussing out your customers, boss, or fellow employees :V), all of the government (hello, all those legal restrictions on how you talk to people), and every school in the country (If my material wealth was a hundred dollars for every time a student got to go on a vulgarity spewing rant inside a classroom and remain in that school, I would be very, very poor). Military, too. I can only imagine how fast the MPs would drag your ass away if you started swearing a blue streak at the local base commander(s). You have many enemies of free society in free society, including this very forum!

Honestly, I think your only ally may be stand up comedy.

And yeah, a lot of the kneejerk stuff is indeed paranoia about lawsuits. Usually there's fucks given for the rest of it, too, just not as many. Also, the arbitration and whatnot has... nothing to do with the justice system. Like, yeah, that's the shape it's taking, but there's no legal basis for basically anything going on there. It's just a weird way of handling complaints and shit, and probably less kangaroo-y than your average HR manager. What y'all are really lamenting, t'be honest, is the relatively poor (knowledge of, in particular) contract law that lets schools just kinda' do whatever on that front and legally force the students to take it, because the students, y'know, agreed to that. Read the fine print :V

Lotta' different ways you could get a handle on that, but who knows if we'll ever bother.

What was the original point you were trying to make, that humanity hasn't developed a lot after 1950 because we didn't invent a lot of things?

Eh, more along the lines that we haven't developed because we haven't invented specific things in specific ways, apparently.

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And... yeah. You're definitely going to get disagreement that we're not moving, because there's, y'know, whole hosts of crap happening in regards to scientific development right now. The movement is significant, you're just... intentionally, apparently... applying a filter to it that disregards it.

... though, with what you just said, why would you compare the trains by their drive systems instead of their function? The drive system is a component system, the part that moves the freight. If a steam and maglev train are indeed different technologies, then a film and digital camera would be just as well. They both have one primary point of functional similarity (focusing light via lens, carrying freight), and one primary point of component difference (capturing its imprint via chemical or digital means, providing movement by steam or maglev).

... does it use energy to move things? Yes? Still basic motor. The means which it uses the energy is irrelevant.

This is a strange way to try to categorize the world.

Making something you already have better is literally one of the definitions of development, null.

... made what? I guess I could look it up, but that's literally the first time I've seen (or heard) those words put together as a proper noun, is more the point.

Presumably, yeah. Fair few colleges that have student governance type stuff where some (usually elected, iirc) get called in to arbitrate violations of the school policy. Usually with some oversight by staff, near as I can recall. Not sure if that's what strife's talking about, but I'm guessing it is. It... doesn't really have much or anything to do with actual legal stuff, though, so far as I'm aware, save when it sends stuff off to the cops for actual/suspected violations of the law as opposed to just school policy.

Haven't paid much attention to it, personally. Stuff was pretty low key in the schools I went to, and I had other things on the mind.