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Not literally full of criminals, mind you. Depression, alcoholism, poor parenting (the latchkey kid you couldn't place, though it could be abandonment, too), whatever's going on in the top left (maybe the artist, maybe just social isolation, possibly elderly? Could be a suicide attempt.), and homelessness aren't crimes, usually (Usually. Sometimes homelessness functionally is. Cops spend a fair amount of time basically harassing homeless people in a lot of places), and those four make up about half the building. Sometimes prostitution (at least for the prostitute) isn't either, for what it's worth, though I'd be rather surprised if it wasn't in NC. The not overtly violent domestic dispute might not be strictly illegal, either (though if it's loud enough, it could be disturbance or whatev'). You could interpret it so the only really criminal things that are happening are diagonal down from the top right (9, 5, and 1, going by the designation noted below).

It's less full of crime (though there's definitely crime as well) and more general social ills police are supposed to be something of a positive influence regarding, with crime thrown in the mix.

E: Though now I'm curious what y'all pegged the 2, 4, and 8 (treating the windows as a numpad) as being guilty of. Mind sharing?

Didn't even notice the hospital thing, though I do now that I go back.

... though, to be fair, suboptimal grocery lanes effect a lot more people significantly more often. Honestly, if you consider things on the net they've probably killed more people than exploding hospitals, just due to stress/timing problems (this kills kids in florida, ferex)/etc. Plus I doubt many of us have much in the way of personal interaction with exploding hospitals, whereas most of us have exposure to grocery lanes.

Not in the south, no. Think there may be some midwesterners that do somethin' along those lines when they're trying to transcribe things phonetically? Somewhere in that direction.

Also yore is actually a word and not just a bastardization of a few different ones. So it don't get used lest folks start thinking yer tryin' t'get fancy.

Axioms are completely and utterly immutable. There's nothing that can actually change axioms, they're utterly and completely embedded in the mathematical super-structure that unites all knowable and unknowable universes.

Axioms are literally stuff we invented to start thinking from. Like, that's pretty much the exact definition put in simpler words. They're entirely human constructed and are as utterly mutable as the people making them feel like making them.

You're thinking more along the lines of a platonic ideal or fundamental force, serg, not an axiom. Axioms are logic contrivances we use because they make things (much, much, much) easier, no more, no less.

Maybe we're dealing with some kind of translation error, here? Either that or you defined a different meaning from the general usage somewhere up a bit where I wasn't paying attention, which if so, well... okay. You're using the word wrong, but fair enough

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Did they actually say "an widely"? 'Cause that on top of the you're thing would make me start wondering if the critter's ESL or somethin'.

Pottermore Sorting Quiz (all possible questions)
Your Result: GRYFFINDOR!
Congratulations! You have been sorted into Gryffindor, the house of bravery and chivalry. You are amongst other Gryffindors such as: Harry Potter, Hermione, Ron Wesley, and Neville Longbottom. 
Result Breakdown:
68% GRYFFINDOR!
66% HUFFLEPUFF!
54% SLYTHERIN!
52% RAVENCLAW

Mildly interesting that the pair's were both 2 points from each other...

What ethos do you fit?
Your Result: Socialist
A middle-ground between the tumultuous inequalities of laissez-faire democracy and the gross inefficiencies and corruption of communism, a socialist system of government incentivizes good economic behavior and limits the possible harm to the weakest members of society. Allowing everyone to contribute does increase the well-being of citizens, but socialism typically taxes corporations heavily, limiting economic growth. Socialism is also economically fragile, because large numbers of unemployed persons drain money from the system faster than they add to it, and so swings of the economy can be greatly magnified. Socialism also encourages isolationism, because poor immigrants will drain the government's coffers, while emigrants will take the money invested in them by taxpayers out of the system, and pay their dividends elsewhere. Still, socialism is probably the most effective way to reach the ideal of a world where no person is forced to suffer for purely economic reasons.
Result Breakdown:
83% Socialist
64% Communist
63% Anarchist
52% Democracy
2% Monarchist
1% Fascist

Welp.

Can we, though? Last I checked even at the peak of our destructive capability -- which we're not really at anymore -- we couldn't really manage that. Destroy human civilization, sure, wreck huge chunks of the biosphere, definitely, but destroy anything on the surface? Is shit out there that takes more than a sustained nuclear bombardment to get rid of. Honestly, our best bet is probably what we're doing environment wise, and even the worst of that is unlikely to surpass previous mass extinction events.

We're pretty damn good, but we're not that far, yet. We've still got a ways to go before we can even really top a sustained wide-scale algae bloom, and when you're being outperformed by pond scum, you don't get to claim superiority