Shame is psychologically painful - or brain will do amazing things to avoid that pain. You're right that admitting fault is a power move, but it requires being able to cope with that potential pain and move forward. Easier to just assert the other person is wrong and avoid that pain completely.
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I actually have run into him on the street a couple times - he still wears the question mark suit (even when just like going to the grocery store) and his car is even covered with them. He is committed.
Highly recommend the essay that quote is from: "Anti-Semite and Jew". It's written from that post-liberation of Paris/ending of ww2 perspective, but a lot of the insights on the nature of that kind of societal hate still hold up pretty well.
Heard he killed Hitler though
It takes energy to produce them, sure, but it's way less than even just the production needs for coal or natural gas. Not to mention that's a one time carbon cost (per lifespan which is close to 30 years these days) vs ongoing emissions. And additionally, as the energy mix where the panels are produced cleans up, the carbon footprint of the panels go down as well! Is it the perfect solution? No, but there is no silver bullet to get off fossil fuels. Solar is just one part of that transition and it is exciting to see more groups exploring the solar/shade synergy (there's some cool shaded farming solar experiments going on that also make use of the solar panel's shadow for additional benefits!)
We're supposedly in a representative democracy but the representatives have an approval rating of 13%. Tell me how that makes sense.
Not trying to justify things as they stand, but an impprtant caveat is that's for Congress as a whole. Ask people how they feel about their rep and you get much different numbers. Basically, everyone else is the problem.
While true, it's also true many states were close individually and, because of how our elections work, the election could have gone differently if about 43,000 votes in strategic places went the other way. I'd call that close.
Deflation can be even more destructive than inflation. It would basically make all kinds of debt more expensive, to which real estate is particularly sensitive. There's a chance that could force over leveraged property owners to sell, but with more expensove debt, there will be fewer buyers and it would tend to be those who can take on the higher risk (aka the already wealthy).
All that is to say, I don't have a solution either (especiallly if high taxes on non-dwelling properties doesn't seem to be making an impact), but deflation is almost never good...
It'll be interesting to see if they do. Larian themselves have said they have no plans at the moment, in no small part due to how in 5e at lvl 12+ powers get hard to balance/model in a computer game. But given the success at launch, they're probably going to feel a lot of pressure to make one. I'm curious how they'll get around it. My guess is they'll either have to more strongly deviate from 5e or it's a side plot with new characters.
Exciting to see! I loved the original, but never played the remake on PSP so looking forward to this!
A really nice owl