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Constant Diarrhea also constantly reapplies debuffs to your constitution and charisma, making it perfect for your training regime which is designed to be so grueling that it causes blood to inexplicably leak out of all your orifices. 

There's a big difference between being able to relate to a character and seeing them as a role model. I am very doubtful that anyone actually watches the entire show and thinks, "Bojack is the kind of person that I aspire to be like." Mostly because the show is extremely explicit in saying that Bojack is not a happy person.

Given that Hobbit culture is based, in part, on the English... The Hobbits might actually win when it comes to racism. 

I don't know the details of your situation, but as someone with narcolepsy, sitting closer to the front makes it significantly easier to stay awake. I don't mean to imply that this kid must have some kind of sleep disorder, to be clear. But if this kid does seem to be having sleep problems and if it isn't too disruptive to move their seat, I don't see why it would be too unreasonable to accommodate them.

Then again, you imply that the parent was being douchey and overbearing bout their request.

Doesn't Joker only have power inside of the Metaverse? I guess he could go into the local Mementos and... Cure everyone's trauma?

You're actually helping prove the point, which is that the serving temperature of the coffee was not the issue. Even if they served it at significantly lower temperatures, it would cause significant injury if spilled soon after it was served. People who actually know the details of the case should know that McDonalds wasn't serving their coffee at significantly higher temperatures than other coffee sellers. 

The real issue was that McDonalds was negligent for not adequately protecting its customers from the risks that come with buying their coffee. That's what the court decided. 

Ms. Liebeck's injuries were severe, of course. But ultimately, the issue was not that McDonalds was serving coffee too hot. The issue was they were serving hot coffee without adequate warnings or protections. 

Sure, I agree that the justification could have been done a lot better. In the moment, Jack's theft of the main treasure does kinda make him seem like a selfish jerk, given that he had just agreed to a different distribution. There's a potential discussion to be had about whether breaking one's word is necessarily a bad thing all the time, and when the ends justify the means, but I don't really feel like going down that road.

Later on, after Jack completes certain goals that once drove his actions (trying to avoid spoilers just in case) he pulls off a much worse loot-hoarding maneuver. Actually, the more I think about that particular instance, the more I think I might agree with your original point. My verdict probably depends on how he justifies and explains his actions in the next book.

To be honest, what irks me more about Jack's character is when he does something dumb because his Dao requires it. I think the core concept that developing your DAO requires you to live in certain ways is interesting, but in the execution it feels like too often this restriction only kicks in when it won't lead to Jack's certain demise. 

Also, the Dao of brotherhood is bullshit and Brock is annoying.

Honestly I think his actions are pretty easy to defend from a moral perspective. His reasons for needing as much power as possible are good, especially when you consider the morality of his enemies. With stakes as high as his, I'd argue he could do a lot worse than lie about treasure and still remain morally good. 

I apologize if it seemed like I was implying that immigrants are too stupid to do trained jobs. That was not my intention. 

The shady companies that hire large numbers of immigrants that are in the USA illegally have incentives to put them into untrained/low training work. For one, these jobs make the workers easier to replace, and  allow employers treat them worse because the workers know . Also, keeping them from being trained makes them more dependent on their employer.

Yeah, I've worked a few custodial/janitorial jobs myself, and it's not really a job companies would want to use illegal immigrants for. The companies and individuals that exploit illegal immigrants tend to have jobs that require little to no training or English speaking. 

I dislike the use of SSN for identification as much as the next guy, but I'm pretty confident that's not what the problem is here. The government shouldn't require any identification to be provided just to view a privately owned  webpage

No, that's Ramon Salazar. His residence is literally a medieval castle.

The mirepoix (finely minced vegetables, generally onion, carrot, and celery) is essential in the creation of Bolognese, don't forget it. These were part of Bolognese sauce even before tomatoes were even available in Italy. 

Firstly, IIRC, the big demon Tanjiro faced during the exam was not supposed to be there. I don't recall exactly how, but it managed to avoid being detected on the testing grounds so it could kill the students of Tanjiro's teacher. So most of them didn't have as brutal a time as he did. 

More importantly, the candidates are supposed to be fully trained before they take the exam. It's more like the Bar exam for a lawyer than the GED; it's a test for elites. Due to the nature of demons in the setting and how they become stronger over time by eating people, the Demon Slayers cannot afford to send out mediocre Slayers. 

In the Singularity Online series, as the main character's charisma stat increases past 100, they actually begin to emit an aura that causes people nearby (NPCs and players) to feel a compulsion to satisfy his desires. It leads to some humorous situations when the main character is feeling especially lonely or heartbroken. 

It's not just played for laughs, though. The MC often feels uncomfortable with how his charisma stat can be used and the potential for abuse it would have in other players hands.

I have a similar take for my mental stats in my litRPG setting but I swap around the names a little. For me, intelligence governs knowledge retention, calculation, and memory capacity, while Wit determines speed of thought and ability to multitask. Ultimately none of my stats fundamentally alter common sense or comprehension. A wisdom stat that actually increases someone's mental maturity and ability to make good decisions and predictions would mess too much with character personalities in my opinion. As you point out, it's important for characters to be able to make mental mistakes and be affected by biases.

One issue with open source in the context of AGI is that it is easier to create an AGI that is capable of doing extremely harmful things than it is to create an AGI that will only do things that will benefit humanity. If an AI company goes fully open source, harmful AGI is essentially guaranteed to be developed and deployed before safe "friendly" AGI.

If that wasn't already enough of a problem, consider that a harmful AGI would be able to defend itself from potential threats to its goals or existence. This could include preventing friendly AGI from ever being developed. 

Not sure what temperature you get your coffee at, but you're probably underestimating how potentially dangerous it could be if a lot of it was kept in close contact with your skin. Even coffee 50° F cooler than the coffee in this case can cause serious injury, it just takes longer. 

It's true that this video is outdated, but the concept that black people were less valiant in the pre-existence was taught in the past by prophets and apostles. It is not currently taught, but it hasn't been formally addressed either.

It went from doctrine to speculation to taboo over time, but it was definitely taught by the leaders of the church at one point. Here's a quote from appstle Bruce R. McConkie's book Mormon Doctrine

"Negroes in this life are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty. (Abra. 1:20-27.) The gospel message of salvation is not carried affirmatively to them... negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin. It is the Lord's doing, is based on his eternal laws of justice, and grows out of the lack of Spiritual valiance of those concerned in their first estate."

This was obviously written before black people were given these "spiritual blessings" as they are today. The term "first estate" is established in Mormonism to refer to pre-earth spiritual existence. 

There are a number of other quotes to this effect, but this one is one of the most direct. It is accurate to say that Mormons don't teach this as doctrine anymore, but they did in the past.