kerrigan778 @ kerrigan778 @lemmy.world

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My brain is exploding at the idea of cheese and jacket being illiterative and I hate it but the sound is so close that I can't really argue.

There's ship of Theseus and then there's Theseus threw out the whole ship, bought a used ship from someone else but it was still called the ship of Theseus because it was, literally, the ship of Theseus, but you still wouldn't say THE ship of Theseus was still alive and well.

No, no it is not, an unrelated company bought the brand and logos at bankruptcy auction and started Napster 2.0, a rebrand of an unrelated music service, which was then bought by Best Buy and became Rhapsody, then THAT was sold to some tech companies and unified branded as Napster again. It has no connection other than branding to the original Napster.

Lol Napster shut down in 2002, it's clearly not a present day tweet.

He might, but he also might mean that he has a power meter that is displaying Kwh since last reset and he plugged it in and then checked it again later when it was all set up after an arbitrary time period and it was either showing the lowest non-zero value it was capable of displaying or was showing a number from several hours.

Lol thank you, I knew that I don't know why I wrote it that way, in my defense it was like 4 in the morning.

I guess but then you have to stop expanding what they mean by the solution. You're not partitioning the statement of the problem any further but you're seemingly appending "forever" to the end of the solution as well as other problems that go along with homelessness. $30,000 each is enough to get every currently homeless person in the US some form of legal shelter, by definition ending homelessness in the US, however briefly.

I feel like that's pedantry on whether the definition of "end homelessness" means, 0 homeless forever vs, homelessness is a small, manageable problem again.

And if say, half of that 20 billion were put in a perpetual trust it could give a perpetual budget of 100s of millions of dollars to fund maintenance and social work staff to continue to better manage the problem.

You are misunderstanding the confusion, Kwh is an absolute measurement of an amount of power, not a rate of power usage. It's like being asked how fast your car can go and answering it can go 500 miles. 500 miles per hour? Per day? Per tank? It doesn't make sense as an answer.

Does your computer use 100 watt hours per hour? Translating to an average of 100 watts power usage? Or 100 watt hours per day maybe meaning an average power use of about 4 watts? One of those is certainly more likely but both are possible depending on your application and load.

You don't think ~$31,000 spent productively per every single homeless person in the US could effectively reset the homeless crisis?

Sure? But kind of a weird interjection to make at someone saying that they don't.

I thought I stated my opinion pretty clearly. I can do it again for you. It is disingenuous to say that everyone has a price, that's just something people say to make themselves feel better about benefiting from compromising their morals. Everyone needs to look at themselves and their principles and make a decision based on their beliefs and their situation. But saying "if I didn't someone else would, anyone would do the same, everyone has a price etc..." is a cop-out.

Honda never really made advanced hybrids either and they absolutely chose to drag their feet on EVs, they pushed hydrogen way too hard and even that always felt like a marketing stunt.

Okay? Good for you, you are a somewhat less principled person than some others. Not sure what you're arguing about.

I'm not mad, I however think you are concocting absurd hypotheticals to make yourself feel better for some reason.

So was Mexico and it hasn't exactly stopped them from being wildly racist at them.

Also any project that takes longer than the initial estimate will be overbudget, not only because you are paying local workers for longer (fairly good for the economy) but simply because inflation has happened more since the project started.

Are the corpo assassins in the room right now?

I don't know, only you can know your own integrity. Are some people homeless or hungry or both because there are things they won't do for money though? Yes, of course.