Look at me:

I am the Metaverse now.

Yeah...... this is why I hate hipsters.

Oh, boy. Just what I need - another fucking walled garden by Apple.

/s

Correct. Obey, citizen. Question nothing. Consume. Obey.

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Is that analogous to 'rutting'?

Atrazine, PFA, and The Birth Control Pill are in most western water and not being filtered out.

It's like no one knows.

>Are you clergy of Zeus? Are you speaking to devotees of Zeus? Is part of the faith that this person, or people like them, pose an existential threat? What's the audience for your message?

Do we assume Zeus does or doesn't exist? IMHO, law should assume that he does not. Which means, absent proof, the speech did nothing. Except perhaps offend someone.

If he does:

Can we prove the intent of Zeus?

Can Zeus be depositioned or investigated?

Would Zeus submit to the judgment of a mortal government?

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>Knowing this, if someone were holding the clipboard when the 'learner' is actually being electrocuted by the 'teacher', does their contribution only being words absolve them? Would they commit violence? Would they cause harm? Would it be a crime?

This is a loaded question from the perspective of free thought. We cannot prove intent as we are not psychic. Therefore, we can only and should only punish action.

Policing speech is the same as policing thought, no matter how disgusting or dangerous that speech is - history and philosophy have proven time and again that doing so is not a good idea.

The milgram experiment does highlight a weakness, and that is why it is up to culture to fight it, not law.

This was all covered pretty heavily by John Stuart Mill. I don't agree with him on everything, but it's pretty well considered.

If I speak the words, "May Zeus strike you down", and you are hit with a thunderbolt - did I commit violence? Did I commit harm? Did I commit a crime?

Well, we have to be careful of those arguments, because people frequently try to equate speech to violence or actual harm, and that's a dark road.

Same issue with Single Family Homes in the US.

We have plenty of land to build them on, but speculators have injected insane liquidity into properties and are therefore opposing any form of affordable single family homes because it would destroy the inflationary "value" of the things they bought.

This. So much this.

I just laughed so hard, I almost shat myself.

Prices are up ~30%, wait lists are common, inventory is still backlogged,
and they're trying to claim they have too much on hand?!?

This is the bullshit of the 'just-in-time' framework. This is what causes logistics cascades.

These people should be laughed at, not taken seriously.

H1-B should be banned entirely. We have hundreds of thousands of unemployed programmers already here. There is no excuse. There are people who can and will do the jobs - pay the damn wage the market demands.