Moving files to the recycle bin and deleting files should take the same amount of time, both are essentially just a rewrite of the pointer to the data and don’t copy any data at all.

This is a false equivalence. We regularly “throw away” remains (by burying or incinerating them) that could have been donated to science or organs that could have been donated to patients in need. Eating discarded meat seems more morally equivalent to ensuring that grandma is an organ donor. It’s not as if discarded meat in a landfill or buried Grandma’s in a cemetery are contributing in any meaningful way back to the ecosystem.

Don’t pretend that any of your comments were anywhere near civil. You were obviously trolling and got called out on it. This isn’t power tripping mods. It’s just you. Right or wrong about the issue, you were still being an asshole about it.

The first rule of jury nullification is that we don’t talk about jury nullification.

Sure the brain may survive, but will the consciousness that you identify as you survive?

Yeah that competition really did demonstrate what an awful service all those media monopolies provided.

You can just hire cops to be private security, no tax dollars necessary. The neat part is that even if they aren’t acting in an official capacity, they can still use police resources (like squad cars), wear police uniforms, and they’re still police (with all the same privileges, lack of liability, and license to murder).

someone’s self awareness of the limitations of their own knowledge and willingness to defer to experts.

This is a cornerstone of ethics in engineering and many other discipline that I feel is being shouted down daily by a crowd that clearly never took a philosophy or ethics class. Even among engineers it seems to be an increasingly unpopular attitude. It seems to have become popular to praise the braggart and shun the ethical self aware.

That had a much nicer ending than my version wherein a young brown classmate taking AP math and science classes was thrown against a wall, frisked, and searched because his graphing calculator was sticking up out of his back pocket and the school police thought it was a gun. It was a TI-99. This was long before smart phones were a thing.

Literally the only reason I’ve ever used it is so that when I start typing a web address in front of someone, Google doesn’t “helpfully” autocomplete.

Aren’t there any other sites that start with p or x?