This was a fantastic ELI5. Thank you for your effort in writing this up.

Precisely. The original post shows there could still be labor willing to do the work, but it does does not address how that work would be funded. Even if the labor was free there are resources required to build and maintain that plant that are not free. Where do those resources come from?

Shorts are unintended low impedance paths.

it’s just an incredibly tiny amount

Indicates you are not describing a short.

Sure, there is technically current flowing, but it is small enough to be considered an open circuit for engineering purposes. There is leakage current for every insulator, we don’t call it a short.

I think of it as outsourced intuition. It provides a first gut feeling response to the question based on what the Internet would say. That can be useful if you need a starting point. It very rarely should be an ending point.

Capitalism is a zero sum game, for one to gain wealth it must be extracted from another

This is just not true. There are plenty of valid criticisms of capitalism, there’s no need to use false statements.

Test successful.

In addition, the generation of knowledge is inherently a progressive trait. It acknowledges that we don’t have all the answers but with effort we can find them and that we will need to change our world view to accept them.

Conservatism is the resistance to change, putting value in tradition over novel ways of thinking. It is antithetical to knowledge generation.

This means institutions that are designed to generate knowledge will not foster conservative ideals.

You are correct! Thank you for sharing.

Remember when that picture of a cop pepper spraying peacefully sitting protesters made news headlines and got people fired? Those were the days…

The whole sequence is great, but this one is stunning.

Now this is the kind of content generation I was hoping to find when I came to Lemmy!

The lowest donation in that tier is 240k, they could and are probably giving more.

The US’s position of economic strength is so fragile too. Most of it is in the financial and technology sectors, both of which can be moved relatively easily because their value is in non-tangible things. China’s economic power is in manufacturing - being able to build tangible things. Factories are much more stable.

Really unfortunate the only public figure that has stepped into the void left by this DNC is not eligible to run for president.

Same, I’m keeping my dual boot for one multiplayer game that I play to keep in touch with friends.

Very true, but as the movie says it’s a symbol. “Symbols are given power by people” and Guy Fawkes as a symbol is no longer tied to his historical actions. It symbolizes the character V, revolution, and the power of people to make change.

This cat’s a juggalo fo sho.

Don’t leave us hanging like that! What language???

Please don’t fix it. I laughed so hard when I read it.

Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids sit at Lagrange points. Material found there is not counted in the ‘clearing the orbit’ criteria. They are in stable orbits caused by the mass of the planet in question, not in lieu of a massive enough body.