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If corner crossing is not possible, the value of his private property increases by the value of the notionally public land that's effectively exclusively his now. If corner crossing is allowed, then that value is stripped away and he "loses" millions.

Of course, this claim of damages collapses in a puff of logic when you point out that he never should have had exclusive access in the first place. Maybe he can sue the judge next?

Where do you see the previous poster bring racist? If anything, he is being anti-racist by calling out the structural inequity of medieval society.

Was quite surprised to visit one recently only to be greeted by a full shelf of Faygo Redpop. Juggalo nostalgia!

Immersion is pretty much the point of VR, and until Elon's Neuralink gets their shit together (not holding my breath) VR headsets are the least bad option we have.

The street resale value of a stolen $1000 phone is far less than the value of $1000 in stolen cash.

The Baltic Sea is cold and too low in salt for sea worms, so wooden wrecks survive much longer than anywhere else in the world.

For better or worse, the term "GA" is used by all cloud providers.

Gotta say the irony is strong with a private equity firm called Ethical Capital Partners acquiring porn company MindGeek. I wonder who's fucking who the hardest?

> Americans seem to be kindly, trusting and helpful towards members of their own sub-group, and quite the contrary to those they deem "lesser" in status - the poor, the disabled, people of color.

As a European, I can assure you we share these traits. Try asking one how they feel about local Romani, African or Syrian refugees, foreign beggars, etc.

They're building a showcase city a thousand kilometers away in a different island as the new capital, but they're not relocating the 20+ million who live in Jakarta.

Only around 50,000 of them live in the old bit we think of us as Venice, and the number is dropping steadily. The rest live on the mainland (Mestre).