Eh. The person who makes the porch pirate videos hasn’t gotten in trouble yet.

No. Pickpocketers usually work in massive crowds in order to rob people. If a robber uses violence in a massive crowd, they are far more likely to be detained by said crowd even if they can knock out the person they are trying to rob.

Even threatening violence in a crowd could make people think you’re a terrorist, and the crowd response is going to be different than if you’re an unarmed pickpocket.

That’s basically how mugging happens in the USA. There are still some finesse pickpocketers, but most of them are only going to rob you by pulling a weapon out, usually a gun, and immediately threatening harm if they don’t get what they want.

And in some parts of the country, a significant part of the population is armed and legally allowed to shoot back.

I wish people didn’t believe that.

Adding money to the free space though at least gives you an opportunity to get back in the game.

Which lengthens the game. Monopoly is best played as life; nasty, brutish, and short.

The problem is that there were a lot of different versions of the game that ended up being the basis for a lot of house rules.

I saw someone who didn’t identify with as any gender but wore a low cut top. I got lost in them/their hills.

Living in a lovely world?

Yeah. It is interesting that Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Miami aren’t on here while Salt Lake City, Denver, and Atlanta are very visible.

It filters out college towns with large masters and doctorate programs.

It is one of the reasons why, if I do strength training, I use dumbbells. It is a lot easier tell something is too heavy when you pick it up instead of setting a machine and guessing.

They can keep shuffling along, though. If you don’t have to pay for active development of features, maintenance of their existing product lines is relatively cheap.

It is more that you meet them for a one night stand. Then you decide to hang out later. Then you wake up one day and you two are married with children.

I know couples where that happened, kinda. One family knows another family for various reasons and the families introduce their kids to each other. Sometimes, they hit it off.

For “through friends”, I feel like a lot of larger friend networks have collapsed. People aren’t friends with as many people as large get togethers have become rarer over time.

There are stories of people who met once at a long event and then maintained contact over time. Now, everyone would be on their phone.

Romans had a basic understanding of proportions and general vibes of design, but they couldn’t really create calculations to verify their design as we do today. For instance, the designers of the Pantheon understood they needed to lighten the concrete as it went up and had novel techniques of doing so that we use today, but they didn’t really know.

The state of the art for understanding basic stresses didn’t become known until the 19th century. The design of the Eiffel Tower was impressive, in part, because that structure has a calc book defending it. A lot of early railroad bridges were still designed based on ratios and vibes.

That said, not all loads were understood by that time. The Tacoma-Narrows Bridge collapsed in part because of a gross misunderstanding of wind loads combined with the ability to design structures light enough that wind loads controlled.

A lot of veterans will raz new hires this way. One reason is to establish the social hierarchy. The other reason is to teach the new hires to not be gullible dipshits.

It feels weird to have someone else pick my nose.

I’m accepting the premise of the Allied powers including the Soviet Union. Japan had hoped that the Soviet Union would meditate a peace after the war with Germany given that the two countries made peace with each other in the 1941. There were even preliminary negotiations that the Soviet Union dragged on in July 1945. Then, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan roughly around the time that the bombs were dropped.

And Japan wasn’t just arguing for the emperor. There were other conditions to the surrender, including no occupation and internally trying Japanese for was crimes instead of an international tribunal. Those conditions were unacceptable. By the time there was only one condition, an atomic bomb had been dropped.

I think you’ve already been told this, but that’s a false dichotomy based on bald-faced lies.

The three options were invasion, bombing until submission, and accepting a conditional surrender. Conditional surrender was off the table.

The US was already in the process of leveling Japanese cities due to strategic bombing and would have continued to do so if it didn’t drop nuclear weapons. A blockade was also implemented, in part to starve the population into unconditional surrender.

It is funny how much anti-nuclear people focus on the dropping of two bombs when they were only a fraction of the total deaths caused. And try, those two bombs were a major part of the deliberations on the Japanese side when deciding to surrender in which we have first account records while the decision was being made.