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Fun question, but it leads to other questions...

First, are vampires stopped at the property line, or only at the threshold of some appurtenance (e.g., a house)? After all, you're asking about real estate, and real estate is primarily concerned with land, not buildings.

This sort of matters because, are we assuming that vampire law is coincident with human law? By this I mean, if vampires were to take control of the government and abolish real estate law, would they then be able to enter any property or building, anywhere, anytime?

If vampires do observe human law, then realistically, they probably wouldn't be able to enter a leasehold without the tenant's permission. The fundamental right of tenancy is peaceful enjoyment, and in fact tenancy is a legal property right, to access the property in question and do anything, without undue burden, allowed under the terms of the lease. It would be a violation of peaceful enjoyment for a landlord to allow vampires into the unit.

The right of inspection, by the way, is explicitly carved out in real estate law. The right to let vampires into the unit is, to my knowledge, not enumerated.

I got a 19/20, and it reports the one missing point as being slightly skeptical. I'm guessing it was this headline, which I marked as fake: "International Relations Experts and US Public Agree: America Is Less Respected Globally."

I feel like this is actually a test of two things: first, can you recognize the form that headlines tend to take? and second, can you recognize the kinds of things the media would be willing to say? The reason I marked that headline as fake is because it sounds slightly more casual than I'd expect.

So it's no surprise that boomers would be able to answer those particular questions with more accuracy, because they grew up with headlines looking like the "real" headlines in the survey. Or put very bluntly, this is primarily a survey of how in-touch you are with boomers' mode of journalism.

Boomers score highest on this test.

Stop the presses.

It's funny... The elite fully believe that their ends always justify their means. Alinsky wrote that the relevant question isn't, do the ends justify the means, but do these ends justify these means?

It must be sad to believe that means deserve more scrutiny than ends.

It's funny that Indy is accused of taking artifacts from their people, since Raiders is the only movie in which he does that, though he does it twice. But he returns the stones in Temple of Doom, and he lets the grail stay behind, and he lets the crystal skull stay behind (though he didn't have much choice).

The supreme court is such a degenerate institution, and I don't mean that in terms of its current makeup. It's the only branch of government that considers itself immune to checks and balances from the other branches, and the legislature and executive are too chickenshit to do anything about it.

Except for Roosevelt, the last actually good president this country has had.

The other issue to consider is MBAs. Or at least the MBA way of thinking, that "caring about customers" actually means "leaving money on the table." The relentless search for "business efficiency," evaluated in pure accounting terms, can easily lead to destroying the core business due to a lack of understanding of how the core business shows up on a P&L statement.

Good lord no. Markets absolutely do not regulate or balance themselves, they get caught in feast-or-famine cycles based on where they are in the current credit binge. The Fed shouldn't be raising rates because the current inflationary episode is not driven by excess demand, and there are no data suggesting a wage-price spiral is coming.

She's thinking about how she missed her chance in "Naked Now."

They know that there's no wage-price spiral, and they know that this inflationary episode is not about excessive demand, which means they know that raising interest rates will not curb inflation. You can even see this in the data they don't talk about: Japan has maintained low interest rates through this whole saga, and its inflation has tracked that of countries that raised them. Because that's how supply-driven inflation works.

This has nothing to do with inflation; it's just an excuse to attack labor activism.

You have to enjoy a hobby in itself, if you're too focused on results then you'll have problems with the gulf between your ability and your aspiration. Is there anything you've tried doing that you just enjoy doing? Like do you just enjoy banging on a piano or drawing or writing, regardless of the output?

This phenomenon is as old as history.

Socrates was killed because he made fun of powerful people. Anaxagoras was exiled from Athens for arguing that the sun and moon are just fire and rock, rather than gods. Galileo was persecuted because he got into a pissing match with the Jesuits over the nature of comets, then when the Pope's support for Galileo's (geocentric) views wavered (...they wavered for political reasons), Galileo wrote a treatise ridiculing the Pope. Hearst and Pulitzer propagandized the US into the Spanish-American War. Mondale lost the election because the media decided he looked ridiculous.

Yeah the internet is terrible for discourse, but the more basic fact is that almost all humans suck at discourse. Even, or maybe especially, Galileo.

Given how unstable and user unfriendly computers are now, just imagine a future where programmers know even less about what they're doing.