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@ARikozuM Confused, not really. Worded in a way that I'm unsure of how the program will score the answer? Yes. In some questions I disagreed with the premise but agreed with the proposition (or vise versa). For example, the question about whether or not I agreed with religious values being taught in school. I believe in the separation of church and state (seemed like the primary objective of the question to gauge a value for how religious the person taking the test is, so strongly disagreed with the statement), but not all religious teachings are inherently spiritual. Some values derived from religion that relate to morality and some principles of social interaction (potentially religious values) are very important. Many aspects of history are heavily influenced by religion so an understanding about religious teachings at the time will improve depth of knowledge about history. For these reasons religion should be taught to some capacity (just leave out recruiting and unverifiable statements). So I marked agree even though I strongly believe in the separation of church in state (counter-intuitive since I would have marked strongly disagree when only focusing on what I believe the primary objective of the question is).

@DrMacintosh So if green is good and red is bad, what's purple? lol I used to be -0.25 right/left economically (green) last time I took this test (probably 2-3 years ago). Now I'm 0.5 (purple).

@ARikozuM In case you were wondering

@ARikozuM That's logical. The relationship of unions and small government you outlined above sounds like a happy medium, but I don't understand why a government must provide rights for unions to organize. They should be able to just organize themselves without a government "allowing" them to do so. Side note: Why do people keep saying Fascism is right wing? What aspect of government sponsored corporatism is right wing? Corporations without any possible competition are effectively their own government without sovereignty (so not actually a government) within their own market(s). The Italians of the early 20th century don't stand out as bastions of "right wing" policy to me. I think we need to define "right" and "left" wing ideology in absence of authoritarian/libertarian tendencies.

@DrMacintosh I mostly agree, but not entirely. If a union theoretically gets too powerful it should face similar anti-trust regulations corporations are supposed to face when corporations grow big enough (for example, when working in a specific market without also being a union member is impossible).

@ARikozuM Big government or small government seems like a distraction to me when discussing unions (unless by big government you mean government effectively owns everything or nearly everything thus negates the negotiating power of the union). Unions have their place in most markets. As long as the right to work is preserved (for people that don't want to join a union) and unions aren't given any exclusive benefits from the government (ie: same campaign finance laws as any other corporation) then I see no problem with them. It's just another form of free market organization at work.

1) Windows 7 2) That CPU temperature 3) DDR@200 MHz? 4) That CPU/GPU pair. It bottlenecks like a giraffe's neck stuck in a glass coca-cola bottle. 5) Why does the GTX 1080 ti only have 3 GB of VRAM? 6) 74 GB is a small SSD. So, you're not worried about filling most of the drive space and potentially rewriting the same cells repeatedly (shortening the life of the drive)? Did I miss anything?

@DrMacintosh Don't forget that a highly complicated tax code benefits big businesses that can afford tax attorneys, accountants, and agents to find just the right combination of tax loopholes to almost totally avoid taxes! That's a massive competitive advantage compared to small businesses that can't afford tax attorneys, accountants, or agents.

@handymanshandle I'm from the south and I promise a twinki-dog has never crossed my mind ?

I think Stadia is more of a mixed bag (as opposed to all-good/all-bad light many people cast on it). PROs: Non-mobile developers can finally get some of that sweet sweet hype and instant gratification money currently enriching the mobile market right now. Could lead to more indi-developers and more creative development in gaming. Cross platform gaming will ABSOLUTELY be much improved. Developers will FINALLY support more screen resolutions (21:9/32:9)! Different Stadia warehouse locations will likely use different hardware based of different TCO from suppliers in the different warehouse regions (think other countries), so improved hardware support will likely develop for all PC CPU/GPU/OS combos. Internet providers will finally be forced to upgrade the ancient telecommunication lines used today. CONs: This further fuels the instant-gratification epidemic that plagues the population. People already can't see past their noses/seflie-cameras. If this continues to get worse EVERYONE will have a bad time in life. Games with any sort of preconceived controversy will cease to exist when Stadia streaming accounts for 20% of gaming revenue at any point in time. If (and when) that happens everyone will develop with Stadia in mind and Google will ban games from Stadia for any reason at all if there is public outcry. This will further the outbreak of crappy games that rely even more on in-app purchases than now and could possibly turn the non-mobile gaming sector into the mobile gaming mess we see today from large developers receiving a GOLDEN opportunity to become more greedy. All large developers will become more greedy, indi-developers may catch a break (as long as game is very vanilla i.e. no controversy), but mid-sized developers will fall through the cracks since only large teams from entrenched large companies will be able to compete for Stadia warehouse hardware resources. This last point WILL eliminate complex/resource intense single player games from the market today almost entirely. What am I missing? I feel like I'm missing something but can't quite put my finger on it. EDIT: ah... region locking and loot boxes. Some interesting court cases may arise from those issues becoming magnified.