Well, sure, wealth acquired unjustly is not made okay by inheriting it. But I feel that’s a separate question from that of inheritance.

he benefits from society, then…

He gives benefit to society. That’s how he gets rich: by giving a benefit to society, and his riches represent the unpaid recompense from society back to him.

If he were living, he could, for instance, buy a restaurant meal with that money. In that way, society would pay him back by cooking him a meal at the restaurant.

Instead he leaves the money to his children, and they - for instance - buy a car. Then, society pays back the man who benefited them by providing a car to his child.

Ouch. I’m sorry to hear that. Wish I could offer you better help than, condolences and understanding from the other side of the internet.

Lewis Carroll has an interesting piece about that. Brings up the point that if someone works hard to benefit the community, and their wealth represents the response of the community to repay that person’s work, perhaps it’s not unreasonable that that person’s request is, “repay it to my children,” i.e. inheritance.

From my point of view, JavaScript is evil.

“Vladimir Putin, you are under arrest for war crimes.”

“It was a special military operation! It was all the fault of the Nazis!”

“No, not for all that. You’re under arrest for violating the GNU GPL! Prepare to meet your source, licencef*****!!!”

*blam* *blam* *blam*

I think this is more true than most would like to think.

Reality is more nuanced than the words with which we describe it. A lot of NT “flexibility” is about recognising that. But, it often spills over into what is, really, lying.

Problem is they then go around quothing.

They’re known to be the only animal on the planet more intelligent than dolphins. IIRC only two of them survived though, while the dolphins all left in time.

Disappointed that the first comment isn’t, “May the Torx be with you”

And in return, YouTube serves video and pays creators.

Is that why they voted in Trump instead?

All right, but we’re doing the study on rats as per usual and extrapolating to humans. Please turn up at the lab Monday 9am sharp.

Like the steak in the restaurant at the end of the universe?

Can you measure something like, D-C–cup milk since the total volume isn’t all milk?

I think they just mean base 12. So “10” isn’t ten, it’s 1 * 12¹ + 0 * 12⁰; xyz is x * 12² + y * 12¹ + z * 12⁰.

Like sixteen in hex is 10 (commonly written 0x10, to differentiate it from decimal 10)

Edit: oof, my client is trying to be clever with the mathematical writing and bungling it, I’ll try to fix… Hmm, hope that makes it better not worse

You mean base 12.

Oh dear. Usually the chair is so big it stands way above the floor.

Also what about the table? Should that still be larger than the chair?

Yeah but we don’t mention that when we’re making fun of Americans.

Secretly they all want to be dominated by a powerful monarch.