AwesomeLowlander

You could remove one more tile by taking out the light next to the turret. That’d bring it down to a slimmer 72 :D

Edit: Just saw from your other post that the lights are integral to the ship operation. Ignore me.

Well duh, you have to drop it. It’s in the name!

Reported by a worker at McD. Wtf, they’re the group that would benefit the most from a change in the healthcare system. Idiot.

Am I the only one who’s not had a problem with just using basic turrets to wipe them out in 5 seconds? Made entirely from free resources on Vulc, the only cost is bot attrition from the dust cloud.

Gabe Newell and George Lucas come to mind as relatively innocuous.

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https://sh.itjust.works/post/29086287

(Edit: I’m guessing the people downvoting this haven’t clicked through the link to see what’s actually happening.)

So you’re saying that, given a choice between

1. Earn 10M a year and live in peace and obscurity
2. Earn 15M a year and run the risk of being assassinated.

You’d take the 2nd choice and hire bodyguards. Sure, you might. But not everybody would.

Look at the events of the past few years, and especially the past few months in the US, and tell me that they’re not already trying to do so.

Methinks you missed the point.

it becomes a filter for choosing even more narcissistic/sociopathic people in the role.

Who then get removed from society

It’s a dice roll on a group of people, which isn’t enough to influence the individuals in that group

Depends how many dice you roll. That’s my point. If you roll enough dice, it can start affecting decisions.

the broad strategic decisions made by the executives aren’t going to factor in a remote likelihood of violence on a particular executive.

The key word there is ‘remote likelihood’. My point was that if it goes from ‘remote’ to ‘possible’ or ‘likely’, then it will start getting factored into decision making.

what’s another life of a colleague, versus an insurance beneficiary?

There’s a difference once they start considering their own lifes on the line.

They’ll just beef up personal security, put the cost of that security into their operating expenses

Unlike fines, which can be passed off as a cost of doing business, their lives are irreplaceable. And once the logic has been hammered into their heads, it can start influencing their decisions.

insurance is a mess and I am sure this guy was a dick, and that UHC denies plenty of claims that should be accepted. But at risk of pointing out the obvious, an insurance company that never denies any claims will go bankrupt immediately, and would therefore result in many more deaths since nobody would be covered.

Insurance companies in other countries survive just fine by paying out what they are expected to. Only in America is insurance as screwed up as it is.

Killing the CEO doesn’t save the lives on the other track

Why wouldn’t it, though? Every CEO makes a profit/loss calculation in their head. Now they’ve got one more potential entry in their loss column. We’re not talking about saving lives already taken by UHC, but future lives that other CEOs might cost.