Clearly they meant Non-Alcoholic

By “misspent”, are you referring to those deposits?

“Every anecdote that challenges my biases is a lie”.

Bad faith bullshit

I have deliberately avoided interacting with people like that for a while, and I don’t really feel like digging back like a year to find a specific examples, especially since you came out of the gate unshakably convinced that it never ever happens.

But I assure you they exist. No I’m not generalizing pro- Russia/China sentiment. I’m talking about people who advocate the forceful spread of their ideology through violence.

Is that why Jews say “la chyme” before they drink, since it’s going into their stomach?

You would be incorrect, I do no such thing. I’m speaking about a specific phenomenon, as I described.

I wasn’t talking to you

Unfortunately not, I have had conversations with them. And I know your next line is going to be “But they’re just trolling, no one really thinks that”, and I call horseshit. That “trolling”, when so religiously adhered to, inspires weak-willed onlookers into sincere belief.

What about Keynesian-style pizza?

That’s exactly the complaint against tankies. Tankies are specifically authoritarian “communists”, who defend the violent enforcement of “communism” by authoritarian states. Tankies explicitly want to control others who do not share their beliefs, that’s the material distinction between a tankie specifically and a Communist in general.

What do you think a tankie is?

Uh, I don’t think you understood their point. Tankies aren’t communists, they’re authoritarians with a red paint job. We’re not talking about nuanced Marxist thinkers, we’re taking about people who think “Just line everyone who doesn’t accept my exact interpretation of communism up against the wall” is rational praxis.

There are plenty of ways to rationally arrive at Communism, but really the only way to get to Tankie is, as the top comment says, rejecting Western propaganda in favor of the propaganda of so-called “communists”.

The low 000s are all generally pretty meta subjects, how we interact with and organize knowledge in general. Journalism and library science deal with reporting and classifying information, computers and programming deal with processing generic data, unexplained phenomena deals with things that can’t be assigned to a specific subject by their very nature.

Witchcraft, Feng Shui, and Tarot are all generally found in 133 (Parapsychology and Occultism), although I could imagine particularly high-level books to be sorted into 003 (Systems), since they are supposed to be comprehensive systems.

Books about computer hardware would be next to electronics. Computer science is where it is because it’s a more abstract topic about general information processing. If anything, I’d argue that fundamental mathematics belongs in the 000s with it.

Someone want suggested that the rise in belief in human goodness is a function of the rise in belief of human incompetence. When you start recognizing that people frequently do stupid bad things not because they are bad, but because they are stupid, your heart softens a bit with regards to their intent.

Anti-abortion is a great example. The majority of anti-abortion people genuinely believe that a zygote is an innocent human life, and terminating it is literally murder. If that’s what they believe, why wouldn’t they do everything in their power to stop it? People are murdering innocent babies!

The more you get to know people, the more you start believing in Hanlon’s razor. Most of the “bad” people aren’t bad, they’re just good people with stupid beliefs.

At least you save money on shoes

Maybe there’s a god above

But all I ever learned in love

Was how to shoot at someone

Who outdrew ya

The same thing I’ve said from the beginning?

Not for me though. Using no water at all would not have decreased my payment. Using 10x as much as normal would not have increased my payment. I did not have the option to opt out of or reduce the HOA fee.

Functionally, that’s “free”, so far as it affects usage habits. Kinda like universal healthcare, “free” at point of service.

I don’t think they had any meters on individual units, they had no way of knowing who was using what, so no basis to change the agreement. I’m not saying it’s common, I’m just saying it’s a situation that exists.

I mean it was, just not for me. It was a townhome in a row of connected townhomes with an HOA. Water was paid by the HOA, and an estimate was budgeted into the HOA fee, which was passed on to me through rent. The point is that what I paid was not affected by my usage.