I get sick after 10 minutes last time I tried it (a few years ago). It's not anywhere near solved. Of course I have no desire to try the new versions, because even if it was solved it doesn't actually make anything useful better.

LOL! Sure, Jan. Whatever you say.

(Just FYI: Your little crackpot fantasy is directly contradicted by your previous post. Try harder.)

Back in the day lots of people did. Because there was no built in browser to use before IE came out. And pirating it would require getting a cd from someone else, and cd burners weren't a thing yet. Your options were use AOL with whatever they had built in on their cds, or use Netscape which you'd need to buy.

If tickets were an auction, the problem would instantly solve itself. You could even still have a secondary market for last minute buyers. And the extra revenue would go to the venue/artists, rather than a random scalper.... if those even exist anymore. I expect it's more likely Ticketmaster themselves selling them as resell at a 3x markup.

Ah, I see the problem. You're illiterate.

What a waste of time you are.

I'm not judging you because you're "religious", I'm judging you because you're a stupid, dishonest, asshole. Your religious beliefs, whatever they are, are why you have a persecution complex, not why you're being "persecuted".

Respect? I respect your basic human rights. That's all. Beyond that, I have zero respect for you. Not because you're "religious", because you're a stupid, dishonest, asshole.

Compassion? I have that in spades. For example, I feel bad that you're a stupid, dishonest, asshole. I also don't kill spiders.

What makes you think you can easily do what countless educated and experienced experts with access to resources cannot?

...they'll ignore you, like any other crackpot.

If you think you have something, do the work and publish. Fame and fortune await.

Don't be so sure...

Well, your argument is bogus. It's pretty obvious that you didn't read the linked article. You made an (incorrect) assumption about what it contained and responded to that instead. The strong implication that you did read the article I'd say makes you a liar. You also seem to be confused about the concept of hypocrisy. Calling out your nonsense is honestly, not hypocrisy.

Now, I certainly have a lack of respect and compassion for you. Not because you're religious, of course, because you're a dishonest prick.

It's a joke, dipshit. Read my post again. Pay attention this time.

For the record, I specifically went looking for a few studies to link here in support of your post, expecting that you weren't just talking out of your ass.

If you don't actually have anything, instead of accusing me of being disingenuous, just say so.

What results? The pop sci article you linked to didn't cite a single actual study. The author, Steve Taylor, is also ... let's say somewhat unconventional. In any other context, you'd call him a crackpot.

Can you cite a single study that supports your claim?

Can you cite a single example of a study that both contradicts your claim and was also funded by a bias source?

A quick look through Google Scholar is giving me results all over the place. I'm assuming you've looked into this a lot more than my little 15 minute adventure, so I'll just ask instead of fumbling in the dark for the rest of the day: What names should I be looking for? Is there any commonly use instrument for empathy or some proxy? Are they measuring religiosity, self-reported religious affiliation, practice, or something else?

Okay... hear me out... What if we acknowledge the basic humanity of these "others" like you want, but we still maintain the same societal power structures that keep those "people" oppressed while claiming that any attempt to address the current and historical impact of those systemic issues is somehow racist?

Because the Christian religion's history of "convert 'em and kill 'em" was so much better...

You can't possibly be serious. Empathy and forgiveness did not, in any way, originate with Christianity.

Modern Christianity certainly talks about empathy and forgiveness, just not in the way you seem to think. Take, for example, the current Christian Nationalist movement in the US. They're openly against empathy, which they consider weakness, and only care about absolution for themselves; they couldn't care less about forgiveness as a moral principle. They think Jesus is way too 'woke' because ... immigration or something ... they don't need, or even want, a reason to ignore the parts of their 'faith' that they don't like.

Oh, and the Christian Zionists are currently using the might of the US military to murder children in an attempt to bring about some Biblical end-times prophecy. I'm not seeing any empathy there, and the only 'forgiveness' they seem to be offering is to themselves for their horrific war crimes.

Now, you could say that Christianity is supposed to be about empathy and forgiveness and that the mad bloodlust is a corruption ... but you'd need to say the same thing about the Islam, the Religion of Peace. Before you waste my time, for every "no, it's really evil" passage you can pull out of the Koran, I can pull something just as bad out of the Bible. So can you. They both worship the God of Abraham, a God of War, after all. No one gets to claim the moral high-ground here.

All religion comes with a mix of good and bad. So does technology. So does science. So does ... most things, really. The evil isn't intrinsic, the evil is in the application.

Quoting from Thicke 2:1-4 "You take the good / You take the bad / You take them both and there you have / The facts of life"

Very true. Even just $100k in most of the country is more than enough to live very well.

You might take a paycut, but odds are good that you'll not only end up with more disposable income, but a much nicer home as well.