Fuck that, citation needed.

Half Life 3.

That’s America too.

Dymo makes handheld label makers that are very affordable. Like $40. You don’t need a Rolls when a Corolla will get you there.

Alien.

Wouldn’t even care. Excel is always open.

Wall hacks.

Prince, Tupac, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon…

It’s kinda a long list. Maybe there’s a Wikipedia article?

So what you’re telling me is, people do want to work? Who knew?

Humana last weeks without food, you think you’re going to starvea 7 ton, cold blooded carrion eater to death in a mere month?

Capital-F Faith is directly contrary to science and reason. It’s believing things to be true without question or proof.

It’s worse than that. It’s believing things despite contrary evidence. It’s why you can never win any “debate” with believers. They literally believe that you telling them they’re wrong proves that they are right.

They’re everywhere man!

Yeah, but it’s 50 years old. 12 was the average, and you really didn’t see anything getting better that 25. That’s on older roads with leaded gas and bias tires.

You didn’t present anything but you certainly act like you did.

I did no such thing.

We’re agreed in that it proves more human trafficking is reported but again, that doesn’t mean more human trafficking is happening.

Unless the reporting rates go down, then it must certainly does.

Refer back to my example about covid case reporting.

Your example of a concerted effort of large governmental agencies to hide the actual reported numbers is not actually relevant here. It wouldn’t even be relevant if it were just random underreporting outside of governments as it doesn’t have any similarity to decriminalizing sex work.

Incorrectly citing Occam’s Razor doesn’t strengthen your argument.

You have made more assumptions than I have. Tell me how you think Occam doesn’t apply. You can’t just declare an argument to be invalid and expect anyone to take your seriously.

What evidence do you have to support your theory that decriminalizing an activity increases the rate of reporting? If you don’t have any, then you don’t even have an argument. You only have your suppositions and theories.

It’s entirely possible that you’re correct, and decriminalization increases reporting without increasing activity. I have yet to see what mechanism you propose causes this quite curious paradox, so without some explanation you’ll have to concede that you at least can offer no actual reason to believe it’s true.

You clearly don’t recall watching jpegs load on dialup internet. It could literally take minutes to load a decent sized image on 14.4 modems.

First, I didn’t present anything.

Second, it does prove that more human trafficking is reported.

You only have the assumption that bringing it into the light of day results in a higher rate of reporting against actual incidents. It’s an interesting hypothesis, but without any evidence to support your assumption Occam’s Razor dictates that the simplest answer is that the rates do not change drastically and there actually is more human trafficking to be reported.

Sure, but all you have is assumptions

Isn’t that a bit of the pot calling the kettle black?

It’s not my theory, but did you have a stroke?

How many people are neatly snapping their phone into two halves?

As a former cell phone repair tech: Quite a few more than you might think.

Typically when you win a lot and they don’t suspect cheating, they give you a swanky room so you stick around and try to double your winnings.