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Just imagine how young people are coping in other countries without 30 year fixed mortgages. Many of them are coming up for renewal with big rates rises.

No one can provide proof of a negative. Do you have any evidence that they can?

Cost Plus Drugs is really lighting a fire under the assess of the medication industry in the U.S. Bravo, Cuban.

lmao, killing isn't cruel, ok buddy.

If you care about using the words as they are defined, then no, it's not cruel. Find a better word.

I don't like that video and think they should use lower concentrations of CO2, as suggested by the narrator.

Yeah, but they probably don’t know they could be suffering from some disease if they never had it.

Yes, but point is they're living happy, blissfully content lives, not suffering from disease or predators.

The definition of cruelty is, "wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it." Slaughter in most Western nations is done without pain or suffering. Even if it were, it would be incidental. Animals are unable to feel existential dread.

We need more of the former, and less of the latter.

One is existential dread. The other is physical pain. I could probably have articulated that better.

That's a good point. We should absolutely take any cruelty out of factory farming. I just take umbrage with the activists who claim all farming is cruel.

I’m fine with a discussion about calibrating the tax system. I’m not fine with “I don’t have to pay taxes lol suck my dick Feds. I’ll shoot at you.”

Noone should lose their primary residence, it should be protected(unless it is a mansion or something)

Why? I can think of a thousand reasons one should lose their primary residence. Including serious and violent crime (prison), criminal proceeds (gang property), serious damage to a rental or social housing, restraining orders, sex offender registry, refusal to repay a home loan, and refusal to pay taxes. We all have to pay tax so we can pay for social services. If you don’t want to pay for social services you can move to a country which doesn’t support the poor. You can also vote for parties which strip social services. You don’t have the option to just stop paying your taxes.

This is something only someone who grew up in a privileged home in the city would say. I grew up on a farm. Animals have a great life. They’re kept as healthy and happy as possible. Yes, some get slaughtered eventually, but they have no concept of this. They don’t know their time on the earth is shortened by a couple of years. They do know they’re not dying from horrific disease or consumed alive by predators. There’s this crazy idea that wild animals have better lives. That’s patently absurd. Go spend some time in nature.

Lions don't have a choice

I think you just articulated a critical distinction between humans and other animals. It’s one of the reasons we should be treated differently, if we were to be greeted by a higher intelligence one day.

The reason this happened is he stopped paying his taxes. Let's not confuse the cause and effect here. When he was confronted with the consequences of his actions, he chose to use violence.

Now we can have a discussion about whether "tax is theft," but that's immaterial to the fact that we do live in a society which charges taxes. One doesn't have the option to just opt out when they feel like it.

You are why mass famine in Africa is inevitable. Sustainable population growth isn’t eugenics.

Water demand in sub-Saharan Africa is growing faster than any other region on Earth, and by 2050 it is predicted to rise by 163 percent. That’s four times faster than Latin America, which is the second-highest at a predicted water demand increase of 43 percent.

And how are these sub-Saharan African nations responding? With sky high fertility rates. Nigeria currently welcomes five million new babies every single year. In a nation in which a significant proportion doesn't currently have access to running water, indoor plumbing, and even electricity. It's insanity, and there's literally nothing the West can do to prevent this train from colliding with impending famine. Education is inversely correlated with fertility rates, but these nations are having 35 million babies every single year. Even if we transport every single teacher in the the whole of Europe to Africa, it wouldn't be enough. We send thousands of tonnes of food aid every year, which only seems to exacerbate the problem. It has also destroyed local food production. Farmers can't compete with free.

It's just one huge clusterfuck. The inevitable result is going to be mass starvation. Europe cannot integrate a billion people from sub-Saharan Africa. It can barely accommodate the millions of Syrian refugees. Action needs to be taken now to curb population growth before it's too late, but it needs to come from within.

It’s so great to see workers able to demand their worth. This has arguably been the strongest job market in 40 years. Given the population pyramid in most countries, I don’t see this resolving without a concerted effort to drive even higher immigration. Or a recession.

That was really an eye opening moment. They didn’t just interject, or caution parties, or attempt to broker a deal. They fucking CRUSHED the workers so hard their kids will remember it. If using a heavy hand was absolutely necessary - and it was not - why not crush the railway companies? The vast majority of the country was behind the workers, so they’d only gain political capital. Instead they took the coldest, most brutal neoliberal position possible. I honestly don’t think the Republicans would have done worse had they been in control.

In a democracy, it usually requires a majority of people to feel the same. Right now, in almost every Western country, most people live in owner-occupied housing. Most people are perfectly happy for prices to keep going up. So they’re fine with high migration and slow building. Slowly, the number of owner-occupied homes is decreasing, but we are decades away from the flip. When it happens, it’s going to be extremely destructive. Generations have and will have been locked out of home ownership. There will be all kinds of punitive taxes on property.

I don't expect magic, so I don't expect Linux to be a Windows competitor in the consumer space for many years to come.

Surely you can see the material differences between the Steam Deck and someone trying to install a flavour of Linux for themselves on their Windows PC. Valve has done everything. No tinkering with drivers. The hardware works out of the box. No complicated workarounds. No CLI. Every game is clearly labelled for compatibility in the UI. It even has functionality which Windows doesn't have like sleep and wake for games in progress. They've even gone with an immutable OS, so developers know their games will operate if tested on the one distribution.