Thought this was going to be onion for a sec until the second paragraph. My initial thought was yes, I too am celebrating Christmas for the first time this year on Christmas...
Certainly seems like a better idea than drinking dihydrogen monoxide... Monoxide means it only has one oxygen. That sounds dangerous and I hope people drinking it manage to get enough oxygen somehow.
From what I understand, it's unknown if coconuts kill more people per year than sharks as death by coconut are not well tracked. But the specific number quoted of 150 isn't legitimate. However, I can't find anything about it being related at all to an experiment to see how far a lie could go though. Did someone tell you this? Definitely a possibility of some irony here...
Lol yep, any child who has played monopoly a few times can see how capitalism works. It always ends in one person having literally all the property and money... and generally with players quite upset at one another. And once all players have optimized the game, it simply becomes a game of luck.
It's not even contrarian for me, I think children viewing porn fundamentally improves society provided they receive appropriate context through discussions with trusted adults (like parents). And those discussions only happens when people become more comfortable talking about these things, which restrictions do not help at all.
I also completely support children seeing video footage of executions, dead bodies and the severely malnourished with a trusted adult (like a teacher) to provide context. This improves society, and is how I learned about various things, like the horrors of the Holocaust, accurately.
I never claimed having kids wasn't a financial endeavor. I'm just pointing out that people with more income have on average less kids... because they do. I didn't suppose the cause of this correlation at any point. But yes, I'd agree education is a huge part of the cause of this correlation.
For sure, just like how people charged with murder are automatically off the hook if they got caught with a gram in their pocket which they had in their possession while committing the murder. /s
I feel you underestimate Saudi Arabia's ability to be totalitarian. And while the population might disagree with leadership on this issue, it doesn't mean they disagree on all issues and are about to start a revolution about this one issue.
But, more importantly, Saudi Arabia is the USAs most significant ally in the middle east. Losing access to American made weapons is more worrying to the Saudi Arabian Royal Family than losing the popular support of the domestic population. Because with American weaponry one can easily coerce the domestic population.
I feel those intentions to normalize relations are still there behind closed doors and will play out in the long run.
But like, why? If it's items of necessity we are talking about... just keep raising the prices, it's not like we have a choice anyway right? Why would they cost themselves potential profits like that? Why would it matter if we figured it out?
This was actually the first comment I made and then copy pasted to the other one as it applies to both. Regardless, the internal trends are the same. Here's a source for USA. Sorry if that doesn't fit your worldview.
Ripping up an image never makes anyone a bad person, religious figure or not.
Sure, I may prefer the tearing sound that images of Mohammed being ripped apart make... But that's just subjective personal preference. Doesn't mean people tearing up an image of the Virgin Mary are bad people. The important thing is neither does anything real to cause harm to anyone at all.
Thought this was going to be onion for a sec until the second paragraph. My initial thought was yes, I too am celebrating Christmas for the first time this year on Christmas...