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The grownups appear to be fantasizing about killing other people because they're too lazy or too stupid to deal with their domestic threats like cost of living, opiod proliferation, the permanent loss of many hundreds of thousands of housing units to investment property management groups, and the upcoming trade war with the US and apparently China if the right wing gets more power at the Federal level.

That definitely seems more important than fixing your cost of living crisis or dealing with the two provinces now that are actively rolling back human rights advances.

You've never been in a war. What would you be spending it on?

Australia hopefully has their own home grown social media sites by now. Every other country that decides to wholesale ban all foreign social media tend to have replacements ready when they do it.

That's nice, but there is no excuse for higher overhead than the amount of money actually spent on the problem, when the problem objectively can be solved by direct expenditure.

We know how to eliminate homelessness and the causes behind it even in a capitalist society. It doesn't cost a billion per 100 transitional housing units.

Yes.

Yes, they might use it for drugs or alcohol, that's fine, it's as important as food sometimes.

Non profits and charities are great in theory, but most redirect less than 10% of what they receive towards the homeless look at LA's projects as the most glaring example, it "takes" 10 million+ per single housing unit for temporary housing. Not due to cost, but simply corruption at every level. From the non profits involved to the government itself.

Giving directly to the homeless skips all that.

Or to put it another way, you can't fix the problem or treat symptoms by continuing to give money to the cause of the problem. Giving directly at least treats the symptom.

To not be homeless anymore.

The alternative is developers leaving Linux contribution leaving just corporate contributors, which appears to be the Linux Foundation's plan.

Well the good news is that if they wait long enough they won't need to phase it out, they simply won't have a need for it.

Water, mainly.

I remember being underwhelmed when elite dangerous released an expansion that let you explore some planets on foot. And then starfield released.

China's not even slightly evil though. It's suffered from bureaucracy in responding to evil, sure, but that's going to happen to all groups of beings above a certain number for all time.

The need for police given their history and the history of the human race.

Ah, fair. I blame Saturday morning cartoons and a transition from violence for fun towards self harm. No need to punch each other or slap fight for competition if you can just see who can stand the most warheads at a time.

When were you a kid? Sour patch kids and warheads the like have dominated the candy aisle for the last few decades.

And cows could hold the secret to clean energy, but realistically that's just not the case.

To see the end of humanity. Luckily I don't have much longer to wait.

In practice, no. Countries and militaries and other such groups of psychos will always push every boundary they can unless they think the cost is too high.

In theory? Yes. If the rules as written actually mattered, countries would only respond to those that broke rules. In this case Russia would be responding to NATO breaking international law multiple times.

Except it's currently working in practice in many countries, one of which is more successful by every measure than the US. Also Marxist-leninism is responsible for being more people out of poverty than any other system of socioeconomics.

The ones that explicitly state they are not socialist?