frightful_hobgoblin @ frightful_hobgoblin @lemmy.ml

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We need to bring back the pre-colonial law where having a big belly was punishable: http://ravensgard.org/prdunham/irishfood.html

OP is trying to make himself a unique victim

claiming people don't slag junkies and smackheads is the wildest claim I've read on the internet this week

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous.

A lot of do-gooders from rich countries who think they're adopting poor babies are unwitting kidnappers.

why not hate them for both scientific reasons and viscerally?

they're not violent enough I think

make-up has its effect on a subconscious level

No human society in any climate has ever been nocturnal: https://web.archive.org/web/20030318032208/http://condor.depaul.edu/~mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm

do you need an explanation beyond "some people online will believe anything"

trusted by whom?

No

I like my odds

authoritarianism has worked for thousands of years.

huh

The oil industry didn't legally manipulate velomobiles into having a wide turning circle

This comment is rational.

For those inter-city bike lanes like you see in some parts of France they would be great.

The Velomobile: High-tech Bike or Low-tech Car?

I feel there's probably some reasons they haven't become popular.

• Don't turn as nimbly as a bike
• Can't put them on your shoulder and carry them indoors, onto a train, etc. like as a bike
• Don't climb hills as well as a bike (source)
• 20× the cost of a bike, maybe that could be brought down by economies of scale if they were more popular

I could imagine a velomobile being preferable if you're commuting from a satellite town to the city, and the journey consists of a long straight road.

I'd definitely say they're worse for getting around the city, and their comparative advantages are bought at the price of significant extra overhead.

Couldn't care less.

not my circus not my monkeys

What your Trump-supporting journalist says –

Behind the scenes is China’s reluctance to forgive debt...

In the past under such circumstances, big government lenders such as the U.S., Japan and France would work out deals to forgive some debt, with each lender disclosing clearly what they were owed and on what terms so no one would feel cheated. But China didn’t play by those rules.

The actual facts –

• China, the largest government creditor to emerging economies, said it will forgive 23 interest-free loans to 17 African countries and redirect $10 billion of its International Monetary Fund reserves to nations on the continent.
• New sovereign debt negotiations and zero-interest loan write-offs involving Chinese creditors totalled $19 billion in 2021, the report said, although that dropped to $9 billion in 2022 and to $1.7 billion in 2023 through April, a total drop of over 90%.