90% of the time if I ask for help on forums the answer will be one of three things:

• Completely absent

• Just google it scrub lmao (nevermind the fact that search has gone to shit)

• Doesn’t actually answer the question

What’s better is to edit every comment and keep your acc active so they can’t roll it back.

I asked through support whether they keep previous versions of edited comments and posts, which they claimed that they don’t.

Yeah he was much better a while back. Though that can be said for most of youtube. The algo messes up everything

I fundamentally disagree. Our mastery over nature is what allows us to even care about such esoteric things. As a humanist, I consider climate change a problem because it poses a threat to humans, much like mosquitoes do.

Yeah, getting rid of malaria in large parts of the world was one of the great successes of the 1900’s, and a large reason for that was the drainage of wetlands. Part of the reason I personally cannot at all sympathize with folks who want to restore the wetlands. Particularly with the world heating up, it’s likely to result in a surge of mosquito-borne disease.

It’s a story I heard from my dad a few years ago, tried looking it up now, but… well this is the best I found:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-salami-technique/

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/14925/has-a-programmer-ever-embezzled-money-by-shaving-fractions-of-a-cent-from-many-b

Iirc there was some danish bank IT guy who stole every unit of currency smaller than 10^-4 in his banks transactions. Pretty neat until he got caught

Yes, even if its a blank vote - it is our duty as citizens and necessary for a functioning democracy.

Even prisoners should have to vote! This is to invalidate the strategy of jailing your political opponents.

Ideally it would be paired with decent education and a free press to keep the populace well informed.

A monarchy can be capitalist as long as peoples property rights are respected. The moment the monarch decides to lop somebodys head off and take their stuff you’ll be back to the old-school feudalistic “might makes right” societies.

As a Swede, what he’s been advocating for doesn’t sound like the nordic model to me.

Try IRS free fillable forms.

A bit of a hassle to learn at the start, but you actually learn how to do the taxes yourself, and it’s 100% free.

Swimming can be a type of exercise that puts less strain on your back. That and just eating less.

That’s a general pattern though - sea transport is the most efficient, thus railroads will tend to integrate around important ports. It applies even in the UK.

The oldest piece of tech I personally own and have running is probably my phone (going on 6 years). In the household it’s probably our washing machine ('00s) - unfortunately the magnetron on our late 80s microwave just died :(

I know you put a /s in there, but that’s actually spot on. It’s very difficult to convince people to give a damn about nature if they don’t have decent food, shelter and a hopeful future for their children.

e: spelling

It’s about precedent. Finland already have their fucked up neighbour Sweden as a cautionary tale when it comes to refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants from the ME/Africa.

Yeah, many people fail to realize that the places in the world where individual rights are (mostly) respected are actually few, with only a minor portion of the world population.

Thanks!

Can’t view the article, anybody able to provide a copy?

But the only part I want to clarify is that you kind of glossed over the nakba in that part where the British stopped holding the peace.

Yes - in fact, I didn’t write about it at all. The history of the jewish people is but one part of the context to the conflict, which is more complex than most people realize. I intentionally limited myself to the situation outside Israel, given that there are very heated opinions on what happened within.

Some further reading on the situation in Mandatory Palestine is linked below. Of note is that the british often attempted to include Arabs in their decisionmaking processes, but were met with refusal and violence. Even so, the British would implement the White Paper of 1939, significantly restricting jewish migration to mandatory Palestine and effectively forbidding jewish purchases of land in 95% of the area.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_United_Kingdom