The government has an interest in children being raised by multiple adults (more resources, more attention, more perspectives, etc). So governments incentivize it and disincentivize ending it.

Additionally, even if you don’t want kids, I think you probably want some kind of legal protection when you pool money with someone for really large expenses (houses). If they stab you in the back, you probably want some means of getting your money back.

Maybe it can stay like this forever

Your argument about 2020 is with UnderpantsWeevil, not tburkhol.

I mean, I’ll be optimistic with you, but there’s still a nonzero chance that it will be executions of the people.

If it helps, remind yourself that this is what he would have wanted for himself.

Why not ring and run? Or ding and dash?

How do people get such dumb colloquialisms to stick?

The worst part is, it’s not even the party abusing him. This is what he would have wanted.

Because it protects the person further by giving them anonymity. And it also means the UK government is going along with it.

This thread is impossible. The amount of people posting sarcastically without denoting it and the amount of people sincerely posting conspiracy theories (believable theories and dumb theories that belie a lack of understanding physics) appear in almost equal measure.

Why is the George W quote (which is new to me, but believable) suspicious? That guy was full of dumb hottakes.

Exactly. I came here to say the same thing: Tell me when he’s dead.

I think they’re trying to justify his lack of compassion for workers because his company’s profitability is so personal for him and central to his identity (d’awww).

even with these horrific conflicts occurring today, humanity as a whole is still living through one of the least violent and most peaceful periods in recorded history when measured against the enormous scale of human history and global population.

Across the globe, humanity is gearing up for an enormous war over dwindling/ shifting resources, as we deplete the liveability of the planet thanks to the consumerism fostered by your beloved Capitalism.

I also really hate how all of these Capitalism apologists like to attribute advances in the standard of living to an economic system. No. Improvements in quality of life and the standard of living were made possible by technological advancement. The scientific, rational thinking that enabled that technology began with the Enlightenment, which predates ‘The Wealth of Nations’ by several hundred years. The most Capitalism can claim is providing the motivation for distribution of those advancements.

And any examples of non-Capitalist countries that suffer from impoverishment, should be evaluated for whether the Capitalist West has been engaged in economic warfare/ exploitation against them for a half century.

Oh, thanks for the clarification!

Ah, I guess they had fixed the autocorrect by the time I saw it.

Apparently it is most, but not quite all, of of Spain that does the ‘th’ business… Which makes me wonder if the horse’s name should use the ‘th’ sound: https://youtube.com/shorts/dxBoVaOuw4Q?is=uFdY_uC6q6AjdcDF

The weird ‘th’ handling of ‘c’ isn’t just a Catalan thing? Is that all of Spain? I know I’m biased as a North American, but preference for Mexican Spanish.

Maybe the point is that Gen Z can’t really delay any more and still do it. Specifically, as a millennial, maybe 1/3 of the millennials I know delayed having kids until they were in the vicinity of 40 years old. But Gen Z can’t really push child bearing and further to the right since there’s a biological limit.

I think the father is the breadwinner for his new family (2nd wife and children with her), and his income is more immediately needed than safety from his drunken shooting sprees. The fact that his younger children weren’t removed from the home by the state is also shocking.

In fairness, the girl’s mother is a British citizen living in the UK and fought for justice for her daughter.

Well, ballots are clearly time sensitive. Reporting from 2020 claimed that UPS and FedEx can’t legally postmark ballots: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fedex-ballot-vote-mail-facts-190031449.html

But can states just declare that unnecessary? I mean, a lot of states have ballot drop boxes, so it’s not like USPS mail is the only alternative to in-person voting.