Do you think the ruling class wants to see its own children fight in the coliseum for sport?

So their tax is lower and their public services are better? Makes you wonder where all the US tax revenue is going…

Can you explain what this is, so that I don’t have to google it and end up on a list?

Good things have happened to Elon, therefore he must be a good person, otherwise my worldview is destroyed and there is no point being good.

Famous American spy James Bond…

‘The Market’ is not capable of spontaneously deciding to make less profit for sure. What is capable of, and in fact the only thing it does is responding to demand. If the demand for highly polluting products like meat and fish fall, it will pivot to products that continue to see high demand.

This is why individual action does matter. You can’t just offload all responsibility for making better choices onto the companies and act as though you are forced to consume what they produce, andnothing will change unless they change.

To be clear I’m not advocating for everyone to be vegan or anything like that. One plant based meal a week could have huge impact on the climate

If a foreign nation dropped a bomp on your house or rolled a tank down your street you might just start to side with the people saying they’re going to get them back.

Israel’s strategy can and will only lead to more Hamas support because they make no distinction between civilians and Hamas. They have never had a real plan to ‘return hostages’, only to wipe out the Palestinian people, because they perceive the idea of Palestinian identity to be an existential threat.

They’re not doing that independently of the products and services they provide. Over consumption is a big issue and narratives like this shirk personally responsibility and promote the bystander effect.

Binary Large OBject

Basically any binary file, often objected to in open source repos because of the lack of source and ‘openness’. See also the recent xz backdoor.

Presumably it will come back as some free-to-play, live-service microtransaction-filled nightmare that can be supported by a few whales and eventually make up the cost

52% of turnout, which is 72.21% or eligible voters, which is only ~71% of the total population.

Reminder that there was never an actual majority for Brexit, let alone the hard brexit that we ended up with, and our politicians continue to pander to a minority of extremely hateful right wingers for reasons that escape the majority of the population.

Having been, he 100% brought that in. The food in all the venues has been terrible without exception, however this is still a great idea

The 3rd one is actually pretty good

And notably, the odds for this happening were extremely low, because the vast majority of the time the team that catches the snitch wins

‘I recently took a french class, and yet I don’t even know half of these german words’