it was probably completely clear to them

Can’t wait for dumb investors to get bailed out again can’t have the engines of finance halt woo woo lets go.

“France to clean the seine for 2024 olympics” all over again.

fidget spinner of prosperity at it again :)

My bet would be Japan, floating offshore makes most sense in deep water, which is all Japan has, whilst china still has a lot of better and more accessable wind reasources.

Software costs nothing to copy and paste, only to design.

The term “whale” just implies a big spender, it doesn’t exlude gambling addicts, dumb children or the fiscally irresponsable.

Company proceeds to be purchased by microsoft

So far the XCOM series has been pretty good at that. Each game typically has 1 big pack which feels worth the money and 1 or 2 chea[ stinkers there’s no need/push to buy

I’m not entirely sure where the concept that farmed meat would be immune to pathogens comes from? It’s still meat afterall, it’s still got cells that are suspectable to disease. And it’s not like they could be indefinately kept in isolation to each other either. Eventually the move away from fbs necessiates that we get lab meat from lab meat, ouroboros style. Not to mention such labgrown meat is unlikely to have all the lymph nodes etc… of a real cow.

Ok, but you can’t actually isolate ‘knowledge of addictive behaviour’ into a regulatable thing without an absurd amount of government oversight i.e. examing every employees work to check they aren’t using that pesky psyschology degree.

Ok, but what would be the legal precendent there? We regulate tabacco precisely because of it’s psychological and medical effects, not because it’s bad for your wallet. This lawsuit depends upon a claim of addiction because you can’t just regulate something for annoying you.

Migrating to the EU is not no, but due process is. Having items seized (in the way the article also describes) would qualify as an abuse of power.

It’s eye witness testimony (according to article) so technically good journalistic practice to quote rather than state. Elsewhere it talks about beatings, for which the journalists could see the wounds, so no quotations are used. If the i had evidence of gunshots (I.e. footage, bullet wounds) I suspect they would state rather than quote.

I get that it seems awfully calous to cast doubt on the words of the vulnerable, but the fact remains there are those who mask lies behind a veneer of vulnerablility, it’s best practice for a reason.

I feel like a lot is being swept under the rug of “quality”, there.

To make an analogy, I am reminded of when chirstians say a “true babtism” saves the soul, and then you look into their theology and it turns out they only believe 0.5% of babtisms to be genuine.

A quality education could be a panacea for all things, that still wouldn’t be a good argument for paying for an extra three years schooling, unless you can actually guarentee those years will be a “quality education”.

There’s a serious case of deminishing returns to education. I know plenty of people who’ve gone through a good high school and 4+ years of university only to come out of it with not a shred of curiosity or critical thinking skills. I couldn’t tell you why, sure it’s quite possible their teachers just weren’t passionate enough, or their class rooms small enough. It’s also possible they just don’t value ‘not being stupid’ enough to even try.

Would your parents have pulled you out of school if it had not been illegal?

What punishment would you have desired to be put upon them if they had?

Why stop at sixteen? Plenty of adults are stupid, children at least tend to still have some their natural curiosity, unstrangled by the world. I suggest mandatory refresher courses, each adult spends every other tuesday evening at a local community centre, learning the latest in medicine, ecology, queer theory, historical research etc… If they fail to attend they get a fine of two days wages. That’s hardly unreasonable? Afterall the current polycrisis is urgent! can we really afford to wait 40 years (first for the new education to be implimented) then for the children who go through it to reach positions of influence in society, the skills they’ve learned dulling against the grindstone of bloodless office jobs all the while?

Yeah, it’s nice to have, but it didn’t cure my stoopid did it?

Same as a glass of orange juice.

If it was liberals that wanted the war it would be happening on russian soil.

I mean I’ve got things to say:

• When did education become a cure for stupidity?
• “Free and Mandatory” is some fucking newspeak if I’ve ever heard it.
• “Save our planet and mankind from mankind”, the big rock will be fine.
• “Teacher should be the best paid and praised job in the world.” this will just attract the sort of people who become mega-pastors, celebrities and politicans into the role.

Like don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to have recieved a state education, it’s a jolly good thing, but let’s not oversell it.

The thing is if you do that the other guy will just make a super-hero film in 4-9 years, collecting all the hard work you spent making the genre scarce again.

People kept making westerns for as long as they just barely made any money, I’m sure the same will happen with ‘capeshit’