Getting some skin in the game. Can’t you read?

I think he’s asking for dick pics.

It doesn’t have to mean pulling away from the global community. It just means that the global community needs to build itself up to be more than three US corporations in a trenchcoat.

Do any of them implement blocking for piracy websites in the way that Japan wants?

What if we just say that they’re smuggling drugs?

To be clear, I’m not doubting that therapy helps. Therapy is a great idea for everyone.

But I’m still dubious about the claim that access to artificial children, including AI porn, will cause pedophiles to offend (more than baseline), rather than provide an outlet for their urges. What makes this different than simulated violence in video games?

And finally, please take note of how unhelpful and condescending “do your own research” is, especially after starting your comment off with “this research is unavailable, but trust me, it exists”.

This feels a lot like the “violent video games cause violence” argument, but because it’s about child abuse, people don’t want to defend it.

Are there actually any studies supporting your comment? I briefly looked and couldn’t find anything.

I don’t disagree with your overall point, but 40% of Americans are obese, which is the category worse than overweight. A full 73.6% are overweight or obese (2018): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm

Can you explain to me what is so great about self rising flour? It’s not common here, but as far as I can tell, it’s just white flour with baking powder and salt.

It really doesn’t seem necessary.

Serious question: while air drops are likely dangerous and ineffective, are they better then nothing? Bringing aid in by land/truck is impossible right now, so the comparison shouldn’t be to that; it should be compared to getting nothing at all.

Both can be true.

If everything is Cuba’s fault, then US can lift sanctions and they’ll continue to be failing. But they won’t do that because Cuba, while awful for speech rights, would be pretty good in most other aspects without the sanctions, and a successful socialist country isn’t allowed to exist.

It could be a financial thing still. It’s often a lot cheaper to fly to Europe than it is to take a domestic flight within Canada. So when faced with that choice, why not go overseas?

But if we also include all the times that he didn’t kill Hitler, then he actually killed two thirds of a Hitler

I live in Canada. I used to visit the States probably every other year. Then Trump was elected in 2016, and I stopped going. Then covid happened, so I figured I’d wait a bit longer. And now it’ll be another 3 years until I even consider it, but that largely depends on what happens in that time span. It’s not out of the question to just never visit again. There are plenty of other places in the world that I haven’t seen yet.

when he says that trump wouldn’t win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.

I believe that Trump may not have won without him. He weaponized twitter to push misinformation against the Dems and in favour of Trump. I don’t know if the result of that can be quantified in such a way that we’d know for sure whether it changed the outcome, but it certainly had an impact.

It’s not organized by left and right. It’s organized by percentage of people who have an unfavorable view of Israel.

It would be weirder for 0% to be on the right and 100% to be on the left. Also, in theory, it’s possible for those three dots to be in any order on the line.

It’s news because these two mean girls are in charge of the two largest nuclear weapon stockpiles in the world.

Every thread where you see “ceo of failing company gets $3M bonus” followed by “those workers could have used that” ignores the fact that there are so many employees that, divided evenly, it’s never more than $5, and frequently less than a dollar.

Yes, that’s technically better than nothing. And I agree the CEO doesn’t deserve a bonus if their company is failing. But focusing on this is missing the bigger picture of the lack of workers’ rights in America, and paints a target on the wrong people (CEOs instead of the government).

The system is designed in such a way that the residents get to make that decision. If they want to choose a non resident to represent them, they are allowed to do that.

In theory, an informed population should vote against this behaviour, but this particular riding will vote conservative until it kills them (which it’s likely to do).

Also, don’t concentrate people in a single place. It’s wrong to have a 4% population growth in Toronto and 0.5% elsewhere.

Is there a mechanism for anchoring immigrants in a specific location? My understanding is that our charter right of freedom of movement means that if everyone wants to go to Toronto, we can’t stop them once they’re in the country.

Small group of extremists? One third of Americans voted for this, and another third didn’t hate the idea of this enough to vote against it.