Sure, but I take great offense at the hyperbole in the headline and core of the article. I hate when media takes pity on the rich kid with problems and act like they’re the world’s biggest. When the poor kid has it worse but no one gives a shit.
Which country do you think is the most depressing? As its defined in the article, i.e. the nation causing the most depression? My bet is every single nation above Korea is vastly more depressing and people only care about and think Korea is exceptional because it is much closer to our western Nations.
And even then Korea doesn’t even break the top 10 in suicide per capita. Having more diagnosed depression is hardly a worthwhile stat when that depends more on the availability of doctors and psychologist to make the diagnosis.
“The most depressing country I can book a direct flight to and book all hotels and travel arrangements online, and make do with only English for the duration”
Espionage and counter-espionage are some intense, high stakes and callous games. War really is terrible.
Foreign Legion 2.0
Takes time and effort or you need to create an organization that handles it for you, maybe they should hold elections? Oh, wait, now we’ve created privately owned/financed shadow governments…
People will always bitch and moan about it either being the wrong thing, not enough, only for the press etc etc so doing it won’t help them in the slightest. Whereas being taxed will at least take heat off in the form of the specific campaigning that has been ongoing for many years now.
It won’t be as well utilized as if the government gets it to distribute. Now this is a contentious statement of course but a private individual no matter how rich can’t give their money the legs the government can which already has the costly structure to dispense it in place. For a specific purpose a specific organisation might vastly outperform the government of course but if you generally want it to benefit the population of your nation then taxes is the best system we have to ensure it benefits all as much as possible. And the most fair in that we can vote for how it should be used.
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This said I still believe it’s firmly for selfish reasons they want to be taxed more:
Oh look it’s one of those rare instances where the truth really is somewhere in the middle (and not massively skewed to one side) of the two opposing sides. And that’s because both sides are so unimaginably horrible, yay…
The only downright true thing in there is the statement about hypocrisy regarding condemning civilian deaths during Oct 7 but accepting the massive civilian deaths during Israels occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. It really is crazy how some think Oct 7 was inexcusable for the civilian deaths but somehow the thousands upon thousands of dead kids is just “the awful realities of war” and hand-waved away as unavoidable.
But he was detained and fined due to not declaring the watch. Likely he hadn’t opened his credit card to that kind of spend on another continent, or he had an Amex which tends to work poorly in many different places in Europe. I’m also sure he could’ve gotten an invoice as well but likely just wanted it sorted out directly.
Rich and famous people always act shocked when the rules apply to them as well…
He is/was a very strange case in that he only raped his daughter Elizabeth. No one claimed that he ever sexually assaulted his other kids. I wouldn’t even call him a paedophile because age obviously wasn’t much of a factor, he did start sexually assaulting her when she was 11 yes but he didn’t stop when she aged up and she didn’t have her first pregnancy until after imprisonment at 18. And since his victims were in the family I don’t think he’d run much of a risk of being killed by the general public. It’s really only paedophiles that go after kids at playgrounds and stuff like that, that really cause that public rage, that murderlust where society absolutely is a danger to them.
The same one Israel bombed? Or another one?
Basically they didn’t expect life expectancy to rise so fast. People live decades after they stop being able to contribute in terms of taxes and labor.
I know, I merely meant the +0.4-0.6 increase compared to 2021/22 which also were record hot.
Hopefully mostly because of the El Nino, otherwise we’re looking at a pretty drastic increase in rate of temperature rise.
Politically it’s good though and I hope we exceed+2 degrees this year so that we once and for all can conclude that humanity completely botched that goal and maybe, just maybe redouble our efforts to help change course.
Very strange sounding from that article, are there any long form breakdown of the how and why they’re charged with murder?
That makes sense. But that is a really piss poor sentence.
Especially since it’s literally “Who launched a chef’s career over three decades after dropping out of art school”
That s on decades and “over” kills any ambiguity, but a comma after decades would make it passable, a semi colon and changing to “; after he dropped out of art school” would make it crystal clear.
The story doesn’t really work out? I mean if he started his first restaurant at 24 how could he have launched his chef career 3 decades after dropping out of art school?
Further if art school is supposed to be college level he barely even stayed alive long enough to live three decades post dropping out…
Probably since the feed price doesn’t start scaling down until you order pretty extreme amounts. Well I guess if you also consider the capital expenditure of building the pen and buying the hens and then look at a 5 year ROI then you do need a few and the larger you build the cheaper it gets per hen, generally speaking.
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