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What does it mean for a medic to “be Hezbollah” in this context?

Are you saying they are employed medics of the organisation? Party members? Combatants?

It struck me as I was watching the new Louis Theroux Netflix documentary that the manosphere must love Nietzsche.

I wonder if maybe those two things have a causal relationship

What you’re missing, in your relentless focus on mostly abstract economic measurements, is that the measures of individual success and happiness are going down. People on average, are less able to afford to buy homes, raise children and pay for health care.

It’s clear that you’re not a lawyer, because if you were you’d know that there’s no established duty of care between BrandShield and web masters.

Of all times to simp for the insurance companies.

Remember the real bad guys are the doctors that heal you, not the corporations that refuse to pay them.

This is conspiracy theory thinking, why on earth would age verification give them access to all of this additional information?

I don’t think the concern is economic equity, it’s social harm.

Kids whose parents choose to restrict will suffer social consequences vs parents who don’t.

The whole point of the law is to reduce the social harm caused by social media.

you're in a city, what did you expect? If you want to spend time walking outside drive to one of the many National Parks

Is this a joke? I hope this is a joke and I’ve misunderstood it.

Cities are not synonymous with cars. There are lots of walkable cities in the world. Driving to a place where you can walk is a very strange inversion of the norm.

Why did this surprise you? Because the seasons are “backwards”?

This kind of logic leads to websites riddled with dark patterns. Just because something works in an A/B test doesn’t make it a good decision.

Yes but there’s inflation too. The yen has devalued, but also the cost of goods in USD has gone up.

I’ve noticed this as well and it’s a little disappointing from Apple.

Steve was really forward thinking when he let the iPhone kill the iPod.

Im not sure that modern Apple would allow this to happen.

I’ve been thinking of setting up something like this for my kids. I don’t want them on YouTube, but there’s some content they might enjoy.

Is there documentation somewhere on how to do it well?

As far as I know the US is the only country with enumerated rights for citizens.

I appreciate that you prefaced this with a disclaimer about your ignorance, but it has a weird tone of American exceptionalism to it, and it’s not even close to true. There are quite a lot of countries with “bills of rights”. There’s even a Wikipedia article that attempts to enumerate them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_rights

In principle conversion is a good idea, but I see no reason why the city should swoop in and give tax payer money to landlords.

Those two are actually the same thing.

How exactly are they the same thing? It seems that the savings are made by the employer here at the expense of the employee.

There’s no guarantee that the savings will be passed on as price cuts.

On what do you base these statements?

He was also the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, who traced a (mostly adopted) line of authority back to Julius Caesar.

Nero’s eventual successors, the Flavian Dynasty (who had no connection to the first emperors) had plenty of reason to delegitimise him, as a means of legitimising themselves.

We have this already and it’s called copyright.

Ironically it was once much easier to change nations as well. Or, under some limited circumstances to even start your own. Hard borders are a relatively new thing taking into account the breadth of human history.

I have my general reservations about this piece, but one thing the author does raise that isn’t commonly spoken about (perhaps because it’s taken for granted) is how credit affects the housing market.

Low interest rates correlate pretty directly with housing market booms.

Our immigrants have no legal and very few practical limitations once they become legal citizens.

This is true in nearly every developed country. It would be puzzling if it weren’t. In the eyes of the law a citizen is a citizen, regardless of birth, in most of the developed world. The US is not unique in this way.

Would your country allow an American to become a full citizen as easily as America does?

Yes, actually, although I will concede that the path to citizenship varies VERY substantially from place to place. I don’t think it’s true to say that the US is especially outstanding in how easy it is to gain citizenship.

I’m quite confused by this piece of American exceptionalism; Do you really think that no other country has immigrants?

What do you think America does with its immigrants that is so special?

The end game of an international real estate market like this is empty communities and urban sprawl.

I don’t have a very good sense of what kind of information that GPT-4 had access to, but I imagine there is a whole world of knowledge locked up in books, particularly textbooks, journals and periodicals that it doesn’t have access to. That could be interesting.

How about Australia? Not the same population, but otherwise the criteria fits.

You’ve commented a number of times on this post, and every time you relate equity language to communism/Marxism.

I’m struggling to follow your reasoning. What does communism have to do with anything?

He's talking about the supply shocks caused largely by the Ukraine/Russia war.

In the event of a systemic crash, human beings should be bailed out by government support. Corporations should be allowed to fail.

Corporations already exist to shield their owners from consequences of their decisions.