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Remember universal suffrage is a very recent thing. We didn’t fully achieve it until 1960. The wealthy will do everything in their power to consolidate their power, they always have. The only thing which has ever really caused them to move towards more rights/privileges for others is the fear...

Ahh yes the Phoenix paysystem method…

Considering the amount of drug addled criminals walking around in public these days it isn’t a bad idea. The amount of random stabbings in completely public areas by random people to random people has caused me to always consider where I am going and how prepared I am, especially if I am with...

You willing to give the knowledge/blueprints/tooling for all this high end tech to random companies to make it happen? Sounds like a great way for China et al to learn how to make such equipment.

Can’t speak to Harpers version (I don’t recall that) but I know we income split for seniors so it isn’t a foreign concept in Canada. Just a matter of applying it to all married couples.

A simple thing that would help is something like income splitting for married couples. Gives a actual reason to get married (as right now from a strictly practical sense there really isn’t a good reason to do it), helps with household income (for all the feminists it reflects that a stay at...

Still better substantially better than the 50% up to 2k a academic year, 8k total that existed before. They hadn’t raised the rates in such a long time that my father and myself received the same amount for schooling through the Reserves.

Does the Houthis have the supply of drones and missiles needed to maintain such a advantage though? Iran is different they have been stockpiling for decades. Can the Houthis continue being supplied or is it a we fired off the few we had situation and now cannot be resupplied what we need once...

I wish it was that way. Unfortunately cats out of the bag, just like drones, AI, etc. combat just got a whole lot scarier in a very short amount of time. Welcome to the camp, since the invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent waffling of those who have nukes to guarantee those under their...

Worst one I saw was a 80k special assessment on all the condos suddenly due to a major surprise maintenance job on the tower. Lots of condos from that building for sale at that point. The other major thing is the condo boards. If your only a few units it is a major hassle as say it is a 11 unit...

I am convinced owning a condo is worse than renting a apartment. You have less rights in the condo and you still lose a bunch of unrecoverable money to condo fees, basically the same thing as paying rent on top of your mortgage.

It is much cheaper than maintaining a conventional force needed to achieve the same deterrence. Cost wise Britain spends about 3 billion a year, France 6 billion (best comparison since they are a completely in house nuclear power), and the US 75 billion. Based on those numbers thats about...

My solution would be to go back to black boards and paper books, assignments, tests, and teaching. We aren’t doing that even though there is a ton of data showing it is the solution. This is why I say no one wants to fight that fight, as we currently aren’t. Instead we are sticking our heads in...

Huge issue, not just in older people, the youth are also being ruined by AI and we aren’t doing anything about it. They literally aren’t learning right now, when our collective IQ peaked and is now on a decline we need to stop and fix it. No one wants to however because that is hard and involves...

The non-religious communists of the last century killed millions as well. My conclusion from reading enough history books is humans are just trash in general. Anything becomes acceptable long as the ends justifies the means.

Just using a word isn’t enough reason for discipline in my opinion, the context it was used in matters. Was other people using it but he was the only white officer to do so? Was it being used as a example of a racialized term? Was it being directed at someone? Lots of information missing...

There is a lot of metrics more than simply ‘work done’ by a employee which is missed from a work from home situation. Many of your top employees assist the weaker employees which results in so much more work done than just having a top performer working from home. A 5 minute conversation with...

We won’t get our own program because the main reason to have our own program is our neighbour to the south. From the Russians and Chinese we have America, Britain, and France on our side. From the Americans we have no one on our side. The Americans will do whatever they can to prevent us...

Capitalism never made things better for the workers/lower class, only the fear of them uprising did. Some active subversion, some just realizing the system is rigged against you unless you have the money to play it.

Thats a nice sentiment but if we want to play that game we should be buying 5 divisions worth of equipment from South Korea today. The US has a history of forced regime change when it is in their interest and we lack the capability of stopping them.