It has nothing to do with punishing children for the sins of their fathers, it’s about paying people for the work they did. Living descendants of slave owners still benefit today from the unpaid labour, to pay reparations isn’t a punishment, it’s the smallest possible attempt to make the victims of slavery whole.
I honestly can’t tell if this is sarcastic anymore, internet arguments are so stupid they defy parody at this point :P
It’s a form of employment, but it does nothing but harm for society. Property should not be hoarded, but distributed fairly. If everyone who needed property had only what they needed, no one would need property managers. Therefore, property managers enable the hoarding of property, and that’s a bad thing.
With house prices having almost doubled since 2007 and considering you (or someone else) has been paying your mortgage for 15 years, why don’t you sell it and buy a new house to live in?
Great answer.
To be fair, when they break, usually it’s because someone broke it… and that someone is almost always the user. Like, sure, sometimes a fan stops working or a hard drive clunks itself to the big spinning platter in the sky, but 99% of “my computer isn’t working” situations are caused by someone filling their drive with junk, accidentally unplugging something while they were tidying up, installing some software that they shouldn’t have, etc.
Yes, definitely - being the caregiver for a child is often unpaid but still very much a job. Many volunteer positions are important jobs which are unpaid.
This is a perfect response. I could never write anything this succinct :(
Hey, I’m a gay guy and I’ve used grindr in the past - it’s absolutely nothing like Tinder, beyond the concept of connecting with people over the internet for some kind of relationship.
Tinder has the whole swipe left, swipe right thing going on, and all that sort of stuff. Grindr is way more straight forward, just a screen with a bunch of profile pictures of online LGBTQ+ guys near you.
It’s also much less about dating, Grindr is generally much more social, I know loads of guys who just chitchat on there with other guys, without any expectation of a relationship or sex.
As for other apps - they all do it, I don’t know of a single mainstream “””dating””” app that doesn’t let you choose your own gender and your preferred gender separately. But there’s like a thousand dating apps, and compared to the number of singles in a given area, when you’re gay you have a lot less people to work with. Imagine if 98% of the single women in your region all paired up and got into a relationship together leaving only 2% of them - and then if you flirt with the wrong one, she gets really offended and might attack you - that’s kind of like what it’s like being a gay guy trying to date. So yeah, it’s helpful to have a de-facto place to find people who are also men who are into men.
I can’t read French well enough to really dig in to your source and the website doesn’t seem to work for Google translate and it’s too much text to copy/paste, sorry, so I can’t really confirm what you say except the fact that I looked on the site and I saw that they didn’t include pumped storage, which seems extremely foolish. I’m guessing that they were bribed by the nuclear power companies in some way.
Yeah, the level of state investment and subsidy in fossil fuel is absolutely ludicrous. If all of the money spent on subsidising fossil fuels was instead put into investment of renewables, that would DOUBLE the investments on renewables. It wouldn’t double the subsidy, it would double TOTAL SPENDING.
That is absolutely eye-watering to me.
If they want to keep fuel prices low, the best thing to do would be to nationalise all corporations in the fossilfuel industry - with a symbolic payment of $0.01 per share or something like that - and run them to completely forego profit and to put those companies intentionally into decline.