They don’t ”have to”, they know it’s not gonna fix anything. Strategically, it’s perfect though: it only increases instability and makes the economy worse, which in turn is just further going to fuel authoritarianism.

You might have had shitty experiences with some particular women, but generalizing that to other women is bad for both women in general and you.

Free music archive https://freemusicarchive.org/ has a lot of music licensef under the various creative commons licences

For photography, maybe https://unsplash.com/ ? The site is commercial and many people upload stuff for self promotion reasons, but still, most photos are available for free and under a rather permissive licence

Downvoted for the use of ridiculous units

Parks and libraries are really nice. Most other third places seem to want you to spend money, that’s my experience here in northern Europe anyway.

Deflection

Says the person who declines to answer simple questions.

none of the countries you listed or any other country considered socialist has ever reverted to social democracy

This is the most incoherent argument I’ve read all week. What does it matter if a country reverts to what? Also, some USSR states did revert to social democracies, but that probably doesn’t count to you because of reasons. To be clear, I don’t care about your reasons for that.

If you were well-read in socialism, you’d know that there are a lot of disagreeing factions, and those disagreements include semantic ones over what is and isn’t socialism.

So you tell me, what is socialism? Is marxist-leninism socialism? Is Cuba socialist? Current-day China? Mao’s China? Rojava? Would a society organized in worker co-ops be socialist?

From Wikipedia:

Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality.

While it is not an objective definition, I think it is a valid point of view to see social democracy rather as a reformist variant socialism than capitalism.

Social democracy

In general, investing borrowed money is risky… People just don’t realize they’re doing that when they take on a mortgage.

That ATM cash tracking thing comes to mind

There are other disincentives besides price that keep people from going to the doctor if they don’t need to

• wait times to get to the doctor
• the time spent actually getting to the doctor and being there
• social disincentives of having to explain a minor issue to a professional and probably something else that I forget now.

I used the health care services at my home town once this summer, and I spent two months there. Basic care is free at the point of service there. And I only went because I had had a concussion. Didn’t seem that the other people were there for no reason either.

The indirect savings of people going to the doctor earlier etc actually mean some of the healthcare ends up being free.

Also, saying that you’ll have the same problems regardless the system is both factually incorrect and unnecessarily nihilist.

Sugar is produced naturally in sugar beet and sugar cane plants.

Well, mostly water. But besides that, it’s mostly sugars and fiber, in that order.

I don’t think no 1 is a valid argument as that applies to all food. Also, fructose is a sugar

Mostly standardized? Maybe. What I know is that float summation is not associative, which means that things that are supposed to be equal (x + y + z = y + z + x) are not necessarily that for floats.

he needs to find someone he can grow with and build a proper future with

Does he? He’s 24 and in no hurry to do that imo.

I only work once, then copy that work everywhere.

Good that works for you. If only my needs were so simple that the configs could be same on each machine.