Ray20

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> What are some obstacles to a similarly committed person attaining health/lifestyle benefits in other developed countries? Poverty, underdeveloped medicine, less variety of relevant goods and services
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> #1 among high income countries in Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, drug overdose deaths, Deaths from violence and accidents, Infant mortality, Obesity-related mortality. It's all originates from each person's decisions
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> seeing a shitload of links demonstrating that 12.8% of US households are food insecure. This is definitely not a manipulation of statistics and not a trivialization of food insecurity that are relevant to many parts of the world. And t
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>our resource allocation mechanism (Capitalism) just requires some people to be hungry One of the observable features of capitalism is that there are no hungry people. Capitalism has completely solved the problem of hunger. People are hu
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>It should be treated like nuclear weapons. Either you get it or you're screwed?
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Surveillance of citizens. Governments are trying to set up digital gulags, and they are first of all putting pressure on the companies that will provide them with the technical part.
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>Governments do not exist solely to enforce contracts and property rights. And it's a shame >Law and politics (should) step in when "voting with your feet/wallet" fails. No, they shouldn't. Such stepping in is
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>pick two And if you pick wrong, you get nothing. >Rich people buy laws. A totalitarian government does not need to buy laws. Imposing punitive taxes on wealth - it's like express line to what you want to avoid with it. Breaking
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>People who can do the math realize that paying more up front for a hybrid or full electric is paying less long-term. Can they? In long term maintainability decides. And hybrids usually has it with maintainability pretty bad. Large area
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>As part of a lesson, they were banned having an army >They have powerful army anyway >Millions of Koreans live in constant fear of the power and brutality of their army Japan obviously learn nothing.
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It's not me, it's European law enforcers who limit definition of "disobey" to "use lethal force against law enforcers". And when you disobey, they will kill you.
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Disobey is not to escape. In most cases escape isn't possible. Disobey is to put up enough resistance to prevent your restriction of freedom. In Europe, they would absolutely one hundred percent kill you in such cases.
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>Except pretty much all of the EU operates _exactly_ that way with minor differences. And it works. Well, it seems to be the same situation as everywhere: you either obey or be killed. As far as I know, in the EU there is no option to di
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>It won’t matter what the policies are as the majority of refugees will try to get to the EU illegally. But policies directly influence people's motivation to become illegal migrants in a particular country.
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>People never, ever, under any circumstances, want to be attacked and bombed by another country. Depends on the effectiveness of the bombing.
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>but you haven't shown a reason to believe it's based on their religious beliefs. Their religious leaders like literally come out and say, "This is based on our religious beliefs."
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Islamist majority?
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There is no externalized environmental cost of a plastic bag.
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This "struggle" leads to the erosion of institutions, their discrediting, and will end with the fact that in 50 years anyone who mentions ecology will be looked at in much the same way as Jehovah's Witnesses are now looked at
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Because they are about 400 times more expensive to produce than plastic bags with comparable characteristics?
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> they're determined by how well employers can collude in a region to get the lowest possible rate Colluding is only one of the factors that influencing the demand for labor. Moreover, in most regions it is a rather insignificant fa
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>Many companies believe so - there's a significant difference in the cost of living between those two employees, and employers believe it is fair to adjust the salary to provide a similar quality of life to both. What a complete bs.
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Because the level of payment almost always depends on the level of competition for a particular person's work. When you're in prison, there's practically no competition for your work. So it's expected that he'll be
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>harsh sentences never seem to cause crime to go to zero Harsh sentences work great when used with the inevitability of punishment. It is obvious that a harsh sentence does not discourage a criminal to commit a crime if they expect to av
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For not going to work for competitors.
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And also medical care. Literally socialism.
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> Actually, they do work is Russia. Aren't starlink have some kind of geolock? > to have a reliable bypass of pathetic russian firewall All data shows that Russia have one of the strongest and best firewall in the world, in many
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>As a result of these things millions of people were unable to vote. By similizing the American electoral system to those in authoritarian countries, you trivialize the suffering of people oppressed and often physically exterminated by a
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>Orban and Erdogan also won the popular vote, that's hardly a get-out-of-authoritarianism free card. You should learn more about the electoral system under authoritarianism. In any free election, Orban or Erdogan have no chance.
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I am not an American and may not understand what is going on inside, but from the outside it appears that you are simply engaging in political smears. Authoritarianism means oppressing the masses, having an undemocratic government and actin

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