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> The U.S. Declaration of Independence put it like this: The opinion of a few slave owners 250 years ago > We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal For a given definition of "men" > I concur
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> Anything that you can dig/pump out of the ground is toxic Carrots?
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It's been over 120% since 2013. You can spend your entire earning career waiting for a crash In the aftermarth of 2008 it bottomed out about 70%, similar after the dot-com crash in 2000. Before 1995 those were "bubble peaks"
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2017 the SPY went from 2200 to 2600, in March 2017 it was around 2350. The lowest it hit in March 2020 was 2190, on March 23rd. It was back at 2500 3 days later. Well done on your 7% discount. Hope you didn't sleep in that day
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Timing the market is far harder to predict than it will crash. As you said in 1997. In 1997 the Nasdaq was about 1700. In hindsight sure, sit on cash and buy at 1200 in 2002. In reality you'd have either bought around the 1900 mark in
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Which will trigger even more wealth transfer to the top .1%, which the 99% will blame on the administration, and put the corrupt lot back in a few years later Eventually though the world moves on and China takes over
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I never really planned in my youth, however as I'm older I have more responsibilities and planning in advance. We've just booked part of our summer family holiday for example
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The downvoting would be because of your claims that europeans have outlawed air conditioning
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There were 2-3 days a year above 30C in London from 1995 to 2015. Since then it's been about 6 days a year, and this year has already broken that
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More appropiate would be the legal inability to resign from the house of commons, thus having to be appointed to a specific office of the crown which is incompatible with being a member of the commons. There were arguments that the governme
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> Most of them may waste it on silly things like food and rent, Which then goes to the owners. I believe this is called "trickle up economics", and unlike trickle down actually has evidence in reality.
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in 24/25 there were 524 murders, of which 70% of the victims were white. 81% of the UK is white 70% of murder victims were male. So reality is that white people are less likely to be murdered than non-white people, and women are less l
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Henry Nowak was white, he was stabbed by a criminal, but then arrested because they believed the murderer
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It's a reference to the murder of Henry Nowak, a sad example of knife crime which exists in the uk, and of individual police officers who failed to render basic first aid. The family not only lost their son, but then had to see his nam
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> the collapse of society due to the ensuing refugee crises This is what worries me. At some point more northern facing countries will decide enough is enough and start mass genocide of any population attempting to flee. Europe will be o
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Depends if that war turns nuclear. Perhaps a few million will survive with sustinance living in areas like patagonia, new zealand, global population of nomadic tribes around the same level as pre-agricutural civilisation - say about 10k ye
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1960 to 1979 had 6 years where UK temperatures went over 30C in June 1980 to 1999 had 6 years 2000 to 2019 had 13 years 2020 to 2026 has had 6 years so far, and we're only 35% of the way through The longest period of time from 1960 to
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Nuclear winter may cancel it out.
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There's a lot of worry about the future, and has been since world-ending threats became apparent However while apocalypse scenarios (Nuclear war, asteroid impact, AI powered biological warfare) are low likelihood, extreme impact, clima
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And of course it will be used for advertising, creating massive externalities for barely any income for the land owner, but they won't care because its others that pay
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"I believe every voxpop nonsense on youtube as long as it agrees with my original prejudices"
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Yes he does. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. If "Joe Bloggs" writes an article about how "antifa thugs" ejected him as a "legitimate journalist" from covering a DNC convention, when in actu
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Many people on the internet lie.
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> Though if this really happened as they say, it reflects very badly on Belgium as well. Not so sure. If the security at the event said "these people are active threats to security", then its the police's job to remove the
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Many blogs will omit key facts. For example you could write "I was booted out for asking a question" when in actual fact you'd broken in with some wire cutters and then proceeded to pour champagne over all the soft furnishing
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The ambassador is a representative of the American President, so that fits. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.
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Dunno what the OP meant, but in the UK https://www.southtyneside.gov.uk/article/16247/Public-Health... > Guidance tells us the average reading age in the North East is lower than the national average at between
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Where do they even find 300,000 people to watch high school football each week. The big high school sports games here in the UK get the parents, at least of most of the kids playing. Do non-sports events get massive following from non-paren
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To take the other side, my understanding is in the US there aren't any "second division" teams. You've got 350 million people and about 30 professional American football teams, or 10 million people per team That would be
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I agree, and originally that was my take, until I got to "very noble goal of winning the competition to see who can build the biggest yacht." The simps tend not to say the quiet part out loud

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