The way I’ve heard it best described is ‘You only need to wear gear on the parts you want to keep’

Braindead inbred fucks from the midlands who worship the Daily Mail as gospel can vote, so I’m not worried about the kids.

Don’t worry! There’s this new little number called ‘Iran’ coming up. Plenty of opportunity to get rid of them there.

Oh absolutely the west would love to effect regime change in North Korea. Morale win, keep the military industrial complex going, grow the economy, get rid of some pesky poors in combat, maybe hoover up some natural resources.

The problem is China, NK is strategically important to them as a source of said natural resources and as a buffer zone against South Korea. Plus lots of slave labour, global economies can never have enough of that.

So yeah, messing with North Korea means messing with China. Despite some real grade A morons in power nobody has been that stupid yet.

Oh interesting, that might be it. I’m using Sync.

Free shrugs lol.

Technically no, both Weasles and Martens are part of the Mustelidae family, but they’re different. I remember one of the shifters being super indignant about it lol.

It was a Field Marten, not a weasel. The Pompiers still share around the image of its incredibly crispy corpse that was retrieved from the service tunnels at CMS Point 5.

Timeline thing is whatever, the collisions happening in LHC are less energetic than sunlight on a sq cm of grass, they’re just much better controlled and measured.

Back when racism was at least thinly veiled…

Oh neat, how do those kettles that have a temperature selection thingy for different kinds of tea work then?

No worries, thanks for listening! As with all these things the efficiency bonus is slight, so unless you’re a heavy user it likely won’t represent a saving vs. the energy taken to make the kettle in the first place. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Out of my own curiosity… what’s an infusion?

Yes, kettles are more efficient at boiling water vs a microwave. On top of that, you don’t need to guess the time it’s going to take, it just goes until the internal temperature sensor reads 100degs and it shuts itself off with a little ‘clunk’.

Those numbers seem really sus. “We came up with some kind of bullshit metric magic algorithm and it turns out that if you look at people who score 10% of the average, that’s about 10% of the people!!!”

Uh… yeah buddy sure is.

This criticism only really works when it’s a woman speaking of their personal experience with men, not when it’s someone making a generalisation about all men.

Nothing was brought into the conversation, it was an all men/ not all men thing from the beginning.

Take that moffat you fuckin coward.

Eh? State? Municipal? I’m talking about Wallingford in Oxfordshire.

Wallingford huh, I worked on an industrial estate by a Lidl there and it fucking sucked.

Thanks for the formatting, helps me a lot. I’ll do my best to have the discussion you want.

• If it’s your opinion it’s your opinion. I don’t think that ‘wanting more power over more things’ is something inherent to socialism. All governments take power over things when they think it’s necessary. A particularly controversial example would be abortion restrictions. That is an extreme intrusion by a government into the literal organs of its citizens but to a religious capitalist it makes sense. Need more workers and more consumers after all.

• I don’t see that there’s any meaningful difference between an interest free loan and a subsidy. Say the farmers don’t pay up and ask for another loan, are you gonna starve on principle?

• Lots is wrong with dirt roads, they’re just inefficient. So much money and resource spent on fixing and maintaining vehicle suspensions and the extra time needed to go slowly which is all unnecessary with a proper road. I love trains but they can’t do everything, we’re not running tracks to every home in order for the mail train to come deliver your package etc.

As for private parties, this is also just the least efficient way to do things. Roads need to be compatible with each other, have the same spacings the same areas for communal services like electricity water and gas and so on. Who’s gonna enforce all that with no profit motive? It would have to be a government entity, at which point the government might as well just build the roads in the first place and charge everyone a general usage fee, but since it’s a government this is called ‘Road tax’ and is already implemented in most European countries. This isn’t even socialism it’s just the basics of what governments are for: taking care of ‘societal chores’.

Your point is not very coherent, I’m struggling to understand you due to how much you’ve written and the lack of formatting.

Some brief things to pick out:

• Corruption is not just a socialist thing it’s everywhere. India has huge corruption problems and is capitalist.

• Taxes are not ‘accepted feudalism’ they are the basis of communal living. Even anarcho-capitalists recognise the need for roads and farming subsidies.

• You’re right that good can be done in any system but the idea of all of this is to find a system that encourages good and discourages greed. If we could rely only on everyone just deciding to be good there would be no need for any politics. You’ll notice this has never happened in millions of years of human existence.