That’s nowhere near enough space! You’re going to need SEVERAL square yards!

You know what the difference is between a million and a billion? Roughly a billion.

Not many people know it, but penguins are excellent brick layers and if they were smart enough, ostriches and emus would make excellent guard birds! Also, kiwis are just adorably awkward, so they’re there to keep the morale up 😉

Ok, so maybe not dozens, but regulatory capture and other facets of the US system of laissez-faire for the already rich and powerful coupled with brutal oppression of those already hurting the most directly kills at LEAST a million people a year, maybe double that indirectly or as a major but not sole factor. Multiply that with 29 (the length of Stalin’s reign) and you get a hell of a lot more than 6.

The US has killed dozens of times that through social murder.

I’m not saying that Stalin wasn’t an autocratic dickhead, but if you’re gonna compare him unfavorably to present day US, number of own citizens killed is a bad choice of metric 🤷

Historians are written by genetic material as well as experiences and reactions to both.

you could make the argument that denying gender affirming care is denying medically necessary treatment.

Because it is.

Yes, Moss. Did you catch that ludicrous display last night?

While preparing a ham with a deeply penetrating glaze.

Three fascists (one of which enabled sexual abuse of minors back when he was an assistant wrestling coach) and the even more hostile towards leftists protégé of Nancy Pelosi.

Really needs a “none of these, please” option.

Correct. Opportunity cost being a bunch of bullshit invented by rich people greedy for more, of course.

Once again for those who didn’t know or forgot: just like with every other industry making the same complaint, when they say that it “costs billions”, that’s true in the exact same way as losing a random lottery ticket would cost me millions: completely hypothetically.

In their calculations, every person who watches an illegal stream would, had the stream not been available, pay their ridiculously high prices to watch legally rather than not watch at all.

In reality, the opposite is many times more common and it’s frankly journalistic malpractice that mainstream media always just regurgitate that claim as if it was indisputably true.

Like with copaganda, they’re covering for predatory practices, in this case charging much more than your target customers can afford and then using draconian measures against those providing an alternative solution that wouldn’t have been necessary if the product had been reasonably priced.

In Denmark, we say “prosit”, a Latin word meaning “may it be beneficial” originating from the time of the Black Death.

Basically, we tell sneezing people that we hope they don’t have the plague. MUCH better than invoking someone who’s their own imaginary dad or just saying “health”, if you ask me.

Once again: dinosaurs are not birds and birds are not dinosaurs.

That’s akin to saying that beloved character actor Margo Martindale is a prehistoric fish or that a prehistoric fish is beloved character actor Margo Martindale.

Mostly only people from countries where English is the main language and even there, more and more are becoming bi- or even multilingual

Sounds like a disability act lawsuit waiting to happen tbh. Some of us have very poor fine motor skills or worse and would be severely disadvantaged by having to do even short hand written assignments…

British Museum: “what’s a country of origin?”

Oh no, did the two huge companies hoarding the rights to the vast majority of popular music in the world while underpaying artists and overcharging everyone else lose some potential revenue?!

I really don’t mean to be a contrarian

I’m not sure I believe that, but I’m gonna continue to give you the benefit of doubt for a bit more.

The assistance being alluded to is assistance on top of the system to correct the negative effects of the system.

The vast majority of the reasons any group of people is marginalised at all are systemic and stem from powerful people in the past (and, to a much lesser but still abhorrent degree, the present) writing the rules to give themselves and other people like them advantageous conditions compared to others.

No. “Except for the basics of the system itself” is implied.