See: the covid-19 food market crash where farmers poured bleach on meat and vegetables, burned grains, and poured milk into sewers because they didn’t want to sell at a low price, and hoped that by artificially limiting supply, the price will go back up.

This is the same strategy that DeBeers diamonds or oil cartels use. But because food is perishable and can’t be hoarded like oil and diamonds, they “had” to destroy it.

I shot myself in both legs and now it’s inevitable that I’ll never walk again.

This is actually why the court system in the game Ace Attorney is how it is. The creator intended it as social commentary about Japan’s courts.

This comment from YouTube nails it:

Alphas: extroverts with narcissism

Sigmas: introverts with narcissism

As a fellow Canadian, I’d say Canada stretches the definition of a city way too far. I’d say that only the downtowns of major Canadian cities can truly be considered cities. The endless sprawl of single family suburbs are not. They are villages at best.

Loving the use of stratified mix use high rises, where you have retail/commercial on the lower floors and residential on the upper floors. The thumbnail itself is a pretty good showcase of that and it’s probably the best way to structure a dense city for non car use, walkability, and to reduce choke points because you don’t have boundaries between well-defined residential and commercial districts where everyone goes one way in the morning and the other way in the evening (these are usually the sources of rush hour congestion). You want everywhere to be a balance of residential and commercial capacity, so the number of people commutting in every direction is about equal.

Honestly, I’m kind of surprised these buildings don’t have more of an office/commercial section for the number of residences they have. One can only assume there still are a lot of dedicated office buildings or commercial districts in that case that people have to commute in and out of. Still not ideal but way better than North American cities, and I imagine a city like this also has excellent public transportation. Maybe most people in the city work in heavy industry that can’t or wouldn’t integrate well into urban areas? It might also have been that at the time of building this, the need for housing was higher than the need for commercial space, so they prioritized housing.

Anyone have pictures of what the new developments in this city look like?

Based. Golf courses are a plague.

I remember a story about how a Japanese person came to the US to teach Japanese, and had to quit because he couldn’t stand the weebs.

Hey, 100% conviction rate at least! I’m sure they all did it, and the torture-esque interrogation techniques are sure to bring the truth out!

Iron man

Ah yes. The halting problem of English.

Actually, are languages Turing complete? I feel like they’re complex and interactive enough to be. Searching it up only gave results about programming languages, not human languages.

You wanna apply this to the Indigenous nations of North America too while you’re on your strawman?

Yeah? And if it had gotten majority leave vote do you seriously think the Canadian government would have actually acted upon it? Did Harper look like the kind of guy to just say “well, if this is what you want, you’re a grown up province now! Go out there and see the world!”

I honestly think they should have kept the money. I don’t like Payless any more than any other company, but there’s something to be said about capitalist infighting and if you can spend four digits on shoes, you getting scammed is not deserving of my sympathy.

You know, Spain and the entire EU has been going on real hard about Taiwan lately, maybe they should address things like… Catalonia.

Or the UK with Northern Ireland.

Or the US with Hawai’i, oh but it’s only the Indigenous Hawaiians that want independence so who cares. Same with Alaska, go and ask any Inuit community if they like being an oil state or not. Actually, ask any Indigenous people in the US if they like being in the US. Same with Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

Call it whataboutism all you want, but I’m one of those weird people who think that there’s something to be said about if you accuse another country of human rights abuses, whether they’re true or not, maybe you shouldn’t do the exact same thing. It’s kind of like you’re accusing someone of killing people while jamming a knife into someone else’s chest, is that whataboutism?

Hint, both Taiwan and HK are much more independent from Mainland China than Catalonia, Northern Ireland, Hawai’i, or Alaska, or any Indigenous nation, from their respective ruling countries.

Might want to read up on why those parts are now part of Ukraine. Hint, they weren’t always part of Ukraine and was transferred by the USSR who figured that there would always be freedom of movement between them so it doesn’t really matter, kind of like how the demarcation of states in the US aren’t walls.

It’s ridiculous that the lesson is always “if it’s not safe, don’t cross the street.”

How about if it’s not safe for pedestrians, don’t fucking drive!

Just make it open source and self-hostable. Then you don’t have to waste server time for people requesting sus pictures of amogus!

Russia didn’t pass a law saying than anyone could kill Ukrainians with hunting rifles.

Russia didn’t pass a law preventing their own citizens from receiving humanitarian aid from Ukraine.

Russia didn’t pass a law saying that any surrender to Ukraine is punishable by death.

I wonder who did.

To be fair, they revealed it to them after checkout and not only gave their money back, but let them keep the shoes.