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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There are also signs that there is an opportunity window that closes for large families.

As families sizes shrink, the children of those families go on to have a family size similar to what they grew up in. This is especially problematic for single child households.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's because they also receive a lot of "gratuities."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Everything is bigger in Texas, especially insurance rates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

"Best I can do is resume student loan payments and wage garnishment" - Trump

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's amusing when swearing works so I try that first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

So out before May like everyone was saying and they denied? When the length of being a special presidential shit stain expires?

The gas lighting never ends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The way I see is that the left is not for thought control but rather for not being an asshole or spreading assholery.

If one wants to think certain people are not people, whatever. Thoughts don't hurt people and they aren't contagious. It's the moment one speaks or acts on their thoughts there is a problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've been deep diving into right wing propaganda for a decade and still not an incel. Still laughing at the fools and their weak beta energy.

Being able to speak their language is far more impactful. Not for the right wing tool spreading propaganda but rather for the lurker who has doubts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Must be why weed is legalized and most drugs have been decriminalized (in many provinces) in personal consumption quantities then.

Are you confused?

This is what great grandparent post said and you response indicated this was strongly doubted by you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The numbers may sound big to us peons but I'm sure once calculated they'd be a fraction of the countries annually gdp. For the US it would probably only take pausing some military contracts. $40 million per jet adds up quickly and there would be knock on savings from maintenance that would not be required.

It's literally a lack of will and uses the same excuses that keep the 99% poor.

Think of the jobs that would be created trying to calculate each individual's owed amount.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Based on a quick Wikipedia look up on this, it effectively took Haiti 122 years to pay of this debt with the final payment being in 1947.

The original debt was 150 million francs and while I couldn't immediately find an inflation calculator for francs that went back to 1825, I was able to convert it to USD and apply a USD inflation calculation to give a value of $7,155,188,451.38 USD which is 5,780,760,331.77 francs.

France was originally graceful enough to require the 150 million amount in five annually payments and was gracious enough to reduce the remaining debt in 1838 but I see no reason for anyone but the Haitians to decide if they would want to return the favor.

With a GDP of 3.2 million, that feels more than doable. France may have to cut their baguettes consumption but I believe in their ability to yank those bootstraps.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The most likely scenario is there were immigrants fleeing their homelands for a better life.

The problem with history is we just up and belief what the rules say is true. We know from centuries of more detailed records that is simply not true but when it comes to ancient civilizations we just wholesale accept it.

"Look the despot wrote it down a dozen times, it must be true! Propaganda is beyond their level of cleverness of those silly stone chiselers!"

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