This looks to be completely political, their profits are huge and from the article it seems like the closures are largely just reshuffles, with the real job losses coming in management… I really wouldn’t be surprised if they end up refilling the positions though and just wanted to make a point that they don’t like being taxed on their huge profits
If you’re drinking beer from hops that aren’t from the US (or New Zealand but that’s a way smaller market) then there’s a very good chance your beer is average at best (unless it’s a stout, wheat beer, bitter, sour etc. rather than a lager or pale ale, but those two are most likely)
Edge cases exist, some people are xxx, xxy, xyy etc.
General concensus is that if there’s a Y in the mix you’re biologically male at birth but it’s a bit of a grey area
Peanuts are legumes/nut-esque peas and cashews are fruit from a biological perspective, sure, but like the claim that strawberries, raspberries and blackberries aren’t berries, but bell peppers and bananas are, it’s just a case of the “official” definition being wrong rather than the average person
if they mattered they’d be errors I’m sure
Thanks for proving my point that you reject even being offered evidence because you don’t want to see something that challenges your worldview.
I could’ve spent time compiling a list, but you’d either ignore it or say it’s a biased source because it’s non-chinese or something.
incontrovertible
The issue is, genocide deniers are very keen to dispute any readily available facts - Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, Holodomor, etc deniers, along with flat earthers and other far-fetched conspiracy believers are willing to reject swathes of evidence and released documents that show intent and execution; I could link you interviews with Uyghurs saying they were forceably steralised or reeducated from respected sources (and am happy to) but it seems like you’ve already made your mind up so will just be selectively blind when reading them
That’s a really valid point, my recent experience of terminally online radical left wingers has been lemmygrad, .ml, hexbear etc. whereas my experience of terminally online radical right wingers has been… I guess a few people in piracy/libertarian communities? which aren’t even the authoritarian right wing groups - I think it’s not unreasonable to say liberals are likely to be more reasonable than authoritarians, so if I’m coming across vocal liberal right wingers and vocal authoritarian left wingers (with the liberal left wingers being ignored/less vocal as they’re in the majority) then of course the right wingers are going to seem most reasonable
Tankies when someone who defends any western action appears: fucking right wing nutjob
Other instances when someone who is traditionally considered left wing appears: fucking right wing nutjob
Right wingers when someone left of centre appears: I don’t think you’re right but you make valid points on xyz
Now which way are people going to drift based on those interractions?
You can’t complain about how splintered the political landscape is without ditching the “us vs them” mentality and finding common ground (of course with the caveat that fuck people who make discrimination a key part of their personality and people who celebrate oppression as clearly they aren’t reasonable people)
That or Methamphetamine mainly, most likely
Even better, my location history proves I regularly go on 5 hour drives in the middle of the night so it’s not at all out of character that I drove to the middle of the woods where the body was found at 3am
wait that’s not a good thing is it
what do you mean they found more bodies
You’re jumping over points here a lot… Yes children who were raised to be a piece of shit will probably raise their children to be a piece of shit, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be the ruling family.
There’s examples of hereditary rule where the ruler is a great and largely fair leader, such as Pedro II and Elizabeth I, as well as the opposite, such as Kim Jong Un and Ferdinand VII, as well as great and tyrannical elected leaders, and great and tyrannical leaders who came to power militarily.
I don’t think it’s a lack of creativity - our brains try to turn all sorts into faces and monsters and whatever else as it’s evolutionary beneficial to turn that shadow into a lion because there’s a small chance it could be, or that rock into a face because it could be a friend or foe, even down to looking at a mouse gripping something while eating and thinking “it’s like us”… When you consider that, of course aliens are going to look somewhat familiar as we’ve learnt to identify human traits better than nonhuman traits
There’s different frequencies for different clothing items though:
Different parts of the body produce different levels of sweat, different materials pick it up at different rates. If you’re washing all your clothes at the same frequency you’re either a clean freak who’s apparently fine with wearing socks that very clearly need washing after a day’s use but not with wearing other things which are pretty much clean, or you’re just wearing out your clothes way faster than you need to
top causes, not factors
if your R&D costs make your business unprofitable, something’s going to come along and topple it, same as how “smoking” isn’t a cause of death but lung cancer is a very major cause of death
They were already getting more, the options were either others get more (which results in them getting less as taxes would increase while gdp decreased) or they get less?
So they get less either way?
Sure, it could’ve been handled better but that doesn’t change the fact they’ve got a stupid name for what they’re campaign for
“Women against state pension inequality” getting mad that state pension inequality was removed has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen all day
Off-street parking is worse than on-street as it requires crossing cycle lanes and sidewalks, usually without traffic controls, so increases the interactions between other road users and cars
Personally:
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