It’s stupid in even more ways. The economy needs people to buy things to keep going and allow people like your friend’s dad to have jobs and act condescending to people who don’t have jobs.

So if everybody was “smart” like that theoretical rich person and kept all their money, there wouldn’t be an economy for them to leech passive income from.

Stocks are assets are money.

The pretend we’re collectively falling for is that you can’t tax those assets because they’re somehow not really there until they want them to be.

Also, slave labor.

The closest one to me is about 1km, I walk there if I don’t have to get too much stuff. 3km? I don’t know. In nice weather maybe, if I’m not in a hurry.

This is stupid. We pay other people to do things we can’t or don’t want to do all the time. That’s what economy is.

The fact that people who order takeout could also cook at home instead doesn’t diminish the impact of the inflation spikes that began with Putlers invasion. You can’t fix the problems of neoliberalism on an individual level.

If you want to blow the whistle on somebody and wonder if the Guardian is trustworthy I suggest you ask Julian Assange.

Garbage out is what he aims for.

You first.

Not school, kindergarden. I drew a rocket, in space, with flames shooting out from the engine. The teacher declared fire = violent, I had to stop drawing. I think she also talked to my parents, but I don’t remember more than that.

I’ll make a note to get back to you about this in a few years when they start blocking people from correcting AI authored articles.

“What do you mean you’re working? You’re just sitting in your room all day.”

If I claim I have super powers and there are 0 documented cases of me doing anything super natural,

Is it somehow hard for you to understand that there literally cannot be documented cases of Mossad killing someone and not being linked to it, because as soon as they were documented cases, they would be linked to it?

What theoretical evidence would you even need to believe in them being able to kill someone in secret?

Furthermore, your comparison doesn’t hold water because you’re turning the logic on it’s head. You are the one claiming Clark Kent does not have superpowers because there are lots of documented cases of him taking the bus instead of super-flying to where he wants to be.

Should I assume also that Mozambique intelligence carried out a gazillion sophisticated stealth assassinations that none of us has discovered yet?

No, but if you claimed that they never carried out a single one specifically with the argument that none was ever discovered you’d be falling for the same logical fallacy.

Also, compared to Mozambique, you know that Israel has far higher technological capabilities, a certain international backing and is in semi constant war alternating between cold and hot with most of it’s neghbour states, which makes one more likely to have both the need and the means to have successfully carried out secret killings than the other.

Especially since x (too lazy to research right now) assassinations by Mossad were discovered and linked to them, so you know they do kill people. And from there you basically claim they get discovered 100% of the time. Which is ridiculous.

That’s availability bias. Do you know how many they carried out that weren’t discovered as such?

I don’t know what to tell you man. The presence of the issue and the protests about it were far larger after her initial school strikes than before. Globally. And if you think that’s nothing, pray tell me what you have done that has had any global impact whatsoever.

And yes, I would praise a player that enabled their team (through motivation or else) to score 5 additional goals in a losing game, even if it meant they only lost 10:5 instead of 10:0.

Yup. And MS had to bribe the city of Munich with moving their German HQ there to make them switch back.

Even without tangible achievements, boosting the climate movement on a global level like she did is not nothing.

She sparked Fridays For Future, the last German government got elected largely in the wake of their protests (among others) and achieved huge steps forward in transitioning our energy supply to renewables.

We are sadly now back to conservatives, but they won’t be able to reverse all that was achieved.

Yes, of course, but I believe a broader trade embargo will be even harder to sell than a weapons embargo.

As I just migrated from windows this year it’s just wild to me that “comes with x pre-packaged” is an argument at all. That sounds like having a windows version that already has, say, steam preinstalled, which takes 2-5 minutes to do myself (in Windows or Linux). I wouldn’t specifically pick that to save the 2-5 minutes. Researching it would take longer.

Now, if we’re talking about things that are actually hard to integrate into some distros that’s a different question, but I clearly am not informed enough to imagine what that could be.