CBP does have legit purposes. I do enjoy having fentanyl laced imposter medicine blocked as much as possible from entering the country. I also enjoy not having invasive pests blocked from entering the country.k

There’s a skunk that lives in my neighborhood. He or she is so cute. My dog really wants to play with it.

Anyone else remember the sugary grape drink called Burple that came in a collapsible accordion plastic jug? That’s all I can think of when people say burpees.

The hypothetical still allows 1400 sqft per person of that 1% of the world, neglecting any multilevel housing.

I’ve spent some time in Switzerland. There is a TON of space that is suitable for habitation that either isn’t used or is used for farming (necessarily). I remember traveling around thinking how empty it felt outside of cities. Even the cities didn’t feel crowded compared to other cities I’ve been to.

A) Your 1% hypothetical would be making the population 10x higher than now, so obviously they could not handle having the 1%. It’s a dumb hypothetical.

B) Assuming we go with your hypothetical, each person of that 80 million people in 16,000 sqmi would get 5600 sqft. My entire property, regardless of my house size, is not 5600 sqft. So I wouldn’t feel bad about that much space. Yeah, much of the mountainous areas are not habitable, but that’s why multilevel housing was developed. If we assume only 25% of their country is habitable, then that still gives each person of that 80 million person around 1400 sqft. That’s bigger than my 3br house! If we go multilevel housing, then you can still have a ton of space for people.

They still made a $1.9B profit. That’s $23k for all 81,000 employees. Even if profit went to zero in future years, they have enough revenue to pay employees plus a bonus each year from the profit of just this year.

What is your reasoning for thinking the company might shut down if it kept 6,000 jobs on staff? If those 6,000 people make an average of $100k, then this profit only drops down to $1.3B.

https://www.amnesty.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Amnesty-International_China-Report_FINAL.pdf

After all the abuse she went through, the lack of an appropriate childhood, the extraordinary pressures, etc… I don’t mind a person cashing out and just living their life dealing with that trauma instead of continuing to hustle.

I’m being told this is about cartel drones in the area. I have no idea if that is the real reason, but with cartels using legit submarines then I have no problem believing this might actually be the real reason.

This is the information I’m being given as a person who works GPS for the government. Cartel drones is the root cause.

Yes, they have changed the unofficial yet almost completely official name of the DoD to the DoW. It hasn’t fully officially been named that, because it requires an act of Congress, but everyone is now calling it that even in official correspondence.

Good, fucking leave. He probably doesn’t pay much in taxes anyway. I’m guessing he buys all his yachts in other countries as a tax dodge. I’m sure he doesn’t pay any taxes on a non-existent salary (hence the wealth tax need). I’m sure we have to pay for his hundreds of private jet flights per year. I’m sure we have to pay for all kinds of shit he does that his taxes SHOULD pay for.

It’s not about convincing a reasonable adult. This wouldn’t be a normal court trial. Have you not paid attention the last 5 years?

This is not only about getting a prosecutor willing to take on a judge appointed by Trump, then convincing entirely unreasonable adults who are Trump supporters, then getting it through the appeals process with judges appointed by Trump, then getting it through the Supreme Court that was mostly appointed by Trump.

You might want to take a step back and re-read what you replied to. The person isn’t saying that THEY won’t believe Trump is a pedophile who should be in jail. The person is saying that the past 5 years have shown that nobody with any power to do anything is willing to go after Trump even when there is direct evidence of him admitting to the crime on tape.

I have no idea what the fuck you just said in this insane rambling.

Dude admitted he was an alcoholic who had already had a bottle of wine before the shooting, and they couldn’t get a manslaughter charge to at least go to trial? Being drunk and accidentally killing someone is manslaughter.

This country is so fucked up.

Are you seriously arguing that building a working pipe bomb is as easy as grabbing a cell phone off the counter? Seriously?

And everything you mentioned (bombs, guns, cigarettes, alcohol) are banned for children. They are not actively encouraged by nearly every segment of society.

My argument was that kids aren’t fully responsible for this, and that parents and adult society should take a large blame for it. You seem to agree that shitty parenting is the reason.

I don’t know. I’m hearing from college professors that kids are having trouble reading when they get to college now.

I think it’s both. It’s bad for our future for kids to grow up with extreme body positivity issues and extreme social pressure that never lets up 24/7. It’s bad for our future for kids to see the President tweeting racist videos and violent images. It’s also bad for our present when our President does that.

Of course, because that’s what kids do. Kids have ALWAYS done stupid shit against the warnings of their parents/teachers. The difference is adults in the past haven’t usually given kids easy access to dangerous shit. And in the past the parents would normally be shamed for doing the dangerous shit that they tell kids not to do.

Use your example, pipe bombs: are they easily accessible just by reaching over and grabbing one off the kitchen counter? Because that’s how easy it is to grab a cell phone and use AI or TikTok. Do we have Superbowl ads for pipe bombs? Do we have celebrity endorsements for pipe bombs? Do adults happily use pipe bombs on the regular?

Use a different example: smoking or alcohol. While parents will use them both to varying degrees, we as a society have banned kids from doing them. We don’t just leave it up to kids to take our warning that both are bad for them.