The Spanish prime minister-- Pedro Sanchez-- is a political animal. He managed to maul and contain the far-right in a snap election he called. He has also spurred the economy and is growing, because he integrated many migrants well into the labour force. And even baser is that his government is pro-Palestine. All he had done in the past years granted him the political and social capital to enact policies that might ruffle the feathers of monied and powerful interests.

I hope Sanchez’s government will survive any politicking against his progressive policies. The housing crisis is happening across the developed world, and oligarchs will propagandise the public into believing that the crisis is unsolvable, because resolving this will eat their bottomline.

There is a Saudi tribe that celebrate a flower festival with men wearing chained flowers over their heads.

High heel shoes originated in India as worn by horsemen to hold themselves during horse rides. The shoes then became fashionable amongst European nobility including men. Eventually, high heels became almost exclusively a feminine fashion for some reason.

A lot of gender stereotypes are really social constructs. As a multicultural man, if I am asked what does it mean to be a man, I don’t really have an answer. If one travels the globe with an open mind, they will find that a lot of their preconceptions growing up will be challenged.

foreigners should get an even bigger tax.

Yeah, the Channel Island of Jersey only allows foreigners to buy property if they had lived in the islands for five years. They are only a handful places in the UK where they have relatively less pressure on housing. Not sure if they still do it though. Regardless, I am all for this.

The wealthy are corrosive to society, breaking down many humans for the sake of a few.

The rich co-opted being against rich, corporate landlords-- or any rich individuals-- from overseas buying local properties and contributing to housing crisis as “racist”. I feel like this is talked about less. Instead, actual decent working foreigners are scapegoated.

DNC: I am here for the working people-- from billionaires, all the way to millionaires.

There is a book advocating for UBI, which detailed studies showing it is actually easier and cost effective to just give homeless people unconditional cash grants. Contrary to expectations, 9/10 homeless folks cleaned themselves and looked for accommodation.

A monied entity who likes to steal of one’s labour. Shocking.

This reasoning applies to everything, like the tariff rates that the Trump admin imposed to each countries and places is very likely based from the response from Chat GPT.

The account in question is three weeks old and already has 728 comments.

Totally not a bot.

I think the issue is that if you had injuries at younger age, those injuries become inflamed again as you become older. There are athletes who said their injuries become inflamed again when they hit 30’s. There are also soldiers who passed away after their old wounds became a problem again at old age. The body just can’t keep up repairing itself anymore.

However, old injuries isn’t just the only explanation. If one have hardly been sporty or did labour intensive jobs at younger age and feeling pain on the knees, it could be genetics. If not, then it is something entirely within the person’s control: overweight. I have friends who gained weight tremendously over the years even though we are only in our early 30’s. One of my friends could hardly walk for long at a pretty short distance. I reckon it is because they work from home and don’t do any exercise (some of them became too jaded and insecure over the years to go to gym), while I and my other friend work on-site so we have more physically demanding jobs and we still do exercise.

It wasn’t that long ago. The survey was conducted 3-5 years ago iirc.

I remember a survey done years ago that people say 30s and 40s are the best years of their lives.

The Ford F-150 Lightning overtook it with 7,913 registrations

It is ironic that it is the original American swasti-car who took over this generation’s swasti-car.

Now that you mentioned it, the government is now all mask off on what they mean when they say US is “too diverse for affordable healthcare”.

This is like asking what is the best or favourite South Park episode. I can’t think of a favourite studio Ghibli movie. But for me, probably the closest to my number 1 spot is “When Marnie was there.” I am not sure why, but the movie pulls a heart string for me and it feels more personal. Speaking of the movie, I can’t believe that the movie is 10 years old this year! I remember watching it for the first time in my local independent theatre!

Unsurprising. Iirc, a British official revealed that any Britiah politicians and government officials stationed in Russia are briefed to never ever sleep with prostitutes, because Russians are great at blackmail. I don’t remember if this was during the Cold War or this is still a warning even after.

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Anyone who invest in shady companies don’t give a shit.

Money speaks.

And the right won that war

I assume you are from the US. It may be the case in your country, but it is not necessarily that the right as a whole won the war, considering that other parts of the world still have leftist and liberal politicians ruling. As a matter of fact, they have gotten more popular as Trump’s brazen corruption and incompetence is setting example why not to elect populist right wing politicians.

For what it’s worth, if nothing existentially happens that would stop US from becoming a nation anymore like a civil war, politics typically swing back like a pendulum. Even at the extreme, politics could dramatically swing back to normalcy and empathy. We have had countries that were under dictatorship, but are now democratic like Spain and Portugal. Because the problem with dictatorships is that they become too corrupt and reality eventually catches up to those who were swooned by initial sweet promises of demagoguery.

Of course, what I just said now may not be reassuring to you because I am speaking from a place of relative safety, so you can take it or leave it.

What makes you think a lifetime of suffering is worth it? Some children and family sue medical practitioners for not disclosing genetic abnormalities that led to deleterious life which eats away not just their finances, but also their entire sense of fulfillment to live a less stressful life.

There are diseases that should be rid of, and there are one where it gets blurry and tantamount to genocide as you rightly pointed out. It is not up to me nor anyone really who should decide. Even ethicists can’t settle on the topic.

Why allow child to be born with sickle cell anemia if they are going live a lifetime of pain?

It is perfectly understandable that eugenics has a bad name because it has been abused. Although, you should read up more on the topic as it is actually more nuanced.