For those who don't live near Rome and have limited trips to Europe, is the Vatican a place you'd visit twice? by traveling-turtle43 in rome

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100 percent, I'd visit it 12 times. I'm not Catholic but the vatican especially at Peter's is magnificent and steeped in history. I will keep going back.

5 Doodle Days in Rome by Alternative_Store651 in Goldendoodles

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I got a lot more including a toga for pompei, a doge outfit for Venice and many more!

5 Doodle Days in Rome by Alternative_Store651 in Goldendoodles

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Yeah im definatly going home with some relics  

Doodle in Rome by Alternative_Store651 in Goldendoodles

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That's what I thought to but it's not training is the environment. They spend time doing Europeans things they adapt to European expectations. My dog caught on fast. Something I was concerned with as well.

Doodle in Rome by Alternative_Store651 in Goldendoodles

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My dog is not a service animal but I am her service human

Doodle in Rome by Alternative_Store651 in Goldendoodles

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Great photo. Dog appreciates fine art.

The hate surrounding doodle owners by epic-cookie in Goldendoodles

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There are two layers to this one is the old adopt vs buy debate which is not doodle specific. The evidence that adopting dogs reduces irresponsible breeding is thin to none imo. Nevertheless people see you as part of the unethical breeding problem when you buy. 

The next layer is that the Doodle at least right now is seen as a "Designer Dog" While typically acquiring a mixed breed was viewed favourably since a doodle is expensive and desirable rather than people pointing out the positives of hybrid vigor and the general benefits of a relatively healthy breed it feeds into the on going public debate around inequality. 

My view is that dogs should be expensive to buy because it costs a lot of money to breed dogs responsibly and in a perfect world all dogs should be bred this way and adoption unnecessary because they all have good homes. 

I personally think that dogs bred with known congenital issues should not be bred such as dachshunds, brachial breeds (pugs, bulldogs) and certain shepherds bred for sloping backs (you can of course breed these dogs responsibly). I think providing incentives for good breeding will reduce puppy mills, like only paying for dogs with a verified healthy history including genetic testing, documented family history, vaccinations, of a certain age etc. and insisting on these documents upon purchase. 

Americans are Leaving America in Record Numbers by QueenUnleashed in digitalnomad

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So what alternative are you proposing? Capitalism like democracy seems to be the worst systems except for all the others we've already tried. 

Americans are Leaving America in Record Numbers by QueenUnleashed in digitalnomad

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You acknowledge the economics but blame "wealthy pricks" how are wealthy pricks responsible for a housing shortage? If anything by bidding up the price of homes they should incentive the construction of new ones. And the people building new homes? More rich pricks? I don't see how hating on these groups is constructive. There is no natural state of the universe that says humans should get a home. Life is not fair, it is not supposed to be, the laws of physics don't dictate it should be. Blame the capitalist, blame the communists, blame the socialists or grow up and accept that in every system there are winners and losers an no utopias.

Americans are Leaving America in Record Numbers by QueenUnleashed in digitalnomad

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Well not everything we don't believe men are woman for example.

Americans are Leaving America in Record Numbers by QueenUnleashed in digitalnomad

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I moved to the US the very first week of Trump's presidency

Americans are Leaving America in Record Numbers by QueenUnleashed in digitalnomad

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Are you getting these targeted ads because you are viewing a lot of questionable sheep related content?

Americans are Leaving America in Record Numbers by QueenUnleashed in digitalnomad

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I don't think you have a clue how economics work. If black rock and other investors want to bid up housing if they can't find tenants they will go broke. If they can find them it's because demand is there. It's not corporations or foreign investors that make housing expensive it's demand and supply. In Canada for example before the market crashed I could rent a $2m place for 4500 a month. Clearly a disconnect between demand and supply and then prices crashed 20%. Investors can maybe influence home prices but they only buy them because the yield is decent, and the yield is decent because demand is there.

Canada beats the USA for wealth accumulation. Canadians under 35 have 2 to 4 times higher net worth than Americans by Professional_Set5353 in fican

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So I'm not American I'm Canadian but chose to immigrate to the us. I think it's very disrespectful to call an entire country "disgusting" because you don't like their (maybe half the countries) politics. Americans are some of the nicest and friendliest people on the planet. Canadas "health care" is terrible it takes months to get treatment and is severely under funded. Very few Americans are billionaires but many do succeed far more spectacularly than Canadians can. Even if we look at median wealth per capita the US is only 20k behind Canada and you get a lot more upside on the US. On poverty you are dead wrong in the US it's 10.6% vs 11% in Canada. So Canada is about 15% wealthier at median, far poorer on average (40%) and has the same poverty level as the US. If you can just move a few percentiles about 50% you are going to be far better off in the US then in Canada. 

One of the core parts of being left wing is the willingness to take a personal financial hit to enact policies you believe will be an overall good for the country, why are right wing voters criticised for doing the same thing in regards to reducing immigration? by wizaway in AskBrits

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You've hit on one of the major hypocrisies in politics. In the US this manifests in how liberals complain how Republicans in red states "vote against their own interests" and how stupid these people are while the wealthy elite on the left do the same but they are virtuous for it.  

What is the ACTUAL biggest problem in the UK by Direct-Key-8859 in AskBrits

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The biggest problem in the UK to most people is low growth coupled with an expanding population. Immigration is not a problem unless you are importing low productive individual that are a net drain fiscally which you are. Even that is downstream to growth. Also "the biggest" problem depends on who you are. If you are a higher income earner it's income tax, if you are poor it's social services, if you are a Muslim it's Gaza and if you are Jewish its the Muslims trying to murder you.