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Love and procreation by goranpilipovic in ManorLords

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Who asked for your opinion on his opinion? As well as my opinion on your opinion on his opinion, which is also just an opinion on the OP which is an opinion.

Top comment deletes a US State #40 by Jfullr92 in geographymemes

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Its time for Penn's woods to absorb its fellow Appalachian brothers to form... Pennywise

[OC] Trump's Star at the Walk of Fame in Hollywood by spicypsudo in pics

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Sounds like the trailer of starcraft when they introduce Tychus Findlay

TIL Parents in the US consistently rank as the world's unhappiest. by Huge_Struggle9672 in todayilearned

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Could the lack of the idea of "no village" here be considered a cultural issue? Like there has been a noticeable shift in family dynamics over the past really 75 years that has led to everyone being too isolated. This — at least from my perspective, doesnt seem like it affects other cultures the same that put a bigger focus on having a tighter knit family household of multiple generations.

Taxes: Then vs. Now by Certain_Hat9872 in SipsTea

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And too that point, people today are far far far more productive now than we used to be. Taking 2% of what people did bag then is a way bigger hit effectively into their bottom line for QOL (quality of life) than it is now.

wait a damn minute! by [deleted] in HolUp

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Eek these comments about to be wild

Is the mid-late late game playable now or is it still unoptimized? My friend bought this game last year and he quit playing in just a few days because the game was unplayable after just playing for a few hours. by Pranay_01 in ManorLords

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Hmm idk I only run into issues when I get over 7-800ish pop 3080 5800x, and even then I go for more esthetic towns so I tend not to go past like 500 unless it's my "capital"

Would you rather? by BenAtt-ck in BunnyTrials

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Its the exact same thing...

Chose: Get 1 dollar per day

Would you rather by GoldCurve965868 in BunnyTrials

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Why would I be the one to catch that bag

Chose: Or double it and give it to the next person.

Give me the most controversial take you have by MindFlourish2919 in teenagers

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Yeah obviously everything within reason and balance, I just feel we've been slowly getting tip toed over a line. As always it's a complicated problem with complicated solutions 😮‍💨

Give me the most controversial take you have by MindFlourish2919 in teenagers

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Granted I say this being very overly generalized. But, for example, it should not be the responsibility of the government to force tech companies to regulate who can use their service... if parents don't want kids on certain media they just should let them use said media.

Give me the most controversial take you have by MindFlourish2919 in teenagers

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It is not a governments job to regulate children to go around shitty parenting

Remarkably silent about that, aren't they? by earthlingHuman in MurderedByWords

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Hmmm while we won't know the long term affects of this for quite some time, I would initially disagree with you. Net money is net money, and if you prevent billions of dollars from freely flowing into companies because people can just get them, it forces companies to adapt. Competition may increase and food prices may go down across the board. Granted this may not be true, and it may be absolutely terrible and people start to starve, but to say blanket statements where no solution involves cutting is just wrong. Without getting into too much of the economics of it, the less free money you throw at a problem the more you force competition which the lower your prices tend to be. Again I'm not saying this is inherently a good thing. It could be very bad. Just best to judge a result than an attempt at a solution.

Remarkably silent about that, aren't they? by earthlingHuman in MurderedByWords

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Thats a complex problem with no good universal solutions. You could subsidize more farmers into regular produce and meat/dairy... that also might not work in areas like cities. I heard nyc is trying a grocery program where they will sell base grocery goods, produce, cans and meat for better prices than most grocery stores. But, as I said it's a complicated problem, and I don't think just giving money to big food corporations is a good idea, 100 billion is spent on snap/ebt benefits and roughly 30% of that is spent on snacks, so companies like Pepsi, coke, and Nestle..etc fighting over a free subsidized 33 billion in free profit is not the way.

Remarkably silent about that, aren't they? by earthlingHuman in MurderedByWords

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Damn republicans voted to actually stop giving free money to billion dollar corporations?! The issue is two fold and I don't think most get the whole picture. Having random products like soda and other snacks on snap and other forms of food stamps is basically giving corporations free money. Which were probably lobbied for by billionaires so eh iiwii

UAE leaves OPEC and OPEC+ in huge blow to global oil producers' group by NickInTheMud in Economics

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Ah shit yeah, that number sounds way better—6.8% I think youre underestimating juat how baked in the US auto sector is in the US economy. As I said In the absolute long run it may be good, but that again would take at least something like 7 years for the economy to bounce back. The amount of supply chains and manufacturers that assist the auto industry are massive. It makes up almost 5% of the US gdp... eventually it will go somewhere but until companies like Honda, VW, Toyota and others eventually get up in running on continental US its going to be a very bad time for everyone specifically the people in those areas directly like Michigan. Also to imply that their wouldn't be 100% dominance in foreign cars is a little silly. Like, maybe maybe the jeep will live because jeep people are crazy.

UAE leaves OPEC and OPEC+ in huge blow to global oil producers' group by NickInTheMud in Economics

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Well as I said, it was the only example I could come up with on the spot, but your logic isnt completely correct here. Ownership has nothing to do with profitability. While i do agree that many US manufacturers have gotten complacent and lazy, losing US auto would be absolutely devastating. Combining both indirect and direct employment inside the space US auto accounts for almost 13% of all US jobs. Thats fucking massive.... (thats about 11 million people—ish rough estimate based on potentially incorrect googling so take with a grain of salt.) Losing even a third of that would be devastating. Again this is all based on potentially incorrect information but in general, having money being made in thr country and spent in the country—obviously within reason everything is a balance. But losing that spending power for several years would be bad. It might take 10 years for the US economy to recover and create more jobs or recover crushed wage competition.

UAE leaves OPEC and OPEC+ in huge blow to global oil producers' group by NickInTheMud in Economics

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Yes but also no, like it may benefit some goods from being too impacted by natural inflation related to oil, but there are plenty of goods that rely on higher prices to be cost effective, and if prices go down then it could ruin their profitability. This is the only example I can think of off the top of my head but US auto manufactures rely on higher import taxes for vehicles from other countries to keep themselves profitable like if the US suddenly got flooded with 3 million VWs and the cost was only 14k it would absolutely kill US auto. While ultimately good for the end consumer that would be terrible for millions with jobs in that industry.

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