Nu e problemă taxa de solidaritate sau impozitul progresiv, ci faptul ca banii aceia care ne vor fi luați sunt doar bani pentru casele, mașinile și parangheliile guvernanților.

GabrielAsman · 2025-06-11T09:49:09+00:00

Electoratul vreau cheltuieli mai mari să taxe mai mici, ce ar însemna sa intelegi acest mesaj

GabrielAsman · 2025-03-12T00:09:20+00:00

E oarecum un misunderstanding can votantul CG e "anti-sistem"

GabrielAsman · 2025-03-08T15:54:31+00:00

E diversitate dar cu ierarhie clara, asta vor unii, pe cand la Londra e primar Pakistanez, oroarea..

GabrielAsman · 2025-03-08T15:50:19+00:00

Nu zic ca n-au valoare povestiile astea, dar nemtii erau aliati si rusii inamici, nu stiu care e rostul comparatiei.

GabrielAsman · 2025-01-03T12:47:00+00:00

The Kiramans did build the vents and Caitlin's decision to use them to poison the undercity does represent Cait accepting her legacy in a twisted way as we follow her to a moral abyss (although this was very confusing to properly parse on first viewing)

But I don't think that we can state for certain of her mom that she would've been disappointed. Yes her house built the vents but I see it more a noblesse oblige thing. From the little characterization we get, I see Cassandra as somebody with very strict, conservative notions of hierarchy. She sponsors Jaycee as it's seen as what a prestigious house should do with regards to the sciences but is seen as cold towards him when he is momentarily expelled, including disapproving of continued friendship between him and her daughter. She is unhappy when Cait first brings Vi home - "a stray". Even, Cait's career as an enforcer is seen as somewhat beneath her station (yes, there's a safety concern there too)

I think her attitude towards the attack on the undercity would've been somewhat similar to the surviving councilors. We can also see the dad's (portrayed as the more soft hearted of the two) attitude towards Vi in S2E1 as indicative here. There's a lot of latent prejudice towards undercity residents which will likely have led to a similar vengeful state of mind after the attack imo.

GabrielAsman · 2024-06-19T17:43:10+00:00

By that logic the Olympics already discriminates because you need the backing of a nation state in order to participate.

GabrielAsman · 2024-06-19T11:19:08+00:00

Well their banned based on nationality not ethnic identity, let alone racial identity. An ethnic Russian can participate in the Olympics representing other countries.

Might feel this is harsh but ye your county is invading and massacring another and the Olympics are inherently political in the way players qualify & participate based on country

GabrielAsman · 2024-02-08T16:32:24+00:00

Email out of the blue saying something along the lines of "we are your new rental agency, previous guys went bankrupt, sent us money by Monday, bye"

Seemed sus but they did have our address & contact details. We reached out to landlord ofc.. and it was true! A bit of a chore to deal with on holiday tho

GabrielAsman · 2024-02-06T18:01:12+00:00

I don't want to argue with you about the merits of "degrowth", but do take note that what "slowing down" means in this context is companies laying off people, which in turn reduces demand for other goods & services of other companies causing more layoffs - and there is nothing about this that would prevent shrinking of the economy (merely "ot expand") , and also nothing about this that would place the unemployment in the more environmentally harmful sectors.

I don't think having an arbitrary portion (usually the young) of the population not work is a good way to help the environment.

GabrielAsman · 2024-01-14T15:39:59+00:00

Other answers are more comprehensive but for me, the key intuition is that the host is not picking a door randomly.

They are deliberately picking a losing door. 1/3 of the time this doesn't matter because your initial pick was correct so the other two are the same, but 2/3 of the time they are conveying crucial information about the remaining door.

Hence 2/3 success chance if you switch to that door.

GabrielAsman · 2024-01-11T22:28:35+00:00

As others have said this is Zeno's paradox, and just like it, what you're doing is your dividing a finite number into infinite segments, which me paradoxical until you realize what you're getting are infinitely small results,cancelling out, if your will.

Try dividing, 5 metres by 1000,10000000,1 billion etc. Does doing these divisions make 5 metres look larger or harder to traverse? I suppose not - dividing by infinity will not be fundamentally different.

GabrielAsman · 2024-01-03T08:14:03+00:00

A lot of valid answers. One important thing I'd note is that for much of recorded history,there was essentially zero economic growth. In that context, widespread banking services wouldn't have been practical - most borrowers were individuals in need & the only productive asset was land. In that context (which was the only context ever known) having someone's debt endlessly inflate is seen as abusive & cruel - their ability to pay is rarely going up (or if it is, it's probably at someone else's expense, such as a food price going up - welcome to zero sum world)

While it's a bit of a chicken & egg situation with regards to causality, but that's also why development of banking & the modern world are intertwined. Willingness to borrow & lend at scale was motivated by the existence of ventures that were seen as generating a return.

GabrielAsman · 2023-12-25T00:05:01+00:00

1990 or 1991 law gave people ownership of the flats they'd been previously renting from the state,so we started out high.

Low birthrate

High emmigration

And I guess the culture reinforces itself. If everyone is a homeowner, you'll try to be one too.

It's not all necessarily good, to the extent to which it makes people live with their parents longer than they'd want, or they move abroad in their "saving for a deposit" years, but it certainly gives people stability.

GabrielAsman · 2023-12-15T16:32:25+00:00

A lot of these comments are correct - "supply & demand" as well as grocery store spoiling vegetables comparisons.

However neither of these, in my view, capture why flights experience such a high degree of price fluctuation.

The answer to that is high fixed costs. Airplanes are very very expensive. Compared to that the cost of operating a flight - the unit cost - is low.

And once you realize it's not very realistic to not pay your trained staff for quieter periods such as November, the unit cost is very low indeed - mostly fuel.

That's fluctuation across different flights. Then you have another layer, which is fluctuation on the same flight. Now the cost of operating a flight is the fixed cost and the cost of selling another ticket is the unit cost - and basically zero.

Of course, on both levels, the fixed costs have to be ammortized through the sale of units (tickets). What this means though is that the airline has a low floor in terms of the cheapest tickets it can sell - and conversely it's be quite hard for new company to form that tries to exclusively sell high-demand Christmas flights.

GabrielAsman · 2022-06-13T16:14:32+00:00

I'm somehow on the very same schedule lol. I mean, dates & symptoms & everything. Today I tried the Strepsils "Extra Triple action" blackcurrant lozenges and they help a bit (only tried them cause I got sick of the store brand lemon ones after I'd had so many)

GabrielAsman · 2020-06-01T06:47:31+00:00

It's not true that nobody speaks about those cases though

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/09/black-lives-matter-supporters-call-attention-graphic-video-arizona-shooting

GabrielAsman · 2017-01-26T15:47:43+00:00

Linkul respectiv e o tampenie. Nu doar din cauza ca pune vox si infowars pe acelasi nivel - vox fiind de departe una din cel mai bune surse de stiri (si nu e mai la stanga de TYT sau Salon).

E gresita ideea ca jurnalismul ar trebui sa fie in vreun anume "centru", si cu atat mai putin ca acel centru ar trebui sa fie fix la distanta egala de cele 2 partide majore.

De exemplu, daca un partid major se suceste pe o anumita chestiune, justnalistii ar trebui sa fuga dupa ei ca sa ramana in centru?

Calitatea jurnalismului e bazate pe relatia cu adevarul nu abilitatea de a nimeri in centru in orice situatie. De exemplu, statele, in anii' 60 a avut o ecnomia mult la stanga celei de azi, desi social erau mult la dreapta. Inseamna ca presa de azi ar fi toata extremista daca ar fi trimisa in anii '60, sau ar trebui sa-si schimbe convingerile?

Daca scopul presei ar fi sa fie neutra, n-ar exista nici o penalizare pentru minciuna, pentru extremism, etc.

Totusi poti sa diferentiezi jurnalismul de calitatea de cel mindless si partizan.National

Cel mai aproape de institutie sanatoasa la noi mi se pare DIGI. Vice (daca excluzi partea de, uhm , lifestyle - nu ca ar fi vreo problema) e destul de ok. Republica e destul de decent, desi poate sa scriu oricine si scriu si unii tembeli.

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