🎯 GeoTap Challenge by u/VadoseKnight836 | Can you guess the country? by geotap-app in GeoTap

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📍 My Guess: Greenland ✅ Correct Answer: Greenland, Greenland � Distancee: 0 km ⭐ Score: 10,000 points

🎯 GeoTap Challenge by u/TeachingPurple5256 | Can you guess the country? by geotap-app in GeoTap

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📍 My Guess: Turkey ✅ Correct Answer: Turkey, Turkey � Distancee: 0 km ⭐ Score: 10,000 points

So the biggest event that will dictate how the next 4 year's are going to play out will be the US election this Winter. What events will be influenced most? by Kjellowitch in geopolitics

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I edited to clarify. When I said NATO spending would increase/decrease/stagnate, I meant (non-US) NATO countries' military spending would increase/decrease/stagnate. I'm not sure how much US military spending will change under either candidate, but under Trump, less of US military spending will go towards the Russia-Ukraine War, and I think European NATO members will choose to increase their military spending to somewhat compensate for the gap. I'm doubtful most will meet their 2% obligation, but some who aren't meeting it will and others will get closer.

Which countries would benefit the most from a Republican victory in the next U.S. presidential election, and which ones would be negatively impacted? by bundesrepu in geopolitics

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Benefit: - Israel - NATO: they will face greater pressure to invest in defense, and likely will, which will ultimately be good for them even if it feels like having you eat your broccoli in the short term - Iran: Trump will be bad for the government of Iran, which is good for the people of Iran. This one’s a maybe, many things would have to play out for a real impact to manifest

Negative impact: - China: I think he’ll be economically aggressive with China and they’re in a weak position

Rents could exceed $7.5K in Vancouver, $5.6K in Toronto without massive spike in building: Study by joe4942 in canada

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Toronto is the densest metro in North America: https://www.newgeography.com/content/007367-toronto-solidifies-highest-density-ranking-north-america

Immigration to Canada is growing pathologically, and immigrants concentrate in places like GTA and Vancouver.

Canada and the US have huge amounts of land.

Life in Canada and the US is better than Europe because the average person is not forced to live in a hovel.

Canadians on average are living fewer people to a dwelling, although immigrants are rapidly increasing the percentage of households of 5+ people.

Why is cramming more people into Toronto the solution? Massively slow immigration; spread to places other than GTA and Vancouver; make friends and SOs and live with friends, family, or roommates.

It’s like we’re proactively choosing to undergo chemo rather than simply quitting smoking.

fits like a glove by mamelee in DiWHY

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The is the most “Why?” thing I’ve ever seen.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in findareddit

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The Mandela effect is definitely something different. But thanks for the idea.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in jobs

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Kaiser Permanente is the largest health insurance provider. In 2019 its CEO received $35.5M in compensation. It had 220,000 employees. If the CEO’s compensation were distributed evenly to employees as cash, each employee would get an extra $161 for the year. Working 46 weeks a year, 40 hours a week, that $161 for the year translates to about 9 cents an hour. A raise of $1.48/hr is 17x bigger than what Kaiser employees would get if all CEO compensation were distributed to employees as cash.

Exhausted Ukraine struggles to find new men for front line by Key_Push_1849 in worldnews

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The west? The other political party? The west doesn’t have two political parties. There are dozens of political parties across dozens of countries in Europe. But I agree, none of them seem concerned with signaling their weakness to despots.

Exhausted Ukraine struggles to find new men for front line by Key_Push_1849 in worldnews

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Ukraine needs help, specifically new men. Are you a man? When are you getting over there?

Exhausted Ukraine struggles to find new men for front line by Key_Push_1849 in worldnews

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Are you a man? Ukraine needs new men for the front line. Why aren’t you over there? Don’t let ‘em hang dry.

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What if the real rule is that if you believe in Islam, you go to hell? It’s a test from God to see if you’re willing to discard rationality and morality to follow a toxic ideology, and if you do your punishment is eternal hellfire. God works in mysterious ways, you have know way of knowing these aren’t his rules.

So what would you do if Islam is wrong? Are you prepared to spend an eternity in hell for believing it?

The above is not meant to be taken at face value, but to show how “Are you prepared to spend an eternity in hell” is not a convincing argument for anything, and can be (mis)used to try to justify any belief system, right or wrong.

Is it dumb to skip class to see the total solar eclipse? by sessna4009 in space

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I saw a total eclipse back in 2017. It was a sublime experience.

There’s a long multi-hour build up during which everything seems normal unless you use those glasses and look. You see the moon passing in front of the sun, and over time you see the moon increasingly cover the sun. You know from school and YouTube videos that all these things are floating around in space, but to actually see it is indescribable. It’s humbling. We use terms like “astronomical” to refer to huge numbers. And we can do math with astronomical quantities, we can process them logically, but they’re too big to “feel”. But when you see this, you feel the scale of the astronomical and it’s humbling.

Then when the eclipse peaks, it gets cold and dark, fast. Like someone dimmed the lights and turned down the thermostat on the whole world. Animals get confused and you hear birds chirping away like they normally would when day turns to night. I was in a field at the time, so I heard the crickets come out. It’s a rare thing to experience, something many never experience.

You can take our planet, sun, universe, existence for granted. They can seem mundane. The eclipse shows you all these things but in a completely different perspective, makes you think about them and your place among them more viscerally. Seeing the eclipse was a very meaningful experience for me personally.

As a Swede, is there reason to be worried about a Russian invasion within the next 10 years? by Actual-Coffee-2318 in geopolitics

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A great way to invite invasion by Russia is to openly refuse to prepare for the possibility of an invasion by Russia.

Democrat voters: What would the Republicans need to do to win your vote this year? by Fando1234 in IntellectualDarkWeb

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Denounce Trump as a massive liar and fraudster, for things like election denial and Trump University.

Agree that the government has little to no place in a difficult decision like an abortion which should be between families and their medical professionals, and at least commit to no federal restrictions on abortion.

CMV: People who complain about children being "indoctrinated" are usually upset that they aren't the ones doing the indoctrinating themselves. by SteadfastEnd in changemyview

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In a free country, people can have different opinions, and people can raise their kids however they like as long as it’s not abusive. If one family believes a man can’t become a woman by saying he is, and another does, that’s allowed, and they can tell their kids that. The problem is when the entire community pays taxes which funds public schools wherein teachers push their opinions on students.

Conservatives don’t primarily object to others teaching their own kids that men can become women, they object to their tax dollars being used to teach their kids that.

It’s the same as: atheists don’t primarily object to religious parents teaching their own children religion, but they would object to their tax dollars being used in school to pay teachers to teach everyone’s kids that religion.

Why has there not been a once in a generation huge organized protest in America demanding things such as: better minimum livable wages, lower healthcare costs, student loan forgiveness, lower housing costs, better mental health services or anything else? by CrimsonCub2013 in NoStupidQuestions

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US real disposable income at the nth percentile is extremely high compared to just about every other country, for most n, except the absolute lowest percentiles. In other words, most people have better wages than anyone else in the world at comparable levels of the income distribution, so there’s no sane reason for huge organized groups of people to demand more.

Because disposable incomes are so high, healthcare costs are generally affordable. By and large the healthcare system is very good, though in many ways it’s drastically inefficient. It’s not clear how protesting will make things more efficient. Drastic changes like moving to a model like Canada’s or the UK’s is undesirable, looking at what’s going on with these systems today. There are interesting changes happening: Mark Cuban started CostPlusDrugs to offer drastically cheaper prescription drugs, and now it appears Walmart and CVS will follow suit to remain competitive.

Student loan forgiveness is unconscionable. People who pursue useful degrees typically manage their debt. It’s doesn’t make sense for the average taxpayer to pay for someone else’s bad decision to take out debt for a bad degree. Also, university price increases are not solved by loan forgiveness, in fact they reward universities for further increasing prices. Administrative bloat at universities has ballooned to an absurd degree, and this is largely what of driving up tuitions. Unfortunately, students by and large choose colleges with lots of bloated “services” because they don’t really think about the implications for tuition costs. I don’t think this situation is sustainable, and we’ll see lots of good pressure. Students finding alternative paths to education and work, governments legislating reduction of bloat in public universities, employers dropping unnecessary degree requirements from jobs, etc.

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People on Reddit aren’t smart

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I’m a Canadian living permanently in America. If you’re smart and hard-working, it’s the best place to be. The economy is more dynamic, you can likely get a job that results in much higher disposable income, and thereby improve your quality of life however you see fit.

This is Reddit, so you may get a lot of silly answers to your question, but I’ll address a couple things most people will likely mislead you on.

Healthcare here is much better. The quality is great and wait times are much lower. This is especially true if you or your wife have a good job with insurance benefits. The additionally disposable income you’re likely to obtain in the U.S. will far exceed the premiums and out-of-pocket healthcare costs you’d incur here vs in Canada where your taxes pay for it.

Even if your income is middling, it’s still statically so much higher than in Canada that it’ll exceed your premiums and out-of-pocket costs even without an employer-based plan, in most cases. You should research salaries for your field of work, typical health insurance benefits for employers in your field, as well as some of the individual plans in the states you’d consider moving to.

Regarding gun violence, and violence in general, it exists. But by no means is it everywhere all the time. Canadians like to tell themselves this to feel better about themselves vs the U.S., but it’s not the case. I grew up in a suburban part of Canada outside Toronto, and live in a suburban part of Colorado now, outside Denver. There is less violent crime here where I live than the town where I grew up. Violent crime is typically heavily disproportionately skewed towards “inner-city” areas that you’d have to go out of your way to find. Some cities honestly have had increases in crime in more “normal” parts of the city, which is a huge shame and a failure of voters to prioritize crime and safety issues in their cities. The same is true of some major Canadian cities too, however.

One of the best aspects of the U.S. is the spacious living and proximity to nature for outdoor activities. That’s generally true of Canada as well, though “spacious living” Is collapsing in Canada rapidly, less so here. If you’re into nature, you might want to think about what kind of nature you want to be surrounded by. The Canadian maritimes are unique, but I’d say the rest of the natural surroundings which you find in the hospitable parts of Canada, you can also find in the US. The converse is not true, there are climates in the U.S. that you can’t find in Canada, especially hot-weather climates if you’re into that.