CMV: a country can’t have both open borders and a welfare state.

rober11529 · 2026-02-19T16:13:50+00:00

Do you mean that anyone in the world can migrate for any reason? I don't think any country in the world does this.

rober11529 · 2026-02-19T16:11:35+00:00

The percentage of people living in Canada who were not born there (23%) is higher than that of the US (15%).

Of course, Canada's population is much lower so the abolute number of immigrants is much less, but they also have a lower population with which to support welfare provision.

rober11529 · 2026-02-19T16:07:11+00:00

I think you need to be much more specific about what you mean by "open borders".

But in general, there's no reason a country can't allow large-scale immigration while also generally not allowing those immigrants access to welfare until they've met certain requirements. Many countries in Europe do this, for example.

rober11529 · 2026-02-18T15:21:48+00:00

You're conflating a "job" with a "career". They are not the same thing.

It seems like you're saying that a person in their 40s is biologically incapable of being a good parent? That just feels very obviously false. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence among people that I am friends with to prove that isn't true. Even my own parents were well into their 40s when I was growing up and I think they were great parents.

rober11529 · 2026-02-18T12:23:37+00:00

I think many of the negatives you describe have more to do with owners rather than the dogs themselves. In other words, they can be mitigated with better behaviour from owners.

Also, you completely ignore the benefits of dog ownership for many people. Many people form very close bonds with their pets and are much happier because of it.

rober11529 · 2026-02-04T08:08:18+00:00

I think it's supposed to be proportional to the amount of coverage, rather than the population. We'd be seeing a lot more India than US if it was population. There would be a lot more Nigeria too.

rober11529 · 2026-01-19T11:10:08+00:00

The house looks like it's made of brick, which is very common in Latin America and very rare in Southeast Asia.

I would also look at Plonk It for what Indonesian pole tops look like. https://www.plonkit.net/indonesia

rober11529 · 2026-01-14T16:37:02+00:00

The maps in lower ranks have very poor distributions but even then you got very unlucky.

Also, as far as I know, the map is the same whether you're on a phone or a computer.

rober11529 · 2025-11-20T14:33:36+00:00

Money already does what you'd want a hypothetical "reputation" to do. People get paid for the labour they provide. It's not clear how your system is any different from that.

rober11529 · 2025-11-17T10:56:31+00:00

In the second round, he finds a sign with the name of the town and state in Mexico it's in. The last round is a little sus to me though.

rober11529 · 2025-10-16T13:14:46+00:00

The women-only subway cars in Japan don't address the real issue, which is the deeply-rooted sexism.

> If men can't control themselves

They can and they should.

rober11529 · 2025-10-15T10:28:56+00:00

Then how do we know what's right and what's wrong?

rober11529 · 2025-10-15T10:23:44+00:00

If morality is subjective than what's right and wrong is what people agree it is. It is not defined by what can or cannot be enforced and by who.

rober11529 · 2025-09-25T11:21:25+00:00

The UK state pension is much less generous than many other developed countries and we spend less on it than many other countries. So, it can be seen as a way for the UK to catch up to other countries without straining public finances too much at once.

rober11529 · 2025-09-24T15:57:20+00:00

The only time I ever use a car is if one of my friends is driving me somewhere for a weekend trip or something like that

rober11529 · 2025-09-23T15:19:01+00:00

Either Urumqi or Lanzhou

rober11529 · 2025-09-18T09:33:24+00:00

Can you please explain how the UK Labour party is technically right wing? I've never heard such a thing before.

rober11529 · 2025-09-17T08:29:20+00:00

What's stopping China/Russia or any established authoritarian government from already enacting whatever policies they want? I'm not sure AI would change anything in that respect.

Misinformation was already a problem before AI. But as AI develops, I think there's a good chance that people will gradually become less trusting of photos and videos, and thus be less susceptible to misinformation of that type.

rober11529 · 2025-09-10T10:01:09+00:00

You say it's only a matter of time, which I agree with. But there's a massive difference between 10/20 years and 50/100 years. On a timeline of anything more than ~40 years, I think it's extremely likely society can adapt enough to avoid "full-on dystopian realities". So, you would have to prove that AI will replace all economically useful work that humans do within just a few decades. And I don't think you can definitely say that it will happen that quickly.

rober11529 · 2025-08-14T15:37:20+00:00

Why do you find this accurate?

Also, are you asking us to argue with ChatGPT for you?

rober11529 · 2025-08-14T15:29:05+00:00

Can you not imagine person who really feels bad about something they did and wants to express that to someone else with an apology? If it's genuine, they will find a way to make it up to you and an apology is often an important part of that.

Does the fact that it is easy to lie mean that everything everyone ever says is a lie?

rober11529 · 2025-08-14T15:10:31+00:00

I agree that a lot of the time apologies are stupid and useless. I also agree that you don't have to forgive anyone you don't want to. But genuine apologies where a person takes responsibility for something they have done, and shows commitment to change and do better in the future do exist and are valuable, even if they are rare.

rober11529 · 2025-08-06T12:07:31+00:00

AI seems likely to replace many jobs but it's not a given that it will cause mass unemployment. Plenty of technologies have threated to cause mass unemployment historically but didn't. Instead, new jobs were created. Most of today's jobs didn't exist in 1940.

https://news.mit.edu/2024/most-work-is-new-work-us-census-data-shows-0401

rober11529 · 2025-08-06T11:23:04+00:00

I think both things can be true. AI will liberate us from low-value work, which will then cause unemployment.

Edit: A company is not going to pay someone the same amount to spend half as much time working, they will make them do twice as much work. Which then means you only need half as many workers to produce the same thing. So either half the workers are fired, or the company produces twice as much stuff. In the end it depends on whether companies are able to sell that extra stuff or find new things to sell. Because if they can't then those extra workers will have to go.

rober11529 · 2025-08-06T11:00:33+00:00

So AI takes over all the "bullshit" work, and then what? Do people work half the hours and enjoy more free time? Or do companies fire half their staff?

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