You are assuming that living without their spouse is a better option. If they are already old then what is the point of living a few more years if most of it will be in mourning?

No need for glasses. Just make sure the face paint is done dazzle style.

Now do Aphex Twin. No need to convert his music into numerical data either - am sure he would supply it if asked nicely.

While you make valid philosophical points they do not invalidate the study or its findings because it is irrelevant to those findings.

Firstly the “happiness” measures include objective factors like incarceration, teenage pregnancy, heart disease.

Secondly, I only mentioned OECD because the data happens to be for OECD countries and therefore cannot be generalized to other countries unless another study is conducted to include them. It is not a stance on the pros/cons of the OECD as you seem to think.

I repeat: the study shows that increasing the GDP does not increase happiness. It has implications for government policy.

Please have a look. It is a peer reviewed data driven study not a random tik-tokker giving their hot take.

A study has undermined the greed angle.

Turns out that (amongst OECD countries) GDP per capita is not correlated with indicators of happiness at all. What is correlated is the degree of income equality…

and here is the great part…

Even for rich people. They too have better lives where there is more equitable income distribution. One day they will hopefully realise.

https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_inequality_harms_societies

Every geek I knew in the early 90’s was naively evangelizing about the internet ushering in a new age of enlightenment.

I was too, I admit. Am now optimistic about the benefits of a UBI but, with the above humbling experience, guardedly so — the unintended consequences might be impossible to predict.

How much of that do script blockers protect you from?

Is the web site sharing with them or does it make you share with them so that your CPU does most of the processing and uploading to each advertising lead leech?

This would explain why we need more and more powerful/expensive phones just to keep browsing.

Good to see it didn’t spread beyond this small fascist group: “The Civil Front”.

Civil?

“The movement is non-political in nature” Oh really?

You are being negative. I see the Cooker Nationalists holding hands and uniting with the Hippie Socialists. Hey, we could call it the National Socialists! /s

Look at middle-aged discussion groups on meetup. The ones which involve drinking have the most women (sometimes even a majority) while the others are about 4:1 men.

That mentality is what got us into this mess. Democratic governments don’t plan beyond the election cycle.

Also, kids influence their parents.

In the meantime Australia could also invest in the national broadcaster to educate adults regarding history and critical thinking. Instead it has been gutted by defunding. Informative radio shows used to have transcripts available etc

Has bugs re invites. Not for noobs.

If others were funding Germany’s war then it would be reasonable to heed their advice lest they withdraw the funding.

Or improving funding of the schooling system so that we can figure it out ourselves. Here in Australia we are embarrassingly over funding sport rather then education. I imagine USA is similar.

We deserve to have our stupidity exploited by the enemy. I kind of admire their strategy.

No need to move the goal post; am not a fan of Bibi either. Hamas certainly played into his hands. I don’t think he really cared about tripping hippies.

I was addressing what you said.

There is a tiresome campaign to try to not even mention October 7 even pretending Hamas didn’t do all the killing, as if the IDF also killed many of their own citizens on the day. Now that is gaslighting.

Shunned socially or officially? I doubt you would be censored but shouting “From the river to the sea, Palestine wants to be free” might.

And Palestinians exercised that right by doing what? Killing Israeli citizens?

Imagine if Hamas spent aid money on developing Gaza instead.

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That makes me even more confused. Are those artists now going to be allowed to play and spread antisemitism (as defined above)?