Name one. 1875 people between 15 and 34 have died with Covid present to date in the US. That's out of 88,668,574. Of those, at least 1/5 were morbidly obese, 1/5 had major preexisting kidney problems and 1/5 had preexisting heart conditions. 1/2 had other serious preexisting conditions. These can overlap, but very clearly the overwhelming majority were extremely unwell

This is a list of the professional sportspeople have died. What do you notice? They are all significantly past their 30s. There is one death there from someone in their 20s and 30s. He had leukemia.

Covid is deadly for some groups. Trump may be in some or all of these groups. But don't spread FUD about it killing healthy young adults. It does not.

Dickens gave a very specific view of Victorian England - it's good literature but it's not realistic.

The average person in Victorian England saw massive improvements in relative income over the century, with particularly large improvements at the end of the century as automation drove the cost of mass produced goods down massively. The average person saw a rise of 10x relative income over the century which was completely unheard of in any prior century.

This makes no sense. The robot doesn't have a salary or generate income. It will lower expenses. As it lowers expenses, competition will force profit margins down to around the same as the general risk adjusted investment rate (around 10%). What you will see is products produced by robot become relatively cheaper. The only way this will result in more actual income is when more products are sold due to the lower cost.

Just to echo here, there is something that says healthcare is solely the responsibility of the states. It's called the 10th amendment.

I'll give you a hypothetical.

You run a shop that sells clothes to children. You have an employee who is attracted to underage children. They don't do anything strictly illegal (no abuse, photos etc), but they discuss their interest in children on messageboards or the like. This information becomes public knowledge.

Under your standard - "Thou shalt not differentiate humans based on what they do at home, what they did in the past, what they say in private, where they came from, whom they came from, et cetera.", you would not be allowed to fire this person or deny them a job in the first place.

I think it is reasonable to say your business wouldn't exist for long, given that customers ARE allowed to discriminate about which store they go to.

The only way you can justify this is by saying something like "ah well, my business would suffer (to the point of closing), therefore this employee isnt as good as an employee who isn't a paedophile." This, of course, makes perfect sense. In a purely meritocratic society, you wouldn't hire any paedophiles to work in a kid's clothes shop. Easy then, the law can be meritocratic.

But hang on, wait a second. Lets think about this. Lets go back in time 50 years and move to the South. You run any shop and you have a black guy working for you. Your foot traffic goes down. Oh, I guess black people arent as good at working in shops in the South as white people then! By the meritocractic standard, its ok to not hire any black people in your store. Hmmm... wait a second... that's probably not what you were looking to achieve is it?

We have, as a society, decided that protecting people based on certain characteristics is more important that strict meritocracy. As demonstrated above, those characteristics can not be all encompassing to me meaningful. As a result, we have to build a whitelist as best we can and go from there.

Maybe you should look at how China came to exist. It wasn't exactly some spontaneous peaceful amalgamation. The problem with arguing from that position is that it never ends.

Even if they were just looking to fire and replace them, who are they going to replace them with? I'm not sure there are a million people sat around with something like police training other than the policemen they just fired. Its completly asinine on the very face of it.

I'm not trying to question your experience in any way, but that is roughly what depression (as in the mental health condition) feels like - you had the same complete lack of serotonin. Not a fun experience for anyone - it's the exact same reason for many unreasonable actions (including suicide). Glad you got through it, hope you manage to cut down without any issues.

That's simply not true. The common travel area is an informal agreement that has nothing to do with the Good Friday Agreement. Indeed, according to both my provisional reading and wikipedia, there is no mention of travel, borders or customs in the Good Friday Agreement. The only thing we are committed to is not actively militarising the border. Reading the Guardian is a not a subsitute for education.

That was a lie put out to defame the group according to the actual FBI: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog...

You realise your "frugality" is almost certainly costing you money and damaging the environment unnecessarily right?

As pointed out below your 27 year old fridge was certainly cheaper to replace than to run.

The most obvious thing here is the 15 year old computer. A mid tier pentium 4 from 2004 is slower than a raspberry pi 3. Your computer is almost certainly drawing 300-500W. The raspberry pi uses around 1W at max load. It costs $38. It will thus pay for itself in around 650 hours (probably a lot less as your psu is probably incredibly inefficent). Unless you are using your computers in lieu of space heaters, this is a terrible idea.

Please actually do the maths, save money and help the planet.

64% of these are deliberately self inflicted, so:

Doesn't follow from this at all. I guess honesty is a little too much to ask.

The actual gun murder number is 8,775, out of the original 33,636 deaths. Stop lying and distorting statistics to support your agenda.

Actually misread that, you are right for the last couple of years.

Germany, yes, but according to the EU's website France contributes less.
https://english.eu.dk/en/faq/n...

In London? The total package here is 150k for a senior dev and I recently had a developer poached away from me (after a verbal agreement after the interview) for £200k. The going rate for a node/python developer is at least £600 a day (£120k pa assuming 200 days) and a java/c# guy in a bank can be £750 plus (£150k pa assuming 200 days). I've been turned down by a grad for offering £60k a year.

Having said that, I won't hire people that live more than an hour away as I want them to keep a reasonable work life balance and that is not possible spending 3-4 hours on a train every day.