The sooner you pop off the better, it's poisonous little shits like you that make humanity look bad tbh. Age brings experience and knowledge of the mistakes that were made by others, mistakes like believing whatever the nearest demagogue is trying to sell. This is knowledge that must be passed on to young people so they don't end up making the same mistakes.

So eh did he not pay taxes on his earnings to date? Is he not going to pay money for the cures which will also benefit everyone else? Do you feel you have the right to somehow demand more?

How did a comment this ignorant get modded up?

Oh look, here come the same "social engineers" that brought us soaring male suicide rates and burgeoning single motherhood with it's associated social outcomes, except this time they want to get their clammy hands on the children. They even use the same postmodernistic deconstructivist language as every likeminded gang of merry marxists.

Stop trying to redefine things through ideological lenses you muppets, science doesn't work that way even if you do manage to convince the gullible that it does for a while.

This is the ultimate failure of communism and marxism, it has no means to communicate value signals, never had and never will.

Before you start smashing any looms there Neddy Ludd, the purpose of automation is to deliver equivalent or better service for a lower cost. Automation doesn't mean lower quality, usually it means the exact opposite.

Emphasis on the "near" total embargo. Healthcare and medical products and services were excluded, hence why they have a certain amount of relatively good hospitals and many, many doctors. The good hospitals aren't for the natives incidentally, they get the oil lamp and cockroach treatment, they're for wealthy medical tourists.

I have no information about people starving on the streets but I suspect it's a similar story.

Except about twice the size. I love reading this stuff, it helps me extrapolate the possible cost for spaceships in RPG games.

"it marks the end of a world where broad knowledge of computers and being willing to create solutions instead of reuse them was valuable"

No, it pretty much just marks the end of Dr. Dobb's. Them young whippersnappers are quite capable of their own innovations.

Yeah they tried this before, it didn't work. Magda should perhaps stick to marketing.

Spain was far from the only front against the Caliphates and Islam, there was also constant pressure on the east. If you think the crusades had a patch on what Islamic forces had been doing before and continued to do afterwards you're sorely mistaken. As for Constantinople, that was the doing of a crafty old Doge of Venice who had a long standing grudge against the city.

The real problem here is people start pointing at the crusades as an example of Christian warmaking as if they were something special, if you read the history of the times pretty much everyone was kicking the shit out of everyone else and kept at it right up until the middle of the 20th century. There's nothing unique or even notable about the crusades, Genghis Khan was causing much bigger problems for Islamic civilisation as he tore through it from the opposite direction. And that's before we start looking at warring between Islamic states after the reconquista.

"Fact of the matter is weaker males is probably easier explained by the lack of redundancy of the X chromosome."

That's about as factual as the moon being made of green cheese.

Eh it happens because one male can impregnate many females, therefore ensuring maximum population survivability. Nothing to do with relative toughness, except by accident.

Simple, really.

What like Apple, Google, Microsoft etc conspiring to not poach workers from one another and hence keep wages down?

Nooo that would never happen.

Noted and filed.

Absolute bollocks. From around 1998 to 2004 the country experienced a massive influx of sub Saharan Africans, for the first time ever people were actually immigrating here. Almost immediately after that, the country's population increased by about 15% over the course of three years due to Eastern European economic migrants.

Race riots? None. Right wing parties emerging? None. Public unrest and disturbances, widespread racist incidents? None. Actually there was one "secret" right wing neo nazi rally but that runed out to be some Polish lads.

Show me another developed western country that can say the same.

The kids playing happily together outside my window come from every corner of the planet, and their parents get along fine too. So spare us the slurs like a good (wo)man.