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Comment Re:Please sir (Score 0) 169

Either you lose $200 billion now, or you lose your lives in a few years.
The IR has been actively building missiles, developing better ones and funding various terrorist groups around the world while making money selling oil.
They are stronger now than they were 20 years ago. They openly call for the complete destruction of Israel, and they call the US "The great satan". If they had the capability to destroy Israel and the US right now then they absolutely would, if they ever got that capability in the future they wouldn't hesitate to use it.

The majority of the Iranian population HATE this regime. They also know that this regime is ruthless and will not hesitate to kill, and yet thousands of them stood up against it in january and lost their lives.

The sooner the IR is taken out the better for everyone, $200 billion this year, $400 billion next year, $1 trillion in 2 years time, or in 3 years it's too late and they take you out instead. And unlike western governments, the IR will not hesitate if they have the capability.

Comment Re: Tax Incentives (Score 1) 94

Well if they buy the nearby buildings and offer you a decent deal on rent then it's not the employee paying, as they'd still need to pay rent somewhere else and would likely be paying a higher rent.

This is exactly what's needed for jobs which aren't flexible on location - keep employees nearby so they don't have to waste time & money commuting. It would also force a redesign of cities so instead of clumping all the workplaces together with no housing for miles around, things would be intermixed.

Comment Re:Good advice (Score 0) 94

Most of the warmongering kings cannot be voted away.
The current Iranian regime has long been a problem. Their goal has always been to destroy Israel and western countries, they just aren't strong enough to do so. If the IR had the capability to destroy Israel or the US today they would absolutely do it - it's literally baked right into their core ideology.
If you left them alone they wouldn't suddenly become peaceful, they will spend the time building strength while also funding deniable proxy wars until they're strong enough to destroy their enemies completely.

Comment Re:These guys are morons (Score 1) 94

How? Higher prices are GREAT for the oil and gas guys.
The US is not facing shortages due to Iran, most of the oil used in the US is domestically produced and there's always Venezuela as a nearby source too. Shipping oil from the middle east makes no sense for the US.
However US producers are still reaping the rewards of higher prices because it's a global market. Only the customers are suffering.

Comment Re:Tax Incentives (Score 1) 94

Businesses already have financial incentives for remote work, they still choose to ignore them. Keeping an office open is expensive, reducing it in size or eliminating it entirely can save a significant amount.

The carrot isn't working, try the stick. Make it a burden on companies to have onsite employees.
Give people the right to work remotely by default unless the company can prove why their job needs to be performed in a specific place.
Make commuting time part of working hours, so that employees are paid for that time.
Make commuting costs business expenses so companies have to reimburse employees for those costs.
Require companies to provide relocation assistance for anyone who needs to work in a specific location.

Comment Re:Gulf conflict? (Score 1) 94

Religion is just a method of controlling people.

Thailand and Cambodia are both primarily buddhist countries, despite the supposed peaceful nature of buddhism they still had a war recently.

Myanmar is primarily a buddhist country too which is currently under a military junta fighting a civil war against its own population, as well as being accused of genocide against a muslim minority in the country.

Comment Why does it need a crisis? (Score 1) 94

Reducing unnecessary travel is an obvious thing to do irrespective of whether there's a current crisis or not.

You save money, you save time, you benefit the environment, you reduce congestion for those cases when someone actually needs to travel. You should absolutely only travel if you actually need to.

Comment Re:If only (Score 1) 94

Doesn't matter how you get to work, more people WFH is better for you.

For your biking case it still means less congestion and less frustrated commuters on the roads making it safer and less stressful for you, less vehicle fumes for you to inhale on your ride too.
It also means less demand for property near the workplace, making it cheaper and easier for you to find a property within cycling distance. I would have loved to cycle (or walk) to work a few years back, but the office was in a business district too far away and i couldn't afford to live within reasonable cycling distance.

For the public transit case it means less congestion, you might actually get a seat and not have to stand squeezed up against someone else for the whole journey.

Having the freedom to choose a co working space is also a great benefit if that's what you want to do. Instead of being stuck fighting through congested transit systems to reach an office miles away, you can rent one nearby and have a light stroll to it.

Comment Re:Suuure (Score 1) 101

That would most probably result in a victory for putin.
He's the youngest of the 4, likely to be in better shape and actively practices martial arts.
Second option would be netenyahu as he has military experience, but that was long ago and it's not known how much recent training he's had.

Trump is older and his only "combat" experience involves appearances on WWE.
Khamenei is already dead.

Add in kim jong un and zelenskyy to the mix and it might get more interesting, both are a lot younger and zelenskyy appears to be in much better shape.

Comment Re: How to actually verify? (Score 1) 114

If it's just a picture of an ID card it doesn't even need to be a very good fake. You can find a picture online of someone else's ID, or you can take one from your parents, scan it and put it back before they notice it was missing.
Same thing with a credit card, if you're not actually charging an amount parents are unlikely to notice if it was used unless they get an instant notification which still doesn't happen with all card issuers.

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