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I mean asking ChatGPT got me this answer that around 49% of 30-34 year olds grew up in social housing in the UK. Sources and reasoning included in response. So I'd say that's a pre…

I mean we've got multiple generational families that have been living on council estates all their lives and raising the next generation to do the same at the same time the NHS is …

Well obviously the works produced by a typewriter aren't speech because the works are produced not by a person but a mechanical contraption. And let's not start with a blog post or…

Ive noticed that when people say we need more education or we need to teach critical thinking or something like that often what they really mean is "It is obvious my position is th…

I love how people blame anonymity for the current internet problems. Whereas when anonymith was the default we had almost none of the problems. Most of the problems seemed to have …

A lot of the answe are reddit-esque throwaway answers and political shill bots, but for a more nuanced answer. For a long timeant people were brought up on the "End of History" ide…

They don't need strong arguments they need emotionally resonent ones, "AI is using all your water" is a more primal, plus doesn't matter they just flood with a thousand different a…

I suspect rather foreign actors seed some of the anti data center narrative in order to try and reduce American capability to compete in the space, just like the Soviets did with n…

So even will all the effort we've put into solar and decreasing coal, being more economical unless there is massive widespread international cooperation to suddenly and rapidly sta…

> Our analysis of NielsenIQ grocery data shows a trend in negative unit growth starting in mid-2025, masked by steady price increases. But since February 2026, units have stepped d…

We all know that's where they are going with this.

The government has a list of pesky troublemakers to target individually if they prove too annoying? I'm sure the good people of Germany can figure out something to charge someone w…

Won't that just unfairly displace the impact onto the economically disadvanteged as they are the least likely to have the flexibility in their schedule, inadvertently forcing more …

That's stupid. I mean we can start by gesturing at the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, heck England and France had a 100 years war, that was just one of their wars. And I don'…

Sabaton, a swedish historical power metal band, also wrote a song about these women if you're into that kind of thing. https://www.sabaton.net/discography/heroes/night-witches/

Because of the large quantities my family with 4 children is able to go to Costco once a month and purchase almost everything our family will need for the entire month this means w…

We have Social Security though and that doesn't seem to be working much better.

For whatever it's worth I use Mullvad because it lets me pay in Bitcoin is super easy to re-up and is super anonymous. I don't really give a darn who you voted for or what your fou…

> Out govt system literally doesnt have the political will to do these brutal but effective policy changes I agree our country needs to really have some sort of revolution for the …

I hate this analogy because it isn't true. This isn't like a clerk checking your age before you buy booze this is like a clerk taking a photocopy of your ID and a list of everythin…

You would be correct there are no "banned books" in America. When people say "banned book" they mean that a certain level of government such as a school board or municipality has "…

Counterpoint the principles of building a nuclear device aren't that complicated, we figured it out based on work doing in the early 1900's without computers. It turns out the hard…

I recently moved from the inter-mountain West to the east and that is one thing that is fascinating to me is how differently the term park is used between the 2. Out west a couple …

Just finished a series on acoup.blog Must also mention https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Anyone else notice that the first/near top comment on every HackerNews post lately is someone saying something along the lines of "I had X problem so I went and started working on …