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I guess I'm one of those suckers, except that so far I've made a 3x return on the small sum I bet, I would say it's a hedge. I’ve been betting on the Iran war since mid February, t…

A male in a country that is about to enter a war could decide to leave to avoid conscription, depending on the odds

Centuries? It's hard to take something seriously when it doesn't even exist yet...

I would guess that having more than one passenger increases the chance of at least one of them dying in an accident

> I'm glad I live in Europe where literally nobody has guns except police and heavy criminals I live in the EU and that's not true, I know multiple people who own guns and go to th…

It lets entrepreneurs bypass bureaucracy

Maybe because to them the upsides are more important than the downsides, including because it would be illegal to go out without pants in their country. I don't think wearing cloth…

> There are no downsides to wearing a mask. Besides the obvious effort required and the monetary costs, as somebody who wears glasses and commutes by bike and train I can name a co…

I don't mind my 75 minutes x 2 commute, but 55 minutes are spent on a half empty train and the rest on bikes (mostly on bike lanes or empty roads), so I get to eat a snack, use my …

It might also be due to demographics in Western countries. If the ratio of workers to total population decreases while the demand for work remains the same, there will be less comp…

> They used to claim they were not an advanced economy and still a developing nation so they should be allowed to do it. Just like the West burned coal to industrialize. Is that st…

The same is true for me, but I could have learned those things without going to college and without wasting time studying subjects that have never been useful in my work.

It seems to me that the main purpose of having a college degree is signaling that you're not too stupid and too lazy, although it depends on what degree you got, in which college a…

I guess you'll have to wait for The Narrow Bank to become operational. In the meantime the best you can do is lend your money to an institution that is too big to fail.

Their money is being used to make investments and they're getting paid interest for it. If their deposit was above the amount insured by the FDIC then they knew it could all be los…

Maybe the cost of imported goods has gone up

Who are you referring to? I live within a couple of kilometers from the Mediterranean and I don't remember the temperature ever reaching 40°C. I don't think summers are much hotter…

> seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river. Their software is not open so…

I wonder if all these negative impacts of COVID-19 could also have been associated to seasonal flus in the past, had they been under the same level of scrutiny.

https://twitter.com/KhalkeionGenos/status/159345714362510950...

How did he encourage a coup?

It does, you can't tell a non-binary person that they're a man or a woman, if your tweet is reported it will be deleted. If you can find any examples of this they simply haven't be…

> If there's any conservative content banned or suppressed, no one has yet to find even a single example. A pretty common conservative opinion is that there are only two genders, b…

Twitter suppressed the NY Post's story on Hunter Biden's laptop right before the 2020 presidential election. Calling a surgeon who performed sex reassignment surgery a criminal is …