Besides obvious bragging, some people just want to tell you everything they know, or some might feel strongly about some topic that they want everyone to know about even if others already know about it.

If you have difficulty understanding why somebody is saying something, you should try to pay attention to how they’re saying it. It might explain why, even if their words don’t.

He and about 47 others were arrested for being too close to the South African embassy. Charges were dropped.

Is it really a reward not to be obstructed due to something you didn’t do?

For people to demand anything you’ll need a democracy. For people to want universal healthcare they need to understand that socializing the health cost is a benefit for the population.

Add the words together and you get social democracy.

In most countries this is what lead to universal healthcare. In most countries the social democracy parties were founded by labour unions.

Despite USA being first with labour unions, they never really succeeded, because they were violently struck down early on.

Anyway, it’s that simple: Join a union, let the union establish a political party, let the party make universal healthcare. I know that seems very uphill, but it doesn’t actually have to take centuries to do.

When the first unions were formed in Europe, the workers also expected it to be a multigenerational battle, and yet decided to try it in the vague hope that it might eventually benefit their grandchildren. However they were so successful that they achieved the goal within their own lifetime.

Same. The vegan patty has better consistency than their actual beef.

… because they did have it?

It wasn’t universal at the time, covering only the poorest workers, but Germany was the first country to establish a social health care system in 1883. It didn’t work very well during the war, but it was technically still there. Since the war, they gradually expanded it achieving universal coverage sometime in the 1980s.

In USA yes. The first-past-the-post is ruining politics for you. You don’t even have two political parties. The Democrats is the only political party. The Republicans are a bundle of anti political idiots.

There’s really no clear definition of what a mansion is.

In my opinion it’s when a house is big enough and has enough separate bathrooms that you can have guests living there without having to host them or even meet the guests in your private rooms.

I guess two autocampers would do, but you’d have to throw a tarp over the foyer between them, to show that it’s one house and not just two RVs parked closely.

Los Angeles was founded in 1781. They didn’t have cars then.

It takes years to design a new car model. It’s quite a risk to bet on combustion engines at this point.

While the world wide adoption of EVs is only about 20% of all new car sales (for personal cars), the statistics for countries that were early adopters shows that this figure doesn’t just increase, it accelerates when it comes over 1%, which it is almost everywhere.

So, it might seem reasonable to bet on the type of car that sells 80% on the market now, but that market is going to look very difficult by the time the cars are ready for production. Consumers have spoken: They want to buy EVs.

Trying to censor kids shows isn’t feasible. They’re going to find out anyway, or it will be a massive culture shock when they eventually hear their first swear word as adults. I’d rather take the opportunity to talk with my kids about it if they watch crap.

SpongeBob doesn’t really bother me, but if they watch Alvin and the Chipmunks I always ask them to use headphones, because I can’t stand that shit.