I also feel the need to remind people that while most combatants are male, not even close to all males are combatants. If only women and children (probably almost all civilian) made up 60% of all deaths, then the remaining 40% includes all male civilian deaths, which very well could be higher than combatant deaths.

Yup, if someone works “harder” they’re either being exploited or they live in a less advanced society where technology doesn’t help the working class as much.

I would understand these news as Colorado will try to avoid starting new highway projects, not that they would cancel currently ongoing ones.

“Northern Europe” but Belgium/France/Germany. Welp, I guess the Nordics don’t exist.

To be fair though, there are also about to be some severe floods in Lapland quite soon, albeit for a completely different reason: exceptionally warm spring weather melts the snow faster than usual causing rivers to flood.

I think they had quite a valid question. First of all, it’s not obvious how this affects Ukraine, if in any way at all. Second, not everyone can know about Iran’s involvement in the war (people are born, grown up, and informed every day).

Also in all other languages where I know how to say the date it’s some form of 5th (day of) June. While it is possible to have it the other way around it’s really only found in old writings (June’s 5th day).

Don’t forget the Netherlands ban

Call the exorcist

What the fuck is going on with their asses? Now I really feel we’re missing out on something great…

Almost as if it’s possible to improve even the largest cities’ infrastructure to be more human friendly. Almost as if there’s no reason bad urban design should remain bad forever. Huh, who knew…

I’m also confused by this 473 ml pint, is that some American thing? I always thought pints were 568 ml… as in pint of beer.

Read the undertext by OP, they completely made up all the data to make a joke about age verification in some US states to access porn.

Welp, there goes my job :(

I feel like this gets overlooked too often. No single person can cause even thousands of deaths. It’s the man himself, his government, the police, the army, the military industry, etc. who are directly causing this. That’s probably millions of people. With another 100+ million who just watch and enable the country continue its genocide. All these are also to blame to some degree.

Of course there are Russians who try to stop it, protest, strike or simply leave the hell hole. But sadly this is an incredibly small minority.

It would have cost you nothing to not write this comment…

Just to clarify in case you missed it: this is daily, not weekly. So almost one tank an hour. Poof.

In what sense is Haavisto right-wing? Also, compared to most global leaders, Stubb is not very far right. Luckily all the far right lunatics fell out in the first round.

But yeah, I agree Haavisto would have been the better choice, although both of them are very competent for the role.

Is this an evolution of the famous KURKKUMOPO!?

I don’t quite agree with this. It seems like you’re focusing on the worst types in each scenario.

Competitive debates aren’t (in my opinion) debates at all. They’re rhetorical competitions where you need to know how to talk convincingly/manipulatively, but don’t necessarily need to know anything about debating.

Political debates come in all shapes and forms, but of course the ones that will be focused on and remembered are there worst examples that seem the most silly.

You’re kind of right about internet debates. Especially the “scoring system” can be very biased depending on the community, but if you ignore the scores there can still be valid points to be found in some debates. Of course, being the internet, there will also be overwhelming amounts of spam/trolls that can be hard to ignore.

Conversation is a broader term that includes debates. Debates are conversations, but not all conversations are debates. The issue with the word debate is that it sometimes gets misused (like competitive debate) which makes its meaning a bit unclear. Although all of this is just my opinion, so take it with a huge scoop of salt.

Still doesn’t add up. 37% of the US population is 120 million. 1% of the global population is still 80 million.

Are you comparing US household income to global individual income? If that’s the case I can see your percentages working, but that comparison doesn’t make much sense so I’m still lost.