But what if you wanted to crush one with slats of wood?

So… they folded?

You are asking the wrong questions

This is a video on how to crush a can with wood, not hands

Billionaires have too much power, let me just get that out the way. But it’s weird to state their tax contribution in relation to their “wealth” (0.3%). No-one pays tax in relation to their wealth, at least not while they’re holding it. A low income earner ($30k) living in a house they’ve inherited ($1M) is paying about 0.5% tax compared to their “wealth” (they pay about $5k income taxes compared to their $1M wealth ) That’s why it’s a weird way to put the stat that way. The ultra rich do pay tax on their income, it’s just their income (dividends, stock sale) is small compared to their wealth (assets, stocks etc)

wow and all that overtime too!

that’s not how it works. tourism is elastic to only a small extent. the rest is in an equilibrium. barcelona is in constant competition with other spanish cities, portugal, french south coast, italy etc. if barcelona raises hotel prices 50% and nothing else changes, very very many people who were on the fence about their destination and chose barcelona will easily choose the now comparatively cheaper alternatives.

Obviously the same 32 million tourists won’t come if the same overnight accommodation isn’t available and the rest are looking at higher hotel costs due to saturation

It’s the right thing to do to serve the local residents housing needs. But the local residents also need the tourist as many work in hospitality / leisure etc

Will be interesting to see what happens

Poorly written “advice” columns that exist only to hawk you some product is everything that’s wrong with the way interactions over the internet work nowadays. It’s ghoulish.

Write an honest, well rounded guide and leave links to your product out if it. Of course it’s hard to write an honest well written guide without mentioning very capable free and open source options. Pretending they don’t exist hurts your credibility.

Contractor: finishes 15 miles of railings on death star sub levels, moves to imperial star destroyer for next job

casually looks out window, death star explodes

Contractor: “mother f…”

Interesting. Is that because it blocks JavaScript, ads etc?

Yup sounds like we’re on the same page

Yes I don’t disagree. But there is definitely a limit to what people will do voluntarily, especially if they don’t feel their effort is respected. Finding volunteers to read to kids is miles easier than volunteers to tidy up someone’s littered garden while that person boozily watches telly.

The Tragedy of the Commons is an old concept, very old. It far far far predates modern mega corps ravaging the planet. It is the simple observation that when people have free access to a shared resource they tend to mistreat it compared to their own property.

This is such a fundamental feature of humans that Aristotle was discussing it…

And that’s why the best comes from society when people have the freedom to better their lot visa their efforts (despite this causing inequality) so long as people’s basic needs are covered in a humane and reasonable way. But there will always be a difference between people. To eradicate that is to destroy the thing that motivates to go beyond merely what we’ll do voluntarily. And those (paid) jobs are still very vital to society functioning well. We have more than enough evidence that goodwill and volunteers is not sufficient to run a society at large. People are more nuanced than that.

The platform where Darth Vader confronts Luke has railings, so they clearly have the parts, tools, and a guy who installs them. Maybe he’s just held up on Level B?

So was it the the Russians who blew up their own Nord pipeline, or was it that Ukrainian guy with a yacht? It’s hard to keep track

Data cables defo Russia sabotage (if deliberate), doesn’t serve anyone else’s goals

Thanks

“The first rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two twice the price?”

Great work. Can you give some examples of how this works in practice?

Tagify leverages AI to automatically generate and manage tags for files

What does this look like in practise do you think? The steps she described didn’t sound like “taking power away from men”. It sounded like men encouraging one another to acknowledge truths about women’s and girls experiences.

If the West wanted to minimise Ukrainian deaths then they could do something like draw clear lines in the sand so that Russia publicly knows at what points their continued action leads to Western escalation (defensive escalation). Surely that’s a clearer deterrent and would save Ukrainian lives. Instead we’ve got what looks like European bickering and prevarication and eventually somewhat reluctant support. So maybe that’s genuinely what’s going on. Or if it’s an act I’m sure it’s for well thought out psychological reasons. But as an act it seems to rather encourage Russia to keep pushing, because they hope Western support will falter. So if that’s all deliberate it seems more about draining Russia than helping Ukraine. (With hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives sacrificed in the process)