VikingHippie

That's nowhere near enough space! You're going to need SEVERAL square yards!

You know what the difference is between a million and a billion? Roughly a billion.

Not many people know it, but penguins are excellent brick layers and if they were smart enough, ostriches and emus would make excellent guard birds! Also, kiwis are just adorably awkward, so they're there to keep the morale up 😉

Ok, so maybe not dozens, but regulatory capture and other facets of the US system of laissez-faire for the already rich and powerful coupled with brutal oppression of those already hurting the most directly kills at LEAST a million people a year, maybe double that indirectly or as a major but not sole factor. Multiply that with 29 (the length of Stalin's reign) and you get a hell of a lot more than 6.

The US has killed dozens of times that through social murder.

I'm not saying that Stalin wasn't an autocratic dickhead, but if you're gonna compare him unfavorably to present day US, number of own citizens killed is a bad choice of metric 🤷

Historians are written by genetic material as well as experiences and reactions to both.

you could make the argument that denying gender affirming care is denying medically necessary treatment.

Because it is.

Yes, Moss. Did you catch that ludicrous display last night?

While preparing a ham with a deeply penetrating glaze.

Three fascists (one of which enabled sexual abuse of minors back when he was an assistant wrestling coach) and the even more hostile towards leftists protégé of Nancy Pelosi.

Really needs a "none of these, please" option.

Correct. Opportunity cost being a bunch of bullshit invented by rich people greedy for more, of course.

Once again for those who didn't know or forgot: just like with every other industry making the same complaint, when they say that it "costs billions", that's true in the exact same way as losing a random lottery ticket would cost me millions: completely hypothetically.

In their calculations, every person who watches an illegal stream would, had the stream not been available, pay their ridiculously high prices to watch legally rather than not watch at all.

In reality, the opposite is many times more common and it's frankly journalistic malpractice that mainstream media always just regurgitate that claim as if it was indisputably true.

Like with copaganda, they're covering for predatory practices, in this case charging much more than your target customers can afford and then using draconian measures against those providing an alternative solution that wouldn't have been necessary if the product had been reasonably priced.