Unfortunately, very true.

I feel i came from a middle class but relatively well do family, dad had enough so we never had to skip meals or skip new clothes every year.

But I also got luckyt young in my age (from age 12 to 17). I regularly interacted with people who were poor, underprivileged and ubdereducated.

I saw parents giving their 1 year old some hash just to stop them from crying, I mean what chance that kid has to ever be sober.

I saw a grown man who aas extremely happy when I gave away my 3 year old t shirt that i thought i got so bored with.

I saw daily labour markets where I’ve seen grown man cry because they didn’t get picked for that day and he doesn’t know how he is going to be feeding his family tonight.

I saw how being poor was a trap, I remember I saw this day laborer buy 10ml of oil, 200g of rice, 100g of beans at exorbitant markups (50-70% compared to if he bought standard 1kg packs) . And I was like this man is stupid for not buying bulk and my dad explained, he has to go hungry for a week before he can save up enough to buy bulk and he’d much rather not go hungry.

Anyway my point being, I am always aware lucky and privileged I am. all parents should make good faith effort to show their kids how people below them in wheel of luck live, and not as a cautionary tale like an exhibit. But put them in situations where they can see the actual good people behind the poor, underprivileged and ubdereducated label. Otherwise kids only know their lifestyle and think that’s normal.

Well if plan is to be a mob and demonstrate. You can first be a mob and steal from. Home depot.

Eu is doing okay tho trending downward, India is trending upward but not there yet. Uruguay doing okay. Brazil doing okay. Vietnam is trending up. Thailand is good. Australia is doing okay but trending downward. I’m not saying they’re good just okay, but Better than China and US.

My guess is, Trump wants to be populist, because the rule thumb when he was young was cheap oil means cheap fuel and cheap fuel means cheap goods and he wants to show the US that he can reign in inflation. Rural republican are suffering terribly under him. That’s why he wants to flood the market with oil.

Again just a guess, but could be wrong.

OPEC has the Sustainability (of the oil business, not of the planet) game in mind, they wanna keep price of crude between 60 and 80, less than 60 and the more heavy and sour crude don’t make economic sense for the whole of oil value chain. If the prices are too high, customers invest in alternate sources of fuel that are not crude oil hydrocarbons and it hurts their long term goal.

Me and my wife both could speak 4 languages when we met, the first 3 years since we met, our conversation were so bad ‘grammatically’ we even had a big laugh when in a single paragraph I switched languages 6 times amog the 4 languages. I think as time went on we at least brought it down to 2 languages between us 95% of the time, but we also learned two more languages now and we have 6 languages common between us.

There is a big upside now, we always have a backup language if we wanna talk private things among people. (p.s. Most of both of our families are trilingual, with family youth at least understanding all 4 common languages, so it was hard to keep conversations private in family setting that forced us to learn 5th language, and 6th we had to learn when I moved to my current country)

Well good to see critical thinking alive. No blanket statements, just hey that’s what I felt, not sure it’s reliable, but that’s what I felt.

I gotta respect that.

My mom kept accidently pressing the mouse button, I could never figure it out why, when I was watching I guess shed be conscious and use it properly, but complain later that things get pasted randomly. After I disabled middle click, she hasn’t complained.

Ayyyyy teaaa gang rise up.

You can all tropical cultures have some form of rice bread. Indians have rice bhakhari, South East Asia has rice paper, rice mixed with wheat in banh mi, Liberia and Sierra Leone have ginger rice bread. Its a fundamentally different bread and requires different complimentary food. If you use it as replacement for wheat bread it will not taste the same. Its like you made wheat pilav and then complained its not the same. Of course it’s not the same that’s the point.

Hero 77 - Bombay Street

Mentions batman, superman, spiderman, Mr incredible, but it’s not a song about them.

I like that. It should be a thing.

RO plant… Installed?

Sorry to be an ass and english is a weird language but it’s spelled as unifier, unify doesn’t become unifyer. Why? Because it’s a piece of shit language that’s why.

India/pakistan/Bangladesh did that, but let them have wealth, but next to no power.

It’s close, I worked on a paper pretty much doing exactly this a while back and we had included all of this, metal and oil extraction, all roads, railways, even golf courses on top of your housing. We were at 1.2% of world’s land usage. So I’m sure whatever they got is sensible.

Logging might be missing, but in our data logging was part of forests. So it ties in that regard.

I believe It’s close, I worked on a paper about a decade ago, and our numbers were not too dissimilar, actually it’s ridiculous how similar they are. We went with the most extensive data hunt on land usage. We had non-arable land at 14.7%, which rounded up to 15% in our summary. We got multiple sources for global precipitation levels. We got registries from US, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Canada, Australia, etc totalling 65 countries, we extrapolated the rest, our extrapolation was actually 70% of the paper. We back tallied registry numbers with global weather data.

I don’t like using it for unrelated reasons, but I’ve checked out the developers and I think they got the right mindset.

You should try Librewolf, add a password manager to it, and it’s golden.