I think heart disease is up there for most of the world. India has a huge problem and huge population. Most western countries have similar diets to the USA, albeit not as bad with less obesity but still much more than precious generations.

The zeitgeist on here is that Europeans and Japanese people eat perfect diets. Yes. Italians turn their nose up at crap pasta. There is still fast food everywhere just not like the levels in the USA.

Germany pretty much eats it’s body weight in kebabs. France adds butter and cream to everything to bring joy. England is even more industrial than most of the USA with the diets to match. These are not necessarily bad things. I love butter and cream too, but we need to be realistic and accurate when looking at health outcomes and risk factors.

Sure, there is more good quality food and ingredients and less fast food and less obesity, but the trajectory is in the wrong direction.

Heart disease is a problem worldwide. And a growing one. With aging populations, it’s gonna continue to get worse.

Lol. This is a population map. Projections to 2040? Without knowing cause, this is conjecture.

Another good rule of thumb: If the packet says it’s healthy, it isn’t. It came in a packet.

The United States is also the world’s biggest market for trade. All trade depends on oil for transport and energy, directly or indirectly. Oil profits will be high but every other industry will suffer. The balance of winners and losers will be what’s known as a recession.

US policy was also to have witnesses to any meetings with Putin. And to not store classified documents in a bathroom at a hotel of ill repute.

Trump is not playing 5D chess to advance America’s interests. He’s shitting on the board while squalking. The only interest he has any mind to advance is his own. There is not an ounce of patriotism or duty in his body.

Stop attributing tactical thinking to trump. It’s clearly not in his ouvre. If Trump wanted NATO to be better prepared for a Russian advance, he wouldn’t be undermining zelensjynor sucking outings cock on the regular

He’s obnoxious because he’s an obnoxious narcissist. There is no point to it.

Yes, Australia has a means tested aged pension too. This is seperate. It’s relatively new, so those at retirement age haven’t had it their whole life. However those approaching retirement soon will have had.

It’s only recently risen. It started out with a lower percent contribution. The fact that it has risen in the last few years is seen as a contributing factor that wage growth is small. Businesses had to pay their workers an extra percentage at just the time inflation was biting and workers wanted wage increases… businesses said they couldn’t afford both but we’re legally required to do the super guarantee increase.

Average superannuation balance in Australia, so defined contribution pension fund, is AU$170,000. All workers get 12% of their wages from their employer added to it by law. I think the hope is that eventually, there will be no aged pension and people will depend on their super rather than the government for retirement.

I’d be surprised if this was accurate. I’ve seen average at Facebook of 350k. But, that’s the problem, we don’t really know as the data is not public.

I would also assume the private company salaries we do know don’t include stock options and bonuses.

I think 700k+ is crazy high for a company without a model for much revenue. However, if they can afford it and the people are worth it, I don’t think it’s a bad thing in and of itself.

I agree with what you’re saying. I also think it’s important to seperate trump as a person to trump as a political entity or trumpism (maga) as a cause.

Trump gets away with stuff, bit because we let him, but because he demands it and does everything to get it. Someone else might retire in disgrace. Hell make claims of fraud and try and incite violent upheaval to auit his purposes.

It’s not so much that he is exempt from consequences, political or legal, it’s that those consequences aren’t being upheld. It’s very groupthink and emperora new clothes. If he thought he was immune, he wouldn’t need to get rid of opposition and stack everywhere with allies and yes men.

Or, if you’ve no strategic goals, you never really fail. It’s a matter of perpspective. And when friendly media take his word as does a cult following, that perspective will be magnified.

I agree, you’re looking at his actions similarly to me, but you’re trying to fit that into an assessment compared to peers or conventional thinking and/or planning. He doesn’t follow norms as he’s not normal.

Well, y that metric, it’s successful. He wanted to flex and bomb. He did. That was the goal. Mission accomplished.

People keep ascribing normal behaviours and motivations to Trump. He clearly doesn’t fit in that box due to mental health issues. He neither understands the purposes of his actions nor has the foresight to see their effect. It’s all reaction, but as long as the emperor continues to have clothes, it works, unfortunately. Those around him can manipulate him until he turns on them. It’s a constant shuffling of loyalties and policies for self benefit.

It’s assumed this was Israel’s doing. Not trumps. As are all his actions. Someone else is pulling his strings.

If you want to change capitalism structure, tearing down privacy tools is not the way to do it.

How much does the equivalent salary at Whatsapp pay?

IED is being mean?

No, it’s Great Britain AND Northern Ireland. Both being part of the UK. If you’re going to be pedantic, be correct.

Free movement between Ireland and the UK predates the EU and continues to this day. One part of the Brexit discussions was continuing border free travel between north and south on the island of Ireland.

I agree, nobody is coming to save you and you have to do it for yourselves. Bombing protestors, however distasteful, will make it so there is nothing worth saving.

Don’t get me wrong. Terrorism can work. And today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s freedom fighter. I don’t thinknthe USA is at that level of oppression for mqny people to be sympathetic to a terrorist movement, which is a requirement for it to work.

Northern Ireland? Nobody. And tensions remain today but people can love normal loves without oppression.

Or you mean Palestine? Terrorist attacks on either side didn’t help either. Eventually it lead to genocide.

Firstly I’m not a centrist. My beliefs lie firmly on the left.

Secondly, you’re not addressing my points.

It’s easy to be edgy and support terrorism from behind a keyboard. The reality of living under terrorism threats from either side is no better than fascism. See northern Ireland, Palestine, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Nigeria. The only one I’d like to live in is northern Ireland, where the threat of terrorism has subsided due to treating each side as people and ending terrorism.

The only way nazism grows is by treating people like they are not people. This is why nazis take over.

That’s my point. When you lose your humanity, you are no better. The whole point of fascism is to ‘other’ different in and out groups. Exactly what you’re doing, to the point where you think terrorism is ok.

You’re conflating state sponsored violence with random Nazi supporters joking them as private malitia.

Absolutely violence should not be avoided where violence is already being used. However, by all account these nazis were protestors, not the agents of the government.

Nazis are still people and there is still a spectrum of violence and beliefs. In the Nazi bar analogy, they all end up being nazis by virtue of association and tolerance of Nazi views. You’re making the leap to all being Nazis immediately.

Non violent far right protestors have the right to protest and their beliefs. Where they have already perpetrated violence, they should receive it in kind or, ideally prosecution.

The use of IED is not that and just normalises it’s use. Which side has the bigger propensity for violence and bombing of unarmed civilians?

The Dems and the left have a problem where they tut tut and pearl clutch rather than taking action. Jumping to bombing protests is not the answer, however distasteful those protests are.

Terrorism with IEDs is a threat to safety of all and to democracy, even if it is directed at nazis.

Also, what do you think the Nazis do next?