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Land of the free.

They must have mentioned universal health care right as they were giving the shot.

That's a pretty low bar for being a hero.

Today at 14:00, the shop opened for a 3070. I was there on time. clicking "Buy" 0 seconds in. Gateway timeout immediately. Edit: 5 minutes later the cards are gone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/us/politics/clarence-thomas-supreme-court.html This is the original article. Watch out for dnyuz. Those guys plagiarize articles left and right. Edit: I took the liberty of editing your post.

She's the one who doesn't want to play Witcher 2 and Call of Pripyat. I'm sure she'd enjoy Alpha Protocol too.

Pressure from my Genshin Impact daughter and her upcoming birthday, means I am now in the market for a GPU, preferably a 3080. Last week, I subscribed myself to a European PC hardware store, and I got a message today the cards I'm looking for would be available today at 1400. Unfortunately I only noticed that at 1410, which was way too late. Their website was already buckling under the weight of a bunch of nerds frantically clicking refresh. In any case, the 3080 was already gone, but a few 3070s appear to still be available. Unfortunately, I can't even login. Well, as I wrote that, the site came back online and, obviously, even the 3070s are gone. Let's see if I'm on my toes next time. By the way, no, my daughter ain't getting a 3080 for her birthday. She'd get my current 980 ti and some sort of budgety ryzen system which she scoped out herself, which is already an unbelievable luxury by my standards. To play at 1080p too. What is she running right now? my old q6600 with a GTX 580. Oh, yes, some nice classical gaming. It was fine for Minecraft but, for some mystical reason, she is complaining about hitches in a 2020 game. What could the problem be?

Why is it that, other than the sweet potato ones, all those fries look like frozen pre-fried crap?

The question of poor countries is a good one, as as far as I know construction costs for coal plants are still lower, but the question is neither here nor there, because the current issue are developed countries, which share the bulk of energy expenditures in the world, have the resources to move to cleaner energy, but either have dallied and taken their sweet time to get things going or, in the case of the US, have flat out refused to admit there is a problem to be addressed. When goals are set they are also always half measures.

I imagine overpopulation problems would be solved.

Intense lobbying from the oil industry?

While not making celebrities politicians is usually a good rule, the problems with Trump's "reign" went well beyond that.

Dental costs are not particularly more expensive in Sweden than most anywhere else. It's more or less the same price as in Portugal, and 25%, I believe, is covered if you are doing very expensive work. Also, dental work is free is if you are under 25. I think the idea is if everything important is taken care of when you are growing up, then ongoing costs are mitigated later in life. My stepdaughter needed extensive dental work, and it would have put us in the hole back in Portugal. Here it's completely free.

not everyone is confortable with mental health issues unfortunately, so many go unreported. there's still a stigma about it, that I'd wager is bigger among conservatives. It's also why women have higher percentages than men. The attitude still too often is "manly men don't talk or are affected by such inconsequential things as feelings."

Check the graphic they have stagnated already.

It was a joke. Culture is culture. People will do abhorrent/stupid stuff with no problem if their culture permits/glorifies it. See bullfighting in Spain and Portugal, blackface in the Netherlands, gun fetishism in the US.

Countries that had very low wages more recently are dubious examples. To take an example I'm more familiar with, Purchasing power in Portugal increased immensely following the end of the dictatorship in 1974, but it still increased relatively little given how very low purchasing power was to begin with. To take an extreme hypothetical if you begin with making 5 bucks a month and after a year you are making 20 bucks a month, your purchasing power increased 300%, but your purchasing power is still horrible. So people from the Baltic states have had excellent purchasing power increases since the end of the USSR, but they still would have better real wages in Sweden, where purchasing power has stagnated in recent years. A doctor in Lithuania makes a lot less money there than in Sweden. https://knoema.com/WBWDI2019Jan/world-development-indicators-wdi

Swedes treat whales very well. For myself, I can say that I, unfortunately, do not own any whales, but my single income family makes about the same money as my parent's double income family. The caveat is that I am Portuguese, and Portugal is a country with very low wages, although my parents had quite high wages by Portuguese standards. As for real wages and purchase power that is a global problem that nowadays affects pretty much every single developed country in the world. Social welfare policies are one of the methods to alleviate the problem. If you want to read more about it, the essential work is Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.

Actually Norway appears to be saving money hand over fist. Also, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Germany if you want other examples. Actually, while some countries are better managed than others, the entirety of Western Europe has robust social welfare policies. Most of them do not have oil

Supply side economics, Reaganomics and the Laffer curve are not based on empirical evidence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-black-comedy-of-arthur-laffer

No.

It's what you did in the 50s. Americans, that is.