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Happy Birthday Abaddon! Have a blast, birthday king! :band: [party]

This is a weird one, and specific. But valuable. The first part of the poll is your parents, the second is you, and the third part is your political wing relative to the democrats. We are calling "pro" democrats to include calling them the lesser of two evils!! So even if you hate the...

El Salvador recently has been the most dangerous country in the world. The national murder rate was the highest of any country, including active war zone deaths as murders, and reached over 100 per 100,000 per annum. For comparison, the USA murder rate is like, 5 per 100,000, Mexico at it's...

Ok so the banking crisis is on. The Fed decided to raise rates again, today, after this all started. It's looking worse and worse. Banks are holding treasuries to manage risk. Banks are always leveraged such that a depositor run on the banks will collapse any bank. To mitigate that risk they...

The standard view of power is that power comes from fame, publicity, overt leadership. And obviously much does. Whatever money is in place, acolytes to command, ingestors of media to inspire, etc, fame propels it. But those who drive history more than others do, often do it well behind the...

If you know better than someone, are you obliged to have more power and responsibility and ownership of things than the person who is worse or lacks knowledge/ability/insight? For the sake of others who would be, all things equal, worse off if you permit the more evil/ignorant to wield more...

Do you think we, generally as humans and perhaps more specifically in first world locations, should be building new nuclear power plants?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-fbi-agents-raided-his-florida-home-2022-08-08/ FBI agents raid DJ Trump's Florida estate. They even broke into his Safe. The Donald was not present, as he is in New Jersey for the summer. Will they catch him alive?

I had hope to goad @AmazonQueen into justifying her top 5+1 non D&D answer to this question, but I suppose I failed in my first attempt. I have been very curious. My first favorite tabletop RPGs are Dungeons and Dragons generally, with some editions over others and a nod to the spinoff Iron...

Top 5 drinks 1.Unspiced, aged Rum 2.Water 3.Coffee 4.Tea 5.Orange Juice

Or do we need everyone to have the material wealth of, at least, the Dutch?

Power, specifically as effecting longstanding changes in society, to whatever degree. This list is meant to be limited, so I appreciate your participation.

https://ourorganicwellness.com/amish-farmer-faces-250k-fine-jail-time-and-losing-his-sustainable-farm-for-processing-his-own-meat/ 4,000 people are part of this farmer's members-only buyers club. He avoids certain food processing regulations he and his costumers deem unhealthy. His club got too...

Global food runs, but for some far fetched reason it’s within country by country and not country vs country. Half the people can be fed with careful distribution. How does your country fracture?

Vote your prediction. In Q1 of 2022, GDP growth was –1.4% If there's any contraction in Q2, that will tell us then that, here right now, we are in a recession. What's your prediction, is the USA in a recession right now?

6000 missiles, 6000 plutonium duds. How many Russian nukes would actually detonate? Word on the street is that they don't maintain their nukes. Obviously 1% is 60 too many, but that number could be effectively 0 if they've really been bluffing. How few nukes do you think Russia has...

autocomplete="off" The suggestions/memory of past searches in the search bar obscures the options for the search. You can hit "esc" but we could be better than that. Would be nice if we could search shorter terms by user as well. I was searching a rare 3 letter word by a certain user, it...

From the roots with truckers in Ottowa, to the top like Xi Jinping deciding to crack down on genderbending and video games, is this time of increased order, it seems like authoritarians are slipping deeper into wackadoodlism. Is it all related, or just a nice confirmation bias from my terminal?

Where I live, we've had like 5-10% annual inflation for years. It's not an issue. However, the rest of y'all are now experiencing the same level of inflation that we had ignored, because it doesn't matter. The current inflation is right in that range. 7.5% or so. Let's discuss the causes: 1)...

How do we fight this? If you want to chase money, you can get a whole lot of it. But if choose an honorable profession, and rise to authorial gatekeeper of knowledge, you can sell out that position … for a smaller amount of money by magnitudes than if you spent the same effort just going for...