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pepperonipizzaon New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition

He explains his point convincingly well.

You should make your point in reply if you disagree with OP, because slandering OP is not changing my pov to yours here.

pepperonipizzaon A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job

I have notice your comments in this thread where you are making wild assumptions of the users commenting.

Your reply here could fall under defamation.

pepperonipizzaon Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes

Seems to be the fastest and easiest thing to do. But it goes against our current paradigm of looking for perpetual growth, the government will never reverse this policy

pepperonipizzaon South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen

Ethiopia was having a rapid growth before covid.

I am not sure after covid and the war in Tigray how it's doing at the moment

pepperonipizzaon Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

Probably that it will be more unnoticed because of it

pepperonipizzaon A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods, climate chief says

To make things worse, the population will double in the coming decades, it's one of the fastest growing country in population. The government is too scared to put in place efficient 'family planning', Pakistan being one of the most religious country in the world.

pepperonipizzaon Two research teams grew synthetic mouse embryos using stem cells

I can't understand why countries like China aren't investing more in researching ectogenesis.

It seems a good solution for the future of their population, the fertility rate will probably never go back to 2.

pepperonipizzaon The East African Federation experiment

Easy trick they could do to develop quicker and lesser the level of curruption: give women more rights and power. Europe is certainly not hindering them

pepperonipizzaon Happy 4th of July

Most of the shootings in US towns seem to be gang related.

pepperonipizzaon Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

You mean the US, because in a lot of european countries, we very much like using our public transports and bikes

pepperonipizzaon In Africa, U.S.-Trained Militaries Are Ousting Civilian Governments in Coups

Do you have legitimate source for this claim?

France spended billions of euros to fight islamist groups in Mali at the demand of the government. No resources worth the billions France spended in Mali

pepperonipizzaon How did Europe become the richest part of the world?

If you can read french

https://www.google.com/amp/s/lexpansion.lexpress.fr/actualit...

Otherwise google do agood job with french translation

pepperonipizzaon How did Europe become the richest part of the world?

France mostly lost money with colonisation. Sure, there were some people getting rich from it. This is was more for the prestige than money. I can't say the same for the UK, not having read much on the economic of colonisation for them.

pepperonipizzaon Yemen has lost internet after Saudi-led airstrikes

Would you excuse Hitler with the same sentence? You can switch islam with white supremacy, it's a similar supremacist ideology in search of a boogeyman. Protocol of Zion is still cited as a legitimate source in the middle east.

pepperonipizzaon Kazakh president’s home ablaze as protests escalate

I am not sure why this is downvoted, because this is what happened in Iran, the islamists took advantage of the 1979's revolution.

pepperonipizzaon 20 year study of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’

What the hell is this type of comment?! This is the same stupid phrase neo-nazi use to joke about the Holocaust.

Thousands have been killed by the terror, even some of his allies turned against him because how bloody it was.

pepperonipizzaon Charlie Munger defends windowless dorm rooms for California students

There is already one which has been built and it has mostly positive reviews.

https://www.veryapt.com/ApartmentReview-a7222-munger-graduat...

pepperonipizzaon Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm

Thanks, it seems very well liked.

pepperonipizzaon DuckDuckGo has had 0 search warrants since founding in 2008

Was very pleasantly surprise with brave search.

pepperonipizzaon The New Population Bomb

https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_POPSOC_551_0001--why-ha....

pepperonipizzaon The New Population Bomb

The coming research on ectogenesis, and it's probable future implementation will allow human civilization to continue without culpabilizing people to have at least two kids.

pepperonipizzaon Societies that treat women badly are poorer and less stable

This is the thought I have about the Middle East, that if women would be more in power, a lot of the countries would develop quicker.

pepperonipizzaon U.S. companies lash out at Texas law changes, including abortion ban

That would be illegal

pepperonipizzaon Guantánamo survivor on the war on terror’s failure

Russia bounty on US soldiers story was probably fake, medias were quiet when it was revealed.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/...

pepperonipizzaon California's dry season is turning into a permanent state of being

And how long since we consider that an ever growing population is not a good thing for the environment?

When I read medias like Bloomberg, they seem legitime in their climate change coverage, but they always lament the slow growth of US's population.

pepperonipizzaon 2,500-year-old olive tree burned down in Evia fires in Greece

I read just some days ago that Turkey couldn't even take off their canadair because they didn't maintained them, and has leased planes from Poland and other countries.

pepperonipizzaon South Korea: The only middle power of its kind

These countries must invest in ectogenesis. I really don't understand why this is never talked about when the low fertility rate in the developed world is discussed.

South Korea has invested billions in trying to have its fertility rate increase by giving incentives to couples, it has only worsen.

We must get to the idea that it will be almost impossible in the developed world to get back to a fertility rate above 2.

Ectogenesis can be one of the solution.

pepperonipizzaon U.S. Population Growth, an Economic Driver, Grinds to a Halt

Can we achieve prosperity without economic growth?

Because at a point, we sure can't have prosperity with continuous population growth.