An additional factor may be wealth inequality. The more unevenly that wealth is distributed, the more the wealthy are able to buy additional and larger properties. This might have the effect of squee… (View Post)

Those would certainly seem better ways of estimating population than counting phone sims. (View Post)

I'm still wondering how literally I should read "dog crap" here. (View Post)

As someone who believes strongly in our common duty to take care of the world for future generations, I quite understand the motivation to take military action against those who clearly don't gi… (View Post)

Military defence is of course only one side of the coin. We are so reliant on foreign, especially US, tech that our economy could be laid low without the need to deploy a single soldier. We desperate… (View Post)