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they did not manage to stop the law. what i am saying is that the leaders were trying to pass a necessary law and the population was against it, so you can't pass off blame for the dysfunction on them

European societies are the most truly democratic states there have ever been. You have educated populaces making decisions with full information (comparatively more than anywhere else in the world, ever) to choose your leaders. All your policy decisions - generous state pensions and benefits, redistributive taxes, extreme bureaucracy around hiring and firing, stifling operational and capital markets regulations - are chosen by your societies at the ballot box.

look at the massive popular protests when Macron tried to do pension reform. These are completely legitimate choices to make, they're your countries, but i do not think it's your leaders letting you down.

who owns the rain? what if it was just going to fall in the oceans?

nah i'll take the crime thanks

perhaps because the threat of "comply or there will be consequences" worked.

Babur, in his own words (the Baburnama), explicitly talks about the slaughter of apostates and infidels, creating towers of their skulls, the glory of being a killer of non-Muslims.

The ethnic hatred is not only everpresent, it is celebrated.

when do you think the British Museum will be able to publish an article on the neoclassical watercolors of Adolph Hitler without mentioning antisemitism, the holocaust, or WWII?

there's got to be a reasonable point on the spectrum between "child labor is legal" and "government mandates color of post-it notes in offices"

if a company decides they function best with all their employees in the same physical space, and hires with that condition as an explicit criteria for working there, do you really think that's a violation of human rights?

It doesn't take place in Antarctica, but The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard describes such a future - the last remnants of civilization have retreated to Greenland, and London is a flooded tropical lagoon.

are you saying an environment is only appreciable if it's a biosphere? why? that seems utterly arbitrary.

i'd quite enjoy bouncing around in 1/4 gravity, or sailing over lakes of hydrocarbons if i could. sure it's equally arbitrary, but it would be more novel than any environment on earth.

what does selfishness have to do with it?

So does UofT - I myself and at least a dozen other 1T7 grads I know personally are headed south as soon as we graduate. This is a Canada-wide problem which won't be fixed unless salaries equalize.

UMontreal has Bengio, UofT has Hinton. Toronto also has Google Brain, and many UofT phd students and postdocs have ended up there (Sutskever, Karpathy).

It's a collection of articles, not a single text.