I think people in the future will look back on how we raise livestock today as barbaric.

They also just had a typhoon, which means there was probably a lot of debris making things worse.

Shortcut to prison

There are a lot more old people with diabetes and heart disease than dumbasses with broken bones.

Given that young people have a much bigger stake in the future, we should probably do the opposite — let kids vote and disenfranchise the elderly.

Bees with hips

People talk about it endlessly. And the rest of the time they talk about the IMF being too lenient (see Javier Milei). At the end of the day, Argentina’s problems are of its own making.

I’m not sure that anything in this article is true. Has China “cut” its treasury holdings or have they declined in value? Or have some maturing treasuries not been reinvested in new treasuries? Probably a bit of both, but there’s no evidence that China has “cut” its ownership of treasuries. And it probably reinvests most of its maturing treasuries into other dollar bonds. China isn’t de-dollarising its foreign reserves to any significant extent and this likely isn’t a story.

How much do you think it would cost for them to accept cheques instead?

The European Court of Human Rights enforces the European Convention on Human Rights, which is an internationally treaty that was ratified in the UK in 1951 (with enthusiastic support from Churchill). It lists a bunch of fundamental rights.

In 1998, the UK passed the Human Rights Act, which provides these protections under domestic law, with the European court acting as a backstop.

So, yes, this is domestic law.