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@Raze imagine if they started offering health insurance literally at a cost of running business. Charging just enough to cover the expenses and pay everyone a decent salary. Literally all of America would switch to them, purely from the market domination perspective - they would outcompete everyone else. But that won't happen because shareholders and CEOs need their billions.

Outcompeted in what? Profits? If by outcompeted you mean losing business and going bankrupt than why would that be the case? If united health offered the best insurance for its money and wasn't actively trying to screw people out of coverage as opposed to milking people for every last penny, it would outcompete everyone else and only get more customers. Sure, shareholders and CEOs wouldn't be earning as much, but they would totally be doing better as a company.

I invite anyone who is interested to watch this documentary on animal abuse and exploitation and then share their thoughts. I am currently on minute 6 and I can't imagine how huge the balls of the journalists who were filming all that must be.

@Jason Actualization how much energy do you spend on distilling water? Do you pay a lot for electricity? Also, most water distillers come with those charcoal sachets that are supposed to catch any chemicals and organic compounds that have lower boiling temperature than water. But I don't have high hopes in them. What do you think about that?

I plan to replace all of my drinking water with glass bottles for sustainability, but I am also curious if drinking from the plastic ones is actually harmful. Do they leak microplastics into the water, and are there any other potential concerns besides that?

I think this is the case for me, but maybe I am just imagining things.

I did some research and those two models seem the best: Aquatru Carafe Aquatru Classic The main difference between them is that classic is bigger and has higher output while carafe has a glass container for filtered water. For some reason, the carafe model costs the same in the EU as the classic, while in the US it is 100$ cheaper, I assume because of it's smaller capacity. You also need to replace filters on carafe more often, because they also have lower capacity, so it should be more expensive in the long term. I am wondering how big of a deal it is to store your water in a plastic container and if using glass is worth 100$ extra plus lower volume?

@integration journey wow, congrats!

@Nemra @Thought Art I just remember reading / watching some stuff about how multitasking is actually bad for productivity and your brain. ANd I think having one monitor works better for me.

@FourCrossedWands Gather up your platinum, melt it down Gather up your gold, melt it down Gather up your silver, your bronze, your aluminum Melt it down Melt it down Melt it down!

@ted73104 unlike bitcoin, gold has value beyond people just agreeing on it having value. It's a rare metal that's used in all modern electronics, not to mention stuff like jewellery.

@BlueOak if you value consciousness more than anything and war is psychopathic than this is the most conscious option. This is what Ukraine would do if it was a country of enlightened stage turquoise monks.

@BlueOak Sorry if I was too harsh. Like I said, I get too emotional about it sometimes. I am not saying that you should go to war. So? Let him take it. Let whoever wants to fight - fight and whoever doesn't want to fight - not fight. Like I've said. Putin is not going to last forever. I don't mind it as long as it's a simple deal based on mutual consent. What I mind is other countries / people pushing Ukraine to keep fighting, pushing them to keep recruiting more soldiers, lowering conscription age, etc. All the while giving Ukraine just enough weapons and ability to fire them to keep dragging this war along, but not enough to ever finish it. Just look at what Biden administration is doing right now with trying to send extra weapons to Ukraine and allowing Ukraine to use long range missiles AFTER they lost the election. It just tells me that all those excuses about ww3, and nukes, and escalation are bullshit. Nobody is seriously afraid of this. They just enjoy how things are going right now.

@Javfly33 looks cool, thanks

You are incapable of realising my point, which is that while all people want safety, some people are audacious enough to exploit others for their own safety, like you. I am not sacrificing any lives. I am advocating for the war to stop, thus saving as many lives as possible. Ever heard of a sunken costs fallacy? It's not my fault that you value a chunk of land belonging to one country over another more than a human life. Not sure how this rambling about good, and bad, and ego connects with what I am saying? Are you incapable of thinking on your own instead of just parroting the same spiritual keywords whether they fit or not? You are not a bad guy because you disagree with me, I simply think that people who use the lives of others in this kind of cold blooded politics game are pathetic, and you happen to be one of those people. Nowhere did I say that I want to be great or anything like that, I simply find people like you repulsive and get emotional about it. You make me want to throw up. It's that simple.

@BlueOak love how you twist my words to suit your convenience. I am the one arguing against the war here. My defintion of a selfish coward is - gambling other people's lives for your own personal gain and safety. Oh I am sorry, I didn't know that have a phd worth of of arguing with people on online forums. Of course you must have the clearest perspective of us all then. you are the one who tagged my week old comment and proposed to intentionally have other people keep dying because your strategic genius told you that it is the best option. I have a short temper when it comes to pathetic, petty worldviews like that. But you are right, we don't have to keep talking. We just have to wait and have time prove you wrong.

So you are just a selfish coward, got it. Then stop pretending that you are arguing from some kind of strategic standpoint and just said that it benefits you more that Ukraine keep suffering as long as you ass is safe. Ukraine is losing its positions and people. You can speculate as much as you want about how Russia is running out of tanks, or how they are burning through their population, but it's Ukraine that has been losing pretty consistently as of late. All the rest is just you talking out of your ass, with no proof to back up your words.

@BlueOak also, I just love it when people nonchalantly play with others lives, while sitting in safety and comfort themselves. If you are so sure that continuing the war is so good then why don't you put your actions where your mouth is and go join Ukraine on the front lines? Stay there for a year and then tell me how you feel about staying there for another decade.

@BlueOak okay, so if Russia keeps fighting this war, their arms will run out, and they will have no resources or country left. And if Ukraine continues fighting, they will be heavily invested by the EU, and hence have indefinite resources to keep fighting. Amazing logic, especially considering how: - Ukraine is the one who lacking resources and proper support at the moment, and is losing territories because they don't have enough men and weapons. - Russia manufactures more weapons per year than all of EU combined. - Russia can send missiles all over Ukraine damaging its power stations, factories, roads, railroads, etc., while Ukraine can only attack a few hundred km into Russia. But I guess if they just keep fighting forever the situation will somehow magically turn around /s And if the war gets placed on hold, Russia will have new troops, new equipment, new supply lines etc. Which won't apply to Ukraine for some reason. I guess they would just sit and do nothing. They wouldn't regroup, or rearm, or rebuild their infrastructure, or strengthen their borders, or make new deals with the west, and EU wouldn't use that chance to up its weapon's manufacturing so that it could actually be on par with Russia. That also makes perfect sense...

The police girl is so pretty though

Crazy times, lol

1. You don't know what will actually happen 2. Even if Russia invades again, it's still better than non stop war. Time and stalling is on the Ukrainian side. Putin is not immortal.

I didn't ask for a clarification.I am saying that this has nothing to do with your argument about duty. I also don't agree that Zelenskyi is the cause of war, this is just your nutjob opinion, but that's not the point..

Says a guy who has ignored most of my points. I didn't quote a part about Zelenskyi because I don't see how it is relevant to the argument I am making.

I am talking about how in order to make an argument that "you have a duty towards your country, therefore you should go and fight in war", you should first prove thaat fighting in a war is what's best for your country. Maybe what's best for his country is for him to run away so that he can keep Ukrainian heritage alive. Maybe what's best for his country is to give up right now, survive under Russian occupation, and then gain independese once Putin's regime collapses. Saving hundreds of thousands of lives. But you hypocrites only use "duty" when it means sending someone to get their legs blown up, accomplishing nothing. Simply because it sounds very cool and patriotic, and movie like. Life is not holywood.