Almost all meat you buy at the supermarket has brine. Even things like ground beef.

Also meat glue.

Wait is this in addition to the other threats or instead of? I thought we had another deferment on those?

Imagine conducting a war like this.

Yep.

Pretty daft really.

To you.

I would argue that neither you nor most other people like making bad decisions, right?

I might have thought that a decade ago, but it’s become very, very obvious in the interceding years that people vote against their own interests all the time for a variety of reasons, and do not engage in any kind of self-criticism regarding their previous decisions.

You don’t seem to have been paying much attention to Trump’s mode of operation.

If a half dozen middle powers laid the blame for this shit show at his feet that would absolutely exert influence over American foreign policy.

What exactly have we “found out from this war” ?

Iran was stopped for all intents and purposes.

Perhaps.

I don’t care that has an embarrassment of wealth in accumulated karma.

I do kinda care that there are people who think it’s actually relevant in some way.

Telling someone that no one cares how much karma they have on reddit is not an expression of hatred.

Only an idiot would blame Albo.

However, I’m really raging that Albo and other world leaders won’t hold Trump’s feet to the fire over this.

Trump started it and he’s the only one that can finish it and the only way he will do that is if other leaders throw some shade on him for this idiocy.

I came from Reddit with over 2 million karma

No one cares.

Yes but my point is, most people are somewhere in between those extremes, and you won’t really know which end you’re nearest to.

I think the cops knew exactly what was going on.

You wouldn’t know if you were in the radiation poisoning zone though.

Like you’ve almost certainly been irradiated but, enough that you’ll die a horrible death in 5 days? Or merely enough to increase your risk of cancer in 40 years?

Sure but a “reset” implies everyone starts over.

In a recession people lose all their money. Thats literally why things might get cheaper, because no one can afford them.

As we have both said - the poorest are hardest hit, being the most insecure with employment. Consuming their savings degrading professional networks and connections, even falling into poverty.

In short, if you cant afford to buy a house now, it will be much more difficult to during or following a recession.

Buying power per dollar may increase, but only wealthy people have any dollars. Thats why this type of financial downturn is when wealthy people consolidate their positions and buy more houses et cetera.

As an aside, if property in Australia reduced in value by half, we would probably be a failed state. I dont think our various institutions both public and private could navigate those kinds of catastrophic losses.

Tough one. I think the answer depends on what it means to be alone and what loneliness is.

In my 20s I had lots of friends I could call up and hang out with any night of the week, but I felt lonely because I didn’t have a partner.

Now in my 40s I have a partner and 2 kids who are very dependent toddlers and I feel lonely because I feel like I care for them all so much but there’s no one to care for me.

I guess loneliness is the feeling of wanting to share a specific thing and being unable to. With toddlers you realise there’s an inverse feeling in that every moment of every day must be shared and sometimes it would be nice to be alone.

Like all feelings, if you try to embrace it and really feel it, rather than pushing it away, the feeling can quickly dissipate rather than consuming you.

As in all theological questions, it really requires faith.

If you have faith then you don’t need to worry about the details.

If you don’t have faith then none of it makes any sense.

In a really generalised way, the tree and the fruit is kind of a metaphor.

If you live the life style I tell you to, then live in this garden and I will care for you. If you want to make your own rules then you’re on your own.

I’ve never seen it this way before but this actually makes sense really.

We do get asked this question every week now, so there’s that.

Seriously though, once you block all the tankies and dweebs there’s about a dozen regular posters and a few hundred regular commenters.

I like it here.

I still browse reddit using redlib. Theres more content.

Recessions don’t tend to work that way. Like I said the poorest always shoulder the burden.

Its not like kinda turning it off and on again to have a do-over with more reasonable prices.