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  • jon-nycJ Offline
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    #2964

    Where our tax money goes.

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    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

      Where our tax money goes.

      IMG_2067.jpeg

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      #2965

      @jon-nyc Interesting and not as much difference as I thought. Big difference is in social protection.

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      • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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        Doctor Phibes
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        #2966

        So the the government of the country without universal healthcare spends more than all the countries with it?

        I was only joking

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        • MikM Offline
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          #2967

          Yes, that's interesting, but so many factors play into that. The spending alone doesn't really tell the whole story.

          Like TG I was struck by how similar they were.

          "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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          • jon-nycJ Offline
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            #2968

            I wish they included interest on debt.

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            • MikM Offline
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              #2969

              That's in other.

              "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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              • jon-nycJ Offline
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                #2970

                Actually the text says it’s in ‘Public Services’.

                It’s the public’s debt and it is debt service, after all. So I guess that makes sense.

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                • taiwan_girlT Offline
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                  #2971

                  In terms of size alone, this accolade of the animal with the biggest testicles goes to the right whale, whose testes weigh a massive 1,000kg.

                  Proportionately, however, it’s the tuberous bush cricket, whose testes amount to an impressive 14 per cent of its body mass. Imagine if a human's were 14 per cent of its body mass...

                  Testes tend to be proportionately larger in species in which the females are very promiscuous (female tuberous bush crickets mate with up to 23 partners), and there are two possible explanations.

                  First, they may allow a male to produce more sperm per mating in order to outcompete that of rivals; second, they may allow him to transfer a relatively small amount of sperm to a greater number of females. Research at the University of Derby supports the latter.

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                  • MikM Offline
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                    #2972

                    So much material, so little time. 😁

                    "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                    • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                      In terms of size alone, this accolade of the animal with the biggest testicles goes to the right whale, whose testes weigh a massive 1,000kg.

                      Proportionately, however, it’s the tuberous bush cricket, whose testes amount to an impressive 14 per cent of its body mass. Imagine if a human's were 14 per cent of its body mass...

                      Testes tend to be proportionately larger in species in which the females are very promiscuous (female tuberous bush crickets mate with up to 23 partners), and there are two possible explanations.

                      First, they may allow a male to produce more sperm per mating in order to outcompete that of rivals; second, they may allow him to transfer a relatively small amount of sperm to a greater number of females. Research at the University of Derby supports the latter.

                      Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                      #2973

                      @taiwan_girl said:

                      they may allow him to transfer a relatively small amount of sperm to a greater number of females. Research at the University of Derby supports the latter.

                      Yes, that sounds like Derby all right.

                      I was only joking

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                      • jon-nycJ Offline
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                        #2974

                        Geraldo Rivera was Kurt Vonnegut’s son-in-law for a time in the 70s.

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                            Look at the south. Just shameful.

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                              Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                                jon-nyc
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                                Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                                  Link to video

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                                  • jon-nycJ Offline
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                                    In your lifetime you will produce 34,000 liters of saliva, enough to fill two swimming pools.

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                                    • MikM Offline
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                                      Gotta get that thing wet.

                                      "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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                                      • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                                        Most of it will be produced in your last couple of years.

                                        I was only joking

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                                          The 1st Indiana Jones film came out in 1981 and was set in 1936. If they remade it today with the same time gap, it would be set in 1981.

                                          Yeah, we really are that old.

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