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Why would someone desire a pension instead of a 401k?

Immune to market fluctuations. Based on years working and salary so if you worked a long time then retired and lived for a long time you may get more money than if you had a bag of cash in the market. It lasts until you die and your spouse can inherit it so it provides stability for you and your partner for the rest of your lives instead of having to guess how many more years you're going to live and dividing your savings by number of years left. Removes that stress of outliving your guess and running out of cash.

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People who post in other languages than English, do you also get mass downvotes ?

It's because native English speakers are seeing it in their All feed. If it's appearing in the All feed and the user has their feed set to English language only, then the poster failed to set what language their post was in. So they are downvoting the post for not setting the language.

I personally don't agree with this, I'm annoyed when I see a post in All in a language I don't know, but I simply block the user and move on. But maybe the persistent downvotes would call attention to the issue and encourage the poster to use the language settings in the future. As is happening right here.

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I think it's a question of language. If you're a publisher printing an English language book in Canada, you can expect to sell it to English readers in the US and Canada, so it is efficient to print the price for both on the same printing run. You would probably expect not to be selling books in English in countries where the primary language is not English. In other words, probably for the same reason that English language books don't have the price for Spain or China.

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What do companies get out of rewards programs

They get even more detailed information about your buying and spending habits. They can use this information to better manage their stock and sales to maximize profit, and probably more importantly, they can sell your contact information and buying habits to other companies who are in the very lucrative business of aggregating consumer data and monetizing it.

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Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case after lawmakers' last-minute appeal

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Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article. Shaken baby syndrome was fabricated by a handful of iffy doctors and has never been substantiated. Child abuse prosecutors have clung to it and propped it up because it makes for (inaccurate) open and shut convictions. Very few symptoms in the medical field are as cut and dry as what SBS claims is true.