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The question doesn't need to be hypothetical. I am moving to a country exactly like that. From the US.

Lack of modern health care coverage alone is enough to justify it. A bonus is that the quality of life across the board is significantly higher.

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Mormon church fined over scheme to hide $32 billion investment fund behind shell companies

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A long time ago, it was so that they could use the additional resources for helping the needy and less fortunate instead of the government. The idea being a Church was a community organization and would know better than the government what the community needed.

In order to get the tax credit, the church agreed to never get involved politically with anything.

Fast forward to now, and churches are violating that agreement in a big way

Now they deserve to be taxed.

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Sync for Lemmy is now available for everyone

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Sometimes you have to pay for keeping things free, of that makes any sense.

FOSS can't exist in a vacuum. The developers spend s lot of time on things and they need to be paid for their efforts, otherwise we won't get great products like Sync.

If you want things that are well maintained and supported, then there has to be income for those owners to provide those services.

Sync for lemmy is a top tier clients. I'm willing to pay to get and support that model. It's not like the 17 dollars a year is a big deal. I spend more than that on a single sushi roll sometimes.

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Furthermore, he's really only talking about the Shakespeare interpretation of that, which took plenty of liberties with the historical accounts.

There is absolutely no record of him ever saying that. In fact, the opposite is true. We have accounts that he was mostly just screaming and crying in pain the whole time and didn't say a damn thing.

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What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

“It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us – but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.” — Carl Sagan

This one has been my go to for years and years.

It gives me comfort. In that we probably won't every get there, because of our evolutionary failures as a species, but that's ok. Because the next species or evolution of our kind will stand a better chance.

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Rome didn't fall in a day. Or a year.

Takes a lot longer than most people think.

If nothing else, this shows just how well architected and built the original Twitter infrastructure was. Being able to withstand the chaos monkey that is Musk should be its own SLA tier.

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Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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It has no life to have a right to until it's born.

Go ahead and tell me about all the experiences you had in your mother's womb. About the goals and aspirations you had before you came out. Tell me about your experiences, your emotional fortitude, hell, tell me anything at all about the time before you were born, from your perspective.

A fetus does not have a right to life, but the mother does.

Your views are getting real people with all their dreams, aspirations, goals, hopes, etc. killed, just so you can feel a warped sense of false moral superiority for a few minutes on the Internet.