It boils down to the old ‘nature vs nurture’ debate.

Current consensus is that it’s a bit of both. Or, to be more precise (and modern), social factors, biological factors, and psychological factors all interact.

‘Fuck you, got mine’

The same guy yes.

He’s had that look long before Trump was involved in politics in an any (‘serious’) capacity.

I prefer to think of Donald Trump as ‘American Geert Wilders’.

Wilders been in politics for far longer than the Orange Man has been and he can string together a coherent sentence. His politics are terrible and I hope he fails though.

Sure it shifts the burden to the taxpayer and I would like my tax money to be spent on other things please.

Companies aren’t going to change their policies voluntarily, it’s up to governments to make better decisions with my money and make other options more viable.

Funneling subsidies and tax breaks from fossil fuel to sustainable energy sources. In the Netherlands alone, the around 40 billion euros are spent by the government each year directly or indirectly subsidizing fossil fuel.

Kerosine airplane fuel is untaxed for example, while consumer car fuel comes with a 20% (ish) tax.

Exactly. Congrats!

Some, such as the Gun Violence Archive, include events in which multiple people are shot regardless of number of deaths, and so report much higher figures.

This carries a fun implication: let’s deflate the number of mass shooting by only including the deaths and not how many people are actually shot (and perhaps saved by emergency room personnel).

Good.

What’s that?

You don’t get it. I can get a hangover from looking at a beer the wrong way and I’m not even in my 40’s yet.

Some young dude caught me yawning at a Rammstein concert this summer. I told him I couldn’t help it because it was past 9.

No but it’s the best explanation I could come up with given there’s others experiencing the same.

Same for me (in the Netherlands). I suppose it’s something to do with the license being revoked to get us to subscribe to Paramount+ or something.

I’m pretty sure most denominations of Christianity bury their dead without embalming them first and have done so for most of history.

It can look fresh enough without embalming if kept cool right? Maybe a little makeup?

I know, but other than manmade laws, why?

As far as I know, it’s a US thing right? In the Netherlands embalming has been expressly prohibited up until 2009 I think. Granted, Dutch laws concerning what you can do with a dead body are pretty strict but embalming just seems weird to me.

Or just bury people without embalming them first? As a non-American I find it super weird that it’s the norm in the US. Why would you still do that anyway?

His magnum opus!