Yeah the sorting hat sorta tells Harry slitherin folks are destined for big things (not necessarily good, but big) but then there’s dumbfucks like crabbe and goyle in there who couldn’t accomplish shit.

Joanne Kowling Rowling didn’t exactly stay consistent about things in those books.

It’s quite variable too. I’m very average in terms of length and with one partner we discovered that that’s enough to hit the cervix. She did not have a pleasant experience that time. Others have been fine with my size (minus one size queen who found it far too small)

I read your comment before the one you replied to and my mind certainly went somewhere other then farms

That’s not the issue though? Running out of workers to support the retired people is.

A few do that, but mostly old people just own the entire world and complain how nobody wants to work anymore. But surely if we kick out all the immigrants (the hardest workers), things will be better.

Corporate profits ARE old people’s retirement. Over 55s own 52% of the entire US economy. Boomers own 8 times more than billionaires. It’s similar in all western countries though perhaps not all are as bad. Billionaires are leeches but old people in general are the bigger drain on an aging society.

Replying from my other account because I’m too lazy to relog into sopuli on my phone but:

It’s not that simple. Take the US. Billionaires collectively own about 10 trillion. Boomers collectively over 80 trillion. You take every single cent away from billionaires and you barely make a difference in people’s ability to retire. I mean you should still do that. But money that isn’t backed by labor or goods moving around in the economy is kinda useless and you need people to produce said goods and provide services. All that billionaire moolah is mostly predicated on everyone holding all their stock because stock values fall apart when people sell. You could sell a few million worth of stock and cause that company’s value to go down a billion. It’s smokes and mirrors.

Other age groups don’t entire half the damn economy. Boomers are a class unto themselves.

Billionaires collectively own about 10 trillion in the US, Boomers collectively over 80 trillion.

Just going with the US because it’s the best known example. It’s not very dissimilar in other western countries but the US is the worst I believe.

That’d mostly a US thing I believe, ain’t no bank here leaving money on the table just because you paid using a credit card. Still gotta pay it back or pay interest.

Longest it’s taken has been 5 minutes for me. I’d be furious if it took a day, even an hour.

Most cars don’t show that. Here’s the fuel gauge from my backup car since my other car is in the middle of repairs

Not only do you have to know the size of the tank, you also have to account for fuel tank math being different from regular math. The needle isn’t linear. E.g in a lot of cars it doesn’t start dropping until you’re down at least like 5 liters. That’s because people start whining about fuel consumption otherwise (“I just filled up and it’s already dropping”) and similarly the last half or quarter seems to be bigger in some cars. Middle bit is worth the least.

I don’t think I’ve seen a car that actually shows the liters. Maybe once or twice. I’ve owned like 10 or 15 cars and driven many more.

In Estonia two chains make you choose at the pump if you’re paying inside after pumping or on the machine before. One switches over automatically when the shop part closes and doesn’t even let you choose when it’s open. Others are pay-first.

And nobody needs to see you here, they have cctv anyway

T is actually short for 1000 KG not 2000 units of British currency.

Yes, carbs are great if you love working on cars. A factory fuel injection system these days (anything newer than the old Jetronic pieces of shit) is pretty much set it and forget it, plus if you do have a bad sensor or something, it’ll usually tell you (by live data reading if not DTC). Way easier to maintain than carburetors.

Thing is, giant mansions existed in the 19th century too. They would’ve already been affecting the average home size in the 20th century.

The growth AFAIK is largely driven by the suburban mcmansions, which aren’t necessarily a 1% thing.

Well only central banks can create it out of thin air. Normal banks lend other people’s money (fractional reserve banking)

That would be the difference between a permissioned ledger vs a decentralised cryptocurrency. Pretty hard(not impossible) to turn off someone’s bitcoin, but depending on the design, the state backed crypto might be very easy… Or not.