Does France not already have a giant database of citizens and various visa holders with their information and all that? Do they not give out cards to use at the doctor’s office?

What extra burden would “not giving out that card to retirement visa holders” add?

So the most informed people should not be able to make public statements because people who make policies might listen to them? That’s an insane take.

Where did I use the word “trust?” Nowhere. I said they have a well-informed opinion on the topic at hand.

Show me where he is setting military policy. I’ll wait.

Oh, hang on, he isn’t. He is making a public statement about what he thinks politicians should do based on what he observes in his daily work on the job. It’s literally the Chairman’s job to make public statements about what is best for the industry they work in and what is best for their company.

You’re right. He’s the Chairman, who in most corporations leads the hiring of the CEO. He’s actually higher up. Congrats on being technically correct.

The Chairman or CEO or whatever of a major defense corporation has a vested stake in what things might affect the defense industry and very likely has a team of people informing him of what is going on geopolitically. This person is someone who probably knows more than you on things like this, so maybe listening to him is worthwhile. We don’t have to follow what he says, but hearing what he says is probably a good idea.

Who said anything about stock price? I sure didn’t.

Who cares what the CEO of a major Defense contractor thinks about the defense of the continent that company is located in? I’d say a lot of people.

Dmitry Peskov said: “Why is he involved in nuclear weapons?”

“Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov expressed surprise that a representative of the civil aviation industry would make such statements.”

I have to think that Peskov knows Airbus is not just a civil aviation company… He does know that Airbus is a major defense contractor, right? The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) just rebranded itself as Airbus 10 years ago. The literally make missiles. Why wouldn’t the CEO of a company that makes weapons talk about making weapons?

When I first saw signs about fly-tipping in London, my head went to cow tipping and thought, “someone would need really fast reactions to tip over a fly.”

The biggest thing I will miss when I finally move to Europe is how rarely I encounter smokers in public in the US. I can only hope Europe keeps making smoking less enticing, because it’s really jarring walking around a beautiful city and having to smell smoke everywhere outside.

2500 years ago we didn’t have computers and cell phones. We do now, and they all use gold.

My computer and my phone are preeeeeeeeeetty important to my life, though.

The value of gold lies in the fact that other men may be disposed to work their ass off in order to have some shiny things to gift to women in order to have sex. As you can imagine, the power of gold amongst married couples drastically decreases.

Gold is actually useful for things other than jewelry.

Do most people have bars of gold sitting around? No. Do most people have gold jewelry like wedding rings and earrings and necklaces? Yes. Can those bars of gold sitting in banks be easily melted down into coins in the event of a society collapse? Yes. Can Bitcoin be usable at all without internet and power? No.

Yes, the thing that doesn’t work in case of an internet or power outage. Yeah, that’s a good idea to use in societal collapse.

but the core idea is one of prosociality and female safety

No, it isn’t. That’s not at all why the separation of sexes exists for Muslims.

It’s about the fact that once a woman reaches a certain age, she is now eligible for being owned by someone other than her father and must be treated as exclusive property that only one man can own. Restricting their movements and not giving them the right to drive a car or vote or do other “normal adult” things is all the same as separating the sexes and making women wear certain clothing.

Yes, this will definitely protect farmers. I mean, it won’t, but at least they will FEEL like it protects them.

People eat veggie burgers for a reason, and it isn’t because they think it is actually meat. You can call it whatever you want.

Windy roads make people slow down for all the turns. Narrow roads make people slow down because most don’t have a great sense of how big their car is. Bumpy roads make people slow down and wakes people up. Even how lanes are painted changes how people drive.

Other countries have FAR harder driving tests and FAR stiffer penalties for breaking the rules. In the US, we treat driving like a human right, so people have no respect for anything or anyone around them when inside their car.