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Swiss healthcare costs will continue to rise next year, warns Health Minister
  • It will be a mix of interesting and depressing to watch the healthcare systems around the globe handle an increasingly old population alongside increased weather extremes.

  • ‘Biggest clean energy disaster in years’: UK auction secures no offshore windfarms
  • Who'd guess a race for renewables would cause the prices to skyrocket? Supply and demand is just too new for us to understand it to such depths.

  • Why do people act like coffee in the morning is such a sacred routine but soda in the morning [basically the same drink] is lowbrow and unhealthy?
  • The main risk of sugar isn't the calories themselves, but rather their effect on our fullness perception. That is, the more sugar we eat, the harder it is to feel full after eating something. This in return cases a vicious cycle, one that can easily lead into obesity. I don't know if that same issue can happen with sweeteners but I don't generally trust anything that tricks our senses to such a degree. I don't consider coffee the holy grail either, it's just that its negative health effects have been tested for ages and are acceptable for its overall benefits. But that's my own risk assessment, with only my health in the line.

    It's hard to get a good grip on the health neutrality of diet soda when the companies who make them have lied to us about sugar for decades. Maybe sweeteners are just their next lie, who knows. Much of the research done on sweeteners is funded by the ones who profit from it. The food industry have far more power than anyone should be comfortable with them having.

  • Gillian Keegan tells schools to ‘get off their backsides’ to help fix concrete crisis
  • I often think of the analogy where the Tories are the CIA and the UK is a Latin America country.

  • Construction crane against a cloudy sky
  • My bet is on the cloudy sky. The crane is bound to run out of energy before doing any real damage.

  • India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing
  • Whatever your reasons, that was whataboutism.

    Expecting others to know what goes on in NASA discussions is moronic at best. That's not the topic we are in. You didn't even link it or reference it.

    The Indian caste system is a humanitarian crisis. Would you rather westerners ignore it? There's just no winning then, is there?

  • India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing
  • Credit is definitely due and this is an amazing feat by India.

    I haven't bothered to discuss the other topic. Is there even any point when US issues are always on the front page here? I probably know more about US politics than my own country at this point.

    Though of course you could also go there and take a jab at Americans. Let me know when you do so I can give you some support.

  • Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More refugees came anyway
  • These numbers are very low, considering how much of the global population live in political shitholes, if not war zones.

  • UK economy bounced back from Covid, ONS revisions reveal
  • Doesn't really matter if the economy got bigger if it just means more money to corporations. The average person has certainly not seen growth. A mortage increase of 5% coupled with low wage increases, high food and fuel inflation left most people much worse off.

    Then again, this unit of measure has always been a very poor one in countries with huge wealth gaps.

  • Donald Trump’s trial in Georgia will be livestreamed on YouTube
  • I'd be amazed if they don't block commenting.

  • Over half of Americans are now more concerned than excited about AI's expanding role in daily life, according to the results of a Pew Research survey.
  • Some specific legislations then? Would be worth pointing them out. I'm no expert in the topic and I doubt most people here are. Your statement makes you seem against legislating it at all.

  • Annual hours worked per engaged person in Europe and in Asia. (Sorry for different color scales.)
  • I don't think this accounts for unpaid hours and the not at all voluntary socials in some countries such as Japan.

  • B.C. woman who deliberately damaged neighbour's trees ordered to pay $150K in compensation
  • Sounds like a company owns the house and lets it out.

  • Covid: UK has ‘let our guard down’ as concern over new ‘Pirola’ variant grows
  • Boats. Mash them. Boil them. Put immigrants in them.

  • What's the most efficient way for peeling potatoes by hand?
  • I don't think hands are good at peeling potatoes. Maybe if you sharpen your nails?

  • India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing
  • Whataboutism bs. Two wrongs don't make a right.

    whataboutism /ˌwɒtəˈbaʊtɪz(ə)m/ noun the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.

  • You google it if you like. You won't find it.
  • Science itself during the dark ages.

    Romans were doing very well before my buddy JC came along.

    Maybe our sins should have stayed unforgiven, you know?

  • Star Citizen Funding crosses $600 million mark
  • Reminds me of ant lines.