JasSmith

I guess my mortgage could be considered bad debt on account of being adjustable interest rate - this is however the most common type of mortgage arrangement in Sweden where I live. This has led to my interest rate costs going up an eye watering 400% in about a year.

As a Dane am I envious of some of your systems like investeringssparkonto, but we have the better mortgage system. My home loan is locked in at 1% for 30 years.

You guys have had ENORMOUS immigration over the last eight years without building homes at commensurate rates. No wonder it placed pressure on housing. I don’t think your government had a realistic housing and immigration plan. I guess that’s why they were voted out. I hope things improve.

Even if it results in less tax revenue, and poor people becoming even poorer? I don’t agree. I think we should help poor people, not hurt them.

Unfortunately racism is baked into university admission and corporate hiring practises now. Advocates like Ibram Kendi argue that modern day racism is required to address historical racism. The large majority of us in the middle, between the two racist extremes, disagree.

This intra-hepatic lipid will promote the production and secretion of very low-density lipoprotein 1 (VLDL1) leading to an increase in post-prandial triglycerides. A vicious cycle occurs effecting insulin resistance as well. The lipid in the liver will increase insulin resistance resulting in increases in circulating diacylglycerol. Additionally, the insulin resistance will lead to further lipid deposit in the liver with sugar having a greater propensity to turn to fat (3). A downstream effect of increased apoCIII and apoB will lead to muscle lipid accumulation, and end in whole body insulin resistance. All of this metabolic dysregulation results from the direct route fructose initially takes to the liver.

Thanks for the link. If proven this would definitely be a bad outcome, but it doesn’t mean that a calorie deficit becomes a calorie surplus depending on the nutrient. If one is burning more than they’re consuming, the above is irrelevant insofar as weight gain is concerned. It’s relevant either way for diabetes.

This is of course the problem with regulations on free speech. Any measures designed with the best of intentions are inevitably abused by future leaders. People need to imagine what Trump would do with this power.

I think you’re arguing different things, or you don’t understand the top comment. They are explaining that gaining weight is a function of net calories. The article you linked is effectively explaining glycemic index, or the rate at which food can be converted into energy by the body. Both of these are compatible. It’s wise to eat low GI food so that you feel sated for longer, but you don’t have to. You can eat exclusively white bread and lose weight if your net calories are negative.

AI is far from perfect, and is unlikely to satisfy the DSA requirements.

They’re an unequivocally biased source. They still have articles up claiming 500 people were killed in the hospital explosion, and “many are disinclined to believe Israel’s claim.” They immediately repeated Hamas propaganda without any verification, and wrote a score of articles ginning up hate.

Al Jazeera used to be somewhat reliable, but it hasn’t been for years. They’re not hiding it either.

They were so close to implementing on-device scanning last year it’s scary. The number of people who supported it because Apple promised to only use it for child sexual exploitation material really shocked me. “Think of the children” really does have a way of making people’s brains short circuit.

This reads like a fluff piece. BYD doesn’t even rank in popular brands and models in Europe.

China has a 15% tariff on all cars imported from Europe, plus a “luxury” tax for expensive cars, plus an engine tax, which caps out at 40% for the largest engines. Perhaps Europe should treat China the same way China treats Europe. It’s only fair.

Tax revenues increased after those tax cuts. It will help to read about the Laffer curve. There is a kind if elasticity of demand for tax revenue. When raising taxes, some proportion of economic activity, including people working, is reduced. This can lead to a net decrease in tax revenue. The opposite is also true. The Laffer curve stipulates that there is an optimal tax efficiency on the vertex.

Of course this has nothing to do with fair distribution. It simply means that, paradoxically, higher taxes would reduce the size of the federal budget.