Who is going to be competing for the eyeballs of people who militantly refuse to watch ads? I'd love to see YouTube have competition, but I don't think the demographic here is particularly valuable to anyone.

Given how limited the selection of electric vans and pickups is, I think this will backfire somewhat in terms of getting trades and technicians into the city centre.

Kinda the point, isn't it?

It must be interesting being one of Disney's senior executives, and being married to one of the striking actors.

If they are rowing back on that he can’t stand again for President, surely. That’s astonishing.

I agree this isn't a good look, but career ending?

Except when I am right, I'm not going to stop arguing just because you don't want to change your mind.

This reminds me of my ex. Good times.

The people saying it aren't usually in the half they think they are, either.

"think of how stupid the average person is, and then think half of them are dumber than that"

So heavily overused.

I understand much of the technology we use today isn't magic, but it may as well be with how much I understand about how it works.

I don't think you quite grasp what Arthur C Clarke was going for with this one.

Yeah, this one annoys me no end. Especially as its used when workplace safety is concerned far too often.

If I were wrong, you'd be able to convince me that I'm wrong. We can keep going until one of us accepts that we didn't have an accurate understanding of reality.

I had an ex like you.

Yeah, this basically sums up my experience as well. There's a real "I'm right, you're wrong, and we're going to keep at this until you agree with me" approach that some people have.

To be clear, Israel is far from blameless in this, you're quite right about that.

I mean, a well run capitalist/socialist economy seems to do a very good job at this, if a role is in demand, pay rates rise, and more people are attracted to that role.

So either get pissed at both sides for war crimes or get pissed at none.

Yeah, not many people are taking that step.

It's almost like they're the government or something.

What, exactly, is your point?

She's an extremely talented singer and songwriter, that's how.

It's fascinating to me how quickly China went from "one child only" to "we'll pay you to have children"

If you go back far enough with that line of reasoning, you end up back at Jewish territory anyway.

So really, they just gave it back to the original owners.

It wasn't stolen from them, what is currently Israel was British territory prior to ww2.