Reddit is an unreliable source but not to be dismissed just because it is reddit. There is a higher chance of having a good source from reddit than from randomwebsiteabouttopic.com.

No. Hard to define, sure, but definitely not arbitrary. Plenty of research on the topic of sentience.

I'm aware, and yet, that is not what an authoritarian government is... But sure, continue to spread your ignorance and double down with dull insults, that will do a lot!

Well, you're already saying "we", which implies you share that net worth with someone else! That'd be 450k/head, and no one is a millionaire!

It is definitely not the average european city experience. For a comfortable one-person appartment (if you want more than one person apartments, then it's worth is shared between the occupants, of course, and ends up cheaper per person), let's generously say 70m2, then you'd need the price per square meter to be more than 14k€ for it to be a million euro home.

That's way above average, unless, again, you're looking at city centers, which are always going to be expensive no matter the country.

So, if you live in a european city, not in a city center, and your street has housing costs above 14k€ per square meter (even, conservatively, 10k€), then your city is an outlier, not the average experience.

Just because a state self-proclaims to be socialist, doesn't mean it is.

Because the crypto market overreacts, always

Not every system fits every country.

France had republics before the current 5th that had the president as more of a ceremonial role. But it did not work for us, and both the third and fourth republics ended up with political instability and governments falling one after the other.

The 5th republic purposefully gave more power to the president, to remediate the political instability that France had seen with the previous systems. It works.

No democratic system is perfect. The one Greece has, per your comment, sounds great in theory. But the day where the 3 top parties can't come to an agreement, and the elections don't change the outcome, you'll have an extended period of instability where the government is unable to do anything. And that is absolutely awful for a country.

It is great that Greece isn't encountering these issues. But France has, and the current system is a fix to that. Let's not repeat bad History by reverting to a system we know does not work for us.

No, it's by design. Giving the government to the largest group doesn't always make sense.

If your largest group is 40%, but the other groups forming the remaining 60% all disagree with the largest group, how is it more democratic to give the 40% group the government? Then you have a givernment that only 40% of the parliament supports.

If you pick a government that satisfies the 60% remaining, you then have a government 60% of the parliament supports. How is that less democratic?

No, it definitely does not cover almost all software. Most software does not aim to allow a random user to build something that usually requires a dev.

When you use an OS, you build nothing. When you use a browser, you build nothing. When you use a game, you build nothing. When you use a graphics editor, you build something, but it's not something that a dev could do.

I could go on with a list of almost all software like this, but that's not a good use of my time, and I hope it is not necessary.

No, it has not. If anything, we're repeating the 30s. The war at the end is not inevitable. And we better avoid it, cause it might be the last one humanity sees if it happens.

yeah... I know