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By not acting in good faith, I mean "actively trying to force a customs border between NI and ROI without just coming out and saying that's what they're doing".

Quote from: MorleyDev on March 18, 2023, 09:11:08 am

In the UK, if you aren't self-employed then your employer handles your taxes for you. They just put the your post-tax pay straight into your bank every month and your paycheck lists every deduction for you to review.

The filing bit that's under discussion is that every year, your workplace gives you documents showing precisely how much you paid along with your final income.

In the UK self-assessment Tax Returns only are required to be filled out if:
* You were self-employed as a ‘sole trader’ and earned more than £1,000 (before taking off anything you can claim tax relief on)
* You were a partner in a business partnership
* You earned £100,000 or more
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Also if you have untaxed income, like money from renting out a property, tips and commission, income from savings, investments and dividends or foreign income. In practice pretty much all working people won't fill one of these out and just let the PAYE system employers use handle it all. Employers are audited to make sure they're following the rules.

DT saying he'll be arrested on Tuesday and calling on his supporters to stage mass protests.

"Look at all how the liberals protest when things with the legal system they don't like happen, shameful. They should just accept people being needlessly killed by the police like good little citizens!"
"Wait, something that affects MEEEEE!?!?! PROTEST VIOLENCE RAGE DESTROY!"

Isn't it that if you're getting what you need from your diet, the excess is just passed out, so if you're already eating the healthy balance it's a waste. If you aren't, like are missing a section from your diet due to lifestyle (Vegan) or your body struggles to absorb them (Health issue) then suppliments are useful?

So comes down to what you define as "healthy person" there. The non-thing is suggesting they're generally useful to take, rather than being useful in specific circumstances.

I was being a tad facetious with the "burn it all down" comment, yes But the issue isn't resource allocation, it's a drop in resource output from population decline that concerns governments and some economicists. (Plus a drop in QoL is generally assumed to lead to civil unrest, and people are dumb so that has a risk of leading to the Very Bad Things).

Using immigration to drain excess population from other countries, raising the retirement age, and making more babies are ways to maintain output (in the short-term at least), whilst reduction of the cared-for population would reduce the burden on what is being output to try and balance out the reduction from population decline*. Western countries have been relying on the former for a few decades now, but that well is drying up. The "Middle World" is joining the "below 2.1" club this decade, quite a few of them already have, and Africa is predicted to do so next decade.

By modern economics I meant the whole "globalised assumption of continued exponential growth of GDP over time". From the theorizing I've seen, population shrinkage is assumed to lead to GDP reduction, which leads to "everybody panic aaaah fire burn it down mad max time! oh wait that didn't happen? huh...oh no it's happening again aaaah!".

The potential "End of Global Economic Growth" is touted as being the next "The Bad Thing" to deal with, so Governments are trying to find ways to put that off for some future lot to deal with.

(* Also never said mandatory euthanasia, the (somewhat weird) argument I've seen from the people concerned about the "cliff edge" is that legalized voluntary euthanasia for general quality of life reasons rather than only terminal illness would be 'enough')

Normal in Maths and Normal in Society are two different things (not that either are consistent, a Normalized Vector has nothing to do with a statistical normal). Socially, describing something as normal in the English Language comes with an implicit value judgement. That normal is good, abnormal is bad. You can be both rare and normal, because language is a cursed thing invented purely to hurt those who use it. Return to ook ook people!

As for Fox News, well Murdoch has openly that said they paid zero attention to truth or reality and entirely to what they thought would bring in more money. It'd be an appropriately fitting indictment of late-stage capitalism if the short term pursuit of profits destroyed their long term viability but cockroaches are depressingly good at surviving.

When they either forget not say the quiet part out loud, or no longer feel the need to hide it...

Thing is, even if you regard your brain/body not being matched as some form of 'mental disability', we already have legal and political agreement down in the books that society should accommodate others with mental and physical disabilities. There's already legal obligation to sure public buildings are wheel chair accessible, to not discriminate against people with Down's Syndrome. So even if you regard being transgender as some form of mental disability, then that doesn't change their being an obligation to accommodate, which means...allowing them to live as their 'preferred gender'.

Also mental disability is measured in distress and harm caused to the person with it, and treatment is about doing things to reduce or remove that distress. Since we already know 'conversion therapy' doesn't work for that and is instead just horribly abusive and cruel, that just leaves accommodation which is the approach proven to reduce the distress/harm.

So even by their professed 'logic', 'eradicating transgender' doesn't fit. Trying to present it in those terms is just a transparent attempt to mask their own hatred and prejudice, not that this wasn't already obvious.

We are also fighting most of these characters at the weakest point in their lives, many of them mentally and/or physically already being rather broken by the time we get to them.

And even in the lore being a Demigod just seems to make someone naturally able to become very skilled at what they put their minds to rather than being raw godly powah. Which fits into the Norse Mythology theming, where the gods are more mortal-like than a lot of other mythologies.