Top notch banter.

Wow, you’re so edgey.

I worry that your point is even worse than I thought.

Very true.

It’s been genuinely good to talk. All the best for next week.

You and I completely and utterly disagree.

(I meant it as a compliment.)

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Dystopian.

In the UK, former Prime Minister Liz “crash the economy within 40 days off taking office” Truss proposed criminalising giving homeless people a tent.

I was appalled.

It didn’t get passed, partly because her party got rid of her faster than you can say “unpopular economic mismanagement”, thank goodness.

The more people that treat homeless people as valuable human beings the better the world is.

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I think you’re quite a few decades out of date with that opinion. The Chinese government is very worried about population decline now.

The nasty bit was telling a mother she has to have an abortion against her will.

China now has the opposite problem of a declining population, which causes problems because of the working age population is small compared to the older population, you end up running out of money so you either have to tax more heavily or abandon older folks to their fate without helping them.

The declining population problem is very common in wealthier countries.

And lower population means fewer jobs. The number of jobs that need doing in a country doesn’t depend on the area of the land, it depends on the population size. The problems come when governments don’t build infrastructure. If you don’t build schools and hospitals and suchlike, three are fewer jobs in construction and less money going into the local economy, and schools and hospitals get crowded and do a worse job.

Excellent. Thanks for answering. This was really worth asking and I think that there’s ocean of good in you. I’m intrigued by “likely to become a crime pretty soon” but don’t feel you have to elaborate.

Yeah, I get that, but you’re avoiding the question: what are you proud of, for yourself?

See, this stuff with putting other people down, it just makes me wonder if there’s not anything in your own life to feel positive about? Like, what are you proud of, for yourself?

What kind of inferiority complex makes people claim they “own” others that they disagree with?

Fast charging is a double-edged sword.

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Every wankpanzer ever? I had to check it wasn’t the onion. It’s not the onion.

Where does the Dizzy Devil Ducky bit come from?

No, the generation that killed Nazis is the silent generation. Boomers are their children.

Probably hadn’t paid the monthly subscription for the emergency door non-locking software.