You draw the line at assets that impact your financial situation. Try securing a loan with your baseball card collection.

He’s clearly bought into his own cult of personality.

We can do both. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean its moral, and we generally look down upon immoral behavior.

I’m not arguing that taxing unrealized gains is a good idea. It would be practically impossible to enforce. All you need to do is regulate executive compensation so that it doesn’t skew towards options so much and you’ve solved most of the problem.

Sure if you want to get technical.

I was oversimplifying it for brevity’s sake.

I pay property taxes on my land and it will go up if the value of my land goes up. Maybe we should have stock taxes to make the whole “stocks are like houses” a reasonable comparison.

Jesus, who beat your dog this morning?

By that logic you should exclude any major military power since they were all culpable in horrific crimes. The US certainly did a lot of shady shit, the UK military likewise. Hell, the Canadian military is apparently very rapey to it’s own members.

That’s fair, but this is a controversy that is of greater interest to the public than deflated footballs were. It’s a ridiculous PR look for the NFL, but again, the NFL is categorically bad at this it borders on comedy.

So basically ban unions and lobby more?

Exactly. There just simply needs to be less waste coming from the source, and not just trying to deal with it once it’s been discarded.

Tom Brady does not co-operate with NFL investigation during deflategate = 4 game suspension. Sounds good, you act without good faith you should be punished.

The problem is that we are well passed the point where local pragmatic solutions that can be undertaken by the consumer is still effective. The average homeowner can recycle only so much, compost so much, or reduce as much as they can until you have diminishing returns or people simply getting exhausted and fed up.

I just want to echo this. You will be absolutely fine if you go visit the Balkans. I can’t recommend the Adriatic coast enough. I’m an ethnic Serb and drove from Slovenia to Montenegro and not once did I have issues.

Streams != sales.

She’s had a UK number 1, 2 top 10s, 3 top 40s but sure, that happens when you’re deeply unpopular.

“Most of these chart entries around the world appear as dashes; which indicates that there hasn’t even been sufficient number of record sales to even gain a chart entry.”

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make there. She has a limited discography so that means she isn’t famous worldwide?

Aside from slut shaming, you’re also very wrong about Megan Thee Stallion being popular only in the US.