I think you are severely overestimating the amount of money needed for a holiday, or your social cohort is quite far below the average income skewing your idea of what is rich, and how many people are “rich”.

Australians are pretty well paid overall and get 20 days of paid holidays a year. A quick Google says that 55% of Australians have a passport. Okay, travel from Australia is expensive, but people definitely do it every few years.

Survey from 2023 states:
The majority of Australians surveyed (85%) have been on holiday in the last five years

More than 90% of 18-27 year olds surveyed have been on holiday in the last five years.

https://www.budgetdirect.com.au/travel-insurance/research/average-holiday-cost-statistics.html

How were you living before to become bankrupt?

Have they tried going back to before they were a crooked tax haven for unethical corporations?

1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington alone evades more tax than Ireland.

It’s lovely to throw stones, but you’re in the most delicate glasshouse of them all.

Partial agreement. I think that medication for mental illnesses is still essentially in the dark ages, and it’s partially because they were not allowed to use the plants for research to determine what about them was effective, correctly engineer them into a standardised type, and work on the therapies to work best with them.

The physical point I don’t agree with. In these instances, the effective plants have been researched and their mode of action has (generally) been determined. It is then possible to engineer them into higher and more consistent effectiveness in the human body, than the plants which essentially had an effect by random chance.

Don’t find that’s true at all. Direct language is much preferred to this bullshit.

I mean the diesel engine department would probably be quite big for a company like Volkswagen. Each engine type has a team of engineers and a manager.

Brick expensive :(

panel cheap :)

both of these were designed by architects. neither reflects the twin simplicity and laziness that engineering embodies.

And how do you picture the Danish Foreign Minister getting to this air base that is the only one in the region, and getting past the American security?

The problem is they will be landing at an airport controlled by the US.