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  • Again, youre going to need to back that up. “Funding easy lives” is absolutely not the life of an immigrant. You assume because they are migrating, they are poor, unproductive and going to cost you. That’s called being xenophobic.

    Try looking into how much of your tax dollars go to fund companies to make billionaires that won’t give anything back. Companies during covid ran away and hid their billions, then threatened the government with mass unemployment unless they paid the bill. You footed the bill for thousands of companies that are now refusing to pay proper wages after making record (subsidized) profits. Wages not going up in several decades has nothing to do with immigration.

    10 years ago or so there were no billionaires over 100 billion. Now there are 18 lol. Leave the immigrants alone and start being angry at the right people. You might also want to look at the positive impacts of immigration, the investment in these people is beneficial for the country as most become proper tax payers. That’s why counties do it. Immigration has nothing to do with being nice. Not to mention international students are a big funder of your education system.

    Btw, the difference between a million and a billion is easier to see when looking in seconds. A million seconds is about 11 days, 1 billion seconds is about 32 years. The hundreds of millions spent on immigration is nothing compared to the billions in subsidies the rich get just for being rich.


  • That’s the toolbox fallacy. “If only i had good running shoes I would be motivated to run.”.

    1. Youre swapping motivation for anxiety, guilt and frustration. Youre better off paying someone on fiver to shout at you.

    2. You won’t survive programming if you can’t get through this part. It doesn’t stop taking effort after you’ve learned the basics.

    3. The tutor won’t make it painless, or make it go faster really, and people just end up being agry at the tutor.

    You’re much better off joining a community/discord of people learning the same thing, or finding a project/thing you care for, and using common motivational tricks. With youtube/Twitch, it’s easier than ever to find people to help you.


  • Have you actually ran the math? Because they are not “taking your resources” and are held at a much higher standard than UK citizens in terms of being “productive”. Even illegal immigrants aren’t as harmful to the economy as you might think.

    The reason your rent is going up isn’t because of immigration lol. The bottom isn’t pulling us down, the top is isolating us. Youre angry at the wrong people and haven’t ran the actual math of where your costs are coming from. It could be argued more educated people would be working their ass off for less money if there were less immigrants in your country. Also you might be conflating immigrants with refugees.

    Alao youre going to have to back the claim of free housing and free food for life. Your analogy to mexico is ridiculous, the world doesn’t work like that, nor does the UK. It’s the same dumb argument that if we give ppl welfare, they won’t do anything of themselves, which nobody has the time to debate here for the millionth time.





  • It’s a measurement of energy needed. Bodies are going to take different amount of force to move the thing, but it’s also going to take a different amount of time, and impart less inertia, which starts averaging out to the same amount of calories. I bet they also raise the amount of calories shown to account for no process being 100% efficient.

    Measuring how we consume our calories is also a bit tricky, the bike tells you the minimum energy you spent moving the wheel. It could be slightly more, but not by much because our bodies are pretty efficient at using stuff to burn into energy. The amount needed to move the bike is about as much as we’ll burn because there isn’t a lot of waste. Of course if you have a condition, or are out of shape this changes and the counter becomes more inaccurate, but in a positive way. (You burned more than the counter said). Some will record your body mass index and other info to try to shift you in the right average.

    We still calculate how much calories are in food by burning them and seeing how much energy they emit (heat). It’s not really how we consume calories but very similar. All in all calories aren’t a great way to think about human strength, or exercise