50% of the post here are. Echo chambers rely on most users never reading the article.

Americans still actively use telephony services?

I just don’t use the Phone and SMS apps. Haven’t for years. It’s old tech that’s only used by bots and scammers.

Get with the times. Just block them. You’re basically putting an ad blocker on.

In their defence, there is no defined point. There are people out there that are so anti-assumption that it can take them a while. They will eventually reach a point like, “Well if there were defined conditions, surely they have been met by now.” Basically it must be so full-scale that there can be no room left for doubt.

Unfortunately, such input is typically too little too late; it’s just agreeing with the obvious because it’s already so obvious.

DV isn’t gender-specific (loosely 25% male victims, 75% female, but obviously that’s up and down on country)

Femicide is gender-specific with an estimated 0% male victims.

Rapping off a single piton is as insane as climbing 67km from a town without a PLB.

I don’t know, and don’t really want to know how much money i’ve got sunk into my acct, but it’s a lot

Oh you can know. It’s a viewable page within the menu. I’ll leave it to you to search up on where.

Yeah, you could be right. My point is this scenario is historically common around the world, without external influence. It’s almost always states/regions with lots of rich natural resources. There are some exceptions like Singapore, but the Alberta situation can be compared to groups like from within Texas or Western Australia. Lots of oil, minerals, etc. and wanting to seceed to benefit from it, rather than contribute to the State.

It’s also common for those kooky people to be pro-mining or drilling and these people often have kooky ideas regarding political conflicts, the environment, and social welfare if there’s a pathway to economically benefit from it.

Of course, it would be a geopolitical disaster for both the seceedee and their current nation, so no one ever listens. It’s the premise behind “divide and conquer” afterall—regardless of whether internally voluntary or externally manipulated—so it won’t work out well.

It happens to states that feel they are the ones providing a nation all the wealth but get an unbalanced return of benefits from the nation. So someone gets the idea that the state would thrive, economically, if they were able to spend their earnings on themselves, as though the nation is holding them back.

Applying common logic, though, most people don’t acknowledge any of the pros for all of the cons. But there are some—imagine a nationalist mindset for their state/ region if you will—that think it’s the right thing to do because the current setup is “unfair”.