I lived in a couple of countries on Europe and the daily and bi-daily shopping is only really for people who live in big cities and commute by public transport and will pass by a small grocery shop on their way home from work.

As far as I can tell most people do a single weekly shopping generally by driving to a supermarket or even hypermarket either on the weekend or at the end of a working day, hence the popularity of such large surfaces.

Even in places like The Netherlands people have side bags on their bicycles and can just cycle to a supermarket once or twice a week if they don’t feel like driving there and bring the shopping on the side bags.

From my own experience with my grandparents (farmers in Portugal), rural food planing timeframes are even longer than a week, as people relied (at least 50+ years ago) on preserved meats and longer duration things like dried pulses, certain fruits, and staples like potatoes for months or even a whole year and then add in season fruits and vegetables and even just go outside and pick up whatever was ripe then from a plot next to their home (so, for example, make soup with some salted pork bellies and chipeas from their food stores and some spinach and carrots picked up from from a farming plot near the house).

Anyways, even in Europe doing a weekly shopping is generally more convenient.

Mind you, it’s great when you live inside a big enough city and you can just hop out of the tram a stop or two early on your way home and go by a mini-market to buy, say, some milk and fresh vegetables, but that’s not how it generally works for most people, mainly because even in a big city, unless you live right by the store it’s more time efficient to do one big grocery shopping a week were you can go to bigger places with more selection.

People in big wealthy countries underestimate how far those nations can fall.

Argentina was the 5th richest country in the World at one point, and look at them now.

The higher you are, the more you can fall before hitting a new stable state: just look at those places which were once great imperial nations like Greece, Iran, Turkey or Egypt. I mean, most of the Middle East was once the seat of some great nation or other and look at them now.

The US going all the way down to the level of wealth per capita of, say, Russia, is a distinct possibility, if the structural elements which supported its high economic output start breaking (so, things like Education, the productivity of its companies and the belief of outsiders that investing in America is safe and has a good ROI, all things getting worse) and the higher a nation is in that scale the more such structural supports are required to keep it there (for example, not other developed nations don’t relly on their currency being the World’s Reserve Currency to prop-up its public finances), so the harder it is to stay there.

Being part of a Religion has social benefits, so don’t be surprised if a lot of those non-Atheists don’t trully believe it but participate in it because it’s good for them or because of social pressure.

Certainly, and speaking in terms of Christians which is the ones I’m more familiar with, considering the number of people who actual strictly even just try to follow ALL the teachings of Jesus or even all of the 10 commandments, almost all “Religious” people pick and chose which parts they believe and which they don’t.

(In modern society Greed and Envy by themselves are probably regularly broken by 99% of Christians).

Funny that more people own a car than have a driver’s license.

These psychopaths have called Jewish Holocaust Survivors “anti-semites” for criticizing Israel.

Besides, there is no such thing as a racial groupmind (“Jewish hive-mind”) through which the actual trauma transmits.

Many Jews suffered in the Holocaust but many more did not, plus it’s been 80 years, so very few Jews alive today have actual trauma from it.

The whole idea of racial trauma is just the Racists trying to leverage for their own personal benefit the suffering of others who share with them nothing but ethnicity, which is why Zionists and Israel have been so big on it: as Genocidal supremacists they’re probably the worst, nastiest Racists around in the present day so of course they would claim their entire race is a victim on the backs of the suffering of somebody else to get support for their own actions no matter how malevolent.

(In fact supremacists always claim racial victimhood even without victims: the Nazis did it for the “Arian Race”, the KKK does it for the “White Race” and so on)

Sadly most of his “brothers in arms” feel nothing but joy when they “wipe out the vermin”.

Well, back in the day and before they invaded Poland, the British elites loved the Nazis (as shown for example here), and they’ve been siding with various lesser clones (such as Pinochet in Chile and Afrikaners in South Africa) ever since, so it’s not at all surprising that when the most Nazi-like ethno-Fascists since the actual Nazis went full gear into executing their own “final solution” for the “vermin” in Gaza, the British elites would activelly support them.

Having lived before in Southern and Northern Europe, I lived in the UK for over a decade and when I left it after the Leave Referendum (maybe my best decision ever) I believed it was the country in Europe most likely to turn Fascist and, so far, they keep on providing evidence that they’re well into that path and it’s not even the Italian-style “mild” Fascism but the hard German-style version, only with the British twist of using posh-twat deceit techniques to disguise its true nature, like somebody covering a steel fist with a velvet glove.

Plenty of good people over there (as proven by their 600k people march against Genocide), but British Power and Money elites are natural supremacists (both wealth and power over there are usually inherited and they actually have complex structures - involving “Public” Schools and Oxbridge - to make sure the scions of the elites, no matter how inept, end up heading companies, the Press, Politics and the Justice System) who absolutelly believe that some people are born inherent superior (themselves, of course) to the rest and have a “right to rule”, and that when slick deceitful posh talk does not suffice to make the riff-raff comply with their dictates, then using Force to keep the plebes in line (wrapped in the “velvet” of Legalism, of course) is natural, starting with the “rabble rousers” but going as far as needed until the plebes stop trying to dispute their dictates.

Basically we’re watching realtime as Britain slides back to the way of doing things from the days of Workhouses, indentured servitude and child chimeney sweepers, only this time around Britain doesn’t have the power to pillage other nations (or in fact the social and intellectual capability to achieve even a fraction of what their ancestors did) so the local Elites are plundering the rest even harder to keep themselves living in the luxury they’re accustomed to.

American is fucking itself with a bang, Britain is fucking itself with a fizzle - which is quite stereotypical.

Whenever I read here Canadians here hoping for EU membership, I think about this: I’m sorry mates but you having chosen the insanelly unsafe rules of the US for all kinds of things, most notably food safety, means your regulations are totally incompatible with merelly Single Market membership (which would literally allow free export of that dangerous shit to the rest of the Single Market), much less EU membership.

Decades of regulatory alignment with the US means that all manner of Canadian products are dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed into the EU, and now that your southern neighbor has shown its true colors beyond any doubt you should start unravelling that regulatory shit-show and align more with EU style regulation but, having lived in the UK when Carney was the head of the Bank Of England, I doubt he’s the man for it: it’s my impression that he’s a man who knows who butter his bread - and that ain’t the common folk - and it’s for them he works.

Each billionaire is an individual problem AND allowing billionaires to grab and monopolize so many resources and even looking up to them is a systemic problem.

Without the systemic problem which is Capitalism and the shallow, greedy present day society, billionaires would be treated the same as other hoarders - seen mentally derranged and stopped from going too far for their own good and the good of others.

There will always be nutters, but if the social system we have wasn’t broken, this very specific kind of nutter would never be allowed to cause the damage they do with their mental disease.

The entirety of the current Government owe their jobs to Israel, as the last leader of their party - Jeremy Corbyn - was kicked out opening the way for these ones to get power after a campaign of slanders of anti-semitism backed amongst others by Israeli-linked Jewish groups in the UK which was so extreme that at one point a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was said to be an anti-semite for what he said in a conference for Palestine in order to taint Jeremy Corbyn by association, as he was sitting in the same panel in that conference and “didn’t rise up to dispute it”.

Since Britain also has First Past The Post like the US, getting the leadership of that party was a guaranteed path to Government since that party was the next in line in the power cycle over there.

So these people were basically bought by Israel.

I thought the whole point of Israel for the far-right was that it is a place to dump all Jews from the rest of the World.