Skip Navigation
tax the rich
  • They like to say these things that don't actually make any sense.

    It's the same with the crying around Europe's mandatory USB-C connector. "Oh it stifles progress" Apple protested.
    Forgetting they had the same unchanged connector, and in fact data protocol on their devices for twelve years before Europe decided they wanted a standard, with all the freedom to improve it.

    A standard, apple already adopted for everything not iPhone no less.

  • The steam deck is just great
  • We have basicly everything you play games on, so also both of these. But the Steam Deck is absolutely the gigachad, even moreso than my actual gaming pc if you just look at hours used.

    If you forced me to get rid of all my devices but one, it'd probably be the Steam Deck that'll be left. And yes this consideration included my gaming pc and smartphone.

    The only regret I have about buying the Steam Deck is being so late to the party, having acquired it but 6 months ago.

  • Number of Americans who never want kids doubled in 20 years
  • Pretty sure this is global.

    And even if you do want kids, there are requirements that have to be met.

    Stable income, high enough income, a home thats big enough... People can't have kids if half their income instantly disappears into the wallet of their landlord every month and get reamed with the other half at places like grocery stores.

  • Lack of political will and poor coordination hamper LA goal to eliminate traffic deaths, audit finds
  • The Netherlands more or less does this, so i'm not sure this take is that extremist.

    But the Netherlands also doesn't have nearly as much of a car culture, with infrastructure that favors alternatives like public transport, cycling and walking. And puts large emphasis on separating these different kinds of commuters from each other as much as possible.

    This is also why it's relatively safe cycle around routinely without any kind of protective gear. Something that most (especially overseas) tourists I meet think is wild.

  • Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal
  • Diplomacy is fine, but the US wanting to change something in the UK that is neither a humanitarian issue or something that affects them at all, is like your car mechanic telling you what kind of furniture you're allowed to have in your house if you want him to work on your car.

    He could technically do it, but it's also fucking absurd and you'd most definitely go to a different mechanic.

  • JD Vance says Europe should have done more to stop Iraq War
  • Vance saying Europe should've done more to stop his nation from going to war has a high levels of rapist blaming victim for their acts energy.

    I was young back then so my memory of the details as i've experienced them are somewhat blurred, but there definitely was opposition. And that was met with statements along the lines of "if you're not with us you're against us/part of the problem".

  • ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say 'Take Him Anyway'
  • Trump has the "excuse" of having to depend on El Salvador for this but there's no way Bukele has no control over their prison system. This is the same guy that had the weight to "sanitize" El Salvador of criminals, i'm sure there's nothing within El Salvador's borders this guy can't control.

    In other words, this man will die in CECOT.

    This guy is likely already dead, which would also be the only somewhat logical explanation as to why Nayib can't return him.

  • Waarom ik, ondanks alles, lid ben geworden van D66 en de VVD (en hoop dat jij zoiets ook doet)
  • Ik ben al jaren lid van de partij waar ik ook al jaren op stem, maar het probleem lijkt mij toch vooral te zoeken in de hoek van politici die zich laten beinvloeden door mensen met belangen die niet persé heel breed liggen, en mensen die nooit vinden dat ze genoeg geld hebben en er ook niet voor schromen hun welvaart over de rug van anderen nog verder op te krikken.

    Volgens mij is het percentage stemmers die echt lid zijn van een partij ook nooit echt magistraal veel hoger geweest? En lid zijn van een politieke partij of echt meedoen in dat proces en dingen als partijcongressen bijwonen en flyers uitdelen tijdens verkiezingen enzo zijn ook nog wel twee verschillende dingen.

  • How Do You Go About Buying Stuff Online While Avoiding Amazon?
  • Even though mom and pop stores are mostly dead, Amazon's market share is thankfully still relatively contained where I live. So it's still simply a matter of just picking a different "big box store" to order your things from.

  • Tesla insurance premiums are incresing at twice the market rate amid vandalism
  • Teslas are notoriously expensive to repair after a collision, and insurance companies often salvage them because of this.

    Yeah, if you have people replace whole battery packs over a broken coolant fitting, things blow up quick. Hooray for corporate greed.

  • InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)TO
    TON618 @lemmy.world
    Posts 0
    Comments 16