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Drag Queen Alaska doesn't want to vote for Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the 2024 election
  • Not voting or voting third party is letting other people decide.

    Biden is a bad candidate. He's too old and supports genocide in Palestine.

    Trump is not fit for office. He's too ols. He's mentally deranged. He supports genocide in Palestine, fascism in USA, NATO being at war with Russia etc etc.

    Voting least bad is a poor choice to make but there is a very clear answer.

  • First rupee payment for oil to UAE: India looks for more deals, but finds no targets
  • You can, or could, in Venezuela and Iran. Europe trades in oil all the time, but the petrodollar reigns supreme for international trade with oil producing nations. That's not in question. The point is how much that will impact on international trade relations, now and in the future.

    As currencies diversify, as power needs diversify and as stability and increased trade between all nations increases, the majority of trade may still remain in dollars, but that provides less power for America than historically. Oil is less important and the traded currency is also less important. This also improves with improved digital process of payments and faster shipping routes. It's assumed that is part of the reason Russia values the arctic, for shipping routes.

    There may be limited appetite for more ruoee trades now, but a trial balloon is always the first step and there may be more on an ad hoc basis. India may start to trade with Iran or Russia in increasing volume but wish to have rupee trade. A large customer like that may find that one supplier plays ball.

  • Veggie Soup
  • Maggi is owned by Nestle, so if you are vegetarian for environmental reasons, you should look at other brands. Ingredients sounds nice and tasty. I'm intolerant of mushrooms unfortunately.

  • First rupee payment for oil to UAE: India looks for more deals, but finds no targets
  • If the euro doesn't really threaten US as a reserve currency, a BRICS one certainly won't. As economies diversify and become more intersectional, as has happened since ww2, the currency fluctuations are less, with increased trade. Then currency used matters less and risk is lower for both sides when non us currency is used. So, I think dollar as a currency reserve will naturally reduce over time but it's not disappearing any time soon.

  • ‘I would not have pulled Lush out of Russia if it weren’t for public pressure’
  • Her taxes directly support the war. It's not as easy as people are good and bad. Good people can be in bad situations. Sanctions are supposed to hurt all people. That's how they work. It's seen as a lesser evil, rather than a good. They are damaging for both sides.

  • A look back at every Google Nexus phone ever made
  • I still miss the fingerprint reader on the back of the Nexus 5x. And CyanogenMod added the ability to swipe it to see notification shade which was great.

    The position is just a natural place to place your finger when holding a phone so the unlock was more automatic rather than a deliberate action being required.

  • Burgers
  • I thought paying staff properly was the cool hipster thing to do? Not wage theft and fines.

    Personally, I boycott. It's much easier to boycott companies with terrible overpriced products.

  • Question: Where is federated content stored?
  • Yes, if you know about that community. However, by browsing the all feeds of multiple instances, you come across communities you weren’t aware of and can subscribe to on any of the instances you have an account on. Assuming, of course, they all federate.

  • probably my biggest gripe with Lemmy right now. Feels like I'm just stuck in a loop.
  • The problem with blocking a community is if you block the one that eventually takes off, you miss out. I am just accepting it for now and assume it will sort itself out.

    Another option would be to upvote one and downvote the other, to help speed the process up.

  • Don't you find it disappointing that people apply Herd Mentality for upvoting top comments, even if it's not the best one out there?
  • I think it’s more that not every comment gets upvoted after there is quite a few.

    Early comments get voted on by merit. Once there is a few comments that have sufficient upvotes and replies, they become their own ecosystem.

    If I’m in the comments of a popular post, I might upvote the first few top level comments I see as all make a good point. The fifth might make the best point and deserve to be higher, but alas, it only gets one upvote. By the time I get to the sixth, it’s just saying the same thing differently, no upvote needed. Seventh is interesting, so upvote, but it’s getting boring now. I don’t read further comments.

    Other people stop at comment 10. Others stop at 4. So the first few get magnified, the rest struggle for the same level of attention and eyeballs. But it’s not a competition. So if the discussion is good, who cares. The 10th discussion might be the best because all the people with short attention spans, like me, aren’t there.

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