The people who would make a difference striking are those that literally can't afford to do so. People are already turning to food banks when they're making as much money as they're able to.
Those of us who have enough of a financial cushion to take time off of work don't have any example of how doing so would matter, or how it would do anything but cause themselves more of a future inconvenience.
Let's say for example a dentists office joins the strike, what impact has it made other than overbook them after the strike ends? There is no structure to organize something on the scale that is needed to make an impact, no method of communication between people that can be trusted and wouldn't put a target on them to be labeled as dissidents. There is no figurehead attempting to organize a general strike. There was no meaningful media coverage of the largest protest marches in US history.
Everybody I know wants to do something more, but doesn't have an example of how to do it in a country so geographically spread out. I live in California, going to DC is a 5 hour plane flight and would also require a hotel stay. Even driving to my state capital is an 8 hour car trip (or a 13 hour disjointed series of alternating busses and trains).
I feel like this isn't the "sex" talk, it's the "explaining where you (the child) came from" talk. Framing your existence as the product of love is helpful to make the child understand that they themselves are loved... and also why kids feel like they could no longer be loved if their parents explain divorce as no longer loving each other.
That analogy breaks down as Germany isn't the only nation founded as a refuge for Christians and only Christian majority country whose official religion is Christianity.
There is a closer tie between Israel and Judaism than any other nation and a single religion. For that reason, I think it's important to make a distinction between the two. Treating either as interchangeable for the other is, in my opinion (as a Jew), antisemitic.
For example, I am disgusted by the concept of Zionism and have been opposed to all of the historical faith/culture/ethnic based aggression against Muslim people by Jewish people, especially everything that has happened as a disproportionate response to Oct 7th. I think the actions of the IDF are genocide and they should be treated no differently than other armed forces who have committed genocidal acts.
On the other hand, while I don't practice any of the faith based acts or observe any of the traditions or restrictions of Judaism, I absolutely love the core of the religion, which focuses (as most faiths do) on treating others as equal to yourself, but also on questioning the lessons of the past and trying to consider all interpretations of it.
I want one because I don't have a modern PC that can run games. I have a PS5, Switch 2, and a MacBook. I hate windows, I don't want to deal with Linux or assembling a PC from components. I'm missing out on a lot of Steam games that I want to play. I don't want to sit in my office and play games, I want to relax on my couch in my living room and play them.
This is for people like me. There's a lot of us. We're the ones that find piracy too much effort so we keep giving money to streaming services.
I assume you're talking about the Michelin Guide for restaurants that was started by the tyre company. If that's true, are you saying that Trip Advisor is Michelin in this metaphor? If not, what are you saying?
10 reviews means the developer has some combination of the following:
friends/family/classmates
developers on the actual game
multiple Steam accounts with the same owner
10 is essentially 0 and cannot be extrapolated into sales.
I agree that if game development is a hobby and not a career, this isn't a problem for those developers.
I also submit that if you are attempting to make money from your efforts and don't yet have a following, and can't afford a marketing budget, and have actually made something unique, interesting, or otherwise worthwhile, it is more difficult to stand out in a market whose signal to noise ratio is continuously and exponentially growing noisier.
Living under capitalism forces you to adapt or perish. I hate money. I hate having to spend time thinking about investments and retirement and savings and down payments and credit scores. Cost of living in my city is insane and I'm terrified that if my income doesn't increase every year, I won't be able to keep up with escalating rent and bills. In order to keep my life as it is, I am forced to think like a capitalist.
When everything around me is becoming more expensive, I must also increase my personal profits.
The fuck excuses? We can do better than this, but you've gotta look at everything in context. Until we have a (most likely violent) revolution, the core values of our leadership isn't going to swing very wildly. Incremental change is all that voting will get you. Obama wasn't some god that was suddenly going to change what this country is, but he was a step away from Bush and in the right direction. It's shocking to me how far from normal Trump is and its fucking infuriating that instead of looking forward, part of the left is all "b-b-b-but Obama wasn't perfect!"
You do remember who preceded Obama, right? At the time, W. was the dumbest president the world had ever seen. In comparison to that, I'd say Obama delivered on the hope and change.
I'm not saying that I can excuse his take on deportation, or the fact that he's also an establishment democrat, but at this point, who the fuck cares? I'd take another Obama over Trump in a heartbeat. I'd rather have someone in office that I agree with 40% of their takes than 0%.
Obviously he's neither perfect now, nor was he at the time, but why are people still talking about him at all? Same with Biden. His administration shit the bed and got us in the current situation, but there's not anything we can do about it now.
We need to be looking forward, and dunking on someone who was (in comparison to US presidents) always ranked in the top 20% of most progressive of ALL presidents, and only behind Carter in the last 50 years... it seems like in order to get more left, we've got a lot of ground to cover and Obama would be in the correct direction.
I was unaware of this (and Coco Chanel's Nazi sympathizing) until watching The New Look on AppleTV. It wasn't that well received, but I appreciated seeing a story take place during WWII that treated the occupation of France not as the main plot, but as a setting.
The verb comes from the phrase Lynch Law, a term for a punishment without trial. Two Americans during this era are generally credited for coining the phrase: Charles Lynch (1736–1796) and William Lynch (1742–1820), both of whom lived in Virginia in the 1780s.
The verb "to lynch"(like the city of Lynchburg) comes from the same family. Literally. Charles Lynch is older brother to John Lynch (abolitionist and founder of Lynchburg).
This happened at my Junior High School the year after I had left, but it turns out it was iced tea, not hot tea: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-11-mn-47764-story.html