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Thanks guys for answering. As a Dutch person I don't know all the details.

I guess it's really good you guys have a 5% threshold. Here in the Netherlands, things are just too chaotic without it.

True, but the number of voters in that income bracket is minuscule.

It should be increased enough to cover significant numbers of voters to be politically popular

I kinda wondered about BSW though. They are left, they are anti-immigration and they are capable of pulling votes from AfD and Die Linke - the two parties that compete most with CDU/CSU and SPD, respectively.

So they could be quite a strategic partner.

Obviously, they lied about his dad being Hamas.

But what I don't get is, how does it even matter who the father is?

He is 13 years old.

But thanks for the mirror.

As much as I am convinced we will need UBI in our automated future, statements like yours are way too optimistic on the financials.

Let's see if we can get healthcare, education, school meals, food stamps and social security funded first.

After that we can start funding generous unemployment benefits to handle the first waves of unemployment due to automation.

And as the automation keeps gobbling up jobs, we can fund schemes for reschooling, early retirement, increase paid parental leave, increase paid vacation, promote part time work (e.g. working 4 days for 100% pay).

Once the totality of all these schemes costs the same as UBI, we can simplify it all be replacing the schemes with UBI.

The Dems should call his bluff and propose a constitutional amendment allowing three terms, perhaps under the condition that sitting presidents must win an open primary to be eligible for a second or third nomination.

FDR had three terms, plus a few months of a fourth term.

IMHO, the bigger issue is not having three terms, but the fact that sitting presidents can get the nomination without winning a primary. This practice removes an important opportunity to replace them.

Honestly, I really don't understand why a populist left party doesn't pursue this.

No tax on income below $100K and no tax on wealth, property and inheritance below $1M.

Or choose some other figures.

It seems like it would be a slam dunk to get voter support.

I agree with this take.

We are wired to find the next problem and to solve it. Enjoy our work for a short while and then start looking for the next problem to solve.

Whether it is cultural or genetic, I don't know, but it's definitely very deep in our western psyche and it will not be going away any time soon.

The main problem I see is that a lot of people in Western society nowadays use complaining as a substitute for action, and so problems don't get solved, but people convince themselves that they took action by complaining.

I fully agree. I think this should be an EU policy.

Building a strong European defense industry must be a priority for the whole Union.

Au contraire, nature is quite ignorant of the astronomical equinox.

For nature, things like the Cherry blossoms, the blooming of the magnolia tree and the awakening of the Bumble bee are the ways nature indicates when Spring has started.

Harvest season and autumn are more typically defined by brown leaves, ripe pumpkins and ripe cider apples.

Israel knows they have the US by the balls.

Iran has enough missiles to wreck havoc on tiny Israel. It's only the threat of retaliation by the USA that holds Iran back.

No other country would retaliate against Iran on Israels behalf.

And to make it even more idiotic, Israel really doesn't have bunker busters that are 2x better than the best the USA has. So they can't actually destroy any significant part of Iran's nuclear facilities.

So it would just be an empty show of force that would force the Iranian regime to retaliate to save face, which then lures in the USA into yet another war in the Middle-east.

I hope Americans are ready to throw another $10T into yet another MENA war.

And in temperate climates, the first day of spring and Harvest feasts, marked in different cultures in different natural ways.

Looking at this map, it does seem that Cook Islands could provide China a strategic corridor in the midst of French and American waters.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Exclusive_Economic_Zones_of_the_Pacific_Ocean.png

Lemmy just tends to attract the best minds.

The people who worry about this have never been at the receiving end of exploitative capitalism.

For the vast majority of humanity, their life will most likely improve when they become a pet / zoo creature under an ASI.

An ASI will be most interested in gobbling together enough resources to spread across the universe. As for the earth and humanity, it will probably want to preserve it as the planet and species from which it was born.

Destroying earth or humanity will provide no benefit. It can obtain energy and materials from the rest of the solar system.

Correct, because Congress is corrupt and is eager to saddle the next generation of Americans with an absolute humongous debt load of $36 trillion in order to pay off their corporate sponsors and lobby groups.

For the past 10 years or so, most climate change activity was, in a large part, a massive subsidy for oligarchs.

For those actually interested in stopping emissions, we know that carbon pricing is efficient and actually raises tax revenue instead of taking government money.

It could have even been introduced slowly enough to allow private capital to efficiently transition without subsidies. And by transferring the proceeds to the public as tax rebates, the public would not be poorer and most would even be richer.

Instead, we got massive tax subsidies for oligarchs. Sure, some of those subsidies were relatively efficient. But in the end, they still saddled the public with debt in order to enrich the few.

So no, I am not surprised that they were faking it all along. It was obvious from the start.

I agree. It also works the other way in terms of censorship.

My original account was on an instance that once censored one of my comments. I don't remember if they deleted my comment or banned me from the community.

On reddit, I had come to just accept that as a fact of life and every few years I would delete my old account and register a new one.

On Lemmy, I just switched to a different instance which is much more tolerant of free speech and I haven't had issues since.

The irony is, my comments on the old instance can still be deleted, but only for users from that instance.

I don't know the full details, but Lemmy definitely has the more 2000-2010 type of culture that allows people to speak their mind freely.

You are right, but you are just missing an important ingredient: a physical community.

It's quite easy for autocrats and gangs to isolate and eliminate loners.

And as for the communities, there is a hierarchy. Police officers and soldiers have no hesitation to eliminate gangs and terrorists. That's their job.

They will have a little more hesitation to attack civil organisations, e.g. sports clubs, political parties and trade union places. But eventually, if someone tells them that terrorist activities were being undertaken, they'll just follow orders. The way this is done is by getting people unfamiliar with the community to come in and do the dirty job.

They will have the most hesitation to attack religious places of their own religion. Many of the grunts tend to still be religious/superstitious.

I would really recommend you get some kind of mental assessment. It must suck being dumber than a chatbot.

Storing carbon dioxide as a gas in geologic formations can be done without leakage. Natural gas has literally been stored in geologic formations for millions of years without leakage

But most solutions actually turn it into carbonic acid, which is not a gas and which will be stable for billions of years in the form of carbonate minerals.