alvvayson @ alvvayson @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm talking about long-term non-US centric policy.

I don't mean to imply that this is a priority for the short term in the US.

A commenter on the site made the same comment, but I find it difficult to believe that insurance companies won't adapt more quickly to marked increases in vandalism.

If they don't immediately raise rates, then they will make less profit.

If their competitors do raise rates, then the Tesla owners will flock to the ones that didn't raise rates and those companies will end up with reduced profits due to having more Tesla's and thus more claims to cover.

If vandalism continues, then this will easily be the death of Tesla.

Nobody will want to buy a Tesla when an equivalent Mercedes has half the insurance rate.

Boycotts also hurt Tesla, but vandalism will be their death.

Nothing in this world is free. The US tax rate isn't high. The issue is, you don't get a good value back.

You can't have strong unions without money for unions.

Organizing people costs money.

Union dues tend to be in the $10-50 per month range, while unions easily increase wages by hundreds a month through collective bargaining.

Most of the unions costs are fixed, so if everyone is a member the average due can easily be on the lower end ($10-20).

If you have a problem with that, then that's exactly why you don't have strong unions.

Yep, Project 2025 wasn't exaggerated at all. We all knew this would happen.

But I'm gonna blame Biden, Harris and AIPAC for blowing up the liberal-progressive coalition and alienating working class Americans with high inflation.

How do you lose 6 million voters from 2020 to 2024. That's just insane.

Half of them went to Trump, the other half stayed home.

Madness

Also, a lot of people, myself included, make it a point to go to the bathroom before swimming.

And I don't usually consume food or drinks until I am (almost) done with swimming. A four hour stretch of just recreational swimming and chilling is easy without food or drink.

I fully agree.

Also, one thing that Unions always have trouble with is that there is no individual benefit to joining a union, only a cost, so you get a prisoners dilemma type situation.

Even in Scandinavian countries, union membership is on the decline.

Personally, I think the solution should be that union dues are paid by a small tax, making it 'free' to join a union. And the unions can provide free benefits to their members, such as legal advice and representation. This will make it attractive to join a union.

Ahhh, I thought I was missing something. Thanks for the reference. K love that song.

It's still called that in Greek.

But it has also been called Istanbul for hundreds of years by the locals, and eventually Turkey switched. Istanbul is actually from Greek "to the city", but they thought it was more Turkish than Constantinople.

I have a slight preference to calling it Roma Constantinopolitana, but I don't know if the locals would be up for it.

Where did I call them freedom fighters?

I certainly don't think the Y'alliban are freedom fighters.

I am no fan of the Houthis, but you can't just ignore that they were also oppressed by a dictator propped up by the USA and that they suffered one of the worst famines in the 21st century thanks to the USA and Saudi-Arabia.

They are Yemeni Nationalists propped up by Iran.

No one has clean hands in this conflict.

Thanks. They missed 1922 - dissolution of the Ottoman empire.

The Ottomans claimed to be a continuation of the Roman empire and even adopted the Star and Crescent from Constantinople. ☪️

Turkey even kept the name Constantinople until 1930.

Correct.

And the EU is the current incarnation of the (Western) Roman Empire ✝️

I believe there will similarly be a second Eastern Roman Empire incorporating Constantinopel, from Fez to Lahore. ☪️

The glory of Rome shall never fade. 🇦🇱

Yes, I played a lot of Age of Empires as a kid, why do you ask?

I'm not a fan of the Houthis, but these people are really the equivalent of American guntoting Y'alliban. They like their guns and they like their free speech and they hate foreign countries propping up dictators who oppress them.

The slogan eventually became a sign of public protest against the dictatorship of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh... The Houthi movement officially adopted the slogan in the wake of the widely condemned 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. This brought the movement on a collision course with the government, as the government maintained its official pro-American politics despite public opposition. The slogan was outlawed. The Houthis refused to discard it, arguing that the constitution of Yemen protected free speech. By 2004, crackdowns against both the slogan as well as the Houthi movement intensified. Many Houthis were imprisoned and even tortured for having used it.

People forget that all the people the Nazi's put in camps were also criminals. According to Nazi propaganda, they were responsible for the deaths of millions of Germans in WW1, for impoverishing hardworking Germans in the Great Depression and for terrorism in resistance to the Nazi regime.

No regime ever has admitted to locking up an innocent person. No dictator has ever said "Yeah, I put innocent people in jail".

This is why we have separation of powers. The executive branch has zero authority to call anyone a criminal. Only the independent court system has that authority.

This has been policy for countries like Russia and China for a long time.

It's sad that it needs to be policy for the USA, but here we are.

Totally agree.

It's nearly impossible in rich areas for young people to afford a family sized house and daycare.

We need to solve those problems if we want young people to have families.

It supports encryption. I think encryption is only forbidden when using ham radio

Upvote cause good point, but I have to really mention that OpSec is a black and white thing.

You make one OpSec mistake and you're cooked. Look how they got Ross Ulbricht.

Meshtastic seems to me to be easiest to have good OpSec at the moment and I really hope we can develop it further.

I know, but these things tend to be all or nothing.

Either the American workers don't seize power and they continue to get exploited, or they seize power and then a lot will be possible.

And even if the Supreme Court does rule it to be illegal, the only way to remove him is through impeachment.

That ain't gonna happen.

And if it miraculously did happen, then J.D. Vance would pardon him and continue the grift, just in a little bit less obvious way.