Talking about cars in the UK, one Aussie chimed in with “it’s like driving your car on the beach at low tide while it’s high tide”

I think most rational people would like an opposition party who brings good ideas with solid justification to the table. A group of professional politicians who argue in good faith, working for the betterment of their electorate. People who can at least be respected by the international community, willing to tackle the real problems facing the world as a whole.

If we’re talking about dictatorship perhaps it’s worth scrutinising the people arguing for total immunity for the president. It’s especially worth an in-depth look at the relationships they form with leaders of other nations and the principles they share.

As a non-US person, I want to point out that US politics has shifted so far to the right that centrists in any other country would look like far left to you.

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And you sound like someone who puts their political stooges on a pedestal.

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woooosh

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Dude. The UK broke its trade deals and left. Now it pays increased taxes on all goods and services from the EU.

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A strong neodymium magnet so you can stick your wallet to your fridge.

Replace ‘Trump’ with ‘Russia’.

They are both entangled in a fight for survival. Both of them need the support of the US people if they have any hope of making it. It’s imperative for either party that they win this and nothing is off the table when it comes to politics or influence.

There is an existential war at hand and none of the embattled parties give two shits about the aftermath.

I can’t speak to the other countries on this list but South Africa had ample access to vaccines. The take-up was low. Reasons offered were doubts around the efficacy and conservative attitudes to modern medicine.

You can have your GUI do anything a terminal can I guess, but you’d need a few million buttons on that gui where the programmer has anticipated each and every combination of CLI command that you are going to use, encoded that to a button or menu, included text entry boxes for each variable and have bundled every program, application and dependency that has ever existed. Totally possible.

As a first-time user I’m enjoying Lemmy. I feel like I want to contribute mostly because I won’t have an immediately antithetical comment to follow my own. Am not looking for an echo chamber, I’m looking for conversation and sharing ideas. Reddit has devolved and this seems like the best way forward, for now.

Least original post: the dumbass comments parroting the same joke from 2018. It’s not even bots, it’s the zeitgeist and it’s only gonna get worse. Insert ‘old_man_shouts_at_sky.gif’

Don’t even start on the wage-inflation-spiral idea. It’s the workers’ fault for wanting higher wages as it allows service-oriented business to charge higher prices, driving inflation.

While the theory probably has roots in real-world pricing algorithms (eg how much can we charge people in X region for Netflix) that rise in cost contributes to inflation figures. The fact that wages have been stagnant for decades undermines the whole argument.

“Well the poors can afford it and the shareholders will love it!” FFS

immigrants seeking a better wage than at home have entered the chat

Labour laws don’t apply to labour that isn’t on the books. And the US is absolutely taking advantage of that.