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 usually steer clear of religion but the Rorschach test idea is amazing, never looked at it that way until now. Cheers!

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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A heads-up to anyone running old laptops; buy genuine replacement batteries while they’re available!

I have an aging XPS 13 and of course, Dell have discontinued the battery line. Opened it up one day and every cell had puffed out. It took buying a couple of fakes before finally finding a decent reseller on eBay who stocked what I needed. The fake batteries were not recognised by Dell’s hardware detection system thing, I imagine lots of other manufacturers might implement the same feature.

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

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It’s like the Fonz jumping the shark all over again.

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And with the decline in birth rates armies are going to have smaller pools of people to recruit from. Even the US army is experiencing a shortfall, and it’s not getting better any time soon. Perun did a great video of this just recently.

It makes sense that if militaries won’t be able to recruit the quantity and quality of troops that they would like to, they’d need to supplement those numbers with some kind of force multiplier.

https://piped.video/watch?v=Ga2PA-vEiFk

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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This comment feels like it’s been on the Fediverse too long. To continue the analogy, your small town suddenly starts hosting a lot of voices on soap boxes. The more visited the town becomes, the more town criers it gets. Those criers bring their audiences, so not only do you have long queues for the two public bathrooms but you get fights in the town square; struggles over ideologies and all the underhanded trolling that entails. Corpos move in, governments move in, all eager to bend the ear of anyone unfortunate enough to get in grabbing range.

I liked Digg. I loved Reddit. At some point you just need to make a stand. Money and profitability aren’t part of the equation, fuck’em. I’ll keep my small town tyvm.

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.

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.

You know there’s a crapload more reactors than Fukukishima, right? Like over 70% of France’s energy demands are met with nuclear power.

The issue here is that you are parroting the devisive argument that investors in oil have been putting out for decades. You are also ignoring the harm that outputting millions of tonnes of carbon-based effluent has on the world’s population as a whole.

Gram for gram nuclear is safer and your horror stories should be discounted. Retort:

2023 Marco Pol…Sweden, Karlsh…22 October 2023Lennard en z’n …United Kingdo…26 March 20232023 Princess …Philippines, Pol…28 February 20232022 Keystone …United States, …7 December 2022

Cool, keep on with your ‘nuclear bad’ narrative. It does objectively less harm than carbon-based energy.

We can bury it in the ground and it will literally turn into lead. How are you doing with carbon emissions? Got a fix?