Boots be made for walking. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a place that’s not struggling with fascism nowadays, or free from patriarchal tendencies, but I assume you’re in the US, in which case many countries are indeed better.

That’s great to hear, but it sounds like he’s doing okay despite his PhD…

Such a monstrous clusterfuck, and you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone having been sacked, let alone facing actual charges over the whole debacle.

If anything, I’d say that’s the single best case for buying IBM - if you’re incompetent and/or corrupt, just go with them and even if shit hits the fan, you’ll be OK.

That is the American approach to legislation: get in as many laws that favour you or your sponsors, and pray the courts let at least some of them through.

That’s not how this is meant to work. The courts shutting down a law is a last measure, when everything else has failed and hell’s about to break loose.

I think it’s the reverse.

Peasants have to actually be productive so they don’t starve, they take fast food packages without thinking about it too hard and hoping it won’t wreck them.

The nobles can afford to handpick at their leisure what goes into their systems. Their understanding of what their system needs, and their cooking skill, varies greatly though.

This strategy is absolutely unviable in the West.

Instead, the dumbest idiots with a useful narrative are given massive megaphones and drown out everyone else.

Say what you want, but looks like a pick your poison kind of situation to me…

The report only covers Europe, but its conclusions do not mirror yours:

Intersex people are the only LGBTIQ group that has not experienced a drop in discrimination since an earlier survey in 2019.

To be honest, I’m confused about this too.

How are 40% of respondents being harassed at work for being intersex? How do people even find out?

Only about 30% of the people surveyed identify as cis, and around 15% describe their orientation as heterosexual, so I’m sure that they definitely face many of the same struggles that the LGBTQIA+ community faces as a whole.

But why would discrimination at large be decreasing, except for intersex people? Maybe they’re feeling more empowered to come out, and people don’t know how to react?
I would even expect, if anything, that bigots would be more understanding of someone for whom Nature made life “visibly” harder, but maybe I’m just naive.

In any case, it doesn’t seem like the study sheds enough light on this, hopefully more studies will follow so that we can find a way to do better.

Absolutely not, this is not democracy. In a democracy, you would vote out the corrupt party and continue with your life.

This is a revolt, and it’s what happens when a government, of any kind, fails its people and also fails to provide them a means of legitimately changing the system.

Doubling down on repression to keep the current system is what leads to rebellion. Seems like the government has backed off, but the seeds are already there…

As is always the case, people don’t go out risking life and limb because they’re mildly inconvenienced, no matter how the broader media tries to paint it.

They do it because they’re being systematically deprived of the very last few footholds they have on survival, on an escape, on a way forward with their lives.

When you squeeze people so much, they have no option - if I’m going to starve to death as a slave, might as well cut out the long suffering and bring some of them down with me. That’s the general atmosphere here…

Yeah, I agree with all of your points.

I’m not American, but my understanding of the system is that the long term plan for the country isn’t meant to be set by the president, but by the legislature - passing laws and creating federal bodies that steer the country.

Instead, there’s absolutely no laws being agreed upon, only presidents that try to impose their view for a while until they’re replaced by whoever’s next who then breaks everything.

The courts are then thrown on to the spotlight and asked by the country to fill up a role who’s not actually theirs, and I don’t even want to go into the issues with appointment of judges.

Not that the system in China is any better, they just happen to have a guy who’s ruthless enough to hold onto power with no opposition, and seems to actually care about his country - but he isn’t gonna last for ever, and there’s zero guarantee that the power struggles after he’s gone won’t tear the country to shreds, or that the next up isn’t a fucked up moron like the orange…

The worrying part is that they kinda seem to be implementing good policies for (at least some of) their people.

There’s a lot of disturbing stuff, and probably a whole lot more that we don’t even know about, but social security, education, healthcare - my impression is that they’re going the right way, while the US looks eager to go back to the Dark ages.

Just with STEM degrees, they’re producing almost 5x more graduates than the US, and they’ve surpassed the number of doctorates a long time ago too.

The current world balance won’t hold one more generation.

Well played sir, well played.

Are they all your phones, or different house members? Can you “pool” your photos together?

We’ve been doing this with all our phones for a long time using nextcloud. I’d like to use a more photo-oriented app, but the last I tried it, it just wasn’t there yet.

Can’t rotate or do basic edits in web app, dead to me.

Also can’t really sync and share with rest of household. Auto sync to phones is also a must.

I was seriously unimpressed with its features, and I’m not bothering with it again anytime soon.

Bro looked at pillows, water mattresses and swimming pools, then decided that his house’s brick wall was the best option for banging his head against.

Sure, you didn’t have to pay extra for it, but the headaches are on you.

Despite the crazed wanna be dictator, Hungary has been in the EU and NATO for a couple of decades now.

But since Orban loves to suck putins balls, he probably will try to spin it as an attack on Hungarian energy sources and thus on EU itself.

Bullshit, but I’m sure he’ll try it.

Are you sure? I thought Denethor was one of the first Scottish High Stewards.

Does it still look like it’s from 1998?

It works very well for my light personal needs, but I find the UI to be an eyesore…

Today I learned.