Or, they only collect the dead ones from the surface. There’s probably a veritable mountain of lifejacketless corpses on the silt.

No, because it’s super disingenuous to criticize Biden on it like Trump wouldn’t be way worse.

Yeah, this is my basic problem with Lemmy on this. Biden’s actions are largely the result of American political realities and trump would be way worse. Dangerously so.

So it’s just lemmy basically wants Biden to win but doesn’t know American politics well enough to know that stopping supporting Israel would likely tank Biden’s chances in the election?

"All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were either locked or able to be locked.”

Ehhh, I think there’s a difference between a locked filing cabinet indoors and a random bankers box in the garage.

Lemmy shitting on Biden for Gaza = “YAY!”

Literally any other criticism = DOWNVOTE THE HEATHEN!

It’s kinda weird folks.

My mom is good at following recipes but doesn’t know how to adjust them etc. So meat usually comes out pretty dry. When I hit my twenties and had lived with a few chefs, I changed the game by basting the thanksgiving turkey, initially to mockery by my folks which stopped after they finally had juicy turkey for the first time in years. They now baste.

Well, not sure about “good” but punk is and always has been about politics.

Personally, I love the folk punk end of things like AJJ’s ‘Normalization Blues’: https://youtu.be/0EDVM73bU-w?si=_mtGGyFhrmeMRlpZ

In a similar vein, Matt Pless’s “where the frayed wind blows” is 5 minutes of angry goodness.

There’s also a lot of protest hip hop but I don’t know the newer stuff particularly well.

The under 30s got ooutvoted by the over 65s by a 2:1 margin in the 2020 primaries, it didn’t have to be Biden.

Yargh! That sounds so very close to super useful and then… Damn.

Are these real pictures? I’ve only ever had the one cat but have never seen her have any interest in apples or stacking or anything. Amazing pics regardless.

Neat! I hadn’t thought about that. I’ll try moving my cat’s less used scratching post to a better spot…!

Yup. But until young/progressive voters start voting in party primaries we’re stuck with this.

People actually seemed pretty restrained to your multiple posts about the same topic.

People disagreeing with you isn’t being mean, they just disagree.

And whoa, to then go that people were “mean” to you to “is this fascism?” Is ridiculous.

If you buy a car and don’t use it, you’re in much the same situation. You have an expensive thing gaining you no value. At worst that money could be in your savings. I imagine a company could find more productive uses for that capital. (A decent chunk of capital mind you, Google paid about 10% of its annual profit for a pair of offices in 2018.)

Sure, you could sell the car but you’re going to take a loss as office vacancy rates are at what I assume are historic highs (in Canada it’s about 17%).

The more conspiratorial minded may also point out that most CEO level folks or board members are pretty likely to have a lot of their wealth tied into the market, a not insubstantial sum of which is tied to corporate real estate. A significant disruption there could cost those folks and their friends heavily. It’s a little conspiracy minded for me but also not so much so that it feels ludicrous.

A few things happened pretty quickly.

During the pandemic, tech profits soared which led to massive hiring sprees. For all the press about layoffs at the big guys, I think most still have more workers than they did pre-pandemic.

Interests rates soared. Before the pandemic interest rates were ludicrously low, in other words it cost almost nothing to borrow money. This made it easier to spend on long term or unclear projects where the hope seemed to be “get enough users, then you can monetize.” Once interest rates rose, those became incredibly expensive projects, so funding is now much more scarce. Companies are pulling back on bigger projects or, like reddit, trying to monetize them faster. Startups are also finding it harder, so fewer jobs.

And of course, AI. No one is quite sure how much that’ll change the game but some folks think most programmers will be replaceable, or at least 1 programmer will be able to do the work of several. So, rather than hire and go through everything severance etc might entail, I think a lot of companies are taking a wait and see approach and thus not hiring.

Like everyone else says, depends what you want.

If you can afford it, Vancouver is amazing (though, I am a biased Vancouverite.) In a good season, there are local ski mountains about 30 or 40 minutes from downtown, Whistler is a couple hours away. There’s awesome food all over the place, the underground scene is a blast and even some of the licensed etc venues can be pretty awesome. In the summer, everyone wants to be outside and if you’re into sporty stuff, there’s a boatload to do. The weather is generally pretty mild (though climate change is messing with that.)

The transit system can be amazing, depending on where you live. (In the suburbs, like most other cities, it’s kind of trash.) But there are trains, rapid busses etc if you live near any hub. And of course, bike paths galore!

“End result is that I was banned for calling living humans troglodytes even though there are communities in Tunesia and China”

But were you talking about communities in Tunesia and China, or were you being a dick to someone?

Frankly, c/politics is much more enjoyable without puerile name calling. If you can’t express yourself like an adult, that’s on you not the mods.

Lemmy when polls show trump in trouble: Obviously!

Lemmy when polls show trump winning: You can’t trust polls this far out!

I fully admit, I thought a crushing trump defeat and a dual chamber Clinton victory would finally force the Republican party back to sanity.

Back in those days, I dunno, I didn’t exactly think we’d solve problems like climate change or sweatshops but they weren’t beyond all possibility.

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