NateNate60

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NateNate60,

Tesla has lost nearly a quarter of its market cap in the past month. Musk has cost shareholders over $100 billion because he can’t shut up about conspiracy theories and “woke” nonsense on the site formerly known as Twitter, so now middle-class car buyers who are overwhelmingly liberal-minded refuse to buy Tesla cars. The Tesla brand has been reduced to rubble and is worth a fraction of what it was a few years ago because Musk refuses to stop pissing on it.

I can’t believe he’s not facing ten shareholder revolts a day over this. If someone fucks up and costs me a hundred billion dollars I’d be out for fucking blood.

NateNate60, (edited )

Edit: This article is garbage. Letitia James hasn’t announced shit, this is reporting what some guys on Twitter are talking about. I wouldn’t hold my breath until a better source reports about it.

The State of New York gets to collect on the entire judgement. That is the amount that the trial court found him liable for and that’s the amount he must pay.

The bond amount being lowered only means that he needs to post that amount as a guarantee against the judgement in order to stop execution before he appeals. If he loses his appeal, he still needs to pay the full amount of the judgement. Since the bond was no good, it is the same as if he didn’t post anything.

U.S. sends Ukraine seized Iranian-made weapons (wapo.st)

The Pentagon has provided Ukraine with thousands of Iranian-made weapons seized before they could reach Houthi militants in Yemen, U.S. officials said Tuesday. It’s the Biden administration’s latest infusion of emergency military support for Kyiv while a multibillion-dollar aid package remains stalled in the Republican-led...

Banks in Hong Kong can print their own money. There are 8 different designs in circulation. (lemmy.world)

Before someone asks why there isn’t insane inflation from banks printing an infinite amount of money for themselves, the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the US dollar. In order to be allowed to print HKD, banks must have an equivalent amount of USD on deposit.

NateNate60,

What did O. J. Simpson do to avoid paying?

NateNate60,

Chinese Internet users normally: HA China economy #1, much better than shit imperialist American economy, China is the best 1000000% GDP growth, USA is a failing country and China will rise to be the #1 superpower 🇨🇳 🇨🇳

Chinese Internet users today: nooooo Americans pls help… 🥺 my stock portfolio lost value

NateNate60,

That view is unfortunately out of date. Many Chinese products are of equal or superior quality to their global counterparts. Think Lenovo laptops and OnePlus smartphones. Chinese stuff can be cheap and high quality.

NateNate60,

> buy profitable game company

> get profits from said company

> “woah, I’m making so much money from gaming”

NateNate60,

I guess. It’s a waste of time to do this but it’d also be an even bigger waste of time to oppose it.

It just makes one think… why?

Of all the better things the council could be doing, they choose to do this? A more or less worthless show of support that does essentially nothing? This “something” that was done is so small that I think it isn’t worth even its cost of time and paper.

Don’t get me wrong, that doesn’t mean I oppose a ceasefire, but this is the equivalent of “keyboard activism” that does utterly nothing toward the cause but makes those doing it feel good about themselves.

If they really wanted to help suffering Palestinian civilians, they could have promoted charities distributing aid or made donations to other such organisations. But this is just useless lip service.

George Santos is running for Congress (www.semafor.com)

Tonight, I want to announce that I will be returning to the arena of politics and challenging Nick [LaLota] for the battle over #NY1,” Santos told Semafor in a statement. “I look forward to debating him on the issues and on his weak record as a Republican. The fight for our majority is imperative for the survival of the...

NateNate60,

Better source (Washington Post, no paywall)

NateNate60,

My friend, it seems like your anxiety is nicotine withdrawal. That explains why smoking makes your anxiety go away; you’re getting another hit of nicotine to ease off the withdrawal.

Vaping isn’t harmless. Especially since you’re 18, it will inhibit your brain development and the chemicals in the vape are chronically toxic. Nicotine is extremely addictive. Many people get addicted after just a few goes.

NateNate60,

The remote access game is just completely different in Windows versus Linux. Windows has excellent graphical remote control options (RDP, Quick Access) and Linux has a hodgepodge of options that all only half work. Linux has excellent remote terminal capabilities (SSH), whereas remote Windows terminals are a joke. Both of these facts are very fitting, because the Linux terminal is powerful, while on Windows you need the GUI to do anything.

NateNate60,

Microsoft’s solution will be to remove the feature from Enterprise versions of Windows while keeping it around for the plebs using Pro and Home

NateNate60, (edited )

And here again, come the misinformed people putting words into an article they didn’t read to justify their misinformed viewpoints. I will add this as a Hongkonger—

Everything in the article is more or less true. Before the handover of Hong Kong to China, Hong Kong’s minority of Europeans were much more active and prevalent (because they had a disproportionate amount of political power and controlled a lot of the wealth). After the handover, this special status went away and naturally, the Chinese majority took over the Government. Through the decades, Chinese investment and the power of the Chinese economy have wrestled away economic hegemony from Western companies, although American and European money still holds a lot of power in Hong Kong. Infamously, after US President Donald Trump put HK Chief Executive Carrie Lam on the sanctions list, the banks closed her accounts and she was forced to receive her salary in cash.

Nonetheless, the white minority in Hong Kong were still active from a cultural and economic standpoint, but they are leaving. These are the reasons—

  • Hong Kong is autocracising. The exercise of Government power is becoming more and more arbitrary, no longer constrained by a rigid set of guarantees and restrictions. People (not limited to just Westerners) are no longer confident that the Government of tomorrow won’t decide to strip away the freedoms they’ve enjoyed, arrest them for their political views, or seize control of their businesses. China is imposing its political ideals on Hong Kong, and China’s system only works if you have complete trust that the Government has your best interests at heart. Hongkongers, both Chinese and otherwise, especially those educated in the West or in Hong Kong’s Western-style universities, tend to follow the Western liberal tradition of not trusting the Government. Hence, they feel threatened when the Government starts stripping away the elements of the liberal democracy they expected, and they don’t feel safe in Hong Kong.
  • Yes, people see things like the Chinese national being played on TV four times daily and new laws being passed making it illegal to criticise the Chinese flag or whatever and they think “This is bullshit, why does the Government care about that?” And yes, people do think that even if you can criticise the Government doing things you don’t like, the Government doesn’t care about your criticism in the slightest and there’s nothing you can do about it. They feel neglected and left without a voice. All you can do is complain about it over tea with your friends. People think that if you start a protest or political movement critical of the Government, you will get arrested for some trumped-up reason and the police and bureaucracy will harass you.
  • Living in Hong Kong is losing the advantages it once had over other cities. For the educated professional, there’s no reason to stay in Hong Kong instead of chasing higher salaries and lower costs of living in Europe or America. And plus, since that demographic is overwhelmingly liberal, they feel that the way Europe and America are governed is closer to their own political views, and they feel safe in the legal guarantees afforded by those countries’ constitutions. I made a salary of 2,500 USD = 20,000 HKD a month working in IT as an intern in America with no experience. Hong Kong employers baulk at the prospect of paying me 20,000 HKD a month now. Meanwhile, I can easily find a job in now the USA with my qualifications now paying 40,000 HKD/month equivalent. Hence, brain drain. It made no economic sense for me to stay in Hong Kong.

I will, however, give a brief mention of the fact that this article mentions the exodus of white people, but it is important to note that there is also more than ever a growing minority of South Asian people (Indian subcontinent, Indonesia and Malaysia, &c.). I think it is pretty racist to not count those people as contributing to the internationalism of a city. Nonetheless, these people tend to be employed in an exploitative system of domestic labour rather than participating as genuine equals. They do not enjoy the same rights as Chinese Hongkongers or white Hongkongers and labour laws do not afford them nearly the same protections. They form an underclass, something that Hong Kong likes to sweep under the rug. More Hongkongers than will admit are openly racist to them; a slang term for an Indian person is a homophone for “a worse [person]”

NateNate60,

As stated, the bill is unlikely to be enacted as US President Joe Biden opposes it and will likely veto it.

This is the usual showboating from the opposition.

NateNate60,

I’m 90% sure that if Sanders was elected president in 2020, the US would have ratified the Rome Statute of the ICC.

NateNate60,

Interesting. That sounds like a reasonable demand.

Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says (apnews.com)

The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election....

NateNate60,

Your comment about §2 of Amendment 14 doesn’t seem right. The text states that representation is reduced proportionally to the percentage of male citizens over 21 who are denied the right to vote.

NateNate60,

This was an interpretation of the Kansas state constitution, not the federal constitution.

NateNate60,

Isn’t the requirement only that the government be “republican”? A republican government doesn’t necessarily have to be representative. It only needs to not be a monarchy.

How can the Oregon government make drugs illegal again with no public comment periods or voter input at all?

Their main excuse? Police were never properly trained on how to handle possession and use cases so they now want to offer immunity for a misdemeanor if you take treatment instead. If not, you get a misdemeanor and the draconian shit starts all over again. Source

NateNate60,

I am an Oregonian. The Legislative Assembly is caving to public pressure.

I want to first say that this isn’t about whether decriminalisation works. The views I am about to present are not necessarily held by me, but I am merely talking about the existence of these opinions because they deserve discussion.

People, in Oregon, generally viewed the decriminalisation programme as a failure. The Legislative Assembly failed to fund the necessary companion programmes and police training that would have been needed to give it the best chance of succeeding. Instead, when the referendum passed and decriminalisation came into force (without the involvement of the Legislative Assembly), they decided to just let it fail.

The reasons why decriminalisation failed are debated, but only a small subset of voters are privy to this debate and even understand the arguments. The rest see a failed experiment where the Government just legalised all drugs. It’s easy to believe the latter and since it sounds logical to most people, that’s where they stop thinking about it.

As a result, a majority of Oregonians believe that decriminalisation has failed, and the Legislative Assembly is acting on that.

Some people in this thread are blaming pharmaceutical companies and lobbying. That is a knee-jerk, unreasoned and ignorant reaction that fails at any amount of serious scrutiny and reflects an utter ignorance of what Oregonians actually think. If anything, pharmaceutical companies would have everything to gain from people having easier access to their products.

NateNate60, (edited )

My home state of Oregon mandates a minimum wage of $13.20 in rural areas and $15.45 in the Portland metro area, and it adjusts to inflation. Oregon has been governed by Democrats for years. Thanks to these and other laws, I can go down to a McDonald’s and get a job that pays $16-17 an hour to start in my city. TriMet in Portland is always advertising a $28 starting wage for bus drivers (no CDL) up to $37 after three years. Rent in my city is $800-900 for a one-bedroom flat with excellent free public transit and fair bikeability. Fuel prices are reasonable. We have strong protections for tenants against abusive landlords. Strong anti-discrimination laws. Everyone has paid sick days. No regressive sales tax. Working-class people can afford a roof over their heads and decent food on the table.

Check out the neighbouring state minimum wages.

  • Washington (Democratic government): $16.28
  • California (Democratic government): $16.00
  • Nevada (divided government): $12.00
  • Idaho (Republican government): $7.25

But yeah, keep harping on about how both parties are the same and that Democrats don’t do more to help the working man.

NateNate60,

One drawback of Lemmy is the notable tendency for people to use the downvote button as “I don’t like what this says”

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