I’ve been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama’s first term in 2008 more wasn’t accomplished. Shouldn’t that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but...
The term for it is the ratchet effect. There’s a ton of videos on it, but here’s the one by second thought that I learned the phrase from: youtu.be/6LPuKVG1teQ?si=4hiE7jdj5MLrTTVh
If Dems we’re gonna give you those things, they’d have done when they had all three branches. I vote no for genocide. If some bullshit party fails to meet that, no fucking way can come back and say “yeah but, look at all these failed promises!” Fucking repulsive.
I rewrote my original response and this one is much more tame.
I have some extra money lying around in USD being slowly devoured by inflation. The conventional wisdom is to invest in stocks or bonds in the US. Fundamentally, that’s just gambling on the continued success of empire. Should I buy gold or other metals instead? Are there non-dollar-denominated ways to invest in economic...
To add, the problem has more to do with things like delivery and storage. That cuts in to your value, but if you can, go for it. If not or if it’s not reasonable, some ETFs or some proxy can be fine.
But as always, don’t put much money behind what you hear from ppl on the internet.
The Banana Wars were a series of US military interventions in Latin America from 1898 to 1934. Why are they relatively understudied, and why are they called banana wars?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
This image is from Google Maps and depicts Maritime Square on Tsing Yi, the island where my grandmother lives. I chose it because I think it is the embodiment of the new millennium Hong Kong urban development....
To me this particular place seems too commercial. The good parts: there’s a lot available nearby, and you’re literally on top of the train station if you want to go elsewhere.
The bad parts: The common space is the mall, so it’s not really a public common space. It’s a shopping center. A park or something on top of it would be great.
(Edit: it looks like it may have a park or some green space?)
Add in schools and any missing neighborhood amenities like a library, etc, and it’d be great.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Cubana de Aviacion flights to Buenos Aires were canceled because fuel suppliers in Argentina refused to serve the airline....
There’s a really good podcast season (2) from Blowback on the history of Cuba and why things are the way they are today. But essentially, it’s what another user posted below. It’s that communism existing is a threat to capitalist rule.
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dancing and dance classes are a great way to meet people there’s an app called meetup - use it to meet up with people go to trivia night follow local gathering places and check out their schedules if you’re in a larger city, there may be a Do{yourAreaCode} website with a list of things that are going on joining a food or drink tour in your own city is actually quite fun and locals/new comers do it as well book club? people rarely read books. they mainly hang out
expand your route, linger in public, be friendly, walk through open doors. but you have to leave the house.
and yes, I do these things (haven’t done a book club yet) and yes, I meet new people, even when I was in a small town. I made an entire friend group by going to meetup events.
Not just bikes made a video about that point. The gist: when you spend more than $100B on roads and next to nothing on rail and public transit, well no shit sherlock.
I'm currently reading the Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey. It's pretty decent I've been making very rapid progress as it's been too hot to sleep here recently now the summer has arrived....
I started this book series that begins with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. It’s a space sci-fi series and the author did a great job with creating different societies and species and thinking about things like different methods of speech and communication, mobility, how do multi-species societies work, etc. But she did a good job of focusing less on the world building with a focus on how the characters navigate the world and situations they’re in.
One of the author’s parents worked for NASA as an astrophysicist or something, the other was a biologist, and she’s a huge DnD nerd, so that all seems to check out haha.
Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?
I’ve been wondering for a bit why during the time the Democrats controlled the legislature, executive, and judicial branches during Obama’s first term in 2008 more wasn’t accomplished. Shouldn’t that have been the opportunity to make Row V Way law and fix the electoral college? I understand the recession was going on but...
Single Issue Voters will save the world! (lemmy.world)
Do you think you could survive on peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches? (lemmus.org)
Haircut Practice by Adam Koford for May 13, 2024.
I just watched this documentary on Ursula K. Le Guin. I never heard of her before this. Does the community have one or two books they recommend? (means.tv)
Let’s say that I may only read one or two, as I’m not a prolific reader. What do you think I should get?
How to dedollarize your finances?
I have some extra money lying around in USD being slowly devoured by inflation. The conventional wisdom is to invest in stocks or bonds in the US. Fundamentally, that’s just gambling on the continued success of empire. Should I buy gold or other metals instead? Are there non-dollar-denominated ways to invest in economic...
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America (www.thecollector.com)
The Banana Wars were a series of US military interventions in Latin America from 1898 to 1934. Why are they relatively understudied, and why are they called banana wars?
How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
Extra Moon Warlords (mander.xyz)
Had some extras from this weeks challenge that I wanted to share....
Thoughts on Hong Kong urbanism? (lemmy.world)
This image is from Google Maps and depicts Maritime Square on Tsing Yi, the island where my grandmother lives. I chose it because I think it is the embodiment of the new millennium Hong Kong urban development....
Salute to the brave police who do this one simple thing. (slrpnk.net)
Based (midwest.social)
Argentina Refuses to Supply Fuel to Cuban Planes (www.telesurenglish.net)
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Cubana de Aviacion flights to Buenos Aires were canceled because fuel suppliers in Argentina refused to serve the airline....
FSharp for performance critical code (youtu.be)
A really good presentation on using FSharp to get high performing code, specifically for an implementation of a topological sort
GOP Governors Show 'How Scared They Are' of Workers Organizing With UAW (www.commondreams.org)
AI generated yearbook (midwest.social)
Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt (infosec.exchange)
Who would win: Borg Cube or Death Star? (aussie.zone)
TranscriptionTumblr post by arctic-hands: > When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since...
America Is Sick of Swiping (www.theatlantic.com)
'My car is more convenient'
I’m getting a lot of ‘but my car is more convenient’ arguments lately, and I’m struggling to convey why that doesn’t make sense....
What books are you reading at the moment?
I'm currently reading the Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey. It's pretty decent I've been making very rapid progress as it's been too hot to sleep here recently now the summer has arrived....