Even without debt, sustained deflation is a sign the economy went to shit. Prices go down when there’s no one buying, if there’s no one buying companies close, people lose jobs, which causes other companies to go bankrupt and so on. Debt is the icing on the cake. People that think that long term deflation and deflationary policies are good never went through one.
For that case, if you use the technical definition of desert, and are willing to move out of the US, I hear Antarctica is lovely this time of the year.
Germany’s AfD party on Wednesday banned its leading candidate from appearing at EU election campaign events, after France’s main far-right party announced a split with the Germans over a slew of scandals involving the politician.
Biden gave ammo to the Russian propaganda when he questioned the legitimacy of the ICC arrest warrants and implicitly accused them of playing politics - which is basically Putin’s line. I wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up with Putin being allowed to travel freely again.
A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday, according to Iran’s state media and the country’s mission to the United Nations, but has yet to be found by search-and-rescue workers because of heavy fog.
When we talk about human rights we usually talk about the “what”, and talking about just the “what” leads to misconceptions like that. So the question is why we have human rights. And the formulation human right treaties take is some form of “Human dignity is inviolable”, which means that all human lives are worth the same, and that value can’t be diminished in any way. Human rights are then listed in order to protect that ideal.
When you consider this, it becomes obvious that owning humans can’t be a form of the right to private property because it relies on some humans being above others.
That’s also the reason why free speech doesn’t include things like slander or ordering someone killed.
That one was way more deranged. The Senate of Berlin allowed Helmut Kentler to send orphans and other kids that had to be removed from their parents to pedophiles’ homes with the logic that since pedophiles “love” children they would treat them better than the average foster family. And it went all the way from the 1960s to the 1990s (which meant that some kids were stuck with the pedophiles until the 2000s because removing them would blow the cover up).
Fox News is an American problem, they don’t have any significant presence in Europe - the closest would be Sky News but Comcast bought it from Murdoch in 2018.
If Microsoft increases the price of Game Pass Ultimate to add Call of Duty I’m going to cancel my subscription. Just add a new tier called Game Pass for Suckers That Buy The Same Mediocre Overpriced Game Every Year and include Call of Duty on that.
I’ve never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be “no,” although I’m not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless...
Between the 800 years and the Seven of Limes are two things showing that either Reno has paid a visit to the 24th century or the writers lost the plot.
The 800 years if rounded could line up with Seven of Nine’s Enterprise G.
Ok let me rephrase for pedantic people, adjectives with trans prefix have a correspondent cis adjective.
And an electrical cisformer would be something that would keep energy inside the same circuit at roughly the same voltage, so basically a wire. Feel free to use the term if you want to oversell something.
Genocide is not killing people, it’s killing a culture/ethnicity or displacing from the area where they live. Technically you can commit genocide without killing a single person.
Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists....
Because international law is more about “there’s a general consensus about this” than written law (and in few places this is as true as what counts as a sovereign entity), this kind of organized action can have more impact than they might seem at first.
Deflation Never Happens, Except Right Now (nymag.com)
In one of the US’s hottest deserts, utilities push gas rather than solar (www.theguardian.com)
In Fort Mohave, Arizona, even Republican voters are fighting gas power plants as utilities try to lock in fossil fuels...
Germany’s far-right AfD bans leading candidate from EU election events (www.france24.com)
Germany’s AfD party on Wednesday banned its leading candidate from appearing at EU election campaign events, after France’s main far-right party announced a split with the Germans over a slew of scandals involving the politician.
Texas rule (i.ibb.co)
Answer: No sovcit, bad sovcit. (lemmy.world)
Cloud-watching [Nowak] (lemmy.world)
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Joe Biden Condemns International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s Pursuit Of Arrest Warrant Against Israeli Leaders: “What’s Happening Is Not Genocide” (deadline.com)
Bernie Sanders: ICC ‘right’ to seek arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Israeli defense official (thehill.com)
Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports (www.nytimes.com)
A helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday, according to Iran’s state media and the country’s mission to the United Nations, but has yet to be found by search-and-rescue workers because of heavy fog.
Was banning human slavery an authoritarian decision?
Obviously it was a good thing that it was banned, but I’m just wondering if it would technically be considered authoritarian....
Massachusetts Placed Homeless Families in Shelters With Sex Offenders, Report Says (www.thedailybeast.com)
EU Bans Distribution Of 4 Russia-Linked News Outlets (www.ndtv.com)
Microsoft to add next Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass, WSJ reports (www.theverge.com)
Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?
I’ve never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be “no,” although I’m not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless...
Canon Connections: DIS 5x07 - Erigah
• The episode’s title, “Erigah”, refers a form of Breen “blood bounty” first mentioned a couple episodes ago in “Mirrors”....
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur (www.engadget.com)
US suggests possibility of penalties if production of Chinese electric vehicles moves to Mexico (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15647515...
Feds probing Amazon self-driving robotaxi unit Zoox after 2 rear-end crashes (www.cbsnews.com)
Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists....
Vladimir Putin set to transfer Sergei Shoigu from Russian defence ministry (www.bbc.com)
Ok бuddy (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter (www.businessinsider.com)
Coalition of European countries consider recognizing Palestinian State on May 21 (english.elpais.com)