AKA Gender affirming truck.

You don’t have to take Russia’s word on it. USA and Russia inspected each other’s nuclear arsenal as part of the New START treaty until the beginning of covid.

This is less a reason to use Lemmy or MBin over the other specifically: One of the great features of the fediverse is that the content is not siloed off behind one interface. Usage and development can happen on both and any number of other interfaces and all of them will have access to the same content (barring federation issues, but that should become less of an issue as ActivityPub and various interfaces mature).

As for there being enough people to populate interface specific communities/magazines/whatever, you can’t take a snapshot of today and project that into the future statically. The fediverse population is still relatively low compared to commercial social networking sites, but there is enough of a core userbase for new people to accrete onto over the course of time. There is a potential future where the user base flips, or doesn’t but both Lemmy and MBin have large userbases, or another interface that doesn’t even exist yet takes off and becomes larger than both. But it doesn’t really matter because all that’s happening in those cases is people are being offered different ways of accessing the same content that better match their preference.

Bringing it back to the original point, that the content is not siloed means development on various interfaces can happen concurrently to make things not necessarily better than each other, but more suited to different tastes. You aren’t locked into whatever Reddit, or Twitter, or whatever decides the interface should look like.

Surely linking affordable groceries to communism will make affordable groceries less popular rather than communism more popular.

The world population has nearly doubled in my lifetime. That’s not sustainable. We need to build systems that promote and function within a state of equilibrium.

Yes, there is absolutely a moral distinction between arming an invader and arming a defender. The US is doing good in arming Ukraine and bad in arming Israel. Pretty simple.

As for illegal, lol. Israel going to call the cops?

They should petition the US government to stop arming Russia like they do Israel to end the conflict.

Oh, right…

You don’t need both. Raising the standard deduction will already remove the taxes on any tips (+ wages) made that are beneath the new deduction limit. It’s just that everyone else who relies on wages will get the same benefit. I agree that minimum wage exceptions need to go.

This is an awful policy. Want to give a tax cut to working people? Raise the standard deduction by a few thousand and bump up the taxes on the highest bracket by a bit (or preferably a lot). That will give a cut to untipped hospitality workers as well.

I think she’s just had better luck with her skin. Her hair looks like it’s got it’s share of grey, at least around her shoulders.

The issue they have is, Trump can’t win with just his base. He needs to appeal to at least some percentage of voters outside of that group. It seems like he’s been doing everything he can to push anyone who isn’t already all in on him away since Biden stepped down.

That’s the joke.

People act like jobs are a non-renewable resource that, once filled, that’s all you get. This is a total misunderstanding of how consumer based economies work. Economic activity is demand driven. More consumers = more demand = more jobs. This is obvious if you think about it. It’s why cities can exist rather than collapse once hitting a certain population because all the jobs are taken and no one can work anymore. It’s why you find way more opportunities in cities rather than podunk rural villages.

Where the trouble comes in is that the population growth and job opportunities growth doesn’t necessarily happen at exactly the same rate at exactly the same time. There can be pain in the transitional period between when the population growth happens, and when the new demand stimulates the new job opportunities. That isn’t a reason to try and stifle the population growth. It’s a political issue. Something like universal basic services (or UBI), or a universal jobs guarantee where the government puts people to work on infrastructure projects (social housing in particular seems like a good idea) or the like, like New Deal era USA did until they can find something more to their liking would do a lot to soothe that pain.

Ultimately, the new economic activity that’s created from the growth is a good thing and ought to be embraced.

The personal data of 2.9 billion people, which includes full names, former and complete addresses going back 30 years, Social Security Numbers, and more, was stolen from National Public Data by a cybercriminal group that goes by the name USDoD. The complaint goes on to explain that the hackers then tried to sell this huge collection of personal data on the dark web to the tune of $3.5 million. It’s worth noting that due to the sheer number of people affected, this data likely comes from both the U.S. and other countries around the world.

What makes the way National Public Data did this more concerning is that the firm scraped personally identifiable information (PII) of billions of people from non-public sources. As a result, many of the people who are now involved in the class action lawsuit did not provide their data to the company willingly.

What exactly makes this company so different from the hacking group that breached them? Why should they be treated differently?

Better than yanks who you can depend on to drag you into a pointless war halfway across the world.

You’ve dragged us into more wars than you’ve defended us in. This idea that there are hordes of hostile countries just salivating at invading us across three oceans is a joke.

In fact, the most significant threat to our safety is your trainwreck of a country deciding it likes fascism actually and doing a Sudetanland to us.

Yeah, a lot of capitalist realism, the way we do things now is the best possible way we could be doing them bullshit. No vision whatsoever.

Not Shapiro? Netanyahu must be feeling pretty nervous this morning.

There was more to WW1 starting than Franz Ferdinand getting shot, too. They are sarcastically skewering people’s simplistic understanding of the causes of those two conflicts.

This is basically like if back in 2015 after Trump insulted Ted Cruz’s wife, Cruz became his VP pick and defended the insults, haha. Totally spineless, no limit to how far he will debase himself and his family for a position in the administration.