TankovayaDiviziya @ TankovayaDiviziya @lemmy.world

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Raising minimum wage and housing would be an easy political platform to stand on but, of course, politicians are beholden to the rich.

I heard Assassin's Creed Shadows is decent if not good. But overall, it looks like AC Origins is the last properly good Ubisoft game.

That's why I admire Vince Gilligan and his astute observation. He said he intentionally hired comedians because of their acting range, especially with their ability to control their facial ticks.

Yup, most electricity cost these days come from using appliances.

I am going to short on my American stocks for the next four years. Trump won't want to step down at the end of his term and when that happens, there will be chaos.

That's true. His impeachment proceedings got distracted with the assassination of Khassem Soleimani in January 2020, and then COVID happened.

I responded to a question on Reddit that I am knowledgeable of to make an educated guess. Then, it turns out OP is a journalist and asked me if he could quote me. But I declined because even though I know the topic well enough, I am not an expert and don't have the credentials to show for. I mean, I could have allowed OP to quote me and feed my ego, but I don't want to sow misinformation if I am wrong. And besides, being quoted with my then strange username will make the article strange.

Yeah, journalism is getting lazier and lazier.

The idea of "equal but separate" that ran from post-US civil war up the US civil rights movement will tell you as to why.

The concerns on using Mastodon and the likes is probably propaganda to dissuade people from using open source and defederated social media.

A common running thread among fascists is being fantasist. Trump's tariff threat to force companies to re-shore is one of those fantasies. His plan makes sense if we are still living in 19th century when gunboat diplomacy, economic warfare, colonialism, or the general mindset of "might makes right" still works. But such reality has long gone and the world now has to be mulitateral. What Trump is doing is regression.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Trump made Québécois what Canadians themselves couldn't do, make Québécois more Canadian.

Poillievre flirted with Trumpian rhetoric though.

That's why i always forbid access to my microphones by apps. Many AI apps will also remember what you discussed long ago.

Well, UK birthed the US after all. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Depending where you are, there are tax benefits to legally married couples.

If cost is an issue, you can have cheap wedding. But I think the concern is more cultural in which there is an implicit expectation to have a grandiose wedding, like in a church and have a huge gathering and party with dozens if not hundreds of attendees.

Christ... letter this, letter that. Warning this, warning that. Trump did this, Trump did that.

Just rise up already! You are all in already in the very same despotism that the American founding fathers warned you all of!

They really want Fallout to happen.

You will realise that many people are too egotistic to back down.

You are quite right. There is a tribe in East Africa which makes a hole on their lower lip and place a huge disk into it. It is theorised that the practice started to prevent lockjaw disease that may have been prevalent in the area eons ago. I am not sure how this prevents lockjaw but maybe for them it works.