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A two party system where each side does whatever it takes to stay in positions of power has shown to be a pretty bad idea as well.

What else do we have to work with?

I was wondering too. Lemmy can be a bit weird that way.

Amazon and Walmart have just outright won the game. Everyone else in those spaces, and adjacent spaces, just can't compete anymore. You either do business with them or die/live on the leftover scraps.

It's really not good, there should be more opportunities for others.

This totally works, thanks for the tip!

First we need a federal initiative/ referendum system. Because the existing politicians will never vote to limit their own power.

After we have this, we can start with initiatives that set maximum ages, fix the voting systems. Fix Roe. Dismantle the terrible stranglehold the two party system has on getting anything done.

Do all the things that are popular but politicians will never do.

Serious question... if the Ukrainians attack Russian assets on Russian soil, there has got to be some red line that could push Putin to consider nukes in retaliation.

I presume the Ukrainian calculus with this is to remove Russia's will to fight but do not push so far that Russia becomes afraid for it's existence.

"A cornered rat will attack the cat" or something like that.

I own several copies of bedrock but none of java. Can I download and play these old java versions without needing to buy a new copy?

For many mainland Chinese people, real estate is the only place they can invest their money. Traditionally and culturally it's also seen as the only possible way to rise up and do better.

The money export controls make it difficult for the average guy to move his money abroad as well.

So there are many Chinese people putting retirement or family savings into these places because they don't have other options.

They have also just had a very long run of easy government backed mortgage support, making it a bit too easy to borrow money for these properties.

It's crazy and doesn't make long term sense when the number of domiciles exceeds the number of people.

I wonder what percentage of the total internet traffic, since inception, can be attributed to this protocol.

I bet it's pretty high

Well reasoned contribution, thank you

I've followed the headlines on this but I just don't get it.

India is pissed they were called out? They didn't consider a cranky Canadian outcome before hand? Or is Canada flinging wild accusations that are unjustified with the information at hand?

These diplomats need to chillax and go back to being diplomatic before legitimate Canadian expats in India and legitimate Indian expats in Canada start to feel the brunt of this.

This is the right answer. When we perform maintenance on our aircraft there's a logbook entry that contains very specific details about the part that went in, such as its serial number, but really that's so the insurance company can track down the culprit after the crash. Not many individuals are doing the tracing themselves.

Honestly? Because this chart didn't explain that this isn't part of some normal cycle or that humans are directly involved in some way. Many people don't understand that.

Since I was a kid "El Niño" came around every few years and the hot air mass caused unusual summer storms and wacky winter snow conditions. This was explained as a 3-6 year cycle or something, nothing to worry about. A lot of people know about it because the weatherman loves the story.

Secondly, and I know this is a common thought: if humans are 100% solely responsible for tomorrow's temperature reading, what precisely can any single person do today, and tomorrow, and next week to have the most significant impact? And how much will it cost that person relative to the benefit he or she will receive? It's very unclear and this is a PR problem with the communication coming from many climate change activists.

I don't think any average person would know of these advantages. So theres a general lack of education about the topic.

There is also a hydrogen refueling network problem to overcome. Before public electric charging stations existed, electric people could charge at home and install their own chargers where required so the electric industry has been able to partially side step that issue at the beginning.

Finally I think it just doesn't seem sexy. To a casual bystander it's like gas in, pay, then drive as usual.

It must be "squeeze more money out of Prime Video" month at Amazon.

Most people will not care enough to cancel or stop watching if the service deteriorates a bit. Those who do will pay $3.

Those who won't do either, well, there are alternatives.

The first few times I heard "woke" used, it was in the context of people who don't follow the sheep because they aren't asleep. Hence, they have woke up.

Money doesn't matter

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Cool, I needed a good reason to open Minecraft again

There's a scene near the end of the Better Call Saul series where Saul Goodman is negotiating with the feds for better prison terms.

I feel like I heard somewhere that a meeting like this is not uncommon with high value/high risk criminals. In part to reduce everybody's legal fees and in part to get criminals to cooperate on other matters, such as getting the crazies in their orbit to chill out.

I could imagine that as the feds close in on Trump, such a meeting may become more attractive to him. And at long last he'll finally retire to a golden club fed with an escalator.

Some are definitely better than others. I've used new VPN services that get you through every checkpoint just like a home IP address. And some that, as you mention, throw up every captcha known to man.