robbinhood @ robbinhood @lemmy.world

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I mean, literally, if only. Not the dude you're arguing with. Am another dude.

Sure we can dream up other ways to live, and we collectively could achieve them. But for many, many people it's simply not possible right now

ehhh.... fuck it, let's earn some downvotes.

I'm really not going to lose sleep over a group that intentionally targets civilian ships staffed, with you know, innocent civilians.

Trump sucks. But Iran's upper leadership also sucks, and they're funding this.

Punishment as deterrent is often pretty questionable, but this is a case where I think it could help. Any business owners who ignore things like fire safety regulations should face substantial sentences IMO.

I'd go as far as to say any business owner found to be blatantly violating serious safety regulations during an inspection should face a few days in jal.

losing just 20% is probably a best case scenario for musk IMO.

was that the command that deleted (almost permanently) Toystory 2?

I still can't believe he nuked the Twitter brand. It was like the most valuable part of the platform. X is such a dumb, generic nothing name.

Prevent diseases? As if. Were such a thing possible surely people would be getting nobel prizes for it.

I do agree it's "not normal," especially in the West. It does seem to be significantly more common across Asia.

And I suspect it'll become more common across the West.

And I hate it. Cash is still king for me for whatever reason.

And just in case you think I'm BS'ing here is an actual government policy explicitly stating that stores can refuse cash payments

https://www.mas.gov.sg/contact-us/faqs/currency-faqs

My friend I've been to countries where businesses don't accept cash and the currency is still considered legal tender.

Like, I've (literally) turned up at coffee shops, tried to pay in cash, only to be told "we don't accept cash, only credit card or digital payment." (the latter in my experience is often via QR codes and the system sucks because 10 second transactions become 25 second transactions)

The legal frameworks in such jurisdictions may be very different than Denmark's.

Edit: Beyond which, does Amazon accept cash? eBay? I've never heard of them doing so and don't recall ever seeing the option.

Can the USA even do that? They're global companies. As whacky as the United States is right now even attempting to do so would be immensely irrational even by Trump's standards.

I'd guess that Mastercard and Visa would shift their headquarters to somewhere like Switzerland or Singapore pretty quickly after that.

I imagine OP isn't saying that there literally is no such thing as cash in Denmark but something more nuanced like "cash is becoming rare."

No idea about Denmark's laws but there are companies (edit: I mean "countries" not companies) where cash is yes still the legal tender but payment at some businesses can only be made cashless. Denmark may have a law stating businesses must accept cash, but you can certainly have systems where cash is legal tender but some businesses will not accept it.

Damn. I know mailing actual letters has been going the way of the dinosaur and this outcome is in some ways predictable, but it's still a big shift.

A robust Europe that could be more assertive on the world stage is good for the world in the long run. I say that as an American. Best of luck to the Germans, EU as a whole, the UK, and everyone else in the region.

I agree that in general these are good times. Some groups and demographics are struggling and I do think most people are feeling varying degrees of pressure from inflation and other issues.

Of course, people in hotspots, like Ukraine, Syria, and Gaza, are having a much worse time.

What I do think is a serious risk is that a lot of groups could end up hit very hard if the economy were to go into a downturn. People suffer during every downturn, of course, but I think any downturn now could quickly grow severe and match or exceed the Great Recession.

Like I said in my original comment:

"A lot of people are struggling of course,"

The deportations are terrible now. Imagine how they'd be if the world fell into a Great Depression. I'd be legitimately worried about frequent lynchings of immigrants.

yeah it's almost counter productive because Trump is so thin-skinned and desperate to be seen as coming up with every idea. If they can convince him that it was really his idea though, it might work.

Fair. The whole world is on thin ice and things may snowball quickly. I wish the best for Europe in the months and years ahead.

Oh yeah, substantial change will require a huge overall in political and social views, I fully agree there. Right now, at best, it seems like we might get some occasional bandaids.

A huge war might indeed be one of the few catalysts to instill that change. Major environmental crises might do it too, but those events will probably unfold after too much damage has been done.

Wildfires, hurricanes, and everything else have been pretty crazy in recent years but what we're seeing now may pale compared to what we see in say thirty years.

tbh a massive influx of foodstuffs we're short on and ultimately lower consumer prices is probably better than what we're actually going to get, which is probably a future Trump tower in Moscow or some stupid BS.

sigh