Looking at US politics from across the pond, there seems to be a healthy dose of activism, except it’s exclusively online.
Unfortunately nowadays this is totally irrelevant, because it’s so easy to counter by anyone with money to burn.
When people have actually gathered (mostly unions) they have found success.
Ah yes the embodiment of the French Revolutionaries spirit. Paraphrasing the slogan, wasn’t it something like
“wake me up my brothers after the king gets beheaded, why would I go out with my pitchfork if nothing’s gonna happen”.
I don’t know if this is a criminal charge, but if it is, then this is the answer right here.
A couple of months behind bars would be a brutal wake up call to billionaires that money can’t buy everything.
Of course they’d just double down on buying more politicians and judges.
Im using Firefox because fuck Google’s monopoly, but Firefox seems to care little for some stuff I think is critical, namely AV codec support. Lack of out of the box support for HEVC and a few others, which my underlying OS supports perfectly, is a big turn off.
May be time to give Opera a spin
I can’t follow your reasoning. If companies cannot own houses, how do you propose this shell-ownership would work? Wouldn’t the owner just be free to sell the house at any time and pocket the cash for themselves?
As for tax evasion by foreigners that own real estate, I mean how is that even a problem? There’s millions of foreigners that do business in the US everyday, plus, these ones have actual immovable assets that can be seized…
Sounds perfect, do it. I wanna see your income statement when you own 20 apartments.
Definitely then the issue lies with click to subscribe, and not with click to cancel.
If the customer is insufficiently informed of any penalties for cancelling, then he shouldn’t have been allowed to subscribe in the first place.
Yeah I occasionally run into that block that blames GDPR too, and it makes me wonder just what in hell they want to do with user data…
It’s not hard to comply with GDPR, unless you’re a shady scumbag, in which case, thanks for the warning I guess.
Oh yes it’s intended, there’s even a setting where you can choose between abbreviations or scientific notation, because everyone knows K, M or B, but ain’t nobody gonna remember Ovg for “Octovigintillion” (10^87 apparently), much easier to just keep track of the powers.
It’s decent fun for what it is and it’s f2p, give a spin if you want - https://idlechampions.com/
Well having to find that much liquidity that fast can be a problem even for someone as rich as Musk, no?
If I own musk stock I would consider selling before he dumps $1B worth of stock on the market, and try to pick it up again cheaply. I can see it wipe out massive market cap from his companies…
I’m not too familiar with WoW, but I think it’s a bit different.
In the idle clicker, you quickly get to exponential numbers, so when you’re optimizing the party and you have a choice of say, something that doubles your base damage or something, it really feels irrelevant because after all the other multipliers your hero is already dealing 2x10^(102), and going to 4x10^(102) is nothing
Interesting concept, thank you!
Have you ever played idle champions of the forgotten realms? At some point you start to get this feeling.
It would have been ridiculous to think this a decade ago, but if Trump gets a second term, China might actually be the better diplomatic and trade partner for the EU…
The US is a net exporter of oil, and has been one for the last several years.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php
Why do you want to increase production if you’re not going to export?
I saw an interesting stat today that relates to this.
I’m in the EU, and this year for the first time my country spent more money buying Chinese solar panels than it did buying gas from the US, which has traditionally been a big national expense.
Putting it another way: the Chinese are selling us fishing poles, while Trump wants to keep selling us fish. Sure, we’ll keep buying fish for a while yet, but not for much longer.
I’m not even considering the climate and all that. It’s just a better economic investment.
But sure, you pump up those barrel numbers as high as you can, up until it comes crashing straight into the ground.
As for immigration, sure whatever. Kick out all the immigrants, but be honest and let me know how many people do you personally know that want to spend their life working the fields all day, or spend days at a time out at sea on a trawler, or mowing lawns for pennies on the dollar.
Because as a dev, I really enjoy my air conditioning and nice comfy office, and probably make more money than half a dozen of those pesky useless freeloaders combined, so you won’t be seeing me doing those jobs anytime soon.
This sort of campaign isn’t designed to sway your average undecided Joe.
It’s meant to reinforce the indoctrination of those already mildly radicalised, pushing them to the extreme. They will inevitably pull along some other inbred imbeciles along with them, and if they’re extremist enough and numerous enough, something like the invasion of the capitol would have worked.
Note: it’s not only morons who get swayed. Elderly folk are especially vulnerable to this sort of explosive statements, they have a tendency to believe what they read or see (on TV or other platforms) disregarding their own better judgement…
If you mean “someone” as in an individual that is posting something they made that happens to contain the song, then I agree with you.
But there are many other uses where there should be restrictions (and need to pay royalties/get licence), like here where it’s being used in a political campaign, or for commercial purposes, or if being posted by a corporation, etc.
That’s definitely not what came to mind when I read “classic Japanese cars”, my mind went to stuff like the Toyota AE86 and the Miata. And from there, to the likes of the Mitsubishi Lancer, Toyota Supra, Subaru Impreza, Nissan Skyline, all those cars I drooled over when I used to play Gran Turismo as a kid (and still drool over, tbh).
A classic Japanese car? Like those nimble little things that drift down crazy steep mountains and stuff?
Too small, but an interesting example.
In many countries, and across history, universities are the breeding ground of anti-establishment protests. Young people with a strong desire to change the world, not yet shackled by the burdens of society and all that.
Except that in the US, students are chained down with massive debt they can’t escape from, so that they can be kept on a leash.