LastSprinkles Now • 37%
It's better to produce food for profit than produce it because you'll otherwise be sent to a gulag.
LastSprinkles Now • 100%
He wants to increase the threshold of where you start paying 40%. The title of this article makes it sound like it's 45% but it's not. Currently this threshold is at about £50k. So this would make the biggest difference to exactly the middle classes.
LastSprinkles Now • 77%
This is almost certainly nothing to do with gaming but rather with preventing China from building up their own chip industry and using US chips in things like AI applications.
LastSprinkles Now • 93%
It looks like it's all orchestrated by Iran. Hezbollah, under Iran control, Hamas and Yemeni rebels. Hamas shooting at Israel in a way that they clearly knew would necessitate a massive response. What I'm wondering is what they gain from this. Perhaps solidarity from other powers in the Middle East, causing hatred of Israel? I'm also wondering if this is all covering action for China to tie down the US while China attempts to take Taiwan. We might be living through what in the future textbooks will be under the heading of factors leading up to.
LastSprinkles Now • 75%
Fitting them with cameras makes it look like another profit protection measure.
I was nodding along till here. Wouldn't fitting employees with body cameras making it easier to prosecute the criminals? Lack of evidence is probably the issue in most cases.
LastSprinkles Now • 100%
With the exception of oral instead of written exams and the three year reduction for citizenship, I think the rest is already in place in the UK. Germany has traditionally had more stringent requirements especially when it comes to dual citizenship (which was only allowed for other EU countries).
LastSprinkles Now • 33%
I use Google Play Music and it's been pretty good. Haven't noticed any shenanigans, no ads or anything of the sort.
LastSprinkles Now • 100%
Ah right, but how is it a privacy issue?
LastSprinkles Now • 100%
Genuine question, can you explain why this is an issue? You've got to type something in either way...
LastSprinkles Now • 66%
If they were to apply to rejoin, as well as joining the Schengen and the euro, I'd want them to have a minimum 60% in favour in a referendum (not just in the polls). Something like a membership of the EU, a political project, requires strong public support.
LastSprinkles Now • 16%
If junior doctors are paid so badly wouldn't a better response to this be to quit and do something else or move to a different country? You help yourself and eventually the NHS has to realise that only paying a gazillion bureaucrats whilst having too few and too badly paid doctors isn't going to work out. To be fair this is already happening, many doctors have left and we have 22 month waiting times... Time is approaching where NHS, the huge bureaucratic behemoth, is dismantled and replaced with something better.
LastSprinkles Now • 100%
We really don't have disdain for the Americans. Most Americans I've met have been great.
LastSprinkles Now • 50%
Oh wow. After reading the announcement I'm glad they got defederated.
LastSprinkles Now • 100%
Never heard of Hexbear (kind of new around here). Why were they defederated? I'm actually on Lemmy World.
LastSprinkles Now • 100%
Cool, thanks for the explanation. TIL
LastSprinkles Now • 50%
I see yeah indeed that works! Although it looks like it only shows a subset of all votes.
LastSprinkles Now • 83%
I don't really see how having a nuclear base in Taiwan eliminates MAD. Similarly having 60% of the navy in the Pacific. It seems to me these mostly work well in case of a conventional conflict.
LastSprinkles Now • 66%
Yeah indeed strategic ambiguity has been the approach they've taken so far. If they decided to they could change the approach though. I think it's unlikely China would carry out the threat if a formal alliance was actually announced since in that case they'd be starting a world war. I think it's more likely they'd express outrage, protest and perhaps fly some fighter jets over Taiwan, take some steps short of actual war. My worry is that if the situation remains ambiguous China might conclude that the security guarantees are not real and that US would not respond. Having strong credibility there is essential for maintaining peace I think, especially if the intention is to actually respond.
LastSprinkles Now • 75%
Nuclear base... Talk about hyperbole. Hope the weather is nice in Beijing this August.
LastSprinkles Now • 100%
Yeah agree I am not sure that's a feature I'd want either tbh if it wasn't already there. But seems like it is in some form.
I read on reddit that on Lemmy you can see users' upvote/downvote history. I therefore expected to be able to see upvote/downvote breakdown by user for my own comments. But couldn't find this. Does this feature exist or is that a myth?