Yes, because at the same time they offer a better business environment. US, for example, can do pretty much anything, being de facto commercial center of the world, with highest scale operations historically based there and interconnected to the point they can’t just “leave”.

Should you run this “experiment” in aforementioned Venezuela instead, you’re unlikely to enjoy the result. Although it wouldn’t benefit the US in the long run either.

You sure tapped into a particular frustration of mine :D

WoW has already done something similar in Warlords of Draenor, iirc, when you could make and develop your outpost, but wasn’t it considered to be mostly a failure because players were there and so common locations were more empty?

Happy to see Foundation fans around :D

Seconding “Foundation” soooooo much. One of my teen favorites. Also full of references to other Asimov’s books, so many will get much more familiar after reading this.

In theory - sure. In practice - all countries in the world have to agree to raise taxes, even though individually they are better off betraying this agreement and lowering them, thereby attracting the rich and ending up with more, not less, money.

And if all countries agree to tax the rich the way they should, we might as well go and build socialism everywhere, because not having everyone onboard is a main issue there too.

My admin flat out refuses to add any donation options, citing he has enough money to maintain the instance as a hobby project. Nice!

Interesting, never heard of it! Thanks

Thanks, will look into it!

As an actual owner of a similar thing: no

The problem isn’t even how much water comes from there (you can figure it out and not set the water jet to full power), but rather that you are expected to insert this thing back and forth, which, trust me, you won’t do since your anus is unprepared, unexpanded and, well, dirty.

So, while interesting on paper, this thing doesn’t really work the way it’s intended to. There you have it!

It’s a reverse of “my body, my choice” (as in "I do whatever I want with my body, including abortions etc.) that is meant to demonstrate the position of right-wingers who want to take that away.

I don’t think any of right-wingers themselves used that kind of phrasing. But I can be wrong.

Riots always start with vocal minority and get more and more people engaged.

America is not lost, and has plenty of people ready to take it on the streets. They just need a push. And having others around fighting for their future is the kind of push that can wake such people up. It’s way easier to join rather than start.

Fair enough! But won’t they flip again to start the program?

The most beautiful thing about this program is that it would work.

Various bit flips will once lead to all numbers being in the correct order. No guarantee the numbers will be the same, though…

If you are from the US and you criticized people living under authoritarian regimes for not rioting hard enough, this is your time.

You still have it easy. You won’t be taken into prison for standing with a piece of blank paper. You won’t be beaten with batons and taken into custody for reciting Constitution. Yet. Go ahead before it gets there, and may you never see a true authoritarian horror.

Otherwise, all your words are not worth a dime.

Lemmy World mods doing something good for once.

I’m sorry to hear what you have experienced. Male abuse victims are not only real and valid, they are more common than people normally think. Every time I see some bullshit like “always a man”, I lose my temper a bit.

And for as long as I can, I refuse to allow this echo chamber to exist. Unfortunately, the path of non-intervention does not seem to be helpful to me, as feminists just continue to be boiling in a circlejerk of fear and loathing.

I do not intervene when people speak of their actual negative experiences with certain people, I think it’s actively harmful, but when it comes to such general hate messages, this is something I will not tolerate - much like feminists themselves back in the day did not tolerate men being dismissive of them as nothing more than dumb housewives, for example. Because it shouldn’t be tolerated and breeds a skewed and dangerous worldview.

With that said, you do you, and with the experience and trauma you have faced, I 100% understand you not wanting to have anything with women you don’t already know. I hope you’ll have more positive examples around you, though, as most women, as I have experienced, still do not buy this misandric shit at least for the most part, and are not hostile.

I already do, and it’s great!

It’s just that this post evaded all my filters anyway thanks to phrasing :D

Luckily, I am not

Me: unsubbing every single politics community

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