That’s very cool

Sounds good, and if you don’t own the autos personally then the space needed to store them can also be partially mitigated. But it’s so so so much more environmentally damaging (which directly translates into money, as it’s more materials, more labour, more transport, more machines, etc) than a train where the equivalent of one auto can pull several cheap cars with a ton of people. And it’s so much more complicated to get right, you don’t have a successful model to copy from. It’s not that it’s a bad idea, it’s that trains and buses are a much better idea.

The internet already asks for ID for everything. Cloudflare or phone verification, or an account from a service that requires one of those two. As much as possible, I don’t use things on the internet.

What, in the country that bombed Tulsa?

I support censorship on Lemmy.ml and my home instance Lemmygrad. You need censorship to have a chance of having good interactions, otherwise it’ll just be deliberate attacks, shock-content drowning out anything you’d wish to engage with.

But the software isn’t censored. If you don’t like the censorship regime in your particular instance, you can go to a different instance. Almost none will be zero-censorship, but you can find one that is permissive. If you insist on no censorship at all, hosting your own on your home computer is feasible.

A full exit from the USA market is less bad than sending them 1500000000000 euro in tribute.

For any liberals stumbling through: Sanctions are violence. This is the USA subjecting people pursuing peaceful means to violence. The response is the same if you oppose them peacefully and ineffectively or through counter-violence.

Are there more effective chemical weapons for this task at a similar price? Include transport risks in your assessment.

Pointing at the USA as the standard is among the worst defences there is for war crimes. Whoever authorised this tactic belongs in prison.

Being stressed at work is a problem. There are articles about that as well. Generally, most people support employers who cause their employees stress being jailed.

A chocolate cake or pizza is less bad for you than alcohol.

You can write fuck China on Lemmy.ml if it’s relevant and motivated. The difference is that it’s always obvious why the USA and Israel should be condemned. I think China’s Israel stance is super weak, and I doubt I’d get mod pushback for saying that in an article about how China keeps selling genocide-equipment to Israel during a genocide. Or about how China is pushing for a two-state solution instead of saying Israel is illegitimate and should be dismantled.

If you go “Fuck Cameroon” on an unrelated post, for example this one, a mod would rightly tell you to be civil or at least explain yourself. And if you then justify yourself on a basis of white supremacy or conspiracy theories as you are bound to do, then that reasoning will be rejected.

There likely isn’t a public domain photo depicting the same thing.

Brits insist they’re a democracy, don’t they? They’re included in the “Democratic west vs authoritarian east” rhetoric. Weird how the goalpost shifts when your side is transparently coming out worse.

Pretending like the EU is working for the interests of EU members: What exactly is the argument for giving them 500 milliard euro in aid, and agreeing to buy their inferior products for super critical uses? How big were the tariffs they were threatening without those outrageous gifts? How can von der Leyen and co. expect us to believe they could go any higher and still afford to buy any European products?

China is selling higher quality energy equipment for a fraction of the price, and Russia is selling competitive military equipment for a fraction of the price. Not to mention the inherit security risk of buying foreign military equipment to begin with.

If the product is 15% more expensive, it might push it over the threshold where it’s no longer the most competitive product, and a competitor gets the sale instead.

The dictators that the USA supports are people who don’t have popular support or a pre-existing legal framework they derive their power from. They are governors working as proxies for the USA, deriving their authority from the USAs guns. It doesn’t just mean people you don’t like. Russia’s “democracy” is as legitimate as most European liberal democracies. The DPRK has never propped up a dictator, they don’t have the power to.

It just gives you an MP4 file!? This is unprecedented levels of consumer friendliness.

Apple allows you to offer better deals on other platforms. Customers are allowed to buy on other platforms, but sellers aren’t allowed to give you any reason to. Even in cases where those other platforms take a smaller cut, the developer has to artificially raise the price until Steam is the cheapest platform if they want to remain on Steam.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/video-game-giant-valve-hit-with-consumer-class-action-over-pricing-2024-08-12/

GPUs being able to spy on you is a problem. Linux and OSs should work on ways to minimise this possibility. But specifically worrying about them ratting you out to the CPC is in my opinion much less serious than spying on you for commercial interests. Ultimately it’s possible to avoid visiting China if you aren’t Chinese. Including Chinese websites.

The source is EuroMed Monitor, it’s a link. It’s also repeated in the text of the post. This is the article covering the same topic posted to the official website. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6795/Starving-civilians-in-northern-Gaza-lured-to-aid-sites-and-executed,-revealing-brutal-pattern-of-Israel’s-genocide