Not necessarily
Can you imagine all nurses and doctors striking for weeks on end, not caring for anyone?
There is a point to it, it’s just that it’s abused to hell and back by companies and governments. In this case you can bet your ass that air Canada lobbied with the government to get these air crews declared essential.
Aaahh, okay. I’ll remember that, next time when I get terminal cancer. I’ll just blame myself for my endless inescapable suffering, that’ll teach me for being such a dick. I should have been humane and not get cancer in the first place!
Is it open source? If not, I’m out. I will NOT have a keyboard in my phone that is run by some corporation looking for a quick buck
I have 0 people blocked
I would only block if someone would follow me around, harassing me on every post or something, which hasn’t happened yet in Lemmy
From the sound of it, you might want to relax your trigger finger juuuuust a little
So where are the trump/Epstein files?
Maybe they can display those in the museum?
Again, why are people paying money for this bullshit?
This is just normal and on par for Microsoft. When was the last time they didn’t fix a security issue because they didn’t wanted the bad publicity, causing the US government to be hacked?
Oohh, we will never do it again, pinky promise!
Microsoft’s evil but oh my fucking god, they’re so incompetent that they can’t even be evil without fucking shit up
Install Linux already,.be done with the nonsense
New tech today is just worse tech. Each android update now is just shittier than the previous
Well… Ideally, politics would be a boring job. Make small incremental improvements. No political parties, just guys (and gals and whatnot more) that can put themselves to be elected, and when elected, they get to do, a job for a few years or so. After that, they can go back to whatever else they want to do.
It should be boring
Hell, people shouldn’t put themselves on a list to be elected, let’s just pick a guy and if you’re tagged, you’re it for a year or so
Requirements are that you have at least studies in the subject matter and have 10 years experience in the field.
I dunno, I’m just writing silly ideas here but anything is better than all the political systems we have now
Sooooo, dumbass it is, then? You equate taxes with extortion. If you’re not a dumb American, there aren’t many other categories to place you.
So if you walk backwards, every direction leads further in. Easy!
Exactly!
Even then it isn’t. It isn’t ionizing radiation, and power levels are so low that at worst case it might increase the temperature of your skin a fraction of a degree if directly exposed.
Just like the sun does.
I suppose that’s fair enough but by that metric there hasn’t been any communist country ever.
In any case, capitalism is fine (more likely the best option) as long as there are good laws in place to limit assholes. Same goes for all economic systems, without the right laws to limit cheaters, everything will be abused.
Put capitalism in place with Hard limits. No personal networth over 10 million, after that everything goes to taxes. No inheritance of buildings. No company larger than 1 billion networth, or more than 1000 employees.
Like that (and various other rules) you’ll get a free system where everyone can freely trade, you get the best parts of capitalism and a huge tax income you can then use for a giant socialist system where you can do free healthcare, free education, universal income, etc…
If you can’t see the difference between taxes and extortion then you’re either extremely naive or really really dumb… In functioning democracies, taxes are used for the good of all.
Extortion money goes to the mob boss.
Then again, maybe you’re American? That would explain something too, as (again) you need an actual functioning democracy for taxes to work correctly
Not sure why they’re down voting you but you’re right
However, freedom fighters pretty much will have to resort to doing just that. You can’t meet a country on the battlefield, you’ll get wiped out, so you’ll have to resort to guerilla tactics, which terrorists also do.
The entire point of my post was to say exactly that; there is no difference between terrorists and Freedom fighters, except the side you’re on.
Terrorists usually fight for a cause. You may like and or support that cause without wanting to support terrorism, but if the cause is big and ornsire enough, terrorism may be the only way out. This includes attacking civilian targets, unfortunately. Reminds me of “star Trek, deep space nine” which had many episodes related to this, blurring the lines between who is “good” and who is “bad”. I highly recommend it, great great show (seasons 1&2 are mostly notably weaker, the rest is amazing)
Of course in the real world, lines get even more blurry very fast. Terrorist groups get funded by other states, that may add to or change the direction and rules these groups follow. Terrorist groups tend to splinter frequently as well, causing splinter cells that may have different goals. Freedom fighters many times start out with lofty goals but over time need funding for their struggles, so then resort to crime like drug trafficking or even kidnapping to support their cause.
Farc, in Colombia also officially fights for freedom but has done atrocious acts, including child murder. The US, as another example, has famously financially backed countless freedom fighter groups (including Osama bin Laden) which committed atrocious acts, and fought against other terrorist groups that simply wanted freedom
Of course the US will claim that the ones they backed were freedom fighters, and the ones they’re fighting are terrorists. War against terror! Except for the terror that we spread around!
Life is complicated
Oh that is so much better.
Literally, but also sarcastically…
That vaguely sounds like a Hitler recipe, though. You might wanna be really careful with those ingredients
The good news though is that so does work. So does anything, really.
Yeah, that names sounds about right for what you’re describing
In the Netherlands we built the delta works project which basically was construction throughout the south west of the country for decades, 1954 to 1997.
All sorts of awesomeness is possible if politicians can just focus on doing their job instead of some short term gains, but this also might require a different kind of democracy than Canada currently has