Read all four books. I have read the series now. Perhaps 3x in the last 25 or so years since I discovered it.

The Fall of Hyperion is 100% a recommendation. The Endymion books are somewhat controversial. But I love them.

The nature of these posts is that by default the 4 posts are filled by reps from the 4 largest parties in the EP.

So there’s a conservative, a. Social democrat, a liberal etc.

If in GA USA, it’s not any yellow onions. You all have special onions that are sweet.

Not OP but my guess would be moderation tools.

If you think that you are under 20 or have been living under a rock.

He’s there.

In general. Construction can be made very cheap in dictatorships.

The other thing making things cheap is scale.

China did a lot of things well, but especially on point 1 - we need to hold the line.

Lots of projects are expensive in the west because we care about nature, quality, worker safety and the communities impacted by the work (but also because this all opens the doors to malicious bad faith legal battles that make projects stupid expensive)

This is more the oligarch / dictator wannabe. He is saying fascist things because that gets votes but like Orban if becoming a socialist, a devout Christian, a hard core libertarian gets his base riled up - he’ll do it.

All he wants is to make sure to be able to steal more money and not get prosecuted by the next government.

He is Orban (originally a left wing crusader), Lukashenko (originally a man anti corruption fire brand), Putin (originally a pragmatic technocrat) / they are now all hard right wing , “religious” (ignore all their lovers and affairs) men of the people (ignore the palaces and yachts). All of them flap in the wind of populism. It just so happens that all the slots are primed and ready to vote for fascism.

Lemmy lives on my phone and iPad. So rarely venture into the web UI. But I use Voyager On my mobile devices.

They campaigned hard on it. Especially in reopening two reactors closed by international treat as they built it literally next to Copenhagen. Then I heard nothing about it at all.

It seems it was a cynical populist campaign and there in no real goal to do anything at all.

Wouldn’t move back.

I am in Europe. (I also have EU citizenship so that drove my decision).

I have friends who moved to NZ to try to escape the threat of Nazis here as well (it’s not like Europe is free from the evils shredding the US).

But yeah. Socialism is great. Salaries are lower and taxes higher and I would not trade in a million years.

Find a job that will relocate you. Million times easier than the alternatives.

I did the “alternatives”. I survived. Would not recommend.

Precisely. Nothing in Texas is supposed to work as advertised. This is to further hunt poor people. Ideally brown ones. Glad I left that rotten state.

See that is the opposite of the goal here. This will be a whip on poor people. Making the fine tied to your income would punish the people writing this bill they cannot have that !

Less juicy than some here.

I keep getting ads about my employer - a B2B / B2E business. Not sure how Facebook thinks I may be a purchaser at a business. I am not.

Mod tools are not Lemmy. Give admins and mods an option. Even a paid one. Hell. Admins of Lemmy.world could have us donate extra to cover costs of api services.

To add to others’ posts. It can be a huge variety of things that risk making the service unstable, unresponsive, and worst case could corrupt data in flight.

Customers view scheduled maintenance as minor inconvenience. Unplanned outage as an annoyance, and loss of data as a dealbreaker.

So any time there was a chance that what we need to do would limit functionality - or otherwise make the system unstable - best to take the system offline for scheduled maintenance.

Re Weaselling from EU rules: do you have a source? I am very interested.

When it’s hard to toss a man out of a window. Or shoot or poison him. Just down his plane. Easy.

Seems to violate TOS of both app stores and likely a few laws in key markets.

But Elon never gave a hoot.