I get the benefit of having pinned posts, and the benefits it has for the users who post there.
But tbh, I’ve been browsing lemmy.ml and I find myself spending more time there in large part because I can see like twice as many posts on the first page.
Tbh it’s a bit of a clickbait headline. Vance is saying being a VP is difficult on his family. Separately he addresses the issue of Usha not having a ring on. The Enquirer (lol) is tying those two together calling it “family difficulties” and then mentioning Usha, which gives a very different picture from the article.
Fuck them both ofc, I just don’t like clickbait.
I’ve decided I want to fully get off Reddit be a lemmyverse guy. But to do that I need to create a lemmy.ml account or an account with an instance that’s federated with a lot of other instances?
I don’t doubt the difference between the CPC and UK govt responses will be night and day. With Grenfell, IIRC there weren’t any consequences beyond some slaps on the wrist. With the CPC there will be death penalties.
Even M. Night Shyamalan had a few very good movies (The Village and Signs, and at least everyone else loved The Sixth Sense) before turning into dogshit.
Chappie might be the worst movie I’ve ever paid to see.
Underrated comment. I could talk to a boomer from my very provincial hometown and even if they know I’m a communist I could probably get them to like me. People love connecting on those sorts of things.
I think that is overly pessimistic. Trump is not ideological, and that’s an understatement. Mamdani’s policies are objectively good for NYC - even for the rich, if they weren’t such absolute greedy pigs they could see it too. I think Mamdani just went in there and spoke like he did on the campaign and Trump was probably wowwed at what could be done for an incredibly small tax increase.
And Mamdani has off the charts charisma. He knows how to get people to like him, I don’t think it’s that complicated.
It’s not out of the ordinary where I live (high cost of living)
The remainder of the frozen Russian funds will be invested in a separate US-Russian investment vehicle that will implement joint projects in specific areas. This fund will be aimed at strengthening relations and increasing common interests to create a strong incentive not to return to conflict.
I may be reading far too much into this, but I noticed that nowhere here does it specify that this remainder - I think very roughly $500 billion or so - must be invested in Ukraine. If so, this sounds like what Trump is trying to do with Japan; get a commitment from a foreign government to commit to investing in the US. But again, I am likely reading too much into this, even if it means investment in Ukraine this is a nonstarter for Russia. But it does have Trump and Witkoff’s grubby little fingerprints all over it.
If you only knew about the alternate reality this person lives in. Honestly while they were always classist and reactionary, it was a small part of their overall personality until they got hooked on Facebook a couple years ago. At this family gathering whenever they weren’t spouting this BS they were on Facebook. Like seriously, I would say at least 80% of the day today, they were on Facebook.
Gosh, supply and demand is working as intended? People are operating in their own self-interest? Leave it to a libertarian to complain about their own beliefs.
lol I mentioned this. We live in California where they passed a minimum wage law specifically for fast food, I think at $20 per hour. This person is blaming this law (“BiG gOvErNmEnT iNtErFeReNce!”) for being the reason for all these jobs they think are way beneath them paying “too much”.
I don’t know anyone IRL who hates poor people more than this person. They grew up rich too. They identify as a libertarian.
Yes. The exact example they said was they saw a server on Facebook who makes $300 on a 6 hour shift regularly. I was like yeah, at a high end restaurant maybe. But that’s not likely 40 hours a week and more importantly, for every server who makes that there’s another 10 who aren’t. And those $50/hr gigs aren’t thick on the ground so anyone can just walk in and get one.
But he said that if France “is not prepared to accept losing its children, to suffer economically because priorities will be given to defense production, then we are at risk.”
I think the general is burying the lede a bit here. The focus is on the comment about children, but what I think he’s actually getting at is that the French people must accept austerity so we can push more money into the military. Because otherwise the Russians will land in La Rochelle and try to conquer France because reasons.
(And a side question for the Francophones here… at least to me “France Unbowed” feels a bit clumsy in English. “Unbowed” is just not really a word I ever see or use, even though I understand it. Does the original French for the term sound better / used regularly?)
Yeah the fact that the original sources is the New York Crimes I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case.
IMO Maduro would readily accept a deal where he steps down but sets up the Revolution to continue, so I am assuming the US doesn’t just want Maduro to step down, but to completely dismantle any structures which impede US imperialism.
From Drop Site News’ daily email today:
President Trump authorized CIA planning for covert operations in Venezuela, while reopening secret backchannel talks with President Nicolás Maduro, according to a new report from the New York Times. Those briefed on the discussions say Maduro raised the possibility of stepping down after a two-to-three-year transition, which the White House rejected. The administration has reportedly been planning either a negotiated exit for Maduro or a forced removal, and Washington has weighed plans to secure increased U.S. access to Venezuelan oil.
If true, this would confirm the idea that there isn’t much else the US wants other than for Maduro to step down and allow a comprador regime to come in and hand over the nation’s wealth to the US. Not encouraging that it seems (edit: grain of salt since it’s the NYT) Maduro is willing to step down but they are just haggling over the time frame.
I am really trying to cling to my optimism, but it’s getting hard.
I feel like I have good diversity of people in my social circle, though leaning towards more educated. I do not know anyone else IRL who regularly reads even one book per year that isn’t the Bible or some Prayer of Jabez type book their church group is reading together.