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The ones where the people are most afraid of communism and think minimum wage is socialism?

Opening the narrative with “I’ve seen things” in this way that people expect the Blade Runner Quote and then ending it with the “you wouldn’t believe” part is genius writing

Yeah - it’s an art to find the perfect mix between “sounds complicated enough that they zone out”, “sounds like stuff gets done” and “not making people ask if you need help with that”.

Anonymous usually means that they don’t want their name to show up publicly.

There’s almost certainly knowledge of who that money is coming from at least with a couple of persons that received the funds.

So someone donates money to their city’s library with the specific purpose that they can expand their building to have more space that’s a bribe?

Should it? I get that political parties should report donors - but for nonprofits and other institutions I feel it’s not that necessary since they are directly investing that money in projects (that the donor may choose - but if that’s not the case then that investment isn’t happening) - for political parties and politicians it can be seen as a bribe as the things they invest in usually don’t have a direct return of investment.

And there should be rules and regulations making sure that that donation is not ending up in some kind of contract for the company of the donor but that whatever that investment is funding has a transparent process

Where do we draw the line? Should donors to libraries be made public even if that person wants to remain anonymous but fund an expansion? Should donors to non-profits be made public?

Sounds like something Leon Skum world say

I only look at 1 sar reviews for that reason and decide if the problem those people have if relevant for me or in general

I mean AMD heavily relies on Taiwan being independent to even be the company they are. If China takes over most people in power and all the shareholders are fucked - so in this instance it actually makes sense even from a company standpoint to do malicious compliance

Libertarianism is just the extremest form of liberalism though?

Libertarianism also means EVERYONE is free to live their lives how they want - murdering someone is the very antithesis of liberalism

I’m not a native speaker - I just wanted to say that for a very long time, most podcasts where hosted on iTunes and that was (and kind of still is) the go-to place for podcast-reviews/ratings

And as I said: they kept the system open despite their market position

It’s one thing to rule them all and a whole other to lock users into your platform

Apple monopolized the podcast market for a decade but never stopped people from using the podcasts there with whatever client people wanted to use it with

Spotify is just going the shitty route and forcing people to use their client and not just their servers

Illegal immigration surging? The numbers are lower than any of the previous years? I’d consider thinking about which echo-chambers I’m part of in your place if that’s really the main issue you’re worried about right now…

*unless you’re working for public infrastructure, service industry, cultural industry, energy production, some parts of transportation or some parts of manufacturing where you can’t shut down a plant for a single day.

There are so many exceptions to that law I’m really wondering how much difference it would really make it supermarkets and regular shift works would also continue on the weekends - just with the standard 5 days workweek still applying and having to pay a bit bonus for working on Sundays, the same way the other jobs are also getting paid more for Sunday work

I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about democratic parties working together on issues in a functioning democracy with more than two parties. And if those parties have different ideas of how to reach a goal and compromise on it to get to the same goal - then that often results in them losing voters to parties pointing out how they broke their promise of doing it a certain way and how they should have insisted on their solution

Is this an US thing? I’m fairly certain I’ve never seen that in Germany

Too many people see compromise as a weakness and it’s destroying democracy which is built on this very principle that all different kinds of people have to come together and make laws to create a common denominator.

But for some reason political parties today catch flak left and right if they compromise on some of their positions in order to achieve at least a bit of progress instead of being unyielding on it but not changing anything since noone else would agree on it.

Imho that’s one of the reasons why populist parties today gain so much ground: the very act of compromise is seen as weak by many and they capitalize on that to attack the other parties

Yeah those SR-games where amazing storytelling

You mean the one pretty much every manufacturer did that just got associated with Volkswagen since they were the first to get caught?