StupidDiaries
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@BillTheKid1603 because most people can't develop political beliefs by themselves but absorb them by osmosis.
pension credit discourse is just beginning so in a few months it should be a known topic
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Will American libs ever talk about pension credit let alone as much as they do the triple lock
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@fortnitewh0re3 @barbarismcrit the right raises money for white supremacists because they believe in white supremacy and endorse their behavior. there is nothing here for a leftist to endorse.
"littering" is not a core leftist tenet
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@boyfailbstrivin @barbarismcrit let’s read slow, try to comprehend, then comment on the situation
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They made this lady in the Fox News lab
Short Squeez@shortsqueeznews
BREAKING: The women who went viral for stealing a Knicks-themed trash can at the parade last week was identified as Angie Báez, a Director of DEI at JPMorgan. JPMorgan reportedly fired Báez after the video of her got millions of views on social media, and the firm confirmed today she is no longer with the firm.
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@fortnitewh0re3 @barbarismcrit the fuck do you think the left is supposed to be fighting for, the right for the upper classes to dump trash on the street?
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@barbarismcrit i wish the left was smart enough to fight for people like this or create a GoFundMe raising money for them. just like the right raises millions of dollars for white supremacists and give them jobs on the spot when they get fired.
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@anglofuturist i'm fine with local devolution if it is on historic, not constantly changing boundaries and you make trying to pass on blame to the national government on local issues a crime punishable by flogging
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Devolution is shit, and we should be reversing it. We are not a large country, too much decentralisation will be a bad thing. You won't end up with Japanese-style prefectures. You'll have 100 "metro mayors", who are accountable to 100 "regional assemblies", and nothing gets done.
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@poiThePoi @NewLeftEViews most people don't die from the weather. stop being a pussy about it and hiding from the literal sun lol.
its true old and sick people need AC now
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@NewLeftEViews I mean, the Europeans are saying "This is expensive and we can't afford it" so I believe in Europoor discourse.
Not "Boy, this is going to suck, but I don't want to die so let's move some money around".
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The 'Europe needs AC' debate is really confused and toxic. My two cents: of course air conditioning needs to be adopted en masse across Europe. But the debate needs to be on clear footing.
(1) The 'Europoors' narrative is an idiotic form of projection by Americans who are used to having AC all year round. European climate is historically far milder than America AC is only becoming strictly necessary this century. You cannot help but notice how the loudest voices in this debate are also 'climate realists' and often big supporters of the epic US fossil fuel drive.
(2) The biggest opposition is cultural. How many Italians have I met in baking heat refusing to use an AC because they're afraid of a 'colpo di aria'. But you can't pretend as though there aren't real stumbling blocks: the European grid is straining as we speak. I don't know how a few hundred million or so ACs would work as it is.
(3) The energy costs are non-negligible and it is again absurd to compare to the US experience for obvious reasons. If only there were an air conditioning system that's also a key part of the decarbonisation / electrification strategy, i.e. heat pumps. The European heat pump strategy focuses too much on the heating side and overall is missing every realistic target while losing momentum.
(4) The data need to be sound. This chart doesn't cut it. It's comparing apples to oranges on both sides. European cold deaths figure has an has attribution problem: it's not counting people who froze to death but how many extra people died on days that were colder than some chosen ideal temperature. The US heat death figure likely severely undercounts, the data are messy with high error bars (excess-mortality range is 3,000–20,000). Partly it's genuinely less heat-driven deaths due to AC adoption but the range is large because the data can't see it clearly.
Marshall Burke@MarshallBBurke
Per the European heatwave and air conditioning, here are some actual data showing how sensitive European mortality is to both cold and heat, as compared to mortality in the US. Many times more sensitive. These sorts of heat waves are dangerous everywhere, but esp in Europe.
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@t848m0 @anglofuturist the supreme court has already veered incredibly close to saying that parliament can not legislate certain things. all you'd need for a consitution is to say "this can not be amended by regular legislation, if not the courts can strike it down"
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@anglofuturist Not entirely clear how you’d implement one anyway - we don’t have a legal mechanism to elevate one statute over all others in this way, a Bill creating a constitution could in principle just be repealed.
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Honestly, Burnham's going to be so overwhelmed by the situation he finds the country in, so he won't have time to do most of these things. The one I can see him doing is proportional representation. He does not have any mandate big enough to codify the constitution.
Archie Hall@ArchieHall
The bit that stuck out most to me...
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very good article on this. also interesting that spain has 70% car ownership rate, and 80% own their houses despite being the least suburbanized wealthy country
worksinprogress.co/issue/why-spai…
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The US and Spain are actually *both* outliers among advanced economies in terms of their level of suburbanization.
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@UrbanExplorer00 here's a look at the future buddy, the average NFL regular season game is $156.13 and it goes up 10% normally every year
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This is a disaster for football. They'll pay more than a top European season ticket costs for one minor game. International football being accessible for normal people is over. There's no turning back given how the FIFA mafia operates.
JP Spinetto@JPSpinetto
Casi 70 mil personas para ver Jordania vs Argelia un lunes a la noche en San Francisco Los últimos tickets se vendieron a 648 dólares Infantino es un genio, no hay vuelta que darle
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it was unfortunately destinty the minute that stupid england preview came on about "its a new team" "we forgot about the past" "we won't make the same mistakes" they would immediately do that thing england famously does in every world cup since like 1974
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@Billie_T I enjoyed how the doctor said he was going to curse Harry Kane but only enough to make him not score but not curse him so much that Kane got an injury
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🏴 If Scotland became independent, its two-letter country code could not be any of the following because they are already assigned:
SC → Seychelles
SO → Somalia
ST → São Tomé and Príncipe
SL → Sierra Leone
SA → Saudi Arabia
SN → Senegal
SD → Sudan
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@ettingermentum see that son, even when you're old and washed you can still have millions glaze you
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I was born the year that Ronaldo started playing professionally. I am currently sitting with my son in my lap watching him score goals in the World Cup. And I am telling my son that he is OVERRATED!!!
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@Finumus1 To reduce the societally harmful effects of too much inequality and to reduce the influence of capital vis-à-vis labour?
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@GreenPlusAnE retirement should be at 70, with heavy labour retiring earlier- and needs based with a taper.
it is an INSURANCE program
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America has an exceptionally generous social welfare system, for retired millionaires.
Currently, the wealthiest American seniors receive $50,000 to $62,000 a year, just from Social Security.
That's 2-4 times what they'd get in Britain, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.
Andrew G. Biggs@biggsag
Sens @berniemoreno and @senwarren call it a "no-brainer" to apply the 12.4% Social Security to all earnings, rather than only up to a capped amount. Funny that not only do most other developed countries cap their pension taxes, but have a lower "tax max" than the US. /1
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