Legal issues. Laws are there to protect the status quo. Whether it’s good or bad.

It’s free trade when they need/want market access and everything else when they need to defend their lead. The semi-conductor business in Taiwan is similar.

Definitely not a fad. It’s used all over the industry. It gives you a lot more control over the environment where your hosted apps run. There may be some overhead, but it’s worth it.

Whoever does surprised Pikachu face now has been living under a rock for the last century.

while the belligerent actions of the country make every Jew inside and outside of Israel less safe.

Another reason why we should’ve just let the bank die.

Exactly my point. And it’s not going to be easypeasy in the better off nations either. Just look at what a ship accident in the Suez canal did to European goods. What China’s covid problems did to global availability of goods. We had to worry about food problems because of the war in Ukraine. Our economy is global and fragile, because there are no redundancies.

The Western world will suffer as well, even if they close all borders and manage to keep people out of it. Why would the rest of the world produce for us if they have other problems to worry about?

Tell me why this will not end in a massacre? The Western nations are already electing fascist leaders with a minor refugee crisis. When the situation worsens, borders will be closed, people will be shot or otherwise “taken care of”. I wish it weren’t so, but with our history and current trajectory, why is it not going to end like that?

And already 7k missing

It’s okay guys, we voted for that toothless counter proposal to fund more nursing education in cantons that want to do it, maybe…

Yeah, it was a more general comment about the West. Including back-sliding democracies like the US.

Lol, if it’s hard to convince ex-soviet nations how hard is it going to be to get Western europe to be Russians. It’s pure, delusional propaganda. The guy probably couldn’t look at himself in the mirror that day.

How does it distinguish itself from GitLab?

It’s not wrong. Voters need to demand an infrastructure and options that allow them to not compromise their values when leading a normal life.

The problem is that better wages, better working conditions and fewer hours were never a result of technology freeing up workers, but strong labor movements. The technology only allows capitalists to keep increasing productivity without letting it cost them more.

So tech isn’t bad. Farmers produce more food, which is good as we need that. But yeah, as a farmer you’re not looking at a growing labor market.

You know why it’s slow though, right? Specifically the meat industry is highly subsidized and they can undersell any vegan substitute to destroy their margin in the still small and slowly growing market. Even though meat production should clearly be more expensive than some vegan substitute.

Look: Consumer can either buy a product or they don’t. I can’t make producers stop using plastic for packaging. I can only not buy their products until some producer may think of a plastic free packaging. Change always comes from the top, not from the bottom.

What you’re asking for is that consumer somehow know the details of how the products are produced. For example whether the chocolate they buy is from child slaves or not. Sure, you can read about it, but is it clearly declared in the store whether that specific chocolate is child slave free or not? The only action they can take is not buy the chocolate. Or they ask. The store clerk doesn’t know better either. The producer doesn’t have to disclose this, responds with a canned response that doesn’t say yes or no.

Chocolate is one thing. That’s not a necessity for every day life. But cars in the US. Smart phones almost everywhere. If you don’t have them, you cannot participate in life. And we need to eat too.

The point is that neither employees nor consumer can be responsible for the decisions of capitalists. And they aren’t held responsible by anybody, not even by normal people like you. Come on… connecting points here with you.

Misinformation is also out there unfortunately. Can’t believe for instance people are still debating whether plant-based diets are better for the climate or not.

I already don’t use a car and I eat vegetarian. I’ve got the “individual choices” covered. The problem is that at some point you’re standing in the store googling every single product and their producer to find some kind of issue with it so you can’t buy it. That’s not a sustainable way to live.

A recent one I watched started with 10minutes bad, fake reality TV scenes of an employee stealing from his company. It was hilarious and fun. I also appreciated the exact details about how he stole money. I did get confused however when 250k apparently got him a house, a ship and a new car.