In other dumb news Stain is declared a hero by seemingly half of Lemmy. 🙄

Uff… Yeah. Pretty horrible. Mexico is a shit show that can’t get them under control. But it is a sovereign state. Unacceptable.

Great answer. I do use systemd boot on one of my systems as well. It isn’t exactly systemd itself is it? Simply a boot loader packaged as part of the general systemd boot suite, right?

Lol. True.

A bit off-topic. You actually have a very good point aboutjobs discrimination.

These implicit subsidies seem somewhat dubious to me, frankly.

Even so. Seems excessive. Is one not allowed to be a rude ass?

Damn. I’m much more of a craft beer person, but this is sad. Is just marking it down not an option?

Edit: Oh, never mind. They want to stop prices collapsing. Yeah, sounds like France. Forever bailing out their farmers 🙄

Lol. Agreed. Me and my partner both cook but not together.

Oh yeah. I absolutely hate this new trend.

Most of his estate is in real estate in Manhattan and Las Vegas. So yeah, not at all liquid rich.

People argue about dumb stuff here too. We are still humans after all.

Because it cosys money to offer an app on iOS.

They are Satan incarnate.

I don’t know. Plenty if other groups arrived much later in western countries, often with little or nothing to their names and feeling persecution, and have done much much better.

I’ll give you that the specter of discrimination still haunted western institutions until quite recently. But blacks were not the only group that faced discrimination.

They’re not.

Yeah, no. The Middle East, for example, is heading leftwards by leaps and bounds. It just seems slow from the standpoint of a single human lifetime. Remember, they were, with a few exceptions, warring desert bands on horses only a bit over 100 years ago. Not saying there aren’t exceptions (Iran, which, is sort of Middle-East-adjacent, would be an example).

The same trend is true all over the world. The thing is people get too emotional that they lose sight of secular trends for the ups and down of individual months and years. Just compare the culture now to 30 or 40 years ago. It very well might be a good strategy in getting what they want, it might even be necessary to keep cultural momentum going in the direction they want it to go, so, in that sense, it might be necessary. Seeing the truth is not necessarily a “good” or even advantageous thing.

But this attitude doesn’t reflect reality.

As I said, America is a cultural hegemony at the moment. It does export a lot of its culture, but far from all of it’s culture.

I think the direction the world is moving is a bit of a mixed bag. With LGBT stuff, it is moving far to the left very quickly. With things like workers rights it has stagnated or moved rightwards somewhat. It’s true that the Western world has seen the emergence of the alt-right in the past decade. But there is an alt-left or far left that has also been gaining in prominence. Generally just deviation from the political center in both directions.

I’m an American who has lived in Spain for the past 11 years. I’ve grown up in the States, worked in the States as a young person, still visit frequently, but my professional, personal, and cultural life has not been primarily there for some time.

I am telling you, both cultures have their dumb preoccupations, their misconceptions, and their morons.

The idea of “America is so bad, Americans are so dumb” is exactly the same ideology as American exceptionalism. It is just as wrong.

Stupid. No it isn’t. Establishing legal precedent or, in countries that don’t work on precedent, a preponderance of legal cases, prohibiting this practice is what is needed.