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regul,

The researchers conclude that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.

This is their advice? Make the technology for the green transition more expensive rather than enact your own subsidies?

Capitalists are going to burn this planet.

regul,

Shouldn’t there be gray in the picture above?

regul,

Can cats have little a salami?

regul,

Those three scenarios you mentioned are all only dangerous because of cars.

regul,

And yet had you collided, it’s very unlikely that anyone would have died.

regul,

There will always be people who do not act with regard to the safety of others. I would rather those people be on bikes than in cars.

I’m not discussing the morality of this action in a vacuum. I’m discussing it in comparison to the same person behaving equally as unsafely in a car.

regul,

Kneecapping decarbonization efforts in the name of “jobs” and “the economy” is just straight up Republican policy. I do not care how many jobs are preserved on my rapidly warming planet.

regul,

What could it mean? What’s the “nightmare scenario” here? The US has had a significant trade deficit with China for decades.

regul,

Control it how? The US is as close as anyone has come to being a global hegemon and even then they can only do so much to nuclear states.

regul,

Yeah but I’m still not clear on what the fear is exactly.

Like how do you envision it changing your life having China “in charge” vs the US?

regul,

they’d treat us like we (the British empire) treated lesser foreign powers

How’s that? Disadvantageous trade agreements? You already have those.

What would “direct power” look like? China invades Canada, a country defended by US nukes, with the PLA? There’s a reason Iran and North Korea are still around despite open animus from the US.

My point is largely that these nebulous fears of “Chinese hegemony” are just that–nebulous. Asking people to drill down into what they’re really afraid of either reveals the status quo or impossible scenarios.

regul,

Did worse than that to, like, China in the 19th c. But I thought you were talking about like France and Spain.

regul,

If you’ll notice he also increased tariffs on solar panels at the same time.

regul,

The Opium Wars involved armed conflict on Chinese soil. That’s the sort of thing nukes deter.

regul,

See above where I said I do not give a shit about how many jobs are preserved on my rapidly warming planet.

regul,

What’s there to defend? We need more solar panels. The cheaper they are the better.

regul,

I’m asking you what you think would be different if China was the largest global superpower?

If this is some great fear we’re all supposed to have to the point that we’ll forestall making progress on decarbonizing then it should be easy to clearly articulate what we’re afraid of happening.

regul,

China’s solar panel industry isn’t a monopoly, much like their auto industry.

The internal competition is part of the reason both are so cheap.

regul,

The democracy I live under now keeps ignoring or delaying action on climate change in favor of things that are less important than the comfortable survival of our species. If it’s trying to convince me it’s worth saving it’s doing a bad job.

My ideological concerns are secondary to my ecological concerns.

regul,

We won’t be abandoning the tropics. The people who live there will be. And, based on current prevailing attitudes of temperate democracies, those fleeing the uninhabitable zones will be told to simply pound sand. It will be genocide by omission.

regul,

Somebody tell the most famous Bollywood actor of all time that he’s Persian.

Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?

It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...

regul,

Because game devs have to pay their rent.

If they go off to form their own studio, they probably have to take out a business loan to pay themselves for the time being. Interest rates are high right now, and rent and food are both expensive. It’s a huge gamble to make a game and put it out on the assumption you’ll be able to pay back 6%+ interest on whatever you took out. Games are not a reliable money maker. Especially from new studios.

Even if you get some sort of deal with a publisher to fund your first endeavor, there will still be strings attached to that, and publishers are pretty tight with the purse strings right now.

Which means really the only viable option, assuming you’re not already independently wealthy, is that you have to work another job to work on the game in the meantime, which means it will take even longer to come out.

regul,

It’s an opinion piece. This isn’t reporting. It says “Commentary” up at the top of the article.

I think you can “trust” when someone tells you that their opinion is actually their opinion. That’s the only question of “trust” here.

There’s an op-ed in the NYT right now titled At the Met Gala, Celebrities Are Nearly Nude. Are We Not Aroused? Do you trust that?

regul,

Manon des Sources (1986)

regul,

I vaguely recall someone making a ribbon of Manon’s hair and pinning it to their skin.

regul,

if anyone thought Madeline was sexy they’ve got bigger fish to fry

regul,

Literally how some phone scammer convinced my grandma to buy hundreds of dollars worth of iTunes gift cards.

Computers, they’re just like us!

regul,

It’s wild that Bogota, a city with a public transit system nowhere near as robust as Singapore’s, has been doing this every Sunday for like twenty years.

regul,

Bogota has this weird obsession with center-running bike lanes, but they have a ton of them. Physically separated, as well.

Random examples from street view: maps.app.goo.gl/Jrt5HXkSbNEqiRFS8 , maps.app.goo.gl/ve5Z8A7Tks3Gor7a9

regul,

I only visited Bogota briefly as a tourist, but my impression was that most of the bike lanes were on wide thoroughfares intended for commuting.

regul,

That’s not what capitalism means, dawg.

regul,

Oppressed people support other oppressed people.

It’s called solidarity, sweaty.

regul,

Can’t wait to see how Eric Adams kills it.

The housing mar(ule)ket

Most of you probably know the memes about homes not being affordable to younger generations. It is true, that they are, at least, less affordable as illustrated by Figure 4-1. The reasons for that however aren’t evil Landlords, who want to leech as much as possible. It is more a combination of several factors:...

regul,

I mean, they can only do that, because people are willing to pay that. Just increase the supply and prices should go down

You could make the same argument about medical care in the US. Shelter is a survival need. You can’t just go without it if it’s too expensive. So (like medical care) it makes no sense for there to be no public option to exert downward pressure on the market. Really it makes no sense for so much of the stock to be in a market at all, but at the very least there should be a viable public option. (Public housing stock in the US is incredibly insufficient and there are decade-longs waitlists for housing vouchers.)

However, a large number of policymakers in this country (and probably most countries) are landlords and very few are renters. Expecting a class to act against their own interests because it’s the right thing to do is naive.

Now i'm definitely cheering for Rulestein (lemmy.ml)

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regul,

I think we’re good.

www.reuters.com/graphics/…/chart.png

regul,

Evangelicals only really started voting in the 80s. Their support of Israel is only significant recently.

regul,

Nobody looks like this. This is a cartoon.

196 Stands with Palestine, but those of you in the US should still vote in the general election.

I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-voting sentiment going around. Can’t believe I have to say this, but you need to vote. Not only is there more to the election than just the president. (State policy, Senate, house), but not voting is not an act of protest. C’mon guys

regul,

Why would they need either the legislature or the presidency?

regul,

If you’re the majority party on the Supreme Court I think it’s quite evident that neither of the other two branches really matter.

regul,

The blue states assume they are going to get to decide what happens to homeless people next, presumably for the better.

The blue states are pushing to be allowed to put homeless people in jail again. Martin v. Boise required you to have enough shelter beds/housing available before you could force homeless people to leave the street. The blue states are joining the SCOTUS case because they will not build shelters. If that doesn’t indicate that they have no intention of doing better, idk what does.

They will be able reshape America how they see fit

They don’t need the other two branches of government to do this. They’ve already got the only one that matters and are doing it now even with a Democrat in the Oval Office.

regul,

Depends, are you asking in the literal sense or in the functional sense?

In the functional sense, it seems quite obvious.

In the literal sense, none, but that doesn’t matter in terms of the fears about the erosion of rights that we’re discussing in the first place.

regul,

Even in Newsom’s own statement he still says they’re attempting to clear encampments. The reason they cannot clear encampments is because, by Boise, they do not have enough shelter. Altering Boise (which is what he wants to do) would enable them to clear encampments even if those people had no place to go. The California government is asking for carte blanche to take homeless people’s possessions whenever they want, even if they have nothing to offer them. I don’t know in what world that has their best interests at heart. It seems to basically mirror Republican policy.

You’re acting as though the Democrats are not willing participants in making homelessness illegal, but then linking to an amicus brief where they’re begging the Supreme Court to let them do just that.

And a short aside about your Trump v. Anderson comments. The Supreme Court made their ruling only as strong as it needed to be to accomplish their goals. This is basically a hallmark of the Roberts Court. If they thought there was any threat from the legislature to actually ban Trump from running, the ruling would have been more expansive. The Supreme Court is Lucy holding the football and you’re Charlie Brown thinking this time you’ve got a chance.

regul,

Isn’t the Supreme Court about to pass judgement on whether it’s legal to obtain mifepristone by overturning an FDA approval from the bench? Overturning medical determinations based on research is new territory.

If you don’t think the best conservative thinkers money can buy are currently examining legal avenues by which they can federally ban abortion through a court decision then I’m not sure you’re paying attention. Jerry Falwell’s not paying me and also I’m not a lawyer, but until a few years ago, liberals though Roe was safe, too.

I wouldn’t put it past them, and you come off as incredibly naive if you do.

regul,

unless Democrats pass a law guaranteeing access to the medication.

Why would that hypothetical law (which won’t get passed: see their promise to protect Roe v. Wade) not just get overturned by SCOTUS? They clearly play by their own rules.

If anything, your link to the Ivermectin case thing is further proof of that.

The fact is that a Democratic presidency and legislature can do nothing in the face of a Supreme Court that they still view as wielding discretionary power of them, and Democrats are too weak to play any sort of Constitutional Crisis hardball.

regul,

“The Supreme Court can now correct course and end the costly delays from lawsuits that have plagued our efforts to clear encampments and deliver services to those in need.”

By “plagued our efforts” he means “we can’t clear camps”. How do you think he wants to do good things after reading that?

Democrats should have recognized the protections granted by Martin v Boise and not joined in Grants Pass v Johnson in an attempt to get rid of them. The fact that they’re still supportive of sending things to SCOTUS shows how truly far to the right they are. Constantly decrying the SC as a newly-biased institution but still submitting briefs to them. They’re either expecting this partisan institution to magically hand down liberal decisions, or they want the right wing response.

Which do you think it is?

regul,

Hey you’re the one who still has faith in institutions in the year 2024.

regul,

I think one party has fully grasped the ability to affect change regardless of who is in power in the other 2/3rds of the federal government, and the other party both does not differ drastically in their limited designs and also lacks the will to accomplish them, largely due to their reverence for institutions.

Support for abortion rights isn’t even a hard and fast rule for Democrats. Part of the reason they failed to enshrine Roe was because the party is not unified on it. Very little has changed in that respect.

regul,

Biden has agency here. He could very easily get my vote, but chooses not to. He’s making conscious decisions with expectations to how people will receive them. That leaves us with two possibilities, which I alluded to earlier:

  1. He cares more about genocide than winning the election.
  2. He thinks he can win without the anti-genocide vote.

If it’s 1, I don’t want him as my president. If it’s 2, he’s not expecting my vote and nor shall he get it.

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