I'd trust a Lemmy source more than a reddit source.
But that's just me.
I'm sorry but I have to ask: what is the point of a 50 year mortgage?
It sounds like a dumb way to give banks even more interest.
Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast
But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.
And when they are, that's going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it's going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we're not going to criticize them openly, and they're not going to criticize us openly.
If we're the pacifists, we're not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don't know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we're not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.
It's not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.
Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what's going to work. But if everybody's pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody's really on the same side.
You say that...like that changes anything.
He's already declared martial law by sending in military units to cities. He's already done it.
What the fuck do we have to lose?
I'm rewatching it and always forget how funny the show is.
Gerrymandering only exists because we don't do proportional representation.
I'd love a system where you vote for a party first to gauge how many of the party will hold office and then a vote for who represents them.
But I suspect both Republicans and Democrats would reject this because it disrupts their status quo.
Right back at you!
You're getting down voted right now and I think it's important to understand why because I had a similar reaction not too long ago. I was curious to understand my own biases and what I think it's important to share what I learned as a cis male in IT.
Women just want to be women. Some want to wear nail polish and "look pretty" while others want to just rock a T-shirt and jeans. Like men who wear full tux and debug code at 6pm on a Friday (because they aren't farmers), they want to be what they want to be.
Men have the luxury to wear whatever they want (for the most part) and not get shit for it. Women have to do everything that men do and do it with maturity while handing the shit that men throw their way.
I learned this lesson when I was the sole male STEM counselor at an all girls camp. It was a volunteer gig that my company put together. They had last minute cancellations and I had time on my calendar and so I volunteered. I did not know it was all girls and I certainly did not know I'd be the only guy.
I stayed curious and helped where I could. My job was to be a project manager, help teams understand how to win their competition that had set requirements. So I walked them through all that and looked over their code. There as a dedicated "make up hour" where the girls were encouraged to make their presentations "pretty" with make up, glitter, etc. I personally found it pointless given how far behind we were but I kept my mouth shut.
And I observed.
The fact that these girls could do this and do IT was immensely powerful. You could see their spirits lifted. It rocked my world and made me check my own beliefs. Why not allow them to be pretty? Why not let them take an hour to put glitter and stickers on their board if it made them happy?
Did we win? No. But they enjoyed it.
In my 20+ years in tech, we need more women because they bring perspective in ways I don't. Not because they want to be pretty because they provide insight in ways I don't expect. Anything I can do to help make that happen I'll gladly do.
Oh I remember this one. And it was 🤌
Study after study has been done on every election looking for people who publicly say they are moving if their party lost. They found consistently that the number of people who follow through are in the single digits.
Trump famously said he was going to leave the US when he lost to Biden. We all begged him to go but nope.
MAGAs have repeatedly said they are going to move to Russia or Argentina or other conservative places only to realize they wouldn't be in the ruling class.
Last I looked (2ish years ago?) they were working on a base-station where it sits between the grill and your phone, which has a longer range. But the base technology is still bluetooth.
Wait.......WHAT?!
I don't want to fact check this. Is this true? Is this what all the memes were about yesterday?!