Hopefully they realize the productivity barely drops, and sometimes even increases for the majority of workers, and it sticks when the war is over.

We need the opposite though. PC emulation of exclusive PS5 games.

Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn’t used in journalism. Makes sense. Edit: nah I’m wrong. They’d use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.

I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.

Call lies, lies. “Misinformation”, “inaccuracies” “incorrectly said…” Nah fuck that. Trump lied.

Of course not, you can’t see very far below the surface.

This. Especially reporters. They should all call out lies and abuse without hesitation. Access to the Whitehouse press office isn’t worth it. Don’t even cover that shit. Make Trump have to step outside if he wants an audience.

True, good points.

Interesting. Didn’t think of the military applications. I think both countries care about cutting edge technology markets in general, and not creating economic chaos by shutting down TSMC. But once TSMC in Taiwan itself is no longer essential, all bets are off. Given both US and China want to get away from relying on TSMC, it’s only a matter of time.

With the US currently only caring about money and power, all interest in Taiwan’s defence will evaporate. I hope for Taiwan’s sake politics change before that day comes.

Taiwan will scuttle their microchip fabs before letting China take over. Unless China have infiltrated and taken over the fabs and secured them from destruction, there’s far less economic value in invading Taiwan.

Chinas chip fabrication is advancing quickly. So assuming Taiwan remains strong and doesn’t get infiltrated, we won’t see an invasion until China is confident it doesn’t need Taiwanese chips for its own technology. Then, it’ll just be about politics and having more of the coast line and trade routes secured, not the fabs.

I reckon there’s at least a few more years before they will take Taiwan by force. Time for international relationships to change for the better…

How can it be good for the world if everyone is spending more money on their militaries?

I do not think anywhere near most Reddit users came to Lemmy. I wish it were true.

Do we know if Lemmy mods are doing quality content moderation? That and their locking out open source and third-parties is why I mostly avoid Reddit. But I’m not entirely gone.

I’m spreading the good news throughout his body as fast as I can.

I am Trump’s malignant hernia and I endorse this result.

That’s awesome. More nations need inheritance taxes.

Thank you kind sir for you time giving me all that background. Sounds like a case of could be a lot worse, bit there’s always next time to fuck it up better. DEI is important, but there really are a handful of crazy identitarians who need to be kept away from power if real democratic socialism is to stand a chance of becoming reality in the English speaking world.

I stand corrected then. Sounds like trash for Canada. Any idea what the government is thinking? I thought it was progressive…

Tax windfall for Canadian government, maybe? Business still has to do business to stay in business. So as long as Canadians benefit, not sure it matters if they’re “Trump supported” does it?

If you didn’t already know Takaichi was trast, well you do now.

This is flagrant rectal tongue foraging for favours.

Late stage capitalism is because why.

You mean in Ireland?

So far I am unaware of a UBI policy having been appropriately implemented anywhere in the world.

It would be the end of “bullshit jobs” and make employment outside of specialist roles people actually want to do a sellers’ market.

You’ll have to raise the pay, benefits, and other working conditiona until it actually becomes a job people want to do, rather.

Right now there are enough desperate people, particularly immigrants in many countries, willing to do anything. That should be an ethical problem for all of us.

Immigrants probably wouldn’t get the UBI and would still be more likely to take up unwanted jobs, so there would still need to be instruments like minimum wage (or better, guaranteed minimum income) that apply to all people engaged in full time work. The GMI should only be needed in industries with low profits or no profits so these employers can offer attractive and fair wages.

I don’t think there’s a meaningful difference. If you’re a citizen or permanent resident of a country with UBI you should get the UBI if you’re of working age. No exceptions.

It’s not the only progressive policy that’s needed. Certain regulations over the cost of basic services and commodities is essential too. Housing/rent, food, and healthcare prices to name a few need to be controlled or there’s a risk those dependent on the UBI will be priced out of the market. That’s the biggest challenge to making it work, next to of course taxing the wealthy their fair share.