t-3

29 ms·

661.
by t-3 1y ago
The actual situation is that the politicians are paid by outsiders who write the bills which the politician then submits. It's like outsourcing to North Koreans but getting paid by them as well as your actual employer.
662.
by t-3 1y ago
TFA suggests that the vast majority of UN reports are being downloaded less than 5000 times, and even assuming 1:1 download:read ratio, journalists and reporters are unlikely to be reading them and passing along the contents to you. Whether
663.
by t-3 1y ago
It would be possible with a Pi or any other ARM or RISCV board, but most of those don't have NVMe or SATA and have very limited bandwidth to the USB ports, PCIe, or ethernet. If you don't need high performance that can be perfectl
664.
by t-3 1y ago
I somewhat doubt that scooters are a significant portion of traffic, given that the Finnish warm season is very short. Maybe Finns drive more carefully, drive less, and take alternative transport more often to avoid the ice and snow of half
665.
by t-3 1y ago
Yeah. I can't imagine even TikTok challengers are stupid enough not to recognize this as a assholeishly creative form of assisted suicide. Maybe people are just trying to commit robberies and think they can use TikTok as an excuse to c
666.
Surprise in the plant family: The potato is the daughter of the tomato(english.elpais.com)
10 points by t-3 1y ago|3 comments
667.
by t-3 1y ago
How can a non-rich person afford to campaign and do all the necessary politicking to get elected? Getting money after being elected has never been the problem - even those congresspeople who somehow get elected from humbler origins seem t
668.
by t-3 1y ago
The way election campaigning works already ensures that only the very wealthy or incredibly dedicated can run for office. Who else can afford to take time out of their schedule to travel, give speeches and attend campaign events and fundrai
669.
by t-3 1y ago
How do you convince Congress to pass a law subjecting themselves to the death penalty? What do you do about the legal bribery? Do you really think that you can raise congressional salaries high enough that "speaking fees" or &quot
670.
by t-3 1y ago
The legislation is trying to stop insider trading by legislators. Stock market reform could mitigate much of it (although I don't know that it's something that causes any kind of real-world harm, it provides incentives for legisla
671.
by t-3 1y ago
I never suggested it was one or the other, I just don't think this approach will be effective because it's filled with obvious loopholes and the existing laws aren't enforced anyway, but I am generally of the opinion that a s
672.
by t-3 1y ago
I very strongly doubt that salary is a driving force behind any kind of political corruption. Even those wealthy enough to support three generations without work won't pass up opportunities to make easy money.
673.
by t-3 1y ago
I support the idea, but I don't think it will make much of a difference because there are bound to be too many loopholes to be effective. I think stock market reform would be more effective - ban calls and puts and other forms of specu
674.
by t-3 1y ago
They passed the law without considering the past decades of attempts to prevent minors from accessing all kinds of content on the internet. Anyone who grew up with internet access knows it won't work. Even if you put up a country-level
675.
by t-3 1y ago
Maybe it's the prevalence of noise-canceling headphones, especially the modern airpods-type bluetooth kind with active noise canceling. When "everybody" can turn off the noise on demand, noise is no problem. They also reduce
676.
by t-3 1y ago
This is probably a good thing. Less ad revenue hopefully means that more sites will adopt less user-hostile and less malware-spreading forms of raising money. It's honestly scary that ads still make money in 2025 though. How and why ar
677.
by t-3 1y ago
Who is it that you expect to be doing the counting? I've seen estimates of anywhere from 50k-500k dead, but nobody is sure because outsiders aren't being allowed to enter and the people inside have enough trouble staying alive and
678.
by t-3 1y ago
The current Syrian government is also supported by the west, just not to the same degree and not as publically. Myanmar is basically not mentioned at all in the Western press, nor Sudan or Libya or anywhere else war crimes are regularly tak
679.
by t-3 1y ago
I would buy that argument if they followed the popular will more often than the "monied will". Most of the western ruling class having financial interests in weapon production through investments in the MIC drives government-level
680.
by t-3 1y ago
https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/the-biden-admin... The Biden administration also kept publically decrying the situation in Gaza while also promising full support and increasing weapon shipments to Israel.
681.
by t-3 1y ago
> For example, someone shouldn't have less access to healthcare because they don't or didn't work out. One problem with this argument is that insurance companies disagree and nobody with any power in the US seems to want t
682.
by t-3 1y ago
I have an XPS 13. It does run linux, but so does every other laptop with an x86 chipset. It's horrible in pretty much every other way though. The battery, GPU fan, and left USB-C port failed successively shortly after the warranty was
683.
by t-3 1y ago
The NRA are self-interested, racist scum, Trump supporters are authoritarian fascists - almost totally opposed to freedom and resisting tyranny. What do they have to do with anything?
684.
by t-3 1y ago
It's because most music in on youtube, and the audio quality is good enough for the average joe running bluetooth speakers or whatever, and it's free+usable without an acount unlike all the other music services. Free is the most i
685.
by t-3 1y ago
> ... international law more and more seems like an optional thing, that is used only when it’s convenient, and only when there is a clear path to win the case. Yeah, international law and international bodies have always been more or le
686.
by t-3 1y ago
The distinction between ethnic cleansing and genocide is very unclear. In practice, "ethnic cleansing" is used by governments to avoid the responsibility to intervene (under international law) that would come with a genocide.
687.
by t-3 1y ago
> I mean what's the legit reason for having an assault rifle? If the government is allowed to have them, the people should be allowed to have them. Anything else would be inviting tyranny, as has been demonstrated ad nauseam by pre
688.
by t-3 1y ago
I'd guess a quick-to-make traditional variety like most "squeaky" cheese - softer, often crumbly and sticky, probably not good for books. A hard cheese probably wouldn't produce as many crumbs or be damaging if it did.
689.
by t-3 1y ago
> One of the big problems with the US, is that we worship money like a god. People will do almost anything, and compromise all their personal values, for money. A US person without adequate cashflow is likely to not be able to have food,
690.
by t-3 1y ago
You don't need religion or other beliefs - LSD has a strong body high, it feels good even if you don't get strong visual hallucinations. I gather that there are strong conditioning effects that determine what people see when they

More ›