I was really confused because last I heard, Greece had a preposterously high unemployment rate. Assuming this data I randomly pulled off of Google is correct, unemployment has been dropping like a rock from its peak: https://tradingeconomics.com/greece/unemployment-rate
However! It’s still above 10%, which in the United States at least would be considered devastatingly high. Sounds like yet another case of “nobody wants to work!”
Archive link: https://archive.ph/7Z0VX
(The article is worth reading, IMO)
All I want to know is: will this push companies to rethink infinite scroll? Like, even to make it a toggleable option.
I really appreciate that Lemmy still has distinct pages. “I’ll stop at the end of this page” is the easiest way to quit a social media session, which is why most companies have eliminated it.
“The Bonk Song” (imbedded Xitter tweet near the end of the article) is an absolute mood
Wouldn’t even have to become a Democrat: the “independent” label exists
You don’t automatically Old Yeller your dog for killing a neighbor’s livestock; you either change how you are raising the dog (e.g. no more unsupervised outside time) or you acknowledge that the dog is a poor fit for your lifestyle and surrender it to a shelter.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican seen as a potential running mate for Donald Trump, tells a story in her new book about shooting and killing her young dog and a goat
Noem, who became governor in 2019, likened murdering her canine to having the ability and willingness in politics to do anything “difficult, messy, and ugly.”
I remember when presidential candidate Mitt Romney sunk his political career by telling what he thought was a humorous tale of creative problem solving that involved strapping the family dog to the roof of an overloaded car. This is like that, but horrifyingly worse.
I read his piece when it first came out. He talks about the Hunter Biden laptop like it was an actual smoking gun. Dude has zero credibility.
Right now in every major city in America, active transportation supporters are pointing to this resounding success and shouting, “see, it works! Build the infrastructure to make cycling safe and convenient, and mode shift will occur!” And in every city, the response is “bUt We’Re NoT PaRiS!!1”
Just like “We’Re NoT UtReChT” “We’Re NoT AmStErDaM” “We’Re NoT [any other city that has successfully built a transportation system not completely dominated by automobiles].” Every. Time.
It’s possible that the link worked when the post was made and when (at least some of) the upvotes were cast.
Link is broken (leads to 404 page)
The article: “a bunch of us are worried about the potential rise of fascism in the United States, so we’re moving to Italy”
Tell me that you are oblivious to international politics without literally telling me that you are oblivious to international politics.
More to the point, if Americans were the type to “flee in droves,” left-wingers would have left states like Texas and Florida en-masse for bluer pastures. Moving within the United States is a million times easier than moving overseas, and if they’re not doing the former in the face of fascism/degradation of human rights in red states, why on earth would they engage in the much more difficult latter? Definitely sounds like a case of taking anecdote and non-committal musings online too seriously.
And here I thought we were thanking the Alabama Supreme Court for preventing the atrocity of thousands more babies cruelly subjected to living in Alabama.
This is in Missouri, for anyone wondering.
Sorry, I used your comment as a springboard for my own tangentially-related rant on why this guy seems to be in denial. I agree with both of your statements.
I remember reading in a Portland newspaper that the one time antifa didn’t organize a counter-protest, the Proud Boys (many of whom had driven in from out-of-state) started driving around the neighborhoods terrorizing random folks on the street who looked like they might be LGBTQ+. That was a “never again” day for sure.
Thank you for the clarification. I thought you were making a “let’s all learn to civilly agree to disagree” argument, which is just capitulating to extremism by normalizing it.
From the conversations I’ve had with friends and family in conservative areas (along with my own experiences), people want to believe that most people around them are decent folks who can be reasoned with or perhaps have different values but are still good folks at heart. I think that’s partially because it’s easy to see the “good” in people when you live in a homogenous or segregated community because there aren’t as many opportunities for people to show their ugly sides to the “out-group”, but it’s also because it’s terrifying to acknowledge that your community is compromised of hateful, bigoted, xenophobic, ignorant, and/or selfish individuals. It’s like approaching a member of the KKK or a neo-Nazi and thinking you can have a respectful conversation: plenty of “bad” people can become “good” people (thinking of the Black dude who befriended a bunch of KKK members), but you have to go into it with a completely different mindset and strategy.
“OK to disagree”
Dude, if someone tells me refugees deserve to drown in the Rio Grande, that climate change is a hoax, that the only good gay is a dead gay, or that Trump needs to be reelected so he can be a “day one dictator” and rain punishment upon his enemies, I am not going to be fucking OK with that.
So initially I thought AOC was too young to be president, but she turns 35 in October, so I think that means she’d qualify?
Historically most presidents were in their 50s or 60s when inaugurated; I struggle to see anyone who barely made the cutoff even being considered for nomination.