Carl

joined 5 months ago
[–] Carl@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Now you're getting it!

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

if white men couldn’t vote, we’d see a lot of advances I’d like – but I don’t want anyone disenfranchised.

hang on, hang on, let's not let perfect be the enemy of good here.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

In 2024 Puerto Rico held a referendum on precisely this question, and the majority (58%) chose statehood while only 11% chose independence. It's not a perfect measure (retaining the current status quo wasn't an option, only 63% of voters turned out) but it shows a pretty clear preference IMO.

What's nuts to me is that neither major American party has gone for it. The House passed a bill in 2022 which would have admitted PR as a state but it went nowhere - but damn that's two whole Senate seats that could go to either party if they came out as strongly pro-PR. Same thing for DC.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Play carnival game

Guess the box!

Only one box isn't empty

Open it

Tissue paper

"Better luck next time!"

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

What you gotta do is carry a small object and hold it in front of you, and then teleport forward and back so that the object goes into and out of the lock, breaking it.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

3 for sure. Depending on how teleporting into other objects works, and how fast you can spam it, you could get some serious work done with a power like that.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

Canada has literally participated in the invasion of multiple other nations in living memory. Frankly the CPC should refuse to engage with Canada on moral principal.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

No. It’s cheap material, cheap labor, concessions on everything.

Actually the materials and quality are comparable to what you get from Western automakers, the difference in labor price is because Western countries keep their currencies strong in order to import things from countries like China where the currency is weak. Changing that dynamic would threaten the entire system of unequal exchange that benefits Western nations.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Greenland being given incentives to tap into their minerals to feed the materials necessary for the project.

Greenland gets closer to independence

Colonial provinces supplying strategic resources to their European occupier has rarely made them more independent.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

This is a default family in the Sims.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

The fact that our planet's resources are finite is a matter of physics. Capitalism may come up with some innovation or another that adds more lifespan to it, the way that digital spaces and the financial industry have done, or it may have another global war that creates room for a new period of traditional growth at the cost of countless lives, but it will inevitably hit an insurmountable wall.

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