Have you ever travelled? Scandinavia is miles better than the US, as is Iceland and most European countries I have been, too. Cleaner, safer, no guns, free healthcare, better welfare, maternity leave, minimum 4 weeks holiday and so on and so forth. Yes you get a lot of immigrants but so does everyone else, America is not special in that regard. It was a decent country to live in before Trump but now not so much.

I think he has no idea what he is doing, and he has dismantled all the guardrails. According to project 2025 the entire country needs to be razed and dismantled. So they can rebuild it as Musk/Trump’s techno fascist state.That’s why Musk wants access to social security numbers, health data and addresses. Musk now knows where you live, what colour your skin is, your gender, your income and debt, and all your weak points. The Nazis did this, it helps with identifying perceived enemies of the state, deportation of immigrants and jailing or execution of political rivals. I am so sorry for those of you in the states who didn’t vote for this monster.

I would imagine it would be in something you already have some interest and skill in. Art entirely created by AI is not that great.

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This article is kinda incorrect because Colombia didn’t actually back down at all. What happened is that Trump sent the migrants back on a military plane and in shackles. Now deportation flights happen all the time actually, but they are on civilian planes and not in shackles. So all the Colombians asked was to treat the people with decency and not like criminals. Trump ended up sending them on a normal plane ,not in shackles the second time, and Colombia accepted. All Colombia wanted was to stop the stupid performative cruelty.

Depends. Are you a rich, white, straight male? You will be fine and can ignore everything. But if you are any shade of brown, an immigrant or belong to any minority group or are female or have loved ones belonging to anyone of these groups, then you should pay attention as they might genuinely be in danger.

Great-grandma was 103 when she died, she was born in 1899 and saw so many changes in her life. I remember her sitting on the porch smoking her pipe and telling me of her life. Even when she was very old she still took delight in so many things. Her favorite in the whole world was her television. As a teenager, she would sneak of to watch movies at the local cinema, that was just a room with a bunch of chairs set up. So when televisions came out she was over the moon. My grandmas both lived to 100, grandma died in March this year. I doubt I will live that long what with plastic in our bodies and brains.

What country are you in?

So if we want to stay healthy,we need to go back to leeches and bloodletting. I hate this timeline.

Seems like Netanyahu wants to flatten every last bit of Gaza before it kicks in.

The Tim traveller : https://www.youtube.com/@TheTimTraveller/videos

Song for a winter’s night ~ Gordon Lightfoot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is38naHuxjE&list=PLI8b91hMs6oIYysSHfcsQoqVqwdAD6Q_b&index=1

Thank you for your explanation.

I like the story of Prometheus. He is one of the few Gods who cared at all. I dislike any involving Zeus and his shenanigans with women, mostly because of a book of Greek myths I was given when I was 6. In it, it tells of him kidnapping various women and they ending up with his offspring and his wife’s ire.All illustrated with graphic classical paintings.

I was terrified for months that if I as much as looked at a bull or swan wrong he could come and get me. I had nightmares, and then the nightmares got the stories more mixed up in my head. It got better eventually but left me with a very personal dislike of Zeus.

Good,let them go. They have all their wealth offshore and barely pay tax. They are the real scroungers and parasites.

Sex work should be legal as long as it is done willingly.Let them pay tax and work out of buildings. That would keep the women much safer than working on the streets and get into cars with people.

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Time to start using my Mullvad browser sigh.

Achieve link https://web.archive.org/web/20240923092236/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/09/23/russia-woke-west-putin-uk-liberal-agenda/

I don’t think it is only techy nerds, I am a granny and much prefer Lemmy. I no longer feel nervous when posting here at all as people are polite and are actually interested in discussion rather than simply arguing. And the premise that there can never be only one person in control is refreshing.