The best glasses you can buy aren’t cheap, but you also probly never heard of the brand and they only make glasses, nothing else. If the brand also makes perfume, clothing or cars. They just licensed their brand and someone else designs and makes the eyewear. Almost always exclusively in China, then assembled in Italy to carry the “made in Italy” signage. If they screwed it by hand, it’s now “Handmade in Italy”.

Americans conflate socialism with communism. But European socialism is about solidarity. About how a rising tide raises all boats.

People who are born blind dream with the sensation of touch, sound, smell and taste. Basically how they experience the world when they are awake. No image but the rest intact. I imagine it’s same for the deafblind except sans sound.

We live in a hyper-individualistic society which is self-centred. This is only exacerbated by social media, where attention and being the main character is more important than ever. The new generation is living more and more in society. Instead of being part of society. Being part of something bigger is uncommon nowadays. Which makes participation in something as extreme as a war unfathomable. If you look at countries with high levels of civil sense like Taiwan. We see school uniforms and military service. Kids are being raised to be part of a free and democratic society, not to just live in it.

All Chinese companies should be regarded with suspicion, based simply on the fact that independent companies don’t exist in China. The CCP has their own offices and people in every company and organization of sufficient size.

FBI wants a backdoor into iPhones, Apple says no and Tim Cooke is just fine. The richest man in China, Jack Ma, criticizes government policy holding back Big Tech domestically, he gets disappeared for 3 months.

In autocracies, citizens are expendable. They either take away the citizen’s ability to organize against you (like in China) or provide just enough services to avoid a critical mass of discontent.

First time we had to worry about microscopic black holes. Now interdimensional biological organisms which somehow can survive in our nitrogen based atmosphere and climate temperature envelope.

No, of course it’s not the sole reason, but cost of materials is a factor. Also if there is a pro-longed cease-fire in Ukraine, the amount of materials needed for reconstruction is immense and drive up prices. Meaning stockpiling cheap steel right now would make sense.

This. And some people just want to post in front of a crowd. So far I like Lemmy because there’s more conversation going on. And less “Look at me!” posts.

Awesome, we need cheap steel to fight the shortage of housing.

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Unfortunately the political competence crisis has led to a shift towards autocratic right-wing elements. Who promised action and change, but so far have only made matter worse. Housing availability and pricing, a genuine crisis at the moment. Is now even worse as effective policies reduce income of the top 5%, investment companies and banks. And are thus not being implemented.

But are they aging healthily? I work in a healthcare setting and there are so many 70-somethings that are barely functioning. I’d rather have a 75 year expectancy but with a high level of health (which includes independence and function) than add 10 years of poor health and constant care just to die miserable.

Shein is not fast fashion. It’s ultra fast fashion. With clothing of completely disposable quality that often can’t even survive being washed. It’s the exact opposite of what we need going forward.

to learn a lot of things systematically: medicines (not the brand names, but the active components, because doctors where I work use components extensively)

It seems OP is aware of this.

When they stretch harder they just blame the war/immigrants/politics/weather. When there’s some slack it’s because of the company’s tireless work at improving everyone’s life. Until it’s time to stretch again.

Denmark says no, the politicians in Greenland say no. What is Trump going to do? Invoke article 5 on himself?

Cool, what you’re doing over there?

Why more? Why add an extra layers, more complexity? Why not just ban deposits? The rental contract already covers damages caused by tenants. And it’s not like you pay a €2000 deposit, cause €10.000 worth of damage and not have to pay the additional €8000.

Maybe in the past, with cash payments and paper records. Deposits added a layer or security. But does that still hold true today? I’m sure landlords will disagree.

If the landlord believes the tenant left the property in a damaged state, they can enforce the contract. Upside is that it’s not worth it to sue for trivial shit like nail holes or greasy stove vacuums. Now the tenants are always on the backfoot, spending money to get their own money back.

Also, the earth will never be in the same place twice. So it’s not even like you can only jump increments of a solar year.