If you ask Americans about socialist policies without mentioning parties or ideology, then they overwhelmingly support them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is pretty much how The Handmaiden’s Tale book goes. “Terrorists” nuke DC and some Christian fundamentalists take over.

Yeah in Holland the average work week is less than 30 hours.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country

Voting by mail is inferior to having a voting booth. The women secretly voting for Kamela have a much lower chance of being able to vote as they want by mail-in ballots. Indeed anyone in an unequal power relationship has the same problem.

There’s a reason we have voting booths, and it’s still important.

So you think that Kamala is destined to be President?

Decided how?

The “cannot serve two masters” argument was used as a reason not to elect the first Catholic US President, JFK. I find it to be pretty uncompelling.

The important thing is that the US not recognize any titles.

Both Reagan and Bush Sr. got knighted.

https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/queen/the-us-presidents-knighted-by-the-queen-and-king-george-vi-125671/

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If your goal is to act as a deterrent then harsher sentences do not work, at least according to research.

At this point, we think it is fair to say that we know of no reputable criminologist who has looked carefully at the overall body of research literature on “deterrence through sentencing” who believes that crime rates will be reduced, through deterrence, by raising the severity of sentences handed down in criminal courts.

https://www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/research-publications/faculty-publications/issues-related-harsh-sentences-and-mandatory-minimum

There is no limit. At some point The Onion will make an ironic story about it that gets reposted every time a woman getting killed by anti-abortion policies makes the news.

This video is exactly why I am in favor of voting booths over mail-in ballots.

If you are unable to vote in person, then voting should be easy to do early. But we should try hard to get people into the voting booth.

Don’t you mean 5/7?

I don’t see much negatively. But I use lemmynsfw.

You’re very pretty, but are you fun to spend time with? 🤔

Haha it’s only been a few days. Glad to see you again though! 😆

In the Netherlands a number of cities were banning fossil fuel for deliveries in the city. It was in planning for years, easing into implementation.

Our new government just scrapped all of those plans because the largest party doesn’t believe in climate change, and another party in the coalition is the “farmer’s movement” party and opposes environmental regulations.

😢

I work at a company big into AI. We build our own models. Our senior management drank the Kool-Aid. We don’t have search on our Intranet any more, just LLM chatbots.

Our TLS certificate expired last week on our main web page. I tried to find the contact details for the team responsible and the thing just hallucinated e-mail addresses.

Needless to say, I’m less excited than you.

Sorry what’s the g-word?

From the study:

Between 2015 and 2019, following discussions between public sector employers and trade unions, Iceland saw two major public sector trials of a shorter working week for no loss in pay.

The article is unclear, but the introduction on the study says:

Between 2015 and 2019, following discussions between public sector employers and trade unions, Iceland saw two major public sector trials of a shorter working week for no loss in pay.