The US will have a democratic election in two years and it is very likely the Democrats will retake the House of Representatives. After that time, everything President Trump tries to do will rapidly decelerate. Of course, that depends on what the Democrats do to win the vote. Right now they are doubling down on the things that made them into losers the last election. They need to get their act together.

I said very few places were better alternatives. Scandinavia is never going to be able to accommodate the volume of migrants as had the United States. Scandinavia also has a lot of problems regarding their immigrant communities … high unemployment, crime, and difficulty integrating. When comparing people in the US and places like Sweden, if you control for factors like race or immigration status, the average expected experience fairs very well in the United States. Where I live in the US is very clean, gun violence is low, my cost of healthcare is almost zero … really the only thing I’d like is the vacation time but I am self-employed and am a cruel boss to myself. Most of the problems Europeans try to claim about the US are problems that do exist but are largely confined to black communities. These problems do need to be addressed but are things that Europeans have no real comparison to outside places that have large romani populations.

People from all over the world are trying to get into this boiling pot. Despite America’s flaws, very few places are better alternatives when you look at economic opportunity and political rights. It is popular to trash on America now because who is president for the next four years but there’s also only so many things he can do with an executive order and Congress isn’t a fast moving engine.

I’m old fashioned. It’s still the Gulf of Mexico and Pluto is still a planet.

I bought an old truck that runs. I got it from a coworker that for tired of it taking up space in his driveway. He sold it to me for $1000 which was probably a fair price. None of the gauges work so I need to keep an eye on fuel manually.

So does Lemmy.

In that situation, calories per person is what will count. Sprouts are nice but aren’t going to do the job. Grains, root vegetables, and meats will count.

Same here. I have cold weather sleeping bags and appropriate clothing. I’ve got light weight cooking gear and water purifiers. I’ll be grumpy but otherwise fine.

Budgie on Solus here.

Will it work like this?

Have you been laundering memes for the cartels again?! 😂

Is Blue Sky also setup to federate?

I prohibit my kids from social media. I encourage other patents to do the same.

The Reuters article suggests prohibiting payments to Apple so that Chrome users on their hardware default to Google search. What about default settings to Firefox? Similar agreements finance a large portion of Mozilla’s revenue.

That I’m not disappointed in him.

I’ve got a private chat with a small group of friends. That’s my primary social media. We share news and discuss ideas.

Am I the only one on here using Budgie. I just feel more comfortable with the workflow using Budgie.

It is like any other election for me. I don’t want either of them. I’m guaranteed to be disappointed.

Says I’m 10%. BMI says I’m 22.5. I think that’s a big difference? I’m very tall, thin, but have solid muscle and work out about two hours per day.

This is not new and it has previously been used against anti-abortion activists, tracking locations and even being used to record religious confessions. People on both sides of the abortion issue can oppose this type of monitoring.