They're making glass, duh.

I can find my phone with my watch.

By the power of Grayskull...

Super green!

Hard.

I feel like you are going to hit a wall regarding streaming rights costs. Also, based on overhead costs and scaling, it will probably encourage fewer music streamers instead of more.

With Uber, they started with ride sharing and slowly nudged its way towards being a car-for-hire business. The reason it worked was because no one really liked taxis and didn't want to defend that monopoly.

Today, cities are trying to regulate places like Airbnb to reduce their presence in major cities, but the only real hate towards Uber and Lyft has more to deal with employee pay.

Or you had several companies try to start their own streaming services from scratch and thought you needed a ton of new shows to fill it. Disney+ could have easily gotten away with archived Disney Channel shows, all the animated Disney cartoons, the old Star Wars & Marvel movies, and the Simpsons. It didn't need a lot of the new shows, no matter how cool they looked.

If graphics were with it, people would pay for it.

The fact of the matter is that exponential graphics capabilities requires an exponential input of developer and asset creator budget. Given that there is a ceiling on game prices, it isn't worth it going for higher fidelity games when the market isn't going to pay for it.

Democrats could easily run on opposition to Project 2025, which they have done. Project 2025 is policy.

Or maybe they are trying to appeal to voters but a lot of voters support Trump?

That might have been the case in 2016. I think that changed after the election of 2020.

The only alternative to an elected legislature (parliaments are different from congresses) is either direct democracy or one party rule.

The best analysis I have to Dave Ramsey's advice to debt is like talking to an alcoholic about alcohol. If you have known issues dealing with debt, especially credit card debt, his advice will probably prevent some serious harm. However, for someone starting to deal with finances, it may not be the best advice.

There is much less of a familial obligation for help between adult children and their parents than in other countries. There is something of an expectation, but it is either tied to economic duress or disability.

For instance, it is common for adult children to pay rent to their parents if they continue to live at home. Sometimes parents will give that money back to their kids when they move out, but it isn't common practice

On the flip side, while Social Security and Medicare are meager compared to other countries, it is common for that to be enough justification that parents don't need full financial support until they are in a home. Even then, it is expected that the parents use up their savings before relying financially on their kids. That kids send money to their parents just because is not typical here.

I find it easier to respond to long emails because I can have all the documentation for the old email up and the text for the new email. Phones don't typically have the screen real estate to do that.

But that requires the public voting. In Mexico, it also requires planning out judicial succession as the executive branch has term limits and I expect this would get propagated to the judiciary.

The problem is that there is value in legal systems producing consistent results, especially when it comes to the kind of law both sides can spend millions on. Without consistency, the legal system backs up more than now as rulings are so wildly different that it makes sense to play the lottery with the courts. That causes cases to sit even longer and defense costs to raise higher for smaller participants.

And if the system doesn't perform well for those less advantaged, courts aren't the best place to defend making this systematic change. At best, it acts as a relief valve to pushing actionable political change.

They lasted longer than Alitalia? Good for them.

You can get an incompetent evangelical ghoul voted into office. How do you think most county magistrates get voted in?

Pennsylvania is a swing state and likes fracking politically. As Republicans support fracking, this could be the one issue that convinces some Pennsylvania voters to vote Republican over Democrat.

Several states have elected Supreme Court Justices. Across the states, it has been seen that rulings are generally more inconsistent.

That said, Mexico has civil law instead of common law where legal precedent carries a lot less value.

So you keep the computer engine running.

At a certain distance, the concert is less the event and more a reason to plan a vacation around going to the concert.

Yes!

But this is really more of a crude simulacrum that can parrot out recorded bits of a person's life on command.

This is a significant problem on Reddit as well.

There needed to be resources and admin actions devoted to keeping disagreeing groups separate for the respective health of their communities.

Even then, it is a common practice to outright ban people from some subs if they participated in other subs as participation in one sub likely meant they would be disruptive in the other sub.

Men's formal wear is already dying. Outside of some sales roles, no one wears a suit any more.

It wasn't most people, but there were a lot.

I feel like you also have people who've read it enough to understand that a rewriting of the Constitution would lead to them losing power. The deification of the Founding Fathers makes the Constitution a sacred document and you don't change sacred documents.

Which is funny because the Founding Fathers understood that the Constitution shouldn't be a sacred document. While this is the only base law the USA has had in two centuries, this was the third base law for the overall country they lived in within their lifetimes.

I feel like the Internet doesn't have that fuzzy but between public and private spaces like real life does. Some people want their public space to be like a Marxist book store on a side street to a Main/High Street. Sure, people can come in to read the literature and talk about the books there. However, if someone comes in wanting to discuss the merits of Ayn Rand, they are probably going to be kicked out.

It is important that Reddit had one unified group to fight against spam combined with several volunteers on the same platform. The Fediverse doesn't have that, it is just too small to spam to a large degree.

There will be several fediverses. The ability to maintain one unified fediverse won't hold.

The Heritage Foundation released one that includes several former Trump staff and the current VP nominee; it is Project 2025. You aren't going to get anything more precise out of Trump or his campaign.

Harris released her full platform and it is ok. I'm sure people want her to do more, but I don't know if she has the votes for it.

I don't think you are going to get a full policy update because the policies in Project 2025 are so bad and the Trump campaign doesn't want to run on it. That's why Trump is running on the idea he will stop immigrants from eating your pets.

Yeah, and China's behavior is very alien compared to the Soviet Union.

Soviet-American relations were created across multiple levels specifically to make sure each side understood the other to help prevent misunderstandings that could lead to war. Some of those communication channels are still functioning today.

In contrast, China chooses obscurity.

The China map is interesting as it changes the power plant drawing order.

A lot of veterans will raz new hires this way. One reason is to establish the social hierarchy. The other reason is to teach the new hires to not be gullible dipshits.

The public spaces seem better maintained than in the USA. Mass transit is also better in general to equivalent American cities. A lot of it feels driven by a relative lack of homelessness in tourist areas combined with continued post war investment in urban areas.

Food seems more expensive in general, but it depends on the country/region.

I've never had to deal with EU healthcare besides Covid testing. Turkey is really great for medical tourism.

Europe felt safe in general, but then I feel safe in where I travel in the USA.

You probably also have the friction been .world and the developers' Lemmy.

There is also a problem that Lemmy seems to be having problems maintaining a good middle ground of Lemmy servers.

Not quite. Cheap money is more that a loan doesn't cost that much money to pay back. It isn't the treasury loaning out the money, but individual banks judging based on inflation.

So this a video about a young couple traveling across the United States on Greyhound.

https://youtu.be/fTpt4tMnDT0

That being said, the only reasons to pick a bus over a plane is due to cost or the inability to drive.