Farage owns the Reform Party. The leader of Reform in Wales just got a 10+ year prison sentence for taking Russian bribes to promote Russian agendas. Nigel often speaks favourably of Russia and Putin and regularly made paid appearances on Russian television before sanctions made that impossible.

It seems highly likely that Farage has also been well paid by Russia for his lifes work of disrupting UK-European relations.

No US casualties. Civilian casualties on the other side aren’t a concern.

You can’t sit your hand down opposite you at the dinner table, pour it a glsss of mountain dew and pretend you’re on a romantic date, gazing into its eyes while you explain the intricacies of your favourite hobby.

There are people out there who do this kind of stuff.

This right here. Some are very bad, but there are some really good ones around these days. Guinness for example tastes almost identical to real Guinness.

It’s a form of indentured labour, and these kinds of arrangements are still common worldwide. Advertise overseas in low income countries, confiscate passports on arrival, take most of the advertised wages for expenses and don’t let them leave until their contract is finished.

It’s how Qatar built all their world cup stadiums for example. More labourers died building those stadiums than were killed in 9/11.

Care to explain?

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RogueTech is also insane in how much it adds.

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People absolutely pursue difficult work without the extra pay. Cuba has always had plenty of doctors .

He is though, he attended the protest remotely.

Yes, the right to privacy is a fundamental right in the eu charter.

The claim I’ve seen from an MEP is that they wouldn’t compromise the e2e encryption itself but instead mandate a backdoor so they can remotely access the unencrypted messages on your device. Which is arguably worse.

Utopia? Have you see Earth today?

It feels good to make fun of nasty people for their appearance, but you can’t do it without simultaneously making fun of all the nice people who share the same physical characteristics.

See also: making fun of truck owners for having a small penis.

You have to get a doctors note and then they let you use the disabled toilet.

You’re right, if homeowners downsize they’ll lose out with lower prices. People don’t downsize very often.

But what policies are you talking about? How can the answer be anything other than increasing the supply of housing (or decreasing the demand i.e. the population)? Prices are only as high as they are because people pay them because they don’t have any other options. Rent is high because demand is high relative to supply.

The only thing I can think of would be higher taxes specifically in places with high house prices in order to fund huge investment in poorer areas to make them more attractive to people and businesses.

They might be the biggest group of home owners, but they’re not themselves the issue. The optimal situation would more or less be every family owning a single home.

If house prices go down equally across the market, single home owners don’t really lose out because people typically sell houses when they want to buy a different house. People who recently took out big mortgages will complain about negative equity and some idiots are happy to see a number go up but by and large single home owners will be fine and won’t even complain a lot - they know from their children or other sources that its too damn expensive to buy a house.

The real losers would be people who own property as an investment, and developers. And those two groups have powerful lobbies and the majority of politicians are in the first group.

The single home owner NIMBYs are a problem in cases where prices will be affected but only locally. Then they really stand to lose out. So you basically need to have a massive nationwide house building program, either done by the state or through strong legal incentives to force developers to build a lot more of the right kind of homes and prevent them from sitting on land waiting for the price to go up. Or probably both.

If you get all your info from Lemmy you’d probably think that AI is a worthless hype bubble that can’t do anything right and will collapse and go away in a few years.

Yes. There you’re addressing friendship and in the rest of the comment you imply that its easy to find a partner by meeting a very low bar.