Canada has aboot 40 million people, the UK has about 70 million, Australia has 30 million, and New Zealand (5 million) is basically a rounding error. Since the US has over 300 million people, other English speakers tend to migrate to primarily US platforms.
What I find most interesting about these statistics is the difference in population density between the UK and the USA. Although the US is ~40 times larger, it only contains 7x more people.
…and the weather. Canada in general has the same weather as the least desirable US states. There’s a reason the US didn’t take the whole shebang when fulfilling their manifesto destiny.
While you’re correct, the cumulative effect of lower class and middle class Americans on 3rd world peoples dwarfs that of the upper class. It takes a lot of time and resources to maintain the lifestyle of a single person working 40 hours at McDonald’s.
His consumer products were made in 3rd world factories polluting their local environments and the coffee he’s drinking was bought for less than a dollar a kilogram from a farmer destroying a priceless rainforest. When this impact is multiplied by three-hundred million, the effects are as dramatic as they are unsustainable.
…I try not to think about it. It’s a conflict between guilt and gratitude.
It has nothing to do with your privacy. The comment I’m responding to has to do with driving while tired. In my community, not driving while tired isn’t an option. I’d need to spend $70 per day to ride five miles with Uber. “Personalized pricing.”
If I can’t sleep well at night, explaining it to my boss and skipping work is not an option. I’ll gladly document my occasional sleeplessness and apply for disability, but I have my doubts on whether this will be effective. If you can find me a place to live that doesn’t require work or money, I am open to safer alternatives.
From a global perspective, lower class Americans fit the criteria for being rich. The true conflict is between 1st world countries and the global poor.
I have some pretty contrarian opinions, at least in the context of Lemmy. I used the pet example because I have a cat. I love my cat, but whether or not the people who make my products love cats doesn’t concern me. They’d need to be in a position to actively harm my cat to justify a boycott.
I believe they need to start randomly drug testing politicians and public officials. They should be held to the same standards as the 30% of the workforce that are legally required to be part of the government’s drug-free workplace program.
If the person manufacturing their toilet paper isn’t allowed to smoke weed or take drugs, they shouldn’t be allowed to either. Since the head of the FBI is undoubtedly a sensitive safety position, they shouldn’t even be allowed to take prescription controlled substances.
This doesn’t bother me. The gays have won equal rights. Their push for acceptance and parity with straight people has been wildly successful. It’s like if I found out the CEO of a company I love financially supported anti-pet lobbying groups…good luck taking away people’s cats and dogs.
The only rights gay people might have not won involves adoption, but I feel like thats anti-man more than anything else. Society doesn’t feel comfortable giving a person a child unless there is a woman involved.
It’s controlled by a government. A government that has trillions of dollars worth of real assets isn’t nearly as safe or secure as digital currency backed by the block chain. It has been scientifically proven that human imagination is infinite. Bitcoin going to the moon isn’t an assumption, it’s a fact.
Star Trek is on the softer side of science fiction. It’s just a sitcom in space. When you watch most series based on books (i.e The expanse), major changes need to be made because it doesn’t translate well to the screen.
Using the expanse as an example, the spacers were supposed to be deformed by our standards. They eliminated all the hard sci-fi elements of their appearance. If a book involves a realistic alien civilization, an adaptation is rarely made
I might be in the local minority, but I feel as though there are going to be major job shortages due to AI obsolescence. Since it will be a global phenomenon, this trend will lead to an influx in illegal immigration. Two new citizens will turn into ten new citizens in a few decades, and the quality of our universal basic income will be inversely proportional to the number of unskilled laborers.
… with all this being said, I don’t understand why the people on the internet are against immigration enforcement. The majority-both Republicans and Democrats-oppose having an open border. I don’t understand why this is perceived as a Bipartisan issue.
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Science fiction is one genre that just doesn’t translate well to the screen. The ideas are too big for a budget and too alien to be adequately depicted. I’m grateful that one man is capable of making twenty hours worth of content in less than a year; it’s more sustainable than millions of dollars being spent on two hours of entertainment.
If you can limit things to one bot per person, it will solve the problem. One bot per person is equivalent to traditional cat fishing.
Personally, I don’t think anyone should get anything back for unnecessary luxury items like video games. Food and health products? Maybe. Video games? No way. If you’re willing to pay $90 for a video game designed for five year olds, you can afford to take the hit.
Personally, I think food is cheap enough. I spend roughly 5% percent of my paycheck on food, and I am not eating like a pauper. If safer food and happier chickens meant I needed to spend 6% of my paycheck on food, then so be it.
I think it’s presumptuous to assume that the increase in prices that just happened to be identical to the tarrifs had anything to do with the tarrifs.
I agree that it’s not fair to compare Michael Jackson to Epstein. Although both engaged in illegal activities, a 16 year old at least has the ability to say, “No, I will not give you a handjob for $200.” The seven and eight year olds Michael abused didn’t have the ability to walk away.
It’s similar to murder charges. Although a highschooler is legally a child, they are still culpable enough for their actions to be tried as an adult. The children Michael targeted would not. The worse part of this situation is that parents voluntarily gave him their children. They should have been tried and investigated.
There seems to be a coordinated effort to push this theory. I don’t know if it’s strictly Lemmy or if it’s also on Facebook and Reddit as well.
It’s hard to say exactly what they are trying to accomplish. Do they want to actually convince other people that it’s a conspiracy, or do they want to give the impression that lots of people believe in a conspiracy? I couldn’t say.