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  • Semisimian@startrek.websitetopolitics @lemmy.world•Zelenskiy Smiles as Entire EU Summit Laughs at TrumpEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Zelenskiy: “President Trump is facing pretty difficult midterm elections. His personal popularity is very low, diesel prices in the U.S. are very high, and the war that he started in the Middle East is not going the way he wants it,” the Sky News reporter asked. “Do you think you are being treated as a scapegoat for his own problems?”

    Zelenskiy took a long pause, glanced at the papers on his podium, and then looked up, smiling. The whole room laughed.

    “This is my answer,” Zelenskiy said.

  • Semisimian@startrek.websitetoNews@lemmy.world•A looming ‘tsunami’ of church closings is poised to remake AmericaEnglish
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    17 days ago

    From the article: “There are recent signs that the gradual decline in church attendance has leveled off. For the first time in 25 years, the number of people attending in-person worship in the US has increased.”

    The article also says that about 100 million people (30%) attend a weekly service in the US nowadays. They talk about the heyday of the mid 20th century where 50% of Americans attended a weekly service. The population of the US in 1950 was 150 million. So that’s 25 million more people attending church today.

    So why are all the smaller churches closing? The article (and possibly the PBS doc) fails to place some of the blame on the congregation capture of mega churches and how politics has driven people into these behemoths. I know that is what’s happening where I live in the South. They have a large sanctuary and expand that with an enormous online presence. How else can we have more Church goers and less churches?

  • Semisimian@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Construction workers or people in business and all who is right in this scene the teacher or Rodney Dangerfield?English
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    7 months ago

    I am in construction (not manufacturing) and own my own business. Truth is, they are both right.

    Rodney is right because there are a huge number of variables that the prof’s equation is ignoring. Also, it is generally a good idea to know what you are manufacturing and work to produce that product as efficiently as possible. The professor is sort of putting the cart before the horse by building a factory with no product.

    That said, we are in a learning environment and seemingly in a lower-level class. You have to strip away real-world variables to teach the lessons at hand. The professor is right not to include corrupt politicians and mafia folk, it’s too much when you are trying to start with the basics. But he should’ve had the class decide on a product - he said it himself, it could be anything - and then build up from there.

    Mafia payoffs are a 300 level course.

  • Semisimian@startrek.websitetopolitics @lemmy.world•Five Years Later, It’s Clear Jan 6 (and Trump) Broke AmericaEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Those of us possibly even older may point to the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in '87. From Wikipedia, the fairness doctrine “required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.” In short, it’s repeal paved the way for Fox News and led all the way to CBS under Weiss.

    But to your point, there are 3 things on my platform that I tell anyone who wants to hear it. 3 actionable items:

    1. Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.
    2. Repeal the Patriot Act.
    3. Overturn Citizens United.

    I didn’t say it would be easy.