Some reason to believe they’re not drug boats?

It doesn’t need to be fine to do. It just needs to be doable without consequences. Even if just 1% of men are shitty enough to do it, that will be enough for almost every woman to suffer from it.

Poor IT security should have judicial consequences.

It was coined by an ecologist (Garrett Hardin), and (answering myself here after finding out) famously rebutted by the economist Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize for her work. So tragedy of the commons, while a real phenomenon and can happen, is not inevitable by current understanding.

Like in a lot of things, the devil is in the details.

Is tragedy of the commons a solved problem?

It’s a shame people downvote this instead of replying.

Lemmy pro-tip: Settings => [ ] show down votes

I generally don’t want him to fail, like I don’t really want anyone to fail. But I do expect him to fail.

I expect him to fail in one of two ways:

1. He already knows or will learn that some of his promises are bad ideas and he will just not do those (this is not a bad thing in any way, we should generally commend people who learn new things and refuse to do bad things). But I would count this as a sort of failure in regards to what he promised to do.

2. Some of his promises he will do, and since humanity does have the power to bend economic reality, it may look for a while like those policies work. Unfortunately, economic reality bounces back hard when you bend it too much for too long. This will be a nastier failure, because for anyone not looking closely (which is a hard thing to do), it might look as he succeeded, and most of the blame of the fallout will go to the next people fixing his mistakes. This is a typical left/right pendulum swing.

I will reiterate that I don’t want him to fail, and will gladly accept new economic opinions if it starts to look like he’s doing a net good. In adult real world, I suppose it’s more reasonable to guess that some of his ideas will work, and some will not. The usual problem is that leftists tend to waste money on unnecessary or badly run public projects, but to my knowledge, there’s no specific theoretical reason for the left to do that – it’s just tends to happen. Which, when I try to think positively, implies to me that it’s possible for some leftists to do better in that area.

His version of Islam seems like a moderate one, so if that image is true, I have pretty much nothing against that. Some theological disagreements perhaps, but not hugely different from the disagreements that I have with other moderate abrahamic believers.

And it’s always/usually good when a 40-year (edit oh, more like 30-year old, wow) old beats a bunch of 70-year olds in the political arena. And it’s fascinating when fresh ideas come in. Perhaps all that will invite other “young” people to go into politics.

edit Plus in the current political climate in the US, it’s always good when a D beats an R.

deleted by creator

We test drove a couple Ioniqs and nope. They are pretty good, perhaps good enough to get if you don’t already own a Tesla – but not good enough to warrant the hassle and cost of changing. Not better than Tesla in any meaningful way, and worse in a couple of ways: the general UX of the car and boot size for instance.

Yeah, the weight + acceleration + mechanics quality combo isn’t great especially if you accelerate like a race driver. Which most new owners will for awhile certainly.

I got some of those parts replaced in warranty just recently. Interesting to see if the same problems will come back.

It’s possible that my opinion on this changes when warranty expires and we’ll see how the car really does long term. But so far it’s so much better than any competitor car we’ve tried that it’s not even close.

That’s not how it works. The pay package is linked to milestones that would earn the company much more than the payment.

It could be a happy thought, that most people aren’t part of the terminally online meme culture. That they have real concerns instead of bullshit imagined ones.

Perhaps it helps that their cars are still better than the competition.

Embracing centrism, like real centrism and not some Joe Rogan “centrism” would be an amazing change compared to the current situation. I agree that it’s never an easy thing to sell though. Centrism is boring.

She was not a bad candidate: a smart, fun, relatively young centrist. Her candidacy was dragged down mostly by Biden’s reluctance to tap out and by Trump barely surviving an assassination. Without either of those two things (especially the latter) she might very well have been the first female US president.

If she really becomes the candidate, the way to victory is for her not to embrace the woke left (especially the fucking morons who worked against her because they hallucinated some crazy Gaza things), and go for the center more clearly. Of course she’ll need to denounce the far right as well, but somehow I imagine that won’t be a problem for a D candidate.

I know you probably didn’t mean that but your sentence here suggests that you find black people gross.

I know the name Candace Owens only because I’ve heard several right-wing podcasters suggest that she’s a crazy person and they’re somehow embarrassed to be aligned with her in some sense.

Wealth inequality is worse in the US than in China.

Could be, that data for wealth isn’t easily available for both countries.

Income inequality is about the same in USA and China though, Gini coefficient around 0.41 in both countries. Most figures put China slightly more inequal than USA for income.

Dealing with surplus humans has never been a problem for communist countries. Just stop allocating them food for 2 months.

Not sure if China is that sort of a communist country these days though, but it sure retained the authoritarian parts.

What sound does one hand clapping make?