You think workers have better quality of life in China?

Yes, and don’t forget low pay and long hours for their workers.

Why are Chinese cars so inexpensive?

Yes but without any of the technical or industry knowledge or experience needed to make a viable product within the margins of resource costs.

Lemmy is literally one giant amydala…

What if instead of having to find child care every summer, you could get paid for someone to watch your kids? And the kids would learn valuable life skills at the same time? Yikes, that might actually sell…

It can’t portray the united states accurately either.

Drive by shooting in Chicago’s south side, obviously the first thing that comes to mind is… Trump?

It started while Biden was in office due to instability in the region of central America that functioned as a wall to the rest of North America, so there is some truth to it. Trump cutting funding was the wrong thing to do at the wrong time, but the problem was already well under way when he took office.

There are different failure modes, yeah. My preference would be a mechanical combination lock, or just have a key stashed.

My aunt got locked out of her house because the battery powered smart lock died in the cold. So she couldn’t get in when it was late at night and freezing cold. Had to get a locksmith out, which probably cost her a couple hundred dollars.

Maybe they should do more research into what to do about it, since they know that it’s going to be a bigger issue.

Climate change is turning into a scapegoat for everything. We’ve been talking about it for my whole life now, so how are people still using it as an excuse?

How badly do you want that to be true versus how much the evidence actually suggests it to be true

Well you say MAGA, but then lump in all Republicans and conservatives as well. Prosecutions should be based on actions, not on labels that can be misunderstood or misapplied. If you make it illegal to be MAGA, then it turns into a game of defining people you don’t like as MAGA. It always happens that way.

I mean, that’s just a good old fashioned purge of the opposition.

How do you identify MAGA, and what exactly do you do to “crush” them? Without being very specific, it’s the type of thing that would very quickly turn into a witch hunt and blatant persecution of political opposition. As far as I can tell, it’s not much different from antifa in that it’s not really a group, but a movement.

This is standard procedure for politicians and their friends. Acting like it’s just Trump allows the issue to resume after he is gone.

Hospitals want to drain your estate of every dime while insurance companies want you to die as soon and as cheaply as possible. It’s a beautiful balance.

Men are the reason Amelia Earhart died?