Size has some pretty big advantages.
In particular, it feels like lemmy is mostly memes and news.
While on reddit, you can have productive discussions about the internals of the Haskell compiler, or ask questions to actual historians. Niche subreddits having a quorum of experts to actually have discussions about stuff was always the best part about reddit. And that part has always been sadly lacking from lemmy because of size.
They're a bit more than that.
They're convection ovens where the fan sounds like they're trying to take off and they vent a ton of hot moist air out the back.
If you put broccoli tossed in a bit of oil in an air fryer and a convection oven, it'll come out way crisper in the air fryer.
Fundamentally, yes.
Practically, things labeled "air fryer" make different tradeoffs than things labeled "convection ovens".
In particular, air fryers have comparatively big fans, and vent way, way more air out the back to keep humidity down, so they make food much crispier than a convection oven does.
Many of the rights you are accorded in Israel stem from your nationality not your citizenship. Meaning an “Arab” Israeli citizen and a Jewish Israeli citizen, while both citizens, enjoy different rights and privileges determined by their “nationality” [You can read more about this here].
(Aside - that seems to just link me to the top of that article? Is that a bug on my phone or just weird site design)
This is not merely discrimination in practice, but discrimination by law. Adalah have composed a database of discriminatory laws in Israel that disfavor non-Jewish Israelis. For example, the Law of Return and Absentees’ Property Law are but two examples of flagrant racism and discrimination in the Israeli legal system.
Is it just me, or is it really weird that the two headline laws the article touts don't seem to apply to Israeli citizens regardless of religion or ethnicity?
The law of return favors Jewish non-Israelis over non-Jewish non-Israelis seeking Israeli citizenship, sure. But it only applies to non-Israeli citizens, literally by definition.
Similarly, from what I understand, doesn't the absentee property law apply to the property of non-Israeli citizens that was "abandoned" during the early days of Israel? It doesn't seem to make it easier for the government to seize the property of current Arab-Israeli citizens than Jewish Israeli citizens.
The stuff about the JNF lower down is pretty concerning, but that paragraph stuck out as being a bait-and-switch.
If you don't see doctors, how do you know if you're in good health?
High blood pressure, coronary artery disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, colon cancer, etc are often called "silent killers". That 75 year old is "perfectly fine" and "in great health" until he falls, breaks his hip and dies, or has a heart attack and dies.
What going to a doctor does is open that guy's eyes to the fact that he isn't in as good of health as he thought he was. Just like how the world isn't as straight as conservatives thought.
It's entirely possible that if he saw doctors regularly he could have lived to 95, but because he was silently in poor health at 75, he "unexpectedly" dies at 76.
What frustrates me is that I have no power to push the party further left.
The way to do that is exactly the same way that the tea party and MAGA influenced their parties:
Show up at primaries. Vote for further left primary candidates. Primary centrists.
Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar won after the previous Democrat decided not to seek re-election. AOC successfully primaried a more centrist Democrat.
The Senate and House are really, really important. The president isn't a dictator, and the median senator honestly has a ton of power. Just look at how e.g. John McCain tanked Trump's Obamacare repeal, and how Manchin has controlled what went into Build Back Better.
President Bernie Sanders combined with a Republican House, a Republican Senate and our current Republican Supreme Court would get approximately nothing useful done.
Politics is inherently multi-dimensional. Car-brain vs walkability is mostly orthogonal to conventional left vs right politics.
Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns has always made a conservative argument against car centric infrastructure - emphasizing that it's not fiscally sustainable, that the other approach worked for literal millennia, and that cities should be allowed to be complex and evolve bottom-up rather than via top-down government mandates.
And there's tons of liberals who have fully bought into car-brained thinking.
Honestly, framing it as left vs right is a bad strategy. We should emphasize how sprawl is bad regardless of which side of the aisle you're on. It's expensive, it requires government overregulation, it's bad for everyone's health, it's bad for the environment, etc.
That has to happen at the state level, as they control how the elections are conducted.
Ish.
If each state holds an internal ranked choice election and assigns their electors based on that, almost certainly the result would be that no one has 270 electoral college votes and the house of representatives gets to appoint whoever they want.
You'd have to have a national ranked choice vote. That's because ranked choice is inconsistent; you could have an election where A wins every state, but nationally D wins. More likely, though, you'd have vote splitting across states.
RCV does the opposite, actually. It exhibits center squeeze, where centrists are often eliminated early even if more people prefer them over the eventual winner.
What exactly is your alternative?
Have 4, 8, 12 years of Repubican rule in the hopes of getting a better Democrat? 4 years if Trump was awful enough, and did quite a lot of long-lasting damage.
If you're offering me the certainty of a lot more long-lasting, hard to undo damage against the uncertain hope of a bit of progress, you'll forgive me if I accept the certainty of the status quo combined with pushing for voting method reform at the state and local level.
Unless there's a bug in my app, that looks like it's a reply to you?
And yes, of course it's absurd, that's the point. Literally no one would spend the extra money to buy a truck to avoid the hassle of renting one once in 5 years. If you only rent a truck once a year, it's probably still not worth it to buy a truck instead of renting one. If you'd be renting a truck every weekend, it's probably worth it.
Or if you need a truck infrequently but on an emergency basis to e.g. trailer a colicing horse to a vet, you might not be able to rent a truck when you need one.
In surveys, only 25% of truck drivers tow more than once a year. Only 65% of truck drivers put anything in the bed more than once a year.
Yeah, big vehicles are pretty handy sometimes. They're pretty great if you have horses in your back yard; you can buy bedding by the pallet or buy 40 bales of hay. But according to truck drivers, a lot of them say they're driving pavement princesses. They want a truck for the aesthetics of being a truck driver, but if they had a hatchback instead they'd be renting a truck at most once or twice a year.
Big trucks can also be kinda inconvenient. They don't fit into garages anymore, long bed 4 door trucks have the turning radius of a barge, and it's pretty annoying if you want to take one of those fiberglass bed covers on and off a lot.
The good content on reddit isn't the shitty-ass memes, it's the discussion by experts on niche subreddits. Kinda hard to steal that...