I thought Enid Blyton was kind of sidelined due to her racist views. Is that just being ignored?
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The king doesn't reset the government and him interfering with our politics would probably lead to more support for us to be a republic.
There is a balance between authoritarianism and sensible regulation. China is too far one way, the USA is too far the other way. Freedom comes from the abilitiy for more people to live their lives as they please.
Protesting is important. Protecting civil rights is important. Australia goes too far on quashing disriptive protest, but is tolerant of peaceful organised protest. Disruptive protest is more effective.
Quick, go buy a mattress and a rug. They too might be on sale.
Lol, no. That's a very USA and guns culture centred view. Australia has weapons. We just don't allow everyone to have them willy nilly. You need a licence and to properly store them. We see it as sensible and lament the deaths of all the USA children who die for so called freedom. It's much more free here.
However this is a worrying sign of overreach. Luckily the USA has no such laws, like the patriot Act or the current proposal to register your address against online accounts. You know, to protect the children you're all so fond of killing.
Lol, what taxes do you think the lemmy 8mstance would be paying? Ireland is not a tax haven and hasn’t been for quite a while. It does have a moderately low, but non zero, company tax rate, but that’s like saying Texas is a tax haven as their income tax is not the same as California.
Ireland has a well educated young workforce and is in the eu with ties to the USA and speaks English. It’s not odd that tech companies are there. It’s not shell companies there, it’s tech hubs.
300 million is a big amount of money. No doubt he’s leveraged against it in some way. If it is returned to investors, while facing mounting legal fees, his financial house of cards could come crumbling.
It’s a race between financial or criminal activity coming back to bite him, or getting the nomination and riding an extra year before losing again and crumbling again. It’ll be a wild and damaging ride for everyone either way.
Don’t you need to get paid to make bank? I thought he stiffs all the staff. I know lawyers are more careful now, but the good ones don’t touch him anyway. The maga ones are true believers and aren’t in it for the money.
Saying that, I think a lot of the grifting is to pay for legal bills, so it would be interesting to see how much is going to legal bills.
Well, at least lemmy seems to be basing servers in the tech hotbeds. Twitter, google, Facebook, Microsoft etc all have bases in Ireland.
Lost two out of three and the headline is a positive? I know politics is about setting expectations to frame a loss as a win, but that’s a bit rich!
Yes, I assumed it was a lemmy option, not a connect feature.
If it is to be implemented, there should be an option to block all communities, or commenters or both.
I’ve blocked the nsfw instances, to clean up my feed, but it means some user comments get suppressed too, as they have their account there.
As an Australian, not an American, we drive long distances too. We express in km/h and km, not mph and miles. Due to high risks of sleeping on long straight empty roads, rest breaks are taken seriously here. I’d consider a 10 hour drive as door to door including minimal breaks. It would be foolhardy to drive without breaks. However, if I was describing the distance without breaks, I’d say that. If I was taking longer breaks, I’d say it too, for clarity.
My in laws live near the border of the next state. It’s a 6 hour drive without stopping. I’d describe it as a 7 hour drive, door to door. We have done it in 9 hours with stops in playgrounds for the kids. If I was describing that I’d still describe it as a 7 hour drive that we took extra breaks, so it took 9.
It still can be. However, it's often just a demonstration rather than a protest.