It’s 1 day every 4 years (2 including midterms). Even if the nearest polling place is 1 hour drive away. Even if your vote won’t be the deciding vote. In my country it takes less than 10 minutes to vote, but lets say it is 2 hours in the USA. That is a total of 4 hours.

If 1/3 of US-Americans are not willing to “lose” 4 hours every 4 years. And 1/3 of USAmericans directly vote for fascism. Then a majority of USAmericans are ok with fascism.

And the other 1/3 didn’t mind trump enough to vote. So yes, it is the majority of American people.

To be fair, the rust organization goes out of their way to take political stances. No other meaningful programming language is managed by an organization as politically active as rust’s. These fonts have absolutely 0 connection to politics though.

Just need a bit of propaganda. If half of Americans were convinces trump is a good president (the best even!), they can be convinced that invading Europe is a great idea.

Just tell them that wokeness has invaded Europe and they need being saved by the US.

Already tried that. We hoped that by buying massive amounts of Russian oil and gas they would see that peace is worth a lot more than war.

But they decided war anyways. And suddenly we had to find a replacement for all that energy.

He’s the dictator of the world’s most powerful country. There’s few things he doesn’t have power over.

I don’t say to abolish tax. With tax, however, you can set taxes on the transactions made for evading taxes. You can’t set a maximum wage on foreign companies though.

But how would setting a minimum wage fix the loopholes of setting a maximum wage. That makes no sense unless you explain further.

I don’t see what Switzerland has to do with any of this. And why it would be fixed if Switzerland set a minimum wage.

The problem of this is always the same. Contractors. Is your janitor holding the wage of your CEO down? Easy fix, you are the CEO. Fire the janitor and hire a cleaning company. Since the employees of the cleaning company are not your employees, their wages are no longer relevant.

At some point, the CEO can just have its own company of 1 employee (himself) which owns 100% of the stakes of the real company, and he can also be CEO of the real company. The real company would just pay massive amounts to the CEO company for “IP” or “consulting”.

This policy can be implemented voluntarily by companies, but I don’t think a government can make a law to implement this policy without obvious loopholes.

Sha256 is a hashing algorithm. Not a public/private key algorithm.

I don’t give a fuck about your bible.

Historically speaking, that will just make the next leader give many powers to the military in order to “bring peace” so whatever happened to the last one doesn’t happen to him.

In these situations, governments treat things like “Whatsapp” or “telegram” as social media.

They don’t ban social media so tech corps don’t fuck their population. They ban social media so their population can’t organize against them.

Migrant to me is the more accurate word.

Migration can be seen from 2 viewpoints, “emigration” and “immigration”. Depending if you are looking from the country of origin or the destination.

However, in this headline neither the origin nor the destination is mentioned, therefore it doesn’t make sense from either point of view. Therefore the viewpoint-agnostic “migrant” makes more sense to me.

Having more people always adds overhead. It’s not only software developers.

You don’t need to have two developers working on the same piece of code, you can have each one working on a feature. And different teams can develop different projects/products. If a project takes 1 year to complete but you want an output of 2 projects per year, you don’t need to overwork your current employees. You can hire a new team so there are 2 simultaneous projects being worked on at the same time.

The comment you replied to originally was talking about why billionaires should support a democratic society.

If the society is not democratic, it would be authoritarian. Therefore what I explained could happen.

A billionaire cannot exist in 2 countries at the same time. It doesn’t matter if his company is multinational, he isn’t.

If you jail that billionaire, which is not hard as a state if said billionaire resides in your country, you can “convince” him to give even assets in foreign countries.

That’s why they removed his passport.

The supreme court gave total immunity to the president while Biden was president. He didn’t use it a single time.

Yeah. It is clearly possible. I don’t know why I read it as 60th percentile instead of 60% of median