Barbarian

Switzerland or Finland?

is it called Jewish or Jews in this case?

Jews. A thing can be Jewish, a group of people can be Jews. Another rule of thumb you can use is adjective vs noun.

There are plenty of anti-Israeli Jews. Don't paint us all with the same brush.

Please don't lump trademarks with the rest. Makers have stamped their goods with their mark since ancient times, both as advertising and to signify quality products (and not knockoffs). Swords were especially commonly marked with the smith's trademark.

It was illegal to sell bread in ancient Rome without a trademark, for example. The punishments for doing so were harsh, as they wanted to be able to track down the baker if someone sold tainted bread.

In modern days, they're useful for customers to know what company they're buying from.

My dad grew up in a communist country, and I know exactly what you mean.

I'm incredibly lucky that we have a kind of mutual intellectual respect, where we fact-check each other a lot and are both willing to change our minds about stuff. Consequently, I've managed to explain the differences between totalitarianism, communism, and fascism (had to explain why horseshoe theory isn't a thing).

He thought I was being hyperbolic about the US' slow descent into fascism in 2017, as I ran through the fascist identification checklist. As a victim of communism, he naturally tried to make excuses for Trump. That ended the first week of his second term, and we're having some close calls with a similar candidate here.

59 / 49 = 1.2 Hegseconds / Truss.

Alternatively, the Truss / Scaramucci conversion would be 49 / 11 = 4.45

This is a time of crisis, and both the Squad specifically and the American progressive movement in general are letting a good crisis good to waste

What would you recommend they do? And how would they go about doing that within the strictures of a two-party system where one is fascist and the other is captured?

Messaging is important. While the Republicans are saying "There's some temporary pain, but it'll all sort itself out in the end. We just need to get through this transition, and the tarrifs and deportations will MAGA", there needs to be a counter-argument.

They're (thankfully) not preaching to the choir. They're going to Republicans and independents and explaining in these rallies that there's an oligarchy that has taken control, made them poorer, and it will get worse.

If they can convince enough people of the real causes, they have a broader base, and potentially even some new progressives.

Why is this an open letter rather than an EU petition? They should make a petition here, then it'd have more visibility, it'd be legally required for a response to be laid out if it passes the threshold, and people like me would happily sign it knowing exactly who has my personal info.

https://commission.europa.eu/get-involved/engage-eu-policymaking/petition-eu_en

Was at the one in Bucharest. Was a little disappointing tbh. Was just a photo op with extra steps. Organizers maneuvered the crowd into the formation they wanted for the photo, took the photo, then wished everyone a good night and wandered off.

I know someone who got had by a spearfishing call. They knew all the details about his phone contract, sounded 100% legit. The scammer got thousands of dollars in prepaid SIM cards from his account.

After the police investigation, turned out that the scammer was actually a former employee of the phone company who downloaded a copy of the customer list when he got fired.