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[–] LwL@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Lack of alcohol supply (a specific kind no less) is so far down the list of actual problems though. The majority of the population of the EU in every country seems to be on board with suffering a little in order to stick it to trump, so whiskey is really a weird thing to not import, especially given the potential impact it can have on the political opinion in affected regions.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

The coloring is solely based on which number is higher for each country, that doesn't change if you use relative numbers.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Am I missing something here (after quickly looking up virginias climate) or is this no different from the average central europe experience these days? Not that I don't agree that these temps indoors fucking suck (or that just about everything DOGE does is horrible), it just really doesn't seem like anywhere close to the worst results of pausing affordable housing. Complaining on a really priviliged level if you will.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As much as it sounds good, this is not an argument that will convince anyone who is against DEI (and honestly while DEI usually seems implemented quite well it's not any better of an argument than "North Korea is called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, so they're a democracy").

The people that are against DEI mostly fall in 2 categories. One is flat out racists, which have no issues being against these values. The other are those that believe that the implementation of DEI is in some way bad and discriminatory. This is ime often based on sensationalized news about a few edge cases or stories that were twisted to a degree where they're basically made up. They don't need to be told that diversity, equity and inclusion are good values, they need to be informed about the fearmongering being just that.

Though with what trump is doing I suspect many of the latter category are already realizing that trumps version of "getting rid of DEI" is doing exactly the bad things they were told DEI does, so maybe we're already mostly left with the racists.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

There's one in the garage of my apartment building. All i can think about when I see it is what a giant douche bag you have to be to buy something like that while living in a big city.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

One of the major draws of discord is the fact that they host the servers for you, for free. Anyone can make an account, click a button, and have a discord server.

Afaik matrix does allow this (haven't used it personally) but it's something where I am a bit worried about hosting costs if it reaches a large scale. (Also unsure about how the matrix protocol works precisely, but if defederation is a thing which I feel like it has to be, I can see it leading to huge pains since discords use case is often about being part of a specific communitu, as opposed to twitter or reddit. Being unable to join a groip or see some messsges because of federation issues would be a major headache).

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

More and more I believe that Mozilla's current leadership are acting in their own self interest, not for the public good.

I think the salary alone is enough evidence of that. There's a point, specifics of which will depend on your living situation, at which wanting a higher salary requires the same infinite greed that becoming a billionaire requires. And I'm very sure that this point is far below 1 million dollars a year. Mozilla's CEO makes over 6 million.

If you feel like you deserve that, you are not fit to lead a nonprofit. You have already proven that you care more about giving yourself obscene wealth than about the benefit of others.