mriswith

Jason, is that you?

Some sort of hybrid system. On a large scale it's almost impossible to go full communism, capitalism, etc. without the minor flaws compounding and causing issues.

The vast majority of American movie and tv just use 18 regardless, to avoid any legal issues

Which is why a lot of Americans, even ones living in states where it's 16, think it is 18 in all states.

Oh it gets worse. This change is just the most recent in a series of states updating their laws since 2017. Because a study was released that showed almost 200,000 child marriages in the US between 2000 and 2015. And over the next three years years another ~100,000 happened.

And while it's important to remember that a 17 year old marrying an 18 year old is technically child marriage, and 16-17 year olds girls who marying men who were over 18 or older but less than 29 is over 90% of those statistics. There were dozens between girls who were 12-14 and men who were 40+, some were 60+. And that it is still legal in several states if certain criteria are met.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States

Stop bringing up facts and figures, I have wordly experience!

-The average conservative voter

I'm guessing you've never look inside a physical newspaper before.

It's part of a series of articles called "Kindness of strangers". Specifically highlighting interesting events where someone was helped and that changed their outlook on life, but isn't some major event.

Here are some of the other headlines:

• a woman lay on the road beside me, holding my hand until the ambulance came

• I pulled over in hysterics – then a passing driver saved me from the spider

• when my cat died, my dance class pooled their money for a thoughtful gift

If Musk fully crosses Trump, I wouldn't be surprised if suddenly starlink and spacex were labeled as threats to national security.

Don't you remember learning about Germany in school? According to history disabled people are going to the camps as well. And RFK has already annonced that they're going on a list. Then it's non-straight people. And then they came for...

Sadly, a bunch of things people buy are American owned but sold under a more local brand name, especially food or snack items, but also many other things.

For example: A scary amount of Europeans don't know that Mondelēz International is an American company. It was started by Kraft, famous for their "processed cheese product". And they own brands like Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Marabou/Freia, etc.

Coca-Cola also own a lot of "local" flavoured drinks.

I'm VERY glad they don't have anyone as efficient as Goebbles. Or the "Ministry for Public Enlightenment" would already be in full swing making propaganda films.

I wish lemmy was less like reddit, and that commenters actually skimmed the articles or knew anything about the situation beyond the headlines.

But hell, here goes, I'll try to use small words and explain things for you guys:

• If they instantly turned it off without a replacement, a lot of people would have died. And even if a country government tried, their own citizens would riot over the idea that old people would die.

• Coal is already banned.

• Oil imports have dropped from 27% to 3%

• In 2021 the gas accounted for 45% of imports in the EU, now it's 19% and the plan is to have it at zero by 2027.

The earliest urban dictionary entry for yeet was made in 2008, when you are literally part of the generation that popularized the word.