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That depends on how they act. China right now is on a path where I’d oppose them replacing the US. However the EU has the ability to replace the US as the global superpower - they don’t because despite some significant differences overall the US and EU get along well and so they don’t see any point. By cooperating the EU gains the things they want from being a global superpower without the disadvantages. Part of that cooperation is the EU is in NATO (mostly?) and so they are paying some of the military costs of the US being a global super power.

The US isn’t perfect by any means, but we have done much better in many ways vs previous global superpowers. Right now I’d predict China would be worse so I oppose it. However who knows how things will change in the future.

That depends on where you are coming from. English has enough German and Latin roots that most of Europe has a head start when learning English. (linguists will define roots different from what I’m using and say English doesn’t have Latin roots, but there is still significant influence)

If you are coming from an African language though it probably won’t make much difference. Though in Africa there is a good chance your nation was controlled by Europe over the years and so you might know enough of some European language to make English easier.

Former you mean. Well he might technically be president, I don’t follow close enough to know the exact status, but he is politically dead in the country and there is just process left to formalize it.

Which is how it should work. People abusing power is a given. If it isn’t happening where you live than either you are ignorant of the truth (perhaps because you overall support what the abuser is doing and so choose to ignore small signs); or you are afraid of what would happen if you talked about abuse.

Don’t forget legal action. Depending on exactly what they are checking and where you live you may have a legal case that they are not allowed to check this. If you don’t have that opportunity contact your legislator (whatever that means for your country) and demand it.

Until a line breaks and you discover it costs money to have someone fix it. Or a router gets attacked be someone evil and now you don’t have internet. Or … There are a lot of costs to running internet.

I don’t know how the costs compare to what AT&T is charging. I doubt you do either.

If it’s outrage, then that’s exactly what you’ll get

I don’t know how fix this, but this is one of the things a good algorithm needs to prevent. Outrage does get my attention - but it isn’t where I want my attention.

Algorithms done right are useful. Make sure things that are likely important to be bubble to the top. I don’t have time to read/watch it all, so prioritize the important things for me.

Done right is the hard part. It is too easy to prioritize memes that make people angry even though if you really investigate you discover that while there is a little truth it is grossly exaggerated and whoever is being mocked isn’t that stupid - because things that make people mad tend to get attention.

The algorithm really needs a “there is plenty more but you have seen all the important stuff - go outside and do something” after I’ve seen what is important. Of course it then needs a “but I’m currently confined to a hospital bed so just show me something so I’m not bored out of my mind”. The likes of facebook of course cannot allow such a thing as once you stop scrolling their ad revenue is gone. However that is what the world needs.

Are you sure - it might be this year but what about next year after those things are fixed. I see lots of people get this wrong and end up with payments for several years for a one year higher than normal bill.

cars do wear out but it isn’t near as fast as nost think.

What is wrong with your current car - keeping that running is almost always cheaper. People give up on cars that just need a little work ane falsely claim it is a money pit.

use your local transit system and ditch the car is best but that may mean going to public meetings and demanding service.

That is one option that is sometimes used. More commonly if you want the company you just buy 10-20% which you can get fairly quickly without affecting the price too much, then you use your large stock holder privileges to go to the board and ask them to sell for current price + small margin. The board will almost always put this to a shareholder vote and is it likely enough will go for it (you already control 20% of those votes so you need just 31% to defect). Most large companies have rules around this so you might need more than 50% of the vote, but still odds are you can get enough votes.

What Porsche did to VW is different. The German government owns 25% of VW and are not selling and have laws in place to ensure that VW cannot be bought. That forces Porsche to instead buy the remaining shares but they can never just buy the company. It is an interesting case, but it is an exception to the normal rules and so be careful not to apply it elsewhere.

Even if all cars sold were Teslas their value is more than all the combustion car manufactures. Most combustion car manufactures also have electric cars and will make more if/as the market demands. (some of them are not making good electric cars, but they are likely to improve)

There is are laws that ties them together. When then company goes bankrupt all shares stop trading (not when they declare bankruptcy, it will be later in the process) thus forcing the value to zero. When someone else buys the company all shares are force sold aa an agreed upon price (you get to vote on the price but if you vote no and lose you still sell) thus forcing the final trading price. There are also ways for a company to be delisted based on something the company does - the stock can still be traded but it becomes much harder without an exchange and so the effective value is zero (or maybe a few cents if you can figure out how to trade anyway).

However the above are all things that don’t happen very often to any one company. Nearly every week has several companies do one of the above, but if you are looking at a specific company it will probably be decades before the above happens and those are decades where the price is whatever supply and demand wants it to be. Because of the above threats long term the value of a company tends to correlate to the company size / value, but that long term can be decades.

Reverse osmosis. I don’t really need it now, but in a previous house I had lab test results showing my water was not safe to drink without it. (well water)

Give me reasons to stay. I ret really annoyed by all the garbage my friends share and thus how little value you provide. give me value and I’ll stay. Simple as that.

That understanding is common but false.

Rabies has been around for thousands of years, and is always deadly. HIV/AIDS always kills (modern drugs effectively treat it, but all strains are still deadly if you don’t get treatment). They both are able to survive despite killing the host because they spread before the host dies. Rabies kills fairly quick and but it makes the hosts violent in ways that make them likely to spread it. You won’t even know you have HIV for several years (if you don’t test) and thus have plenty of opportunity to spread it by chance. There are many other diseases that are deadly but not until after they spread (most are treatable though) and thus survive. (or are going extinct but only because of modern medicine)

Much as this is bad, and probably was handled wrong, the idea is sound. there are a lot of people out there who shouldn’t be driving and governments are not doing enough to find them.

The real problem here is you live someplace where public transit is so bad you feel like you have to drive to live a normal life. You sometimes need a truck drivers (for your trash…) and so someone needs to drive, but this should be a minority of people in any city.

One of each. There is a small chance that drives made in the same factory will fail at exactly the same time for the same reason when used in RAID 1. While this probably won’t happen (if it does it would be in the first month and you will hear about others with the same failures), why risk it. Besides you want hard drive makers to stay in business - all hard drives will crash in the future, the only question is when.

I didn’t take my advice for a RAID I built years ago. I just placed the order (one hour ago) to replace a WD red with a Seagate. God only knows when the next drive will fail. I’ve overall been fine, but I only have one disk redundancy in my zfs system until Thursday.

Unions in the us have ruined any interest in joining. Other countries have different imblementations. If I could start from scratch but laws favor the existing taking over.

Just stay home when you are sick. being miserable in bed stops the spread.

Anytime you mention anything right wing you get a lot of downvotes and a lot of railing against MAGA. It is almost enough to make me vote for Trump just out of spite. There might be a “silent majority” that doesn’t do that, but the evidence that anyone can see: comments and votes are clearly intolerant of all right wing discussion.

Just look at all the different replies I’ve got - most of them instead of looking at Lemmy in the mirror proved the point by jumping onto railing against MAGA.