Rinox

joined 2 years ago
[–] Rinox@feddit.it 15 points 2 months ago

It's definitely dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. As in, "you can die" kind of dangerous.

But if you know what you are doing, nah, it's perfectly safe, and kind of easy to do too.

Probably most definitely illegal in most places too, but if you just shut the f up and don't blabber about it to everyone you meet or try to sell or give it away, there's pretty much nothing they can do about it, cause they don't know about it, and neither does anyone else.

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It was a fully unified country way before 1929, unless you are counting Alto Adige and Trieste as conditio sine qua non to have a fully unified Italy, which I wouldn't.

As for the Vatican situation, the Italian kingdom completely conquered and annexed the papal state in 1870 (Breccia di Porta Pia).

In 1929 the Pope formed an alliance with Mussolini to get a state in exchange for the approval of the fascist government from the Church (and other stuff, but that's the gist of it)

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 3 points 3 months ago

With the Guano Act the US "acquired" lots of islands all over the world. Choose one of those bird shit covered rocks and put him on there

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm like, wait, what happened in the 1930s that meant the wipeout of the republicans and what happened in the next 60 years?

Oh yes, an overinflated market crashed during the republican presidency, the burst ignited by the proposal of a tariff increase law, made to shield American industries and that was actually signed into law and significantly worsened the great depression. This pretty much caused the rise of Nazism in Germany and WW2

What happened then in the next 60 years? Oh yeah, the US won the war and became the biggest world superpower, the economy boomed and you had pretty much the most prosperous time in America's history.

Maaaaybe a republican wipeout isn't that bad now, is it?

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If anomalies are detected, it tells your insurance company so they can increase your rates or drop you before you actually need to go to the hospital and cost them any money.

ftfy

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 1 points 4 months ago

My Toyota: click H button, done. My mom's Suzuki: two different clocks, not synced, no option or idea on how to change either

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know your country's laws, but where I live, if it's not inhabitable it is taxed way lower (and without a roof, it's definitely not inhabitable)

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 1 points 4 months ago

Auchan left Italy years ago

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Opera mini was also great when I had very little MBs of internet traffic in my plan. Nowadays I have pretty much infinite traffic, so I haven't used it in ages

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There might be one party looking from the outside, but on the inside there are many currents, and as soon as there's a power vacuum, those currents will infight to gain power.

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 6 points 5 months ago

Thing is, we don't really know what's the reason for the current worldwide trend in much, much lower natality rate. We've observed in rich countries and poor countries, religious and atheist countries, capitalist and communist countries (both USSR and PRC, who have had very different economic systems), in countries with no safety nets but also in countries with large social programs, in western countries, but also in eastern countries.

The only thing I can think of these days is education level. Is it possible that education is inversely correlated with natality rates? Or maybe women in the workforce. I'm not arguing for either point, I'm just thinking about what the cause of a world-wide issue might be, because it's happening everywhere and seemingly without any clear common cause.

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 1 points 5 months ago

Is Trump going to compensate them for it??

I mean, considering his pettiness, probably. Either with carrot or stick, he wants to be heard and wants people to bend over backwards to gain his approval. In exchange, he might do a tax cut or two for those who manage to please him, while he'll try to crush those who oppose him.

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