dgmib

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[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anti-homeless architecture is meant to encourage homeless people to actually go to homeless shelters

Umm no… anti-homeless architecture isn’t meant to encourage people to go to homeless shelters, it’s meant to make it inconvenient to be homeless where “rich people” might have to see and acknowledge you. Its goal is to make the problem easier to ignore not drive people to get help.

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

We can’t say that. We don’t know what would’ve happened in Canada if Trump lost.

If Trump lost:

  • Trudeau might not have resigned
  • if he did, Carney might not have became liberal leader
  • The election probably wouldn’t have even happened yet, and the campaign likely would’ve been longer when it was.
  • Every party would have run very different campaigns since the top issues wouldn’t have been US relations

A lot of things could’ve been different, but most notably:

  • PP might not have run a Trump-esk populist attack campaign.

For all we know PP wouldn’t be seen as “the same MAGA threat”

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Careful I hear the guy who lives there is known for not paying his contractors.

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Their process is more complicated.

For congress to remove Trump first the house needs to vote with a 50% majority to impeach Trump for “Treason, bribery, or high crimes” the house does get to decide if something Trump has done meets that bar.

Then the senate needs to decide to have a trial not a criminal or civil trial, but a trial to decide of Trump should be removed from office.

Then the house gets to present its case proving the crime, then if the senate votes with a 2/3rds majority to convict, Trump would e removed from office, and barred from any future government office. If convicted, VP Vance would become the president until the next election.

Impeachment is a remedial process, not a punitive one, it can only remove Trump from office it can’t punish him for his crimes, though he may face a separate criminal trial for the same crime at that point.

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Genuinely curious: What do you see as the significant differences under such a scenario? What are the pros and cons of these differences?

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

this just feels more like an suped up Switch model.

To be fair, the last 2-3 generations of PlayStation and Xbox consoles have also been a little more than a bump in CPU/GPU specs. Anything else they added was just gimmicky fluff like Kinect that never really caught on.

Were we really expecting Nintendo to come out with something that wasn’t also just a souped up version of the last console?

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Need to fix the broken FPTP voting system first. Otherwise any left leaning political party will just take votes away from the dems and hand the election to the republicans.

And Republicans know this by the way, any left leaning fringe party will get financial donations from the Republican Party,

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Hmm… TIL The word condone means something slightly different than I thought.

That said, one can still want a murderer to face justice while also not being upset about the victim death.

But I suspect this story has quite few people realizing they do condone murder in some cases.

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The headline is a misinterpretation.

When the Chinese government is deciding who to award procurement contracts to, it will treat Chinese made products as it they were 20% cheaper than they actually are. (Or phrased another way, the Chinese government will pay up to 20% more for any product if it’s made in china than similar product that has been imported.

This will notably impact intel and nivida because China will now pay more to buy chips from Chinese vendors.

You could say China does China first better than America does America first.

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I want to see a trial.

I also want to start a go fund me for his or her legal defence find.

I’d love to see a well funded law firm make the argument that the shooter acted in defence of self and others and drag all of UHC bullshit under a very large and uncomfortable deposition microscope to prove the CEO was responsible for letting people die.

Maybe we could even start putting these health insurance CEOs on trial for all the wrongful deaths they’re causing without needing someone to take justice into their own hands first.

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago

Dear Mexico,

How about instead of fighting each other because our mentally disturbed neighbour is threatening us with Tariffs. Let’s instead increase trade with each other to strengthen our economies and let the Americans enjoy the shithole they just elected themselves into.

  • Canada
[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

If crime is that predictable, that would mean crime is isn’t caused by people’s choices but something else… like say mental illness, poverty, hunger, lack of social supports and that lots of cops locking up people in prisons as a deterrent won’t work to reduce crime… hmmm wait a second…

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