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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan moves for the first time to criminalize paying for sex | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Also last year, residents in the town of Fujikawaguchiko admitted their frustration over tourists breaking traffic rules in order to photograph Mount Fuji, which looms over the area.

LMAO! If they don't see the irony in this, they cannot be helped.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congress members voice 'serious concern' over Saudi-led EA buyout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think it's really only the latter: if rich yanks benefit = good, if non-yanks benefit = bad. They don't give two shits about USAians non in the C-suite being laid off. They haven't since the beginning and won't start now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congress members voice 'serious concern' over Saudi-led EA buyout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As if it'd be better run by private interests in the US 😂

The letter was sent on January 22 and suggests the debt-financed $55 billion acquisition, which will purportedly result in PIF holding a 93.4 percent stake in the Battlefield and Apex Legends publisher, will incentive layoffs, offshoring, studio closures, and other cost-cutting measures.

"incentive"

Also, isn't this what yanks have been doing for decades? Don't seppo businesses regularly fire a bunch of employees before the end of the financial year to have "record-breaking fourth quarter" and then hire back a bunch of people? Painting the Saudis as worse capitalists than the USAians is just hilarious
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
"My identity is neocolonialism and megalomania"

I'm super mad right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Land of the Unfree

Home of the Slave

Braveria

Deniable Melting Pot

Capitalismo

Duolopy

So many options...
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If they stopped calling themselves "Americans", it'd be fine, but they call themselves as if they owned 2 continents (and they behave that way too). A renaming would be very much in order. Liberteria, The States, Trumpia, Costa to Costa, Burgerland, whatever.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German public radio and television (SWR) just published a whitepaper about the fediverse: "Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Good to know. Thanks. I'll wait on the next post when the fixed version has been uploaded.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German public radio and television (SWR) just published a whitepaper about the fediverse: "Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That would be amazing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German public radio and television (SWR) just published a whitepaper about the fediverse: "Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don't read German, but I was curious and wanted to let an LLM translate it at least a little. They published a PDF which has full-page images in it. Why? It's utterly perplexing to publish something to the internet that way. It's like having the ability to share a stone tablet, but instead you take a picture of it and put that behind glass with a filter so that it can only be viewed form certain angles.

Sometimes, I don't understand Germans.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of UK's grassroot music venues make no profit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The problem with such venues is that they are also difficult to find. The major problem is that you need to know of them to even find out what's going on. They are on Instagram, facebook, and other social media, but if I go to a city and search for shows, the majority of venues won't be found. Sometimes it's a choice to stay cool, hip, underground, or whatever, but if so, they can't complain about falling revenue.

What I especially don't understand is why these venues aren't on opensource stuff:
- Mobilizon for organising events
- Mastodon in addition / instead of xittter
- Pixelfed in addition to / instead of insta
- FunkWhale for uploading audio recordings of live sets
- Peertube for video recordings of performances
- OpenStreetMaps to find the venue on the map
All of this would make it easier for them to be found, interact with them, and even support them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Didn't he take Bill Clinton's fat cock?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not "in a sense". It is prostitution.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Red beet?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We all know Trump is the real throatgoat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sir Tony Blair appointed to Trump's 'Board of Peace' for Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wait, I know this.... didn't he follow the USAians into war? Weapons of mass destruction or something? That dude? A man of "peace"?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Do it, dude. I'd join an instance where USAian talk isn't allowed. Fuck, I'm tired of their constant drama and exaggerations and everything. Orange man this, raspy-voiced poop-brain that, "we baaambed this" and "literally destroyed" that. And it's football FFS, not soccer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
seppo alert!
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I wouldn't know I don't use the other site
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Poland has PiS in the government for 8 years? 12? They don't want Ukrainian refugees either and have a strong connection to the US due to their Christianity and thus their "values". Tusk has had trouble getting laws through because the PiS president keeps vetoing them.

Poland hates Russia with a burning passion. If push comes to shove this year, the EU won't be able to defend them from Russia. The majority of the union didn't take The Pooteen threat seriously and hasn't scaled up to a pre-war economy. The US will always be ready. The decision, IMO, is quite clear. Poland wouldn't fight the US.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fertility rate falls to lowest globally⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That sounds better than Japan and South Korea, but 680€/month for daycare is nuts! Wtf? That's a very important thing to subsidise. The rest sounds very similar to Germany (again, friends there too), which doesn't have a high birth rate either, so IMO it's obviously not enough.

I'm not going to have children for, among others, monetary reasons as well. There's no way I would work 8 hours, travel 2 hours a day just to work and how much more for the child as it grows, also try to find time for my hobbies, and additionally worry about keeping my head above water in an apartment I don't own and right now 40-50% of my income goes to. If I had a partner, they'd have to get a job too to cover the bills.
We'd both just be surviving and the question is how would we even provide a good environment for the child to thrive if we're struggling.

It wouldn't surprise me if more childless people had similar thoughts on the matter. The government would have to make the experience of having children much more carefree so that parents can spend time with their children without worrying about money.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

r######d

wat?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
🍿 will the US implode before it can start a world war?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fertility rate falls to lowest globally⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What is Denmark doing for people that want kids? Is it possible to raise a child on the income of a single person? Is child-care and education free? Is transport free for children until they leave school? Do families get a priority for social housing? Are there third places for children? Is it possible to have a career with a child (work from home, 4 day work week or reduced hours at equal pay, etc.)?

I know somebody in Copenhagen who just got a kid and haven't had the time to talk more in depth with them about this stuff, but they are having an incredibly tough time finding affordable housing with space for children anywhere close to where they work. Most houses on market are expensive for what they are and still need significant investment to get them in a state that doesn't mean paying heating bills out of your ass (their words). They have been looking for a few years now and got a kid first instead of waiting for a house but now things are getting more urgent.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fertility rate falls to lowest globally⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When they are hopeless and in wars, people still have kids, but that's if you're uneducated. Education has a huge impact on fertility and you can't provide nothing or little to an educated populace and expect them to have kids.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Destabilize a country, make a surprised pikachu face when they want to cross the border, deport them to random country. Problem solved.

The genius of the administration.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fertility rate falls to lowest globally⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Let me guess, the government doesn't make having kids worthwhile despite the wealth they have other there?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fertility rate falls to lowest globally⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
More like people don't have time nor money for kids because their careers aren't rewarding, neither in the monetary nor other sense.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I have faith in the EU's opensource policy. Things will change. We're in no rush.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government starting to think about leaving X⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Very nice that @Paulatics is pressing the issue. Twitter is basically pornhub with news. Would the government be willing to publish videos on pornhub to "reach a wider audience"? Referring this video). There are also significant audiences on PornHub.