…and this is why conservatives in the UK pushed for Brexit

That was France, not the EU

On the other hand the christians that are ashamed of this are not doing enough to show their disapproval

4Gb is not much under Windows 11 and running Chrome

The one good thing about this trial is that America is realizing how chronically inadequate its laws are for expecting people in political office (or campaigning for) to behave within the law. Everyone is human and bound to abuse and the law should set clear boundaries to prevent that abuse.

… about fucking time?

But all politicians are equally at fault for not leglislating to ensure workers have livable salaries and encouraging the "outsourcing" thing that moved jobs overseas so people could buy cheaper Walmart stuff.

When banks loan against property and the collateral is the property itself, there should be an independent revaluation of the property to ensure the bank is not running into excessive risk by lending say, $300, on a property that is worth $200. In case the borrower default, then the banks sells the property for $200, but losses $100 because the property was only worth $200.

Trump claiming that banks never saw losses indicate that bank relationship managers were complicit in using distorted valuations to lend, potentially violating internal credit rules established by their own employers.

Another possibility is that Trump actually defaulted multiple times but banks do not publicly admit it.

The root cause that all comments here in Lemmy miss is the Chinese approach to tax funding, which is entirely built on cities and provinces being expected to generate tax income through land sales to property developers, and then public officials competency and rise inside the party being measured by the size of that tax income generated trough land sale.

China needs to adopt a western style of income and consumption taxation if they don't have one but I understand that internal enforcements is very lax (to prevent popular protests) and corruption (that ends up siphoning off any revenue raised through taxes).

In short, that housing stock will remain unused and, without maintenance and continued use, will only deteriorate over time, leaving cities with a terrible burdensome legacy

Me too, but at least business casual should be expected?

Open elections when there is only one party in practice are moot

I know but wearing olive drab is good for his soldier's morale… "I'm on this with you" kind of thing

Zelenskyy I guess has no other choice as his country is in war and he is the supreme commander of his forces

UK consumers are always welcome to import seafood from those waters

And someone who won’t be paid anyway

Brazil “eu caguei e andei” (I shat and walked). Functionally equivalent to “I don’t give a shit” but in Portuguese one actually shits but doesn’t care to wipe and walks away or walks at the same as is shitting.

I do agree that curse words/expressions based on diseases seem very unique

After three minutes of nothing, caused by a command to remove the French language pack:

sudo rm -Rf /

On the other hand that low fertility may help reduce the youth unemployment rate in 20 years from now. The same rate that the Chinese government decided to give up computing…

/s obviously but it is really bad for them

I have a feeling that Sweden will just ignore it, thinking it impossible in their country

GOP is so remarkably despicable