Sounds like it's time for more protests then. I'm hoping. This doesn't directly affect me since I'm not in the US but man it must feel like a gut punch for the black community in general and her family in particular. Hope Americans get their house back in order.
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You can get by with English in a lot of non English speaking countries. Moreso with money because you can afford to pay people to translate things for you.
He had enough British ancestry that he was able to get a citizenship (or already had dual citizenship? I dunno). Think that was the only reason for choosing the UK in particular over any other European country.
From what little interaction I had with FlyingSquid, it seemed like his family was very working class and the move to the UK took a lot of sacrifice.
Ellen on the other hand has a net worth in the hundreds of millions and thus was never in any real danger in the US because of her sexuality.
Wonder how many cops dream of being Lucifer in, well, Lucifer.
Intimidate witnesses, act PURELY on hunches, other people take the flak
Weren't they trying to protect all the aliens who weren't trying to destroy the planet? Including helping them hide from humans so humans wouldn't panic?
Technically only Chase is the police dog. Skye flies around helping people, Marshall is a fire dog, Rubble builds shit, Zuma exists, Rocky repairs and recycles shit
They're for-profit companies and so far pretty successful without direct subsidies. EU countries usually have subsidies for purchasing EVs (regardless of manufacturer) rather than subsidizing the manufacturers directly - this leaves the consumers more choice and has a similar or maybe even better effect on EV adoption. On the climate side of things as well as public health and equal opportunities for people, transit investments would be better than outright paying BMW and Mercedes to make their EVs cheaper. China, however, doesn't just want EV adoption on their own roads, China wants THEIR EVs specifically to dominate the world. Usually this is seen as unfair, regardless of industry, and is one of the few valid reasons for tariffs in an otherwise free global market.
The funny thing is, if the Chinese subsidize their EVs and the EU tariffs them, the tariff money could then be spent on EV subsidies - bringing all the different manufacturers to equal ground again.
Looks like the Ducky 3 switches can be swapped out without soldering!
I'm not TOO worried about the price, it's a bit hefty, but I'll chuck it as a company expense because 90% of the time what I'm doing with my keyboard IS some form of work (okay, 30% of that work is browsing Lemmy), so I get to skip the ~42% payroll taxes and get the 24% VAT refunded. I did the math once (you can't just add percentages together, as they're off different stages of the sum) and buying equipment for the company was like 60 or 70% cheaper than paying myself a salary and buying as a private individual. So now anything I use for work is automatically a company expense even if I don't use it exclusively for work.
Seems like it'll be a good entry-level mechanical keyboard, hope I don't become too addicted lol
Having 7.5x the population means having more funds available for building expensive subway lines. Having more population also necessitates more of the transit to be via subway or rail, as opposed to buses which are slower and have other issues, but way cheaper than rail or subway.
Toronto, having less population, invests less in the most expensive solution that's best for the densest cities, but still also invests in light rail and bus networks.
I was born in a town of <10k. We had buses and nothing else. Capital city of my country has a population of ~300k - has rail and trams in addition to buses. Capital city of the country just north of us a bigger population in the metro area than our entire country - 1.6 million vs 1.3 million. They have metro lines. Slightly over half the population of Toronto, slightly over half the total length of metro lines. Toronto is also building an extra 3 lines in addition to the current 3, nearly doubling total length of lines when it's done.
Now Chengdu vs Toronto: 7.5x the population, 9x the rail lines (by length). Is Toronto really doing so badly? I would say that the bigger you get with cities, the need for high density transport lines actually rises faster than city growth. Maybe not quadratic, but definitely not linear. n log n maybe?
Lots of things, yeah. Many countries have set up energy efficiency loans too - for home renovations, or for business purposes. The idea is that you give out low interest loans so people (or companies) can achieve what they need earlier. I don't know if anything like that is in place in Germany, France or Sweden (or Italy, I suppose they still have a bit of their car industry left), but if I was in a relevant position in one of those companies and there was a need to, say, build a battery manufacturing plant locally so that EVs could be built for cheaper and less dependence on existing battery manufacturers, I'd definitely go ask the relevant nation's government, parliament and/or business development department, for a loan, tax break, or subsidies. Worst that could happen is they say no.
But yeah, an already successful car manufacturer getting straight on subsidies for selling cars they're already making and selling anyway - extremely unlikely in most countries I'd think. Now if one or two of the German big 3 were on the verge of bankruptcy because of Chinese competition, that might change. Still sounds unlikely though. China's GDP is 4x that of Germany's, they can afford to keep subsidizing their shit for longer.