Widespread but being dismantled as we speak.

While the general public is not as indoctrinated to hate socialism as in the US, they are still (being made) resistant to preserving or expanding the welfare state. Every time cuts are made to social programmes, (conservative) people will say "we should be grateful with what we get" and "well we can't afford to keep paying for that", especially if it's cuts in another country that "has it better". The media are an active and gleeful participant in this, constantly running stories about "OMG we are running a deficit" and "how are we going to afford to pay for pensions?", manufacturing consent all the way. Finally, the EU and ECB also play their role as boogeymen by reprimanding states who run deficits, which national politicians then use as an excuse to cut social spending, instead of cutting military spending or taxing the wealthy.

COMMUNIST MARXIST ANTIFA REEEEEE

~ Stephen Miller (probably)

Nah that's just him reflexively victim blaming, ’cause he's a rapist.

IMO this should be the case for everything developed using public money, looking at you, pharmaceutical companies...

The way the law is being enforced now, this should be an entirely legitimate argument. A snowball's chance in hell though that it holds up without a legal team like OpenAI has.

This already seems like a best-case scenario tbh.

2 years out from the election, Democratic establishment operatives are already going around and manufacturing consent for "settling" for Gavin Newsom. If that is the response to AOC not denying she may run, imagine what will come when she does announce. I'm expecting a tsunami of "she's unelectible" sabotage, like they did to Bernie twice.

The passive voice writing in this article is as usual playing defense for the police.

Independence police’s response to that 911 call ended with the shooting death of Pike, 34, and her two month old daughter, Destinii Hope. Let me rephrase this in a less passive way. The response to that 911 call from the independence police officer ended with him shooting Pike, 34 and her two month old daughter, Destinii Hope, to death.

I'm not implying this specific author or newspaper are writing in this style out of malice. I think this is part of a problem with the culture in journalism, because most articles on police violence are written this way.

"Faith-based health care provider" is one of the saddest euphemisms I've heard in a while.

It's also such a funny contradiction: a big part of the free market model rests on the idea that well informed consumers can vote with their wallet, which should reward good businesses and punish bad ones. Yet it is very difficult to argue consumers have ever been informed enough to make this work, which is in large part due to advertising flooding communication channels with noise, and also because it is unreasonable to expect a consumer to be fully informed for the hundreds of purchases they make on a daily basis.

Yes, but also cartel behavior. Those same 3 manufacturers have been found guilty of it in the past, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they were fixing prices again now. See this video by Gamers Nexus.

Vaccination rates would be my first guess as well. Individually vaccines reduce the severity of symptoms, which makes it less likely for people to notice and report that they have COVID. The vaccine also reduces the viral load spread by individuals, therefore making it less likely for them to spread the virus, and it also makes it less likely for you to become sick if you come into contact with the virus.

Considering the difference in population density between the USA and The Netherlands (NL is way denser) I'd say this is a good demonstration of how vaccines are miracles of modern science.

The problem with using the filibuster is that it only works when you know the other side doesn't have 67% in the senate. With both the democratic and republican parties being in the pocket of AIPAC, I suspect they could easily get the votes to break Bernie's filibuster.

Pretty sure he's biodegradable

This kind of border agent is why I won't be travelling to the US anytime soon. If this person was that bad in 2000, imagine what they're like with the power to send you to a concentration camp if you look at them the wrong way.

If you ask the supreme court, probably not.

Friendly FYI: Brave is based on Chromium, so under the hood it uses the same browser engine as Chrome. I can't recommend switching to Firefox enough, not only because it's a good and fully featured browser, but also because its existence is vital to keeping Google's power in check.

Consultancy firms know where their bread is buttered. In cases like this one, they're not much more than professional yes-men in suits.

"Be ruthless to systems, and kind to individuals" ~ Michael Brooks

Yup, adopting the Euro as currency would be my first condition. They threw a lot of privilege and bargaining power away out of pride, so that pride should be injured as much as possible (but without emiserating the common people).

Can't wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts