It used to be the case that the US formally didn’t allow dual nationality, but other nations didn’t mind if you had US nationality as well as theirs. So many people were just not telling the US about their second nationality that the US got rid of that rule maybe 15 or so years ago.
How is this an issue?? You just use your UK passport when travelling to the UK, and your EU passport when travelling to the EU. Just as anyone normally would - you go through the shortest queue you’re entiteled to use.
If you’re a dual national, you already have two passports. Certainly you at least have an entitlement to them.
It is “the” lol. Taking a piss means going to the toilet, taking the piss is taking the mick, ie behaving with a mocking disregard for others.
Wrt loafing around, you might be taking the piss if you’re not doing something, eg your household chores. It’s not the laying around that takes the piss, it’s that you’re not doing what you’re supposed to do. It takes the piss out of others when they have to pick up the slack for you.
Like a lot of British phrases, there’s some flexibility in its usage.
On the plus side the local pigeon problem was solved.
Probably just automatically resumed when he connected to the bluetooth.
Surely a better and far easier measure is to look at suicide rates of the whole population vs suicide rates in trans people specifically? You don’t need to factor in covid at all.
Europe is weaker because of Russian propaganda and meddling.
The trouble with green steel is that coal has like 3 uses in steel production - it’s not just used to heat the metal but also becomes part of the steel itself. There are alternatives but you’re having to replace 1 thing with 3 and it ends up being ridiculously energy intensive, so unless your grid is made up exclusively of renewables you’re really just moving the CO2 production around. Especially as most of the demand is additional on top of regular steel production, we’re already trying to switch to renewables but this pushes that target further away.
Really green steel, much like green hydrogen, seems driven more by marketing than it being a sound engineering decision.
Musk and Bezos and others all operate on getting key people on their side. With these key people, they take the reigns of power. Under a direct democracy, the key people is everyone - Musk and others can’t sway everyone, and it would be much harder for them to get the critical mass needed to achieve what they do now.
But in practice they aren’t. In practice a represntative is swayed by people with money to go against the people they represent.
There would be little to no opportunity for that in a direct democracy. Lobbyists can’t bribe everyone, it wouldn’t be cost effective. Meanwhile people will have no choice but to educate themselves, as they’ll feel the effects of their votes directly and won’t be able to hide behind the (sometime inevitable) betrayal of the person they voted for. Even if people are lied to and convinced to vote another way, there’s a huge difference between “You lied to me and didn’t do what you said you’d do” and “You lied to me and got me to do something I didn’t want to do”, and generally there should be more accountability.
No, it’s because lawyers can be expected to know how laws work. You kind of want that from someone who writes laws.
Which actually points to how the EU is structured. The unelected bureaucrats of the European Commission are in fact lawyers selected by each of the member states, they are selected on merit for their skill and they write the proposed EU regulations. These are then voted on by the democratically elected representatives of the European Parliament. The goal being to have professionals write functional laws but ultimately have them put in force through democratic means.
Still, the major problem with the EU is the way represntatives behave and are voted for. People all too easily neglect voting in the EU, or vote for joke/sensationalist parties that are even less likely to actually represent the people.
Frankly, I think for better or worse a direct democracy would do away with these issues. People might not know about every matter, but they’ll certainly feel the consequence - and they won’t be able to hide behind their representative screwing things up, it will be their own fault. They’ll learn soon enough and there’ll be much more accountability all round.
What time is it Mr AI man? And how often do you mow your windowsill?
I think that still fits in with what @wewbull@feddit.uk is saying. There is a right shift in votes because of extensive promotion by the media, which acknowledges the problem but offers a fascist solution, which is picked up by some voters. However other voters are disenfranchised and end up not voting. The overall shift in votes is to the right but the population itself is not right wing, the votes are not representative of the population because those who disagree don’t vote for alternatives and instead don’t vote at all.
but it actually that the electorate isn’t representable by the options available.
Bring on direct democracy. If our representives don’t represent us, we should get rid of the position.
Yes it’s fine if you view it from other instances, but the original federated version on lemmy.zip is inaccessible.
It should also be said that it isn’t so much because of the Online Safety Act, but because of a protest stance taken by lemmy.zip against the Online Safety Act. Similar to imgur, although with imgur it was more because they had other legal issues in the UK and they used the OSA as an excuse to step out.
Nice try, Mr Sainsburys.
And then, with the industry under national control, they arrange for it to be critically mismanaged again to use it as justification for the private sector to buy it back so they can “fix it”. However, this time they have to sell it cheap, because it’s critically mismanaged and the private sector won’t buy an apparently failing business otherwise.
The real conspiracy is that it’s always the same groups looking to get in and “mismanage” the business, for the benefit of extracting wealth.
Surely he’s supposed to take his glasses off before he reveals he’s supeurman
Rule 34. And cemented by Rule 35.