Really starting to question how much papa Stroll is going to throw money at the team until he accepts that his own son is keeping the team back. It doesn't matter if you give Stroll the best car he's not going to win the WDC and he's also a liability when it comes to the WCC.

Fox news? FOX NEWS? I guess it makes sense. If you believe Fox News to be credible then you might as well believe Trump wouldn't blatantly lie about project 2025.

You're looking at it from the perspective of the customer, but another aspect to get angry about is what is completely insane to someone who doesn't live in the US. How the fuck can a company hire people who they're going to let go in less than a year, and do that year and year? Where I live that's illegal. The government will grab the company by the balls if they do that.

If you're a company and you want to fire someone you first have to give a good reason why their position is being removed, then you need a good reason why you can't give them a different position within the company and finally, when you've actually fired the person, you need to give them a government regulated severance package, which is usually multiple months pay in advance. And you can't fire on the spot, you need to give at minimum a 2 week notice. In case you didn't notice, those are rules of you just want to fire a single person, layoffs have even more rules. In short, where I live companies use layoffs as a last resort because it's guaranteed to lose them money.

The entire hire/layoff cycle you take as something normal is something not normal to me. So this is a reminder to Americans that it is not normal and you can demand for more.

And if everyone had common sense an anarchist society would be possible. We have laws, that are inherently authoritarian, to make society work because society is too stupid to function without. To quote men in black "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it".

In that sense I don't see an issue with protecting your impressionable morons from deliberate foreign state propaganda.

From Monday you will be bombarded with the PSN requirement for a month and then you won't be able to play without a PSN account.

Well they actually changed the motto because "don't be evil" was too ambiguous. The motto now is "do the right thing". It's now okay to be evil, as long as you're "doing the right thing".

Someone already described the law but I think there should also be a good explanation why it's not censorship. That explanation in short form is called the paradox of tolerance. If a society strives to be more tolerant they may also end up being tolerant of intolerance. That tolerance of intolerance then prevents society from becoming tolerant, that's the paradox. So the only real course of action for a tolerant society is to be intolerant of intolerance.

Attacking someone based on their sexuality is intolerance. Thus to be tolerant those attacks cannot be tolerated, hence the law. Why people are calling it "censorship" is because those people want to be intolerant. They cry "censorship" because they're being prevented of acting out their own form of censorship, the kind where they try for instance to censure someones sexuality. Calling this thing "censorship" is the wording of the right-wing and unless you want to associate with the right I suggest you stop calling it that. It's not censorship, it's being intolerant of censorship.

No it doesn’t

It kinda does. Do you think people enjoy working for near poverty wages? They don't. But they can't afford to say no to poor pay because it's still better than no pay. If people weren't worried about becoming homeless they'd demand for higher pays. In that sense capitalism does depend on the threat of homelessness to drive down the wage to make more profits.

But socialism is a stupid inefficient system, so it’s a non starter.

How to say you don't know anything about socialism without saying you don't know anything about socialism. I'm going to give you an example of it working on a smaller scale because US kept sabotaging most national attempts to have socialism. Worker cooperatives are socialist and I recommend looking up the history of Mondragon, a successfully ran cooperative for over half a century now.

I think it's misleading to say that EU would make steep demands, because it gives the impression that EU would deliberately try to make UK joining difficult. UK shouldn't get any special treatment (good or bad) and they should get the exact same standard joining procedure all other countries would get. The standard procedure is already going to have their panties twisted, no need to give them a legitimation reason to complain.

Even Russians don't blow the entire building, they just gas it.

It is a random spot check but when you have a 50% failrate shouldn't it be investigated further? Imagine going skydiving. There's a parachute spot check that shows 50% of the parachutes don't work and everyone else is given the green light. Would you jump? Somehow I doubt it. The plank check is a similar safety check, except it's done after the race because you can't beforehand verify if the car isn't too low. It's a dangerous sport and safety should be taken seriously.

Also the current approach punishes the driver. It's not the driver's (at least I don't think it is) responsibility to make sure their team gives them a regulation-compliant car. It's the constructors responsibility and the punishment should focus on the constructor, which means at the very least both cars should be checked if one of them fails.

I'm amazed US DOD hasn't torn him a new asshole considering they're now paying to use Starlink in Ukraine. Musks ability to decide how Starlink should be used is a clear security risk.