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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I had a look at the list and they’re not on the list, just like all of the other countries that aren’t on the list.

    I hope that helps? Just reiterating, the list that you’re looking at doesn’t have all the countries in the world. It’s a short list of countries.

    I mean you could look at it and say oh wow that’s six of the G7 countries, which are considered the countries which largely steer 'western" democracy and have done for the last 50 odd years, plus sweden, which is widely considered to be the most progressive western democracy, and try to work out why one of the countries on that list is so ass backwards in its social welfare.

    But maybe it’d be easier to draw a comparison between that and Russia, which is a thinly veiled dictatorship and was booted out of the G8 10 years ago when it annexed Crimea, and China, which is literally ruled by the Chinese communist party. Those are two very valid and worthwhile comparisons to America, the world’s leading liberal democracy, with regards to entrenched workers rights.


  • After the black Saturday fires in Australia, many home owners who were insured discovered to their horror that they were under insured

    The value of their possessions and the repair value of their home had increased but they hadn’t increased the level of insurance coverage to match. Despite suffering total losses, many have been unable to afford to rebuild.

    This has been in the back of my mind seeing the LA fires. This is just the beginning. It will take decades for some of these people to re establish.





  • Site size doesn’t matter; prosecution of the actual people who are associated with it still occurs.

    There is practically zero risk for users of lemmy instances, but those who host the instance are identifiable through domain registration, hosting or similar.

    I don’t blame the admins for acting in self interest - ultimately they’re putting in the effort and wear the risk.

    If you don’t agree with it you’re welcome to host your own instance - with blackjack and hookers etc.


  • Hold on, think this one through.

    The admins aren’t worried about jury nullification per se. They’re worried about what regulatory authority can do - shut down the instance, hold admins personally accountable etc - if the instance is classified as a media source + has content which could influence a jury.

    This is no different from the advice given to other media outlets globally.

    Maybe spin it this way. If the very act of having articles celebrating his actions on lemmy.world means his defense is compromised would you be OK with that?