Once Trump undermines FED independence (which seems to be the case in may, if not earlier) the risk associated with US investments increases dramatically… reasonable for pension funds to pull out in time.

Some aspects that come to my mind:

1. Is the safety of Sigapore exclusively liked to strict drug regulation or aren’t there many other confunding factors which might have an even bigger influence?
2. Given we see this approach as successful and therefore legitime (assuming that in 1 the policy is the main/only driving factor): Would this be applicable to other countries? Singapore is a verry wealthy city state… comparing it to a country like Britain with more area, less population desity and also lower ecomonic performance per area seems missleading. Prosecution becomes more difficult and costly the bigger the area gets I guess.

All-in-all if the approach is sucessful for Singapore: Excellent! Accunsing other countries with different prerequisites of failing on this basis seems to be nonsense as comparing countries and societies in a single aspect while ignoring the gaszillion other factors at play itself is a pointless approach besides populism.

This one in particular? About 2 hours (but if a sufficent amount of eaters). I guess if you eat it alone 3 - 4 days as its pretty massive.

If you see them condem them. I’m not a judge and neither are you.

The posts are, in comparisson to the actual content, intentionally misleading.

If you compare titles and actual content of the articels they’re purposely misleading to influence opinion.

/edit: missing word

This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.

This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.

This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.

This user posts exclusively pro-Chinese and anti-European content in very high frequency.

Wait until Trump Inc. weaponizes the American platforms against European democracies like China and Russia already do.

,Opposing a dictatorship is always good… even if the majority of the people there are worse off afterwards. The main thing is that I feel morally superior while risking nothing myself. "

Read a book.

My personal problem with this is that we’re not talking about ANY country but specifically about the current US admin which has recently, shitting on all international rules, declared itself to be above international law and kidnapped an foreign leader (yes, he was dictator, but for international laws to be valuable they must treat EVERYONE equal… not only the ones deemed worthy by the biggest bully in the yard). Since this isn’t the first wave of protests but the first one to, apparently, get inhumanely bloody in this magnitude one obvious key factor differing this one from the previous ones is the openly hostile and antidemocratic US admin taking power one year ago.

Taking this factors into consideration it seems highly questionable weather these protests will lead to an overall better situation for the Iranian people… and this outcome would be the only one justifying the blood shed.

People don’t want to repeat their mistake of blindly cheering revolutions just for them to turn into even worse dictatorships afterwards… like it happened in many countries after Arabian spring. Hence the skepticism and caution in my eyes is more a sign of an ability to learn from past mistakes… especially since this time a foreign nation isn’t ,secondarily involved" but repeatedly made actual threats to destabilize the nation in question and is actively threatening with war, not for the people but to fill its own pockets and demonstrate its power.

All right folks, here’s the recipe:

Engadine nut cake

Ingredients:

dough

350 g flour 150 g butter (I use solid margarine) 1 egg 1 pinch of salt 125 g sugar

Filling

250 g sugar 2 tabelspoons of honey (I recently used agave syrup… works too.) 200 ml cream 300 g coarsely chopped walnuts (optional: 2 cl of cherry spirit … I usually leave it out)

Preparation:

Place the ingredients for the dough in a bowl and knead (by hand or with a food processor) until you have a smooth dough. Spread approx. 1/3 of the dough over the base of a 26 cm springform pan and roll out evenly with a rolling pin. Use another third of the dough to form a narrow roll, then pull this up around the edge of the springform pan (this works best if you form smaller rolls and then press them flat with your fingers around the edge of the pan). Now for the filling: Put the sugar and honey in a pan and melt over medium heat. When the honey softens and you knead more and more sugar into the honey with a wooden spoon, there will be no lumps. When everything is melted and slightly brown (caution: burns easily), add the cream sip by sip and stir in immediately (caution: this creates a lot of steam, so be careful not to burn your hand while stirring). When all the cream has been stirred in, add the chopped walnuts. Spread the finished filling evenly on the prepared base. Roll out the remaining dough thinly on a work surface with a rolling pin and then cut into strips. (Sprinkle flour on the work surface beforehand, otherwise the dough will stick and you won’t be able to remove it). Place the strips in a lattice pattern on top of the cake. (There is usually some dough left over after this, I usually shape it into a roll and press it onto the edge to prevent the filling from boiling over but one can also make some ornaments for decoration of the cake from it). Bake the whole thing at top/bottom heat at 200° C for 30 min. (I guess hot air would be 180°C, but I haven’t tried it yet.)

Good luck! :D

(If there are any questions let me know)

I think the US way beyond the point of peaceful protest. You have 40% (which also happen to be the better armed portion of the population) approving of a dictator turning your democracy into a dictatorship.

Trump (and his much more dangerous puppet masters) have made it evidently clear that they ignore both congress and judges at their will. Congress and senate at the same time are filled with representatives presenting the elites profiting from Trumps coup, not you.

Short of system change I don’t think you’ll get out of this.

Boop!

Jep, I think the lack of specialized communities is definetly a problem. However I think this is, in the last resort, mostly up to us as users. If we don’t create content for topics we find interesting… who else could?

But I also get that possible reddit refugees who are used to lurk on content instead of creating it (I don’t exclude myself here) will find the plattform(s) to empty to be satisfied.

I don’t quite get it:

Lemmy has started in 2019 with 0 users and 0 instances. In 2023 there were still less than 100 instances… now the platform has oviously jumped to a few thousand instances and about 100 k users. To me this is the opposite of a ghostland. If we consider that bigTech will mostly screw over their customers bowing to Trump I don’t really get all the negativity around here.

I’ve joined two days ago and you know what? I’m actually willing to contribute by posting instead of lurking at reddit because if I create content it’s not for somme multi million dollar corp to fill their pockets with revenue but for this community to thrive…

I my eyes this isn’t the right time for doomerism… on the contrary.

,You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up."

It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message…

I have the same question: If they refuse to contribute to their community and/or to the absolute legal minimum they can’t find a loophole for… what’s the point of wanting to make them stay?