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  • Read all four books. I have read the series now. Perhaps 3x in the last 25 or so years since I discovered it.

    The Fall of Hyperion is 100% a recommendation. The Endymion books are somewhat controversial. But I love them.

  • Looks up social control theory. It basically argues that we all are well behaved because we worry about the social consequences of our bad actions. You remove social control. The moral behaviours goes out the window. It’s pretty well supported framework for understanding human behaviour.

  • You’re close to the point but missed the elephant. The valuable thing we’re fighting over in this case is all the data collected by the cars.

    Automakers lose some access when it’s Apple or Google serving the infotainment. Apple and Google also get access to this data for free.

  • It seriously saddens me how much 25 years of GOP propaganda against the Clintons has turned reasonable people among Democrats and those further to the left into parrots that try to pin everything on Hillary or Bill.

    There are legitimate criticisms of The Clintons. But they are way less involved than people give them credit for.

    To your comment, I have seen no mention of Hillary - then Secretary of State dealing with multiple conflicts - having any involvement in ACA. She had plenty other work. And there were other key advisors Obama picked that were the actually directly tasked with putting together ACA and making it pass.

  • Also let’s not forget such hits as Bill Clinton attempting a border healthcare reform which died very promptly. Which is why Obama and his advisors chose the republican approach.

    Also let’s not ignore that ACA originally had the public option in it. But as always, there is always enough money in bribes to turn just the right amount of Democrats against core wins so that it was a Democrat (I forget the twat’s name) that demanded the public option be stripped from the bill.

  • We will never know what these 2 Swedes did or did not do. Likely nothing. That is how terrorism work. But perhaps they picked a fight and lost. Either way. Not the point here.

    EDIT: I need to stay more on top of my news. Seems the perp released some statement about wanting to commit an act. So yeah. They likely did absolutely nothing. But you know why is Sweden in the crosshairs of extremist Muslims? Because of an Extremist Dane/Swede Rasmus Paludan that has been harassing Swedish and Danish Muslims with impunity under “freedom of expression” rules. This is the very definition of symbiosis. All the extremists Muslim organizations fed like mad off of Paludan. What do you think Paludan supported are doing right now!? Feeding on this energy recruiting. Plotting their next more. END EDIT

    The rest of my pots- you misread not simply ignored. You are ignoring a lot of far right violence to try to make your argument.

    But I still mention your point. The White/European far right does not need random acts of terrorism or violence. They sit in the government. They have way more powerful tools at their disposal.

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    what_is_a_name @lemmy.world

    How many months savings do you consider enough?

    As the title says I am trying to see where people stand on this. Obviously this is all personal preference. But that is what I am after.

    After depleting our savings when buying our apartment 2 years ago, we’re about to cross 6 months liquid savings in just plain old savings account with ability to immediately withdraw money.

    (To clarify that is 6 month assuming 0 income, which is very unlikely given the social system of our country - so realistically we have even more in savings.)

    As you can imagine, the interest in this account is not great, so I want to set a limit as to when we stop dumping every spare penny into the savings account and begin doing other things (likely try to invest).

    New Communities @lemmy.world
    what_is_a_name @lemmy.world

    Synology NAS discussion and support