Probably Acky Breaky Heart.

Yes, but the best deals are likely in Eastern Europe. Also, if you do this, you will need to pay cash. However, it might be cheaper/easier than in the USA.

The problem is that wealth inequality in the USA has an age component.

Boomers are far wealthier than previous generations at their equivalent age as a percentage of national wealth. They are also incredibly sensitive to taxes as their retirement depends on managing wealth.

In contrast, Gen X and millennials are poorer than Boomers at their equivalent age and mainly contribute to the economy with their labor.

It isn’t a perfect divide, but there is a wealth divide that represents itself somewhat as a generational divide.

Just bringing back the 90’s rules would make the game a lot better since it would bring back better defense.

Michael Jackson is disco.

Eh. I’d give them Alternative Rock. The thing that would likely classify them as pop is that they were so famous for a part of their career.

Ask for the comparison in excess deaths comparison of vaccinated versus unvaccinated.

That’s a good one

They’re old…

Drat! You got me!

Yeah. The teller doesn’t get paid enough for this bullshit, but the possibility of setting up a trust may be enough for a bank to try to sell services.

Had an interesting conversation with a Syrian when flying from Kuwait to Jordan. I didn’t know Arabic; he didn’t know English. We used Google Translate to talk.

Part of the reason why I’m arguing against economic terms is because it doesn’t really give context into the power dynamics in how an instance is run. At the core of most instances on Lemmy, a head admin dictates the rules of their instance and it is take it or leave it for everyone else that wants to participate.

Think of it like this, if the head admin wanted to make a decision against all other admins and mods, what would happen? Likely, which has happened previously to other instances on Lemmy, the head admin wins out and everyone else either conforms or has to leave. Labor doesn’t become ownership.

Unless an instance has a corporate structure which distributes power, it is an autocracy by definition.

Some instances let others work as mods, or even with some admin privileges. However, at the end of the day, each instance is beholden to the head admin unless they were set up differently. The only instance I can think of with an organizational structure beyond autocracy is beehaw.

You’re also trying to insert economic descriptions to a political system without economics.

Autocratic city-states.

From what I’ve seen, especially since COVID, is that society has changed beyond their understanding and now a lot of things are strange and scary. Worse, a lot of the skills they should have learned to understand the present day weren’t learned for various reasons, so getting over the hump of understanding is now a lot higher than previous.

Anger is a common reaction to fear and confusion.

Two reasons:

First, both Koreas accept that there are two different countries through various political actions. That equivalent doesn’t exist for the Chinas; both nations officially don’t recognize each other’s legitimacy and don’t treat each other as independent nations.

Second, the UN Veto only goes to one country. The USA kept the PRC from being declared the legitimate Chinese government. So, the world is used to viewing the issue of one China, it continues to do so.

You also had people trying to get around bans by creating new accounts, since new accounts are free. A way to prevent brigading was to institute a minimum age and karma score to participate.

I have had very serious conversations with family members regarding vacations and them worrying about where I was going.

Went anyway and had a great time.

I don’t know of a political movement yet, but I would guess the following:

• Without Russia, the new St. Petersburg country could engage with more trade with the EU instead. The region is one of the more advanced parts of Russia, so they may figure that they could do better trading within the EU customs union than being frozen out.
• While a lot of resource wealth goes into Moscow and St. Petersburg from some parts of Russia, there are a lot of other areas that rely on massive Russian subsidies to maintain their standards of living. If resource wealth gets cut off, St. Petersburg may not want to subsidize these backwater areas.
• The Wagner Group is located in St. Petersburg. It is possible that a future civil war between the Wagner Group and the Russian government may lead to the Wagner Group wanting independence from Russia to keep its pseudo colonial riches.