sparky@lemmy.federate.cc

This is a big reason why we left the country. I make a comfortable but not extravagant living as a freelancer, but sinking $1000+ a month just into insurance for my family? (To say nothing of costs and copays while actually using the insurance!) Just doesn’t make any financial sense. Had we stayed in the states one of us would need to work for the man just to have a reasonable health care plan.

The cost savings on that alone pays my whole mortgage here in the EU.

Thanks, that’s an interesting overview. I guess it might be worth checking it out, but like you say, I like the simplicity of Lightroom CC and 85% of the time you only want 5% of the tools, auto correct and basic histogram adjustments.

𝔗𝔬𝔩𝔩, 𝔡𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔢!

Anyone using this as their main program over Lightroom or Luminar? Would be interested to hear a pros and cons take

Wie hast du in Frakturschrift geschrieben?

Cuba’s one-party communist state outlaws political pluralism, bans independent media, suppresses dissent, and severely restricts basic civil liberties.

Cuba lacks basic freedom of speech or freedom of the press, to say the absolute least. Typical tankie whatabout-ism. In fact, you’re proving the point of the person I originally replied to in this thread!

https://freedomhouse.org/country/cuba

Authoritarianism doesn’t necessarily require nationalism or vice versa, though they’re often linked, that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. The USA is pretty flag waving, nationalist brained but individual freedom exists. Versus a country like Saudi as you mention is not particularly nationalist, but repression is widespread.

They are quite different than Russia, but looking only at individual freedom, the two are similar in that freedom of speech is not respected and leaders are not fairly elected.

I think some aspects of freedom are to some extent objectively observable, eg, is freedom of speech or religion observed? These can exist independently of US alignment - there are many countries in the global south that can qualify as free or partially free.

IMO this is why it takes an additional axis to define a government, not just left/right but also free/authoritarian. You can find examples of all combinations. Left wing and repressive? Cuba. Left leaning and free? Sweden. Right wing and repressive? Russia, Saudi Arabia, whatever. Right leaning and free (mostly)? USA.

Obviously, there’s a gradient within these axes, but it’s strange to see people cheering on a country that matches their preferred left or right wing ideology if they’re super repressive.

You hear that, federate.cc users? All 5 of you? 😉

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Anybody got that American political plane meme handy?

That’s cool, any details or link to share?

Doing the Lord’s work there, Sonny!

Pretty sure this is the same as every other messaging app - metadata is never protected information. The contents of the messages may be encrypted to some extent (which on Telegram they are, not end-to-end as with iMessage, but they’re not plain text), however your IP address, username, etc are subject to subpoena on any messaging platform.

Came here to say the same thing, like WTF, why would you need a jar of 500

10/10 physics joke right here folks

I was just going to post the same thing. I took the same bus route and man that was scary at some points looking out the window, over the edge.

Good ol’ Meme-a-stan. President: R. Astley.

I guess all of these stores will be gone before too long as these days a large portion of the new consoles don’t have a disc drive at all.