Four in ten people in France cannot afford to leave their homes to go on vacation, a new study has found, an inequality that has persisted at the same level for the past 40 years.
I think you are severely overestimating the amount of money needed for a holiday, or your social cohort is quite far below the average income skewing your idea of what is rich, and how many people are "rich".
Australians are pretty well paid overall and get 20 days of paid holidays a year. A quick Google says that 55% of Australians have a passport. Okay, travel from Australia is expensive, but people definitely do it every few years.
Survey from 2023 states: The majority of Australians surveyed (85%) have been on holiday in the last five years
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More than 90% of 18-27 year olds surveyed have been on holiday in the last five years.
We're semi-regular visitors to the wonderful nation of Canada. We've really only been to two or three places that might be off the beaten path instead visiting mostly bigger cities regularly. I really like getting in conversations with the locals wherever we go to learn about life in that particular city or region. Just recently when one local was asking where else we'd been in Canada, I rattled off a list of Canadian places we'd visited and they paused for a moment and they said "You've seen more of Canada than most Canadians." That made me sad actually, and a bit ashamed. I wasn't meaning it to rub it in, but just wanted to share how much we appreciate the natural beauty and the people of the country.
I don't think you need to feel bad because it's not necessarily a financial thing. People like to travel overseas for an exotic experience. I grew up in Canada and I've been to like, 4 or 5 major cities. I have never been to Banff, which every Japanese tourist has been to. Now I live in Japan and so many people, including myself, have never been to Mt. Fuji. But I've done tours of Europe and Asia. I'm going back in October for a one month trip of Europe with my family.
It could be a financial thing still. It's often a lot cheaper to fly to Europe than it is to take a domestic flight within Canada. So when faced with that choice, why not go overseas?
Well, it's not like there was a donation campaign to finance the war in Ukraine.
A country's budget is complex and compromises have to be made. You have to deal with more than one issue. The security of Europe is important as well as the purchasing power of nationals.
Read the article and started wondering what the definition of 'going on Holiday' is 🤔. There's a bit in the article that mentions that 80% of Danes leave their country for holiday and that France takes that as their goal. Personally, I find that admirable but far from optimal. There are a lot of ways to holiday, especially in Northwest Europe.
For example: For lack of money, I started hiking from home to where I would like to be (and back of course). Slept in a cheap tent on budget campings, in budget hotels, low-cost b&b, etc. along the way. Went to supermarkets during the day to just get regular food. (read about easy recipes that make nice food with basic ingredients; even without cooking) Even four days of that felt more like 8 days and gave more of an actual holiday-feeling than taking a trip to a far-away location. Very personal feeling of course. And it's good to realize that there will always be some uncomfortable experiences during such a trip.
My point: there are more ways of going on holiday than taking a plane to a far-away location. An
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Read the article and started wondering what the definition of 'going on Holiday' is 🤔. There's a bit in the article that mentions that 80% of Danes leave their country for holiday and that France takes that as their goal. Personally, I find that admirable but far from optimal. There are a lot of ways to holiday, especially in Northwest Europe.
For example: For lack of money, I started hiking from home to where I would like to be (and back of course). Slept in a cheap tent on budget campings, in budget hotels, low-cost b&b, etc. along the way. Went to supermarkets during the day to just get regular food. (read about easy recipes that make nice food with basic ingredients; even without cooking) Even four days of that felt more like 8 days and gave more of an actual holiday-feeling than taking a trip to a far-away location. Very personal feeling of course. And it's good to realize that there will always be some uncomfortable experiences during such a trip.
My point: there are more ways of going on holiday than taking a plane to a far-away location. And there are more options than staying in hotels or resorts.
Still: it sucks that there is such a big difference between incomes and that society is such that single-traveling women don't have any guarantee of not being harassed.
Asked whether she believes this letter sounds “out of character” to her based on her experiences with both men, Williams replied incredulously: “What, are you kidding me? I know what they were up to together. It happened to me.”
“I have the post assault postcard with a love note,” she added, referring to a postcard of an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago she says Trump sent to her agent later in 1993. In what appeared to be black Sharpie, according to The Guardian, the card read: “Stacey – Your home away from home. Love Donald.”
No, no, remember? They let you do it if you're famous! Just grab them by the pussy like the big fat Orange wad did. Its totally acceptable by our conservative society. Men, you give them a handshake. But women, you grab women by the pussy.
If you're famous enough you could gran two women by the pussy. One with your left hand, and one with your right! And if you're famous enough to be the master orange wad, you can grab all women by the pussy. You can even grab most foreign women by the pussy. Just ban abortion and make it illegal to get one. Remove their right to vote. Deport them etc. You can even kick them all out of the military, remove anyone from being able to help in any way, take away all their voice and the voice of anyone who might try to help them.
I honestly don't think his base cares that he is a rapist. And I'm pretty convince adding child rapist does indeed make no difference. It's almost not just due process at this point it's just pure denial or acceptance.
I feel like we're all glossing over the part where Epstein got murdered in his jail cell and the video recordings from the prison were manipulated while Trump was in charge (with Bill Barr in charge of the prison system and to such an extent that he was using prison guards as personal police for Trump).
So they hid everything implicating trump, and trump yelling about releasing files now is because he knows his buddies kash and bongino have confirmed this. We can assume anything released with Trump's approval has been doctored or has relevant info removed.
This is the kind of "efficiency" that pleases Taco and his cult. Cancer research? Keep kids from starving to death? Fuck that noise. We need to protect Taco from his own crimes...
1000 agents who could have been investigating crimes on behalf of victims. Instead, they were tasked with protecting a perpetrator.
e: also, jesus christ, how much work should it take to investigate and flag one ’innocent’ person’s references? 1,000 agents? How many man-hours is that? The man-hours that could have been spent for victims is one unconscionable thing – but how many man-hours should it take to bury this? That’s staggering. I thought we mostly knew what was in these files, but I’d also think 10 agents would be more than enough. What the fuck are we missing?
LetterKenny (2016) - S01E04 Wing Man Wayne clip with quote More hands make less work.
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Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share.
For decades, allies of the United States lived comfortably amid the sprawl of American hegemony. They constructed their financial institutions, communications systems, and national defense on top of infrastructure provided by the US.
And right about now, they’re probably wishing they hadn’t.
...For decades, America’s allies accepted US control of these systems, because they believed in the American commitment to a “rules-based international order.” They can’t persuade themselves of that any longer.
...“US tech giants own not only the services we engage with but also everything below, from chips to connectivity to cables under the sea to compute to cloud. If that infrastructure turns off, we have nowhere to go.”
...But as difficult and expensive as it will be for US allies to escape the enshittification of American power—it will be much harder for Americans to do so, as that power is increasingly turned against them. As WIRED has documented, the Trump administration has weaponized federal payments sy
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For decades, allies of the United States lived comfortably amid the sprawl of American hegemony. They constructed their financial institutions, communications systems, and national defense on top of infrastructure provided by the US.
And right about now, they’re probably wishing they hadn’t.
...For decades, America’s allies accepted US control of these systems, because they believed in the American commitment to a “rules-based international order.” They can’t persuade themselves of that any longer.
...“US tech giants own not only the services we engage with but also everything below, from chips to connectivity to cables under the sea to compute to cloud. If that infrastructure turns off, we have nowhere to go.”
...But as difficult and expensive as it will be for US allies to escape the enshittification of American power—it will be much harder for Americans to do so, as that power is increasingly turned against them. As WIRED has documented, the Trump administration has weaponized federal payments systems against disfavored domestic nonprofits, businesses, and even US states. Contractors such as Palantir are merging disparate federal databases, potentially creating radical new surveillance capabilities that can be exploited at the touch of a button.
In time, US citizens may find themselves trapped in a diminished, nightmare America—like a post-Musk Twitter at scale—where everything works badly, everything can be turned against you, and everyone else has fled. De-enshittifying the platforms of American power isn’t just an urgent priority for allies, then. It’s an imperative for Americans too.
But as difficult and expensive as it will be for US allies to escape the enshittification of American power—it will be much harder for Americans to do so, as that power is increasingly turned against them.
So, in other words, the victims are the people - regardless if they're in Europe or the Americas.
It almost seems as if it's the people versus the broligarchs. Or the oligarchy, for that matter.
In Europe the threat is to both the people and to the countries as a whole, as USA threatens to close off services for political leverage!
The US government is using the IT infrastructure Europe has build an dependency on against European countries. The dependency was built on the trust that USA was a country build on respect for the law and democracy, this is evidently no longer true. Meaning the situation has changed dramatically.
In USA USA is in danger from itself more than anything outside USA, in Europe large parts of our infrastructure is in danger from USA, because USA is failing democracy and the rule of law.
This threat has already been enacted in reality, showing the US government is not beyond using such shenanigans: computerweekly.com/opinion/Mic…
Obviously the US government isn't threatened by the US government.
in case you (the reader) weren’t aware, the amount of Palestinians shot dead by the IDF while waiting for food has surpassed the amount of israelis who died on October 7th
think about this the next time someone’s like "but what about Hamas!!!!!"
I've got access to the beta of the Surf app. Some thoughts:
some stuff I really liked:
rss works (though no custom URLs yet, just what they already scraped)
you get lemmy, mastodon, bluesky, threads all together
you can make your own feeds and check what other people made (like a custom timeline, or topic-specific like “NBA”, “woodworking”, “retro gaming stuff”)
has different modes: you can switch between videos, articles, podcasts depending on the feed
but also...
can’t add your own RSS feeds (huge miss)
some feeds break and show no posts even when they’re active (ok, it's still a beta)
YouTube videos have ads (not into that—I support creators through patreon, affiliate links, whatever. not ads)
feeds you create are public by default unless you manually change it
not open source. built on open protocols, sure. but the app is locked up. (HUGE MISS)
all that said, I really believe: better feeds = better experience = better
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I've got access to the beta of the Surf app. Some thoughts:
some stuff I really liked:
rss works (though no custom URLs yet, just what they already scraped)
you get lemmy, mastodon, bluesky, threads all together
you can make your own feeds and check what other people made (like a custom timeline, or topic-specific like “NBA”, “woodworking”, “retro gaming stuff”)
has different modes: you can switch between videos, articles, podcasts depending on the feed
but also...
can’t add your own RSS feeds (huge miss)
some feeds break and show no posts even when they’re active (ok, it's still a beta)
YouTube videos have ads (not into that—I support creators through patreon, affiliate links, whatever. not ads)
feeds you create are public by default unless you manually change it
not open source. built on open protocols, sure. but the app is locked up. (HUGE MISS)
all that said, I really believe: better feeds = better experience = better shot at the fediverse going mainstream.
anyone else tried it?
do you know anyone building an open source version of this? is that even realistic?
Beautiful and futuristic iOS third party client for Mastodon, Misskey, Bluesky, and Nostr. Gallery mode, video reel, local ML powered For You feed keeps your timeline interesting!
China News: China has commenced construction of a major dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet, near the Indian border, with Premier Li Qiang present at the ground
China is only concerned about China. If they can profit from dehydrating India, they will. They have no concern about the impact to humanity or the climate
Vibe checking someone is essentially looking how the person is (based on actions, looks) and judging them. The meme „didn’t know you were chill like that“ is the conclusion of a vibe check. Eg the person judges them to be a cool person in that case.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
I like how Internet culture and slang now belongs to multiple generations, because I remember when age was far more linguistically encoded online and it was less interesting than what I see more of now, where in most anonymous social contexts the only indicator of anyone’s age is their perspective on life. Still, there’s the occasional freebie. In this comment chain for example I would have guessed the ages ranged from 26 to 42 until someone felt unfairly dated by the beach boys lol. Age is just a number. I’m glad you’re here.
Its like saying “these comments are something else”. In and of itself its a neutral statement that can be taken as a sarcastic negative or a positive. Usually leaning positive, but without hearing it with spoken inflection all you can do is guess
Yeah probably not. Instagram has a pretty big racism and bigotry and anti-intellectualism problem. The average user over there does not know what imperialism means, to my eyes.
156K likes, 1,814 comments - them on July 18, 2025: "When it comes to men’s social lives, former President Barack Obama agrees: If you don’t have queer friends, you’re missing out.
So I actually read the article and everything he says seems good and correct... people need to calm down and unlearn this cynical desire to mock, be self-righteous, and hate. That's what fascists want people to do.
By Ayah El-Khaldi Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:
“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
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By Ayah El-Khaldi Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:
“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.
By Ayah El-Khaldi Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:
“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their i
By Ayah El-Khaldi Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:
“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
By Ayah El-Khaldi Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:
“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.
Not really, because while the Boravians WANTED to kill all the Jarhanpurians, and were ordered to kill all the Jarhanpurians, they were actively prevented from doing so.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
I was raised Catholic, but it's been a long time since I've done a confession, I've been an atheist since before I knew there was a word for it and so I haven't set foot in a church in decades except for weddings and funerals.
But I'm not entirely clear on how this sort of reporting would be supposed to work
There's usually some sort of screen between the priest and the person making confession, so you can't really get a good look at someone to identify them. I'm sure there's some cases where a priest might be able to identify a regular regular parishioner by voice, but that feels like kind of flimsy evidence. And if someone goes to confession at a different church, or just doesn't attend or interact with the priest one-on-one regularly, then there's basically nothing to go on. Are they going to launch an investigation into half the Catholics in town to determine which one of them might be a child molester?
I suppose the priest could get up and try to chase the person out of the church to get a good look at them, but thinking back to the fat old guys who were the
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I was raised Catholic, but it's been a long time since I've done a confession, I've been an atheist since before I knew there was a word for it and so I haven't set foot in a church in decades except for weddings and funerals.
But I'm not entirely clear on how this sort of reporting would be supposed to work
There's usually some sort of screen between the priest and the person making confession, so you can't really get a good look at someone to identify them. I'm sure there's some cases where a priest might be able to identify a regular regular parishioner by voice, but that feels like kind of flimsy evidence. And if someone goes to confession at a different church, or just doesn't attend or interact with the priest one-on-one regularly, then there's basically nothing to go on. Are they going to launch an investigation into half the Catholics in town to determine which one of them might be a child molester?
I suppose the priest could get up and try to chase the person out of the church to get a good look at them, but thinking back to the fat old guys who were the priests at the churches I went to growing up, I'm pretty sure I could be out the door and in my car speeding away before the priest managed to stand up in his booth to try to follow me.
If you're lucky, maybe someone waiting in line for confession could identify them, but the handful of times I went, the church was never very crowded for confession, and I doubt most of the people there were paying too much attention to who was coming and going around them.
If the church has security cameras, I suppose you could identify someone that way, it's been like 20 years so I can't remember if my church growing up had cameras or what their current situation may be. If they did, I doubt they were pointed at the confessionals of all places.
Sure, they should be required to report what they can, but I doubt there would be many cases where it would lead to anything actionable.
If a priest was embezzling money from the church then he'd be reported and files charged and attempts made to get restitution.
Only the crime of diddling children earns this top-down cover up and forgiveness. It's rage inducing.
Fuck the catholic church. It needs to be treated like a crime syndicate. And get rid of it's nation status! Why the fuck does an apartment complex get to be a whole FUCKING COUNTRY? EU needs to dismantle that ancient ghoulish institution.
Catholic priests in Washington state cannot be required to report child abuse or neglect they learn about through confession after the Trump administration intervened in their favor
as it seeks to define transgender rights and healthcare for under-18s as a form of "child abuse"
So if a Catholic priest learns through confession about a trans kid getting lifesaving healthcare, they aren't going to be required to report it.
They'll still do it. It doesn't forbid them from it, just doesn't enforce it. These shit bags will continue the status quo of hurting those they disagree with and enabling pedophiles.
Theologically, a priest breaking the seal of confession is a grave sin and warrants immediate excommunication. No priest is risking this to out someone during confession.
Not doubting the plastic they found was windblown, but I do wonder how much more is now there along the path they trekked through. Tiny particles sraped from their skis, shed from their clothing and gear...
I mean there is microplastic in the rain everywhere in the world, so i have zero reasons to believe that there isnt any in snow. Im surprised that this article makes this out as a crazy new finding when we have known for years.
I think that they are likely already considering these you mention. You can get clothing and gear that aren't made of plastic, so maybe they are doing that - the methods described on their website specifically call out using leather gloves and taking wind direction into account.
Experts warn that the dangerous ideologically driven cuts at HHS will have long-term consequences for healthcare
The Trump administration’s “war on science” appears to have entered a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent vaccine sceptic, and other agency leaders, to implement mass firings – effectively greenlighting the politicization of science.
The decision comes as Kennedy abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting of a key health care advisory panel, the US Preventive Services Task Force, earlier this month. That, combined with his recent removal of a panel of more than a dozen vaccine advisers, signals that his dismantling of the science-based policymaking at HHS is likely far from over.
“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University in a keynote talk in May to graduates of Harvard’s Scho
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Experts warn that the dangerous ideologically driven cuts at HHS will have long-term consequences for healthcare
The Trump administration’s “war on science” appears to have entered a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent vaccine sceptic, and other agency leaders, to implement mass firings – effectively greenlighting the politicization of science.
The decision comes as Kennedy abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting of a key health care advisory panel, the US Preventive Services Task Force, earlier this month. That, combined with his recent removal of a panel of more than a dozen vaccine advisers, signals that his dismantling of the science-based policymaking at HHS is likely far from over.
“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University in a keynote talk in May to graduates of Harvard’s School of Public Health.
Meanwhile... Cancer vaccine!...not to prevent but to cure the sonobabich.
Here the government is fighting the scientists and their discoveries plus they're trying to take away access to the discoveries and re routing our tax money to their own pockets plus to pay for weapons to murder children in other countries.
Its like country enshitification. They figured how to mix the DMV with AI and Nazis.
Honestly, even the DMV has improved in a lot of ways over the years and the reputation it had from the late 1900s doesn't really meet up with my experiences in more recent decades, or at least it did here in Colorado...but that's before these assholes got their hands on things.
Even with Colorado being a blue state, I'm sure the assmunch conservatives have not given up on trying to fuck those of us that didn't vote for their shitty emperor-god, even at the most local level possible.
These people are just hell bent on getting "revenge" on people unlike them trying to live their best lives. When Taco said he was their retribution, that resonates with a lot of very terrible people, and they desperately want others to suffer in all kinds of ways. These are the people that would let Taco take a dump in their mouth if they thought a liberal had to smell it.
These guys are doing a lot of damage. If the US can shake these assholes out of power, it will likely take years to even understand the extent of the damage they have done, never mind undoing all the damage.
I would not be surprised to see EU and China leapfrog us by a country mile thanks to the assfucks the stupidest people in this country voted for...I mean, cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart disease - these guys are cutting NIH funding.
And a lot of it is driven by a whole lot of stupid people wanting Taco to get "revenge" on some group of people over mostly-made-up cultural bullshit. It takes well-adjusted adults to build a working system. Any dysfunctional dumbass or even a child can tear things apart...
Even if it is voted down they need more actions like this. Republicans keep saying, "I didn't vote for that [smaller part of a bigger bill]," but if it's a simple Yes/No to release the Epstein files what can they say except some bullshit about it being "just a distraction" or "there's nothing else to release".
They have enough votes (at the moment) to force this version to get through the house via a discharge petition (way of going around the speaker). All 212 dems + 10 republicans last I saw. We'll see if the 10 republicans who've said they'd back it actually hold up on final vote since they keep folding under pressure from Trump
Even if they do, I don't know if this has the votes in the Senate / nor is it a veto-proof majority. Though Trump vetoing it would likely rile up his base more on this
Oh 100%, keeps it going and puts pressure on the representatives who are up for reelection. The base is already mad about this, and even those who may not abandon Trump on this may very well be willing to blame Republicans in congress
Plus dems for once are actually playing smart politics here. Over the past two weeks, they've been forcing votes on various versions of it. They've had 4 so far I believe. Some in various committees, some as amendments, etc. The Massie/Ro Khanna version of the bill would make it even harder to shoot down than those other votes because it would be fully stand alone and fairly well written to cover all the various other excuses raised earlier
Seems to be a way of making Bluesky style feeds with Mastodon-style services, well that's what I gather from reading the FAQ. They don't actually explain what this is anywhere.
Channel is basically a white label instance of PatchWork, which is a Mastodon fork with custom feeds and community curation tools.
The main intent behind the project is to help existing communities and organizations get onto the Fediverse, and have some curation capabilities. Ideally, it can be used to get a large amount of people and accounts onto the network with minimal friction.
ms.lane
in reply to kebab • • •Only 40%?
Probably closer to 90% here in Australia. Only the rich can afford to holiday.
paranoia
in reply to ms.lane • • •I think you are severely overestimating the amount of money needed for a holiday, or your social cohort is quite far below the average income skewing your idea of what is rich, and how many people are "rich".
Australians are pretty well paid overall and get 20 days of paid holidays a year. A quick Google says that 55% of Australians have a passport. Okay, travel from Australia is expensive, but people definitely do it every few years.
Survey from 2023 states:
The majority of Australians surveyed (85%) have been on holiday in the last five years
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More than 90% of 18-27 year olds surveyed have been on holiday in the last five years.
budgetdirect.com.au/travel-ins…
Holiday Costs Survey and Statistics 2023
Budget Directpartial_accumen
in reply to kebab • • •I don't think this is limited to just France.
We're semi-regular visitors to the wonderful nation of Canada. We've really only been to two or three places that might be off the beaten path instead visiting mostly bigger cities regularly. I really like getting in conversations with the locals wherever we go to learn about life in that particular city or region. Just recently when one local was asking where else we'd been in Canada, I rattled off a list of Canadian places we'd visited and they paused for a moment and they said "You've seen more of Canada than most Canadians." That made me sad actually, and a bit ashamed. I wasn't meaning it to rub it in, but just wanted to share how much we appreciate the natural beauty and the people of the country.
k0e3
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in reply to k0e3 • • •Outwit1294
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in reply to Outwit1294 • • •Outwit1294
in reply to iglou • • •iglou
in reply to Outwit1294 • • •Well, it's not like there was a donation campaign to finance the war in Ukraine.
A country's budget is complex and compromises have to be made. You have to deal with more than one issue. The security of Europe is important as well as the purchasing power of nationals.
Outwit1294
in reply to iglou • • •dhc
in reply to kebab • • •Read the article and started wondering what the definition of 'going on Holiday' is 🤔. There's a bit in the article that mentions that 80% of Danes leave their country for holiday and that France takes that as their goal.
Personally, I find that admirable but far from optimal. There are a lot of ways to holiday, especially in Northwest Europe.
For example:
For lack of money, I started hiking from home to where I would like to be (and back of course). Slept in a cheap tent on budget campings, in budget hotels, low-cost b&b, etc. along the way. Went to supermarkets during the day to just get regular food. (read about easy recipes that make nice food with basic ingredients; even without cooking)
Even four days of that felt more like 8 days and gave more of an actual holiday-feeling than taking a trip to a far-away location. Very personal feeling of course. And it's good to realize that there will always be some uncomfortable experiences during such a trip.
My point: there are more ways of going on holiday than taking a plane to a far-away location. An
... show moreRead the article and started wondering what the definition of 'going on Holiday' is 🤔. There's a bit in the article that mentions that 80% of Danes leave their country for holiday and that France takes that as their goal.
Personally, I find that admirable but far from optimal. There are a lot of ways to holiday, especially in Northwest Europe.
For example:
For lack of money, I started hiking from home to where I would like to be (and back of course). Slept in a cheap tent on budget campings, in budget hotels, low-cost b&b, etc. along the way. Went to supermarkets during the day to just get regular food. (read about easy recipes that make nice food with basic ingredients; even without cooking)
Even four days of that felt more like 8 days and gave more of an actual holiday-feeling than taking a trip to a far-away location. Very personal feeling of course. And it's good to realize that there will always be some uncomfortable experiences during such a trip.
My point: there are more ways of going on holiday than taking a plane to a far-away location. And there are more options than staying in hotels or resorts.
Still: it sucks that there is such a big difference between incomes and that society is such that single-traveling women don't have any guarantee of not being harassed.
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in reply to kebab • • •We have a relative living in France. His government pension is a whopping 90 € per months. That isn't even enough to pay groceries for two weeks.
France is in dire need of a revolution.
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