UrbonMaximus

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've tried telling them that China is the biggest capitalist country in the world. They didn't like that...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's the problem with using such a simplistic term to label people. I think when we say left or right it would be useful to specify which spectrum we're referring to. So if I'd try to define a "tankie", I would say that they are extreme left on the economical spectrum and extreme right on the liberty-authority spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I'm missing your point? Are you saying that polish people had German passports or that Muslim people don't have Israeli passports?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I won't argue about other people's identity, but nationality wise - if they have Israeli passport, they are Israeli in the census data.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Unfortunately the data doesn't support your thesis. child birth graph Haredi jews are having more than double births than the average Israeli Muslim.

Combined (secular etc.) Jewish birth rate is on par (slightly higher) than Israeli Muslims and Palestinians in Gaza. (This was even before all the bullshit started last year)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought the guidelines are to keep this UK specific.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Where are you getting your numbers from? Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 970,000 to 3 million. The numbers vary, but so far about 100,000 Ukrainian soldier and civilians died. This is a tragedy indeed. But please fact check next time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Liberalism is a moral philosophy based on individual rights, liberty and equality - this is universally agreed apon terminology almost everywhere apart from here on Lemmy. Here for some reason people keep referring to classical capitalism as liberals like it's a historical discussion about the economic system of the 16th-18th centuries. We should really be using neoliberalism or libertarianism instead now days, because those are new words that evolved specifically to reduce confusion and refer to similar economic ideas but in modern context.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kudos to him. But the title is misleading - he didn't build an e-bike, he built a battery pack/kit. Reading the title and looking at the picture I thought that he melted the plastic to mold it into a bike frame...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you're religious, you pay tax. If you're not, you can opt out. https://www.welcome-hub-germany.com/blog/church-tax-germany

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for sharing. Indeed no hole, but definitely refillable. I agree, It's not the most user friendly option, but still an option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrK2IhFNkqY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I've never seen a "disposable" lighter that didn't have a gas filling hole.

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