citizens should have right to use free public transport. Tourists and visitors should pay in order to keep transportation free for the citizens. There is a debate in Europe (where I live) about the pressure of tourism and the additional cost that tourism creates especially in housing and the cost of living. So this is one way to migirate the problem of cost of living.

1. Public transport should be free for all the citizens and paid for tourists visitors.
2. Citizens should get a free pass card and tourist a top up card.
3. An open source web app should be available with lines and timetables, and everything should be anonymized.
4. Public transport should be funded from fuel taxes, car registration taxes and rich people

I feel so sorry about the continuing decline of the USA political system to an actual autocratic fascist regime

A hobby pays itself just by enjoying it. I’ve never calculated how long it will take to pay off my gaming rig

Even with the high prices you can still build a decent AM4 based PC and play titles bought on GOG which is DRM free. If you install Linux you all get one of the best is for free. If you want to go further you can emulate the heck of old consoles and old PC games and have tons of fun. You could also sail the high seas for content that has DRM and/or is very expensive. Don’t forget. If you don’t own what you buy the piracy is ethical and justified. After akk, piracy is mostly a service problem and when you enshitify a service you end up FAFO.

“A major significant issue is debt financing. Since the wars launched after 11 September 2001, the United States has relied heavily on borrowing rather than taxation to finance military operations. For this reason, some refer to the post-2001 wars as ‘credit card wars’”.

Imagine conducting wars against other countries by borrowing money from other countries to conduct them. Its gonna be fun when the debt comes due…

too little, too late

What platform are you gaming on?

I would suggest The legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.

Even if you hate Shitendo (like I am) there are ways to play it on other platforms

If they can tax your house based on its current valuation, they can sure tax their stocks based on their current fucking valuations.

Excuse my French, they are not my native language.

Nor are English.

As a European,

It will take a lot more than these, along with plenty of time and pain, to regain the trust of the rest if the world.

Mostly it will require a turn, in behalf of the USA, to a functioning democracy, with checks and balances, a functioning senate and house of representatives, a functioning justice, a functioning administration, a working economy, fair trade and so on.

I m not very optimistic that the USA will do it in my lifetime if ever.

This. Either UK joins with the same rules as everyone else. No opt outs, no sterilng, or they should stay as they are and not join at all.
I wouldn’t want my grandchildren face the same shitshow I did.

If you don’t own what you pay for, then pirating is not unethical. Period.

Oil Refineries in the US can only refine heavy crude. The light crude coming from US fracking is exported. Building new refineries would cost billions and take years to complete.

A straight jacket might help him with an allover compression!

You’re doing the lords work my dude. There are not enough ways to thank you for your work

If anyone wants privacy while maintaing a smart home, then Home Assistant is the solution. Its not adopted widely because it has a learning curve and it needs a bit (or a lot) poking around to make it work. It also has a voice assistant that is not AI powered ( but it could be supplemented by a local LLM if you really want to). A big rabit hole if anyone is interested to go to.

This is Giorgos Mazonakis, a Greek pop singer

Midgard maybe?