They could have done it because of his name, but just not admitted it, or given no reason at all. Systemic racism is hard to prove, which means it can be remarkably persistent
It is straight from the neoliberal privatisation playbook. Defund public infrastructure until the public complains, then "fix it" by privatising it
I doubt that the masks had anything to do with it. If someone reacts so violently to being asked to adjust their mask, they will react violently to practically anything.
This is a threat, not capitulation
Europe is a sacrifice the USA is prepared to make
Somewhere out there is some very nice animated graphs showing just how big a billionaires wealth is. It's still too big to be properly comprehended...
Consider getting your own domain. That way you own your own name, but you can swap email providers behind the scenes
And also raise the minimum age for serving in the armed forces to 25?
Do we actually care about "beating" Reddit? As long as a friendly & knowledgeable community exists on Lemmy, do we really care about also being the largest?
Mastodon has a feature that allows you to migrate from one instance to another within Mastodon. Lemmy does not, and I think this is an important feature to have
Australia has bad wealth inequality and does have a parasitic billionaire problem.
We need to shrink the legal maximum vehicle width