So?

Religion is a choice, an unverifiable one at that. There is no reason that such a choice should grant special privileges that someone non-religious, or of another religion would not be granted. Each such request must stand on its own merit.

In Europe the concept of freedom from religion is something that many different cultures have fought hard for - secularism.

Daily reminder that religion ≠ race

Yep, that would be ideal. In areas with sufficient population density to support public transit, you facilitate connections with other modes of transportation.

Hi and apologies for the late reply - /c/world@lemmy.world moderator @jordanlund@lemmy.world removed my comment and gave me a temporary ban for the comment you replied to citing that it was "Pro-Israel propaganda".

First off, thank you for posting this link - and no, I'm not interested in discussing them. My point was that users should be held to a higher standard when posting as moderators than the rest of us.

I will however give a comment on the contents of the cited webpage. I read through the statements from decision makers (These seemed most relevant), and they did (in my personal view) not amount to intent. However, as law4palestine highlights:

The ultimate adjudication of this matter is contingent upon the determination of a competent court.

Personally, I want to see a full investigation by the ICJ conducted, and if they do end up with an indictment, those responsible brought to justice.

Yeah, the way we do this in Sweden is pretty decent. There's no minimum wage, but if you are unemployed you (A) have access to unemployment for a few months via your unions income insurance, and (B) if unemployed for a long time & do not have the means to otherwise support yourself will qualify for a basic subsistence support from your municipality along with housing benefits - on the condition that you keep looking for a job (if you aren't disabled).

First off, I'd argue that there are vanishingly few truly unskilled jobs - merely that the entry barrier to them are so low that most fully able adults can pick them up in a short amount of time.

I ran into this exact topic roughly half a year ago - so here's a somewhat rewritten version of what I wrote up, specifically about the skills of company executives - a group which CEOs are a part of.

So, executives. There is no ‘exact’ skill set specific to executives, as there are many types. There are however skills and traits that many have in common that are useful.

I’ll split them into three vague groups.- “politicians”, managers and industry experts.

The first category are social power players more than anything getting into their position due to connections and charisma. Their importance is playing the loyalties of other people - widely considered the most useless execs, even in business circles. If they’d be categorized by “skillset”, it’d be people skills (leadership) and connections to important people.

Managerial executives are usually focused on economy (i.e resource management) and the running of an organization. They’ll often have both experience and academic knowledge of organizational structures, asset management and economics, helping their organization (at least on paper) make the most of their resources. They can be good at their job, but if they get too focused on the “on paper” economics they fall into the category of “greedy, money grabbing fucks who ruin everything they touch”.

The last and (in my mind) best category are the industry experts. Often they’ll have come from within a company or organization and have in-depth knowledge of how things work and what is “important” in a business. These sorts are the “boring” ones we don’t hear much about, often having started their a business and grown it, or climbed the ranks from within and sat in leadership for decades. On the flip side they’ll have opinions without any obvious basis, “This is just how it is done”, which is in many cases important, but in others pure BS.

In all three categories you’ll find execs who are good and bad in different ways and also offend your sensibilities in different ways.

If certain jobs aren't valuable enough to pay a living wage, then maybe they should be done by robots instead of humans.

A very interesting thing to consider here (looking at the upper graph) is interoperability between car journeys and public transit.

Closing larger cities off to private vehicles essentially means closing them off from people living in less populated areas. As a person in this category, I'd love to be able to conveniently switch from car to public transit once I reach areas where that is feasible.

I used to do that for a while, but recently they added parking fees at our commuter station, and thus it really isn't possible to justify the huge loss of time and flexibility that public transit represents.

Honestly, it sucks. I've been increasingly falling back on regular SMS, because a lot of people seem to prefer cutting me off to the slight effort of a different communication medium. I was thinking that everyone has a phone, but there's a lot of resistance to using it in my age group.

If crimes are being committed disproportionately by expats, we should look at the economic situation of those committing crimes vs other demographics, as there is a large crossover.

So that leads us to the question, is it expats commuting more crime or is it poor people committing more crime as expats are generally also in the poorest section of a society.

Sweden has amongst the most generous welfare systems in Europe and the world. If higher crime rates amongst migrants was caused by economic poverty, Sweden should have lower crime rates in these groups than other countries. However, this does not seem to be the case.

Of course they do - only thing is, doing that in war generally makes you a combat participant and voids whatever rights you had as a non-combatant.

It certainly doesn't. Google (and most other search engines) modifies your search results based on account history (if you are logged in), fingerprinting of your browser, cookies (including 3rd party) as well as the general location of your IP address. The last part you can try out for yourself with a VPN -you'll get different results for the same search query from different countries.

This is usually why I prefer direct links to source my statements.

Given that you have posted this comment and distinguished it by speaking as a mod, would you please cite external sources for the following claims in it:

• Israel is executing (this implies intent, so there needs to be proof that it is deliberate) civilians and aid workers, who furthermore are innocent (i.e not combatory participants in any way).

• Israel is factually recognized to be comitting a genocide (using the UN definition here as laid out in article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide). Remember, this includes proof of "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" as well.

I apologize if this comment seems confrontative, but as a moderator of another community on lemmy I feel thay we need to be held to a higher standard than the rest of our community members, particularly when using the "speak as moderator" feature, and particularly in a community such as world news, which (I hope) wants to have a basis in objectivity.

If you can not, or do not want to cite sources, I would very much appreciate keeping non-sourced controversial statements out of featured posts and "speak as moderator" comments. Simply making a second non-moderator comment and putting those statements there would suffice.

Thank you.

Yeah he was much better a while back. Though that can be said for most of youtube. The algo messes up everything

Oh yeah bfme is a real gem

It's a case of efficiency. Stalls and urinals take less space than single occupancy bathrooms - which translates into smaller buildings costing less money to build, maintain, heat, a lower impact on climate and also allowing a higher efficiency usage of land.

Besides, most places that have stalls also have at least one large gender neutral single occupancy bathroom with extra features such as a baby station and disability adaptations.

Unless there suddenly becomes a huge demand for gender neutral bathrooms, I don't see why that additional bathroom wouldn't be sufficient to serve people who can't use the regular bathrooms.

Engineering student in Sweden.

There are archaeological finds of buildings from more than 9000 years ago (oldest in the region).

There's a church that was finished sometime during the 1200s and is preserved in its original form in the municipality, but technically it's not within town limits.

The main church was also initially built around that time but was rebuilt in the late 1700s - nothing of the original remains.

The cellar of a royal farm still remains, which was built in 1552, though it's more a ruin than a building.

A castle/royal manor was built in 1652, and although it has been renovated and expanded in the early 1700s, parts of the structure are still from the original.

So, I suppose it depends on what you're looking for.

You know... that actually doesn't seem that bad when you consider that the global GDP was 90T in 2022 - assuming linear scaling, sequestering the entire global carbon footprint would take 30% of global GDP.

Assuming that the economy grows (let's say 3%/yr) with lower carbon intensity (i.e we do some of the other things on the climate change bucket list) and manage to prevent emissions from growing, the global GDP surplus by 2030 would cover sequestering the costs for capturing all global emissions.

Now that's just napkin maths - and carbon capture is terribly inefficient and seems like an upper bound of cost. So, now consider how much less it might cost if we use efficient methods: Renewables, nuclear, HVACs, hydrogen steel, co2-binding concrete etc etc.

Eh, just a thought.

If it sounds too good to be true - it probably is.