With the exception of oral instead of written exams and the three year reduction for citizenship, I think the rest is already in place in the UK. Germany has traditionally had more stringent requirements especially when it comes to dual citizenship (which was only allowed for other EU countries).

I use Google Play Music and it’s been pretty good. Haven’t noticed any shenanigans, no ads or anything of the sort.

If they were to apply to rejoin, as well as joining the Schengen and the euro, I’d want them to have a minimum 60% in favour in a referendum (not just in the polls). Something like a membership of the EU, a political project, requires strong public support.

If junior doctors are paid so badly wouldn’t a better response to this be to quit and do something else or move to a different country? You help yourself and eventually the NHS has to realise that only paying a gazillion bureaucrats whilst having too few and too badly paid doctors isn’t going to work out. To be fair this is already happening, many doctors have left and we have 22 month waiting times… Time is approaching where NHS, the huge bureaucratic behemoth, is dismantled and replaced with something better.

We really don’t have disdain for the Americans. Most Americans I’ve met have been great.

Oh wow. After reading the announcement I’m glad they got defederated.

Never heard of Hexbear (kind of new around here). Why were they defederated? I’m actually on Lemmy World.

Cool, thanks for the explanation. TIL

I see yeah indeed that works! Although it looks like it only shows a subset of all votes.

Yeah indeed strategic ambiguity has been the approach they’ve taken so far. If they decided to they could change the approach though. I think it’s unlikely China would carry out the threat if a formal alliance was actually announced since in that case they’d be starting a world war. I think it’s more likely they’d express outrage, protest and perhaps fly some fighter jets over Taiwan, take some steps short of actual war. My worry is that if the situation remains ambiguous China might conclude that the security guarantees are not real and that US would not respond. Having strong credibility there is essential for maintaining peace I think, especially if the intention is to actually respond.

Yeah agree I am not sure that’s a feature I’d want either tbh if it wasn’t already there. But seems like it is in some form.

Ahhh right so the information is there publicly available just not in the existing clients. Interesting.

Sure I agree when it comes to admitting them to the EU. NATO is only a military defence alliance though. If they’d been in NATO this war would never have happened.

I did this. I didn’t initially realize there is such a thing as instances (I thought I was joining Lemmy). Came from Reddit so didn’t expect this. Now I only use my Lemmy.world account, the other one is doing nothing (should probably get around deleting it at some point).

Outright lying about the numbers is very different from just not allowing downvotes though.

Sometimes I think driving licenses should require regular revalidation in the form of a driving retest. People acquire bad habits and begin to ignore rules, people age as in this case and their abilities are no longer up to the standard they were when they got the license. Doing this every 5 years and maybe reducing it to every 2 years once over 70 or some such.

Yeah it would require congressional approval. But that’s not beyond the realm of possibility as there is bipartisan support for Taiwan in the Congress.

I’m doubtful that it would trigger a major conflict. More likely China would express public outrage but not do anything about it. But it has to be done swiftly so they don’t have time to react before it’s in force.

If we’re really learning from mistakes in Ukraine then Taiwan should be recognised as an independent country and admitted into a formal alliance. Not admitting Ukraine into NATO was the mistake we made there and it’s being repeated in Taiwan.

This has been the exact same story for decades. Linux is great for certain professional endeavours/for work, but it doesn’t really have the ecosystem for gaming that exists on Windows. You can run Linux from inside Windows if you just need a few applications. But sadly, beyond a few publishers who make their games Linux compatible, if you want to game without hassle then Windows is your best bet.