The one child policy was tried. It was a disaster.

The real question is why you would possibly think it’s a good idea to try.

Downvote for cropping out the artist name.

They’re not getting traffic to their site by us rehosting the image - all they ask is that their image is unedited to highlight credit. It’s not much to ask.

(Edit:

Actually, I see removing watermarks is like part of your ethos of hating people getting credit for their work or something… So I’m just gonna block you. Life’s too short. Byeeee.)

Love seeing Clone High memes in the wild.

Was just reminiscing the theme song a couple days back.

Totally.

I get some people having a brief shower in the morning to ‘wake themselves up’, also.

You’re being pedantic.

There are multiple types of de-banking. One explicitly applie:

“Debanking refers to the practice by financial institutions of declining or limiting financial services to businesses across whole sectors if they are assessed as having a higher money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risk.”

Arguing semantics is kinda pointless when the message is that wealth needs to be distributed far better.

Nobody at Occupy was protesting that just the billionaires need to be taxed much more and the ten-millionaires* should stay just as-is.

*The top 1% in the USA have roughly $12 million USD net assets as of 2025. That is far more than they need to live a very comfortable life with many luxuries.

Actually, for the wealthy it does.

Trump has been very wealthy since birth. The wealthy do not have bank accounts like your average wageslave like me, where their salary gets deposited regularly and they earn interest and make withdrawls - and perhaps have an attached home loan account, etc. We earn interest in high income accounts or term deposits and then pay tax on that earning - like suckers.

The wealthy use an entirely different model that focuses on using debt as its main tool.

Their assets including real estate, share portfolios, stock options and even expensive artwork are ‘good debt’, they perhaps don’t own them fully (they may be mortgaged, loan-backed or options, etc) but they’re assets that continue to grow in value over the medium term. If they sell them or divest them for real cash it becomes income that they must pay tax on. The wealthy hate paying tax. Solution: use the assets as collateral for loans and credit lines. This is how Trump lives like a king while (previously) not having much liquid cash, and also how Elon and most ultrawealthg do it - their entire personal spending is on credit accounts - debt - and by writing as much of it off as businesses expenses (meals, travel, security, etc) it all becomes tax deductable as well.

This is the same reason a lot of business executives request most of their payment packages as stock or options - it reduces their taxable income and builds their real wealth substantially. If they want a property: mortgage against their stock & option collateral. If they need money: bank credit line with their assets as collateral.

So when banks say to a member of the 1% such as Trump “we cannot give you a loan account, your collateral/outstanding loans at other fiancial institutions/criminal associates/track record is too risky for us”, that means he cannot use that bank and must look elsewhere. He is debanked by them for his purposes.

Trump has been debanked since the late 90s by almost all US banks, because when you bankrupt two casinos and frequently spend time with mobsters they considered loans to you “high risk” for some reason.

He’s been getting loans via Europe (mostly Deutschbank… which is also Putin’s bank of choice), and Russia, for 30 years.

That is, until he won the lottery by convincing the stupidest people alive to vote him into the highest seat of power.

So now it’s payback time against all the banks he thinks wronged him.

I love and use LibreOffice, but I do find Calc much harder to work with than Excel. PivotTables, sortable lists with locked headings and sort-buttons, even simply setting print area were all harder for me to get used to and implement on Calc than Excel.

I persist because I like the goal of FOSS, and it’s “good enough” for my usage, I can definitely understand when people show frustrations - especially power users that have worked with MS Office for decades.

If there’s an action, there’s a reaction.

Sort of like how when people outsource all their critical thinking to AI, their ability for critical thinking atrophies?

Thanks, I appreciate the clarification. I misread as Bitwarden.

Vaultwarden sounds like it resolves any concerns had about Bitwarden.

Yeah i totally did. My bad.

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Ah yes, I absolutely did.

My bad.

(Edit - I misread as Bitwarden and went off on the wrong tangent. Vaultwarden is not centralized, and it’s FOSS - my bad.)

The person you’re replying to already gave you one: it’s free.

Second: its not a prime target for attack like centralized, hosted webservices are. See: LastPass being cracked and people’s login data stolen… Twice.

Yes, it is cryptographically superior to LastPass, and attempts to design around their flaws - but the threat still exists because its a very tasty target on the open internet for cybercrime.

My little Keepass DB synched over personal VPN by Syncthing? Much harder to find a vector for attack. But it does require more moving parts and maintenance.

Each have their pros and cons.

Pretty defensive there. It’s not even a study

Sir, this is a Lemmy.ml thread.

Reasonable, considered responses are not welcome here.

Don’t be logical. You’re supposed to cry fascist and hurl slippery-slope fallacies like this is the Reichstag Fire.

100% agree.

P. S. Keep the downvotes coming. You only prove the point of the post with your toxicity.

Yep. I get stuck in analysis paralysis too. Like the price of GPUs in particular it’s been hard to time a ‘good time to buy’ a major upgrade in the last decade because there’s being something driving price cycles artificially multiple time and for extended periods.

Well, the main upgrades needed are CPU and GPU for gaming, which is definitely subpar on recent games.

Linux is definitely part of the plan though, but my impediment is laziness (same reason the PC upgrade was delayed).