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dwazou@lemm.eeto
Europe@feddit.org•British workers among saddest and most disengaged in EuropeEnglish
244·1 year agoThis is the logical outcome of two things.
1. Their silly campaign finance rules. British campaign finance laws are literally the worst in the Western world, only after the United States. It’s just embarassing.
2. Their First-Past-The-Post voting system. It is a voting system that is designed to create a 2-party duopoly on power.
Show me the incentives of any political system. I will show you the outcome.
Look the recent British elections. Keir Starmer won 65% of seats in Parliament with only 35% of votes. It’s his country now. He can do whatever he wants for 5 years. Greens, SNP or Reform received millions of votes. They get very few seats.
Under the Danish voting system, here is what would happen in Britain.
The Reform Party would tell Starmer : “You don’t have a majority Keir. We can allow you to form a government. But in exchange, we want to reduce immigration. And we want a law banning cousin marriage. Do we have a deal ?”
The Green Party would tell Starmer : “You don’t have a majority Keir. We can allow you to form a government. But in exchange, we want to nationalize water companies. And we a law banning all gambling ads. Do we have a deal?”
This is how it works in Denmark. I feel the overall result is just better.
dwazou@lemm.eeto
Europe@feddit.org•British workers among saddest and most disengaged in EuropeEnglish
56·1 year agoThis is not surprising at all.
I was recently reading an article in the French newspaper Le Monde.
In Britain, corporations are increasingly using a special system called zero-hour contracts.
These contracts are designed to offer maximum flexibility for business owners, in order to reduce his risks. The employee is guaranteed nothing and must always be available.
« They send my hours on Sunday, but nothing is sure. Sometimes, they cancel the same day » says Yana Petticrew, a young Glasgow Scottish worker who has been on zero-hour contracts for nearly 10 years. « Life is hard. I can’t even plan a meeting with my friends next week, because my boss could call me at any time » Yana says. She can’t refuse, or her boss will get rid of her.
Labor unions say workers on zero hour contracts earn on average less than those who are not. In 2010, 168 000 british workers were on zero hour contracts. In 2024, 1.1 million british workers were on zero hour contracts.
Here is another things that stuns me. I learned that in Britain, employees have no boardroom representation. In France, all companies publically listed on the stock market are legally required to have union representatives on the board of directors.
For instance LVMH :
https://www.lvmh.com/en/our-group/governance
Why can’t british employee have board representatives?!
The UK system is rotten. Brits need to fight for change. They deserve so much better.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump signs order to ramp up US deep-sea miningEnglish
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump signs order to ramp up US deep-sea miningEnglish
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World News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk makes stunning claim after Tesla profits plummet: 'If the ship of America goes down, Tesla will go with it'English
2·1 year agoUnfortunately, there are millions of dumb people who are still kissing his ass.
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World News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk makes stunning claim after Tesla profits plummet: 'If the ship of America goes down, Tesla will go with it'English
100·1 year agoGetting really tired of these super-rich motherfuckers claiming they are victims of society
dwazou@lemm.eeto
Europe@feddit.org•Novartis and Sanofi call for higher drug prices in EuropeEnglish
13·1 year agoWhen two wolves band together to offert you a piece of advice on the path you should follow in the woods, you should immediately become suspicious that something is not quite right
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World News@lemmy.world•British brothers worth $9bn quit UK as wealth exodus growsEnglish
8·1 year agoThey own the following :
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Atlas Hotels, a hotel real estate and operating company with 46 hotels across the UK
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David Lloyd Leisure, a gym and health club company with 85 locations across the UK and Europe
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London Hilton on Park Lane
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The Trafalgar St. James London
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The Lensbury
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The Panama Pacifico, a US$700 million mini-city on the banks of the Panama Canal[3]
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General Healthcare Group, the UK’s leading private health provider with 67 hospitals
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90 private care homes
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Crowne Plaza hotel in Cambridge
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The Empire, Leicester Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_%26_Regional_Properties
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dwazou@lemm.eeOPto
Europe@feddit.org•Two years ago, France prevented american economist Fiona Scott Morton from getting a top EU competition job. She was furious.English
13·1 year agoThe EU dodged a bullet.
dwazou@lemm.eeOPto
Europe@feddit.org•Tesla car sales in key European markets drop again in MarchEnglish
8·1 year agoThank you. To be fair, Reuters changed the title.
dwazou@lemm.eeto
Europe@feddit.org•Marine Le Pen found guilty in EU funding embezzlement caseEnglish
24·1 year agoI’m super grateful to President Francois Hollande for introducing that law banning politicians found guilty of corruption from ever running again 🙏.
Francois Hollande gets a lot of shit, but he did good things.
dwazou@lemm.eeBanned from communityto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump says 'there will be bombing' if Iran does not make nuclear dealEnglish
65·1 year agoWho would trust a deal with Donald Trump?
Mexico and Canada signed a huge trade deal with him in 2018, during his first term.
Trump signs new trade pact with Canada, Mexico leaders
“It’s been long and hard. We’ve taken a lot of barbs and a little abuse, but we got there” Trump said
👉 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/trump-signs-new-trade-pact-with-canada-mexico-leaders
👉 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46402977
Trump is reelected and suddenly he throws away everything he signed.
Who would trust this man? The Iranian leaders are less crazy than him.
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World News@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
37·1 year agoThe american elite managed to convince ordinary americans that evil foreigners are to blame for all their problems. This is something you notice if you follow US media.
They are just whining about how China, Europe, Mexico, Canada, the World Health Organization has been super unfair to them. Even Africa is blamed !
It’s complete non-sense.
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Lack of healthcare : Barack Obama tried a small improvement with his Affordable Healthcare Act. He faced unprecedented hatred. People accused him of being “radical communist”. He had to beg Congress members to pass the bill.
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Drugs : One criminal family, the Sacklers, bribed doctors and dentists to overprescribe oxicotyn. The FDA didn’t act until it was too late. The result was an unprecedented opioid crisis that quickly turned into a heroin crisis. Prosecutors refuse to prosecute the Sackler family.
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Bad infrastructure : George W. Bush spent $1 trillion dollar on the Irak war. Okay. What exactly did he get in return…? Are americans better off? Are Irakis better off? Contractors just swallowed the cash. China used their money to build a world class high speed train network.
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Gun violence : Well, they sell guns like candies. Any 18 year old psycho can easily purchase a gun and shoot up the local school or movie theater.
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Lack of affordable housing : American zoning rules prevent high density housing from being built. Look at San Francisco or LA. Individual houses but people are struggling to get a roof over their head.
Their problems are all caused by americans.
But unfortunately, many of them now think the rest of the world is to blame.
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dwazou@lemm.eeto
Europe@feddit.org•Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against TrumpEnglish
1·1 year ago3 simple things that everyone can do.
1. Use Mozilla Firefox as your default browser
Avoid Google Chrome, Apple Safari or Microsoft Edge.
Mozilla Firefox is an amazing open source, privacy-focused and secure browser.
2. Don’t give your data to facebook
Why are you telling Meta your gender, your date of birth, or the city where you live ?
Facebook doesn’t need to know any that. The more information they have about you, the more money they make. If you still use facebook, go to your profile right now. Delete these informations. It takes 30 seconds.
Remember to also visit Facebook privacy settings. So many don’t do that.
https://accountscenter.facebook.com/ads
Do not allow “personalized advertising”
3- Install the uBlock extension
uBlock is an incredibly powerful Firefox extension
It is designed to block invisible advertising trackers that gather data about you. But it also eliminates a significant number of ads. That makes browsing the internet significantly faster.
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This is super basic stuff. It takes 2 minutes.
I have actually gone a lot further. But I wish more people did the basic stuff.







The Amazon Forest is getting deforested to create giant soja fields. These soja fields are used to feed cattle.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53438680
The simplest thing everyone can do is simply eat less red meat.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2024/lowered-red-meat-intake-would-hit-climate-goals
https://sph.tulane.edu/climate-and-food-environmental-impact-beef-consumption
The people obsessed about eating red meat are young MAGA american guys. They make eating red meat as part of their core identity. Well, I’m not.