A sex worker can find someone who ensures their safety and pay them to do so

That’s not a pimp, that’s a bodyguard.

Happy Rudel noises

Very specific reasons

It’s more like where do future investments flow to.

Bester Journalist? Bei Weitem nicht. Er ist in der Regel ziemlich einseitig und außerdem 100% auf Linie mit Qatar‘s Regierung. Seine Art sehr laut und aggressiv rumzubrüllen ist auch kein Zeichen eines guten Journalisten.

What’s questionable about Ladybird?

The left has been busy to expand and redefine racism instead of focusing on class solidarity.

It’s similar to stages of grief like denial, bargaining, acceptance.

I know two Venezuelans. Both of them left because of the Chavez/Maduro government‘s mismanagement of the economy and oppression of the opposition. Neither of them is well off or well connected, so they left the country to make a living.

When Trump started his intervention, both of them said „Trump can take the oil, I don’t care, as long the government finally changes“.

Becoming a US territory like Puerto Rico would improve the lives of most Venezuelans pretty noticeably.

It’s a place they are kind of accepted.

Most of the time people spend on Warhammer for example is spent alone painting little figurines or reading lore. The social part of actually playing games is a minor part of this hobby.

Opposition to the plans is what makes them deny the underlying reason.

Meal replacement drinks and powders exist. They are pretty much that.

The main reasons to not buy an electric vehicle are higher initial costs, range, and charging infrastructure. The first can be tackled by lower or no tax to buy, the last by public investment and good regulation.

Charging stations across the EU should have been standardized, also with regards to payment a decade ago already. Or make it mandatory to build charging ports in parking and garages.

European car makers had decent electric vehicles early on like the BMW i3 and Citroën Zero. Consumers weren’t buying them was the big hurdle.

Of course manufacturers also didn’t want to be their own competitors and didn’t push their electric cars. Lots of inertia and lazyness in the industry.

Tesla was the iPhone to the industry‘s Nokia. BYD is the cheap android smartphone.

Norway had a high number of electric vehicles early on. The rest of Europe failed to copy them.

Europe has dropped the ball in lots of areas for decades. We have lots of smart and highly educated people, even some excellent research. However there’s a failure to execute and turn it into successful businesses.

Allowing profitable projects might immediately lead to a cheap Chinese clones making all the money.

To evade tracking dots buy a used printer with cash.

The main problem why people deny climate change is fear of high costs and resistance to change. Many climate policies like C02 tax and similar have lead to higher costs for most people. Other climate change policies invalidate many business models and endanger whole industries. Combustion engine cars don’t just create jobs at manufacturers, but also mechanic shops, gas stations, accessories, etc. Owners are afraid to lose profits and workers are afraid to lose their income. So resisting change makes economic sense for them.

Electric car mandates aren’t necessary. Just make them cheaper to buy, and create incentives to build charging infrastructure. They are cheaper to operate anyway, only need to be more convenient.

The state financing parties is pretty valid and is practiced in many countries.

For example in Germany parties get paid around 1 € per vote received in elections.

millions in assets

Rich people and corporations will always be able to use their money to influence politics towards their interests.

Influencing politics works in other ways besides direct donations. The rich can put money into:

• media
• interest groups
• education
• studies
• events
• scholarships
• NGOs

Influencing voters to support your desired policies works well.

Then there’s of course the promise of investments, if policies are changed to your interests. In the simplest case this is a local government changing zoning, building infrastructure, softening environmental or noise regulations in order to for an investor to build a factory. This in turn brings money, employment, and tax revenue to the local government.

Instead of direct donations, a politician can be hired to give a speech somewhere.

Or less directly, hire the politician’s child into a well paying position.

Promising a politician a well paid job for their time outside government is of course also a popular way.

Of course you can regulate all of that in various ways to make it more difficult or at least more transparent.

Sounds profitable

She stopped overeating from stress.