Thanks, I will export and import my profile. Hopefully things will be smoother in the future, but being able to export the some of the profile is better than nothing

Thanks for answering. I will do this

Thanks! Will do this

Thanks. I wonder why this is a low priority. If the people attracted t the fediverse want decentralization and interoperability, it would make sense that many people would want to migrate from one instance to another as easily and smoothly as possible.

Thanks again for the detailed answer

Nice! Seems to be mostly in North America for now but that would be great to have continental level unions

There asking for a raise of around $428 a month too.

How do we get a global union going to stop this BS everywhere? Maybe there already is one and I am unaware of it

“The Chennai plant is Samsung’s second-largest in the country and generates nearly one-third of Samsung’s annual revenue in India, which amounts to $12 billion (€10.8 billion).”

Jesus, the plant makes nearly $4 billion annually but these workers are only paid around 300 USD a month and want increases to 428 a month within three years.

“When I tell you he’s got his own money, I mean the boy has got his own money!!!” -Mr McDowell

Also, I always appreciated how he stood up for Lisa when the king was being disrespectful

I don’t get why anyone from any company would say no. Do libertarians even believe what they say? wouldn’t libertarians run companies be happy to take govt subsidies if it was offer to them?

Homophobia unfortunately has a strong hold through most of Africa at the moment. Hopefully we will overcome it as a continent. Anyways, I wish Senegal success in curbing corruption and looting.

"The German government has said the deal does not specify the number of workers who will be allowed in. "

I think BBC edited the article after you posted this but I couldn’t find the 250000 number from the title.

In any case this is great news for both countries.

This price is impossibly cheap even compared to other Chinese built trains in other African countries. Something must be off

Makes sense! I think France, and all countries that had slave colonies, should pay back the equivalent of the profits they made from slavery with interest. It won’t take away the atrocities that were committed but it is part of justice.

More rail infrastructure in Africa is great news!

For everyone commenting about debt traps, from an African perspective both Western debt and Chinese debt (or any type of debt) favor the creditors but Chinese loans are relatively advantages because

(1) they tend to focus on infrastructure that the respective countries can use to their advantage as opposed to the WB or IMF loans which promote neoliberalism that has never worked in Africa (or really any other place) and push Africa in a position to only be able to provide raw materials and never be able to switch to value added products.

(2) They push other richer countries interested in African to invest more if they want to compete with China. The US for example has made plans to invest in African infrastructure to compete with China:

https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/03/us-plans-build-africas-infrastructure-bring-opportunities-challenges

(3) If the debtor countries default on the loan or want to renegotiate, China (at least so far) doesn’t use its intelligence agencies and military agencies to destabilize your country or force regime change

Thanks for your answer. You’re right, I was hoping to get more answers on the bigger picture change that would happen to society. Particularly since coops and credit unions are more democratic in nature, I wonder how different society would be with more direct control of how they money is managed.

Thanks for your answer!

Thanks for the answer!

You mentioned paying for everything via card or mobile. Does that mean credit unions offer no options to withdraw cash?

Also can banks permanently limit withdrawals or transfers?

Thanks!

Newbie here, can this be installed on any phone?

This awesome if its possible. The article said they would try reduce costs by closer partnerships with Google and Qualcomm but I don’t think hat will get them to reduce their prices that drastically. I hope I’m wrong though!