Kobolds with a keyboard.
Seriously. How more obvious can they possibly be? Aren’t they the ones often repeating the “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to worry about” mantra when it comes to things like police overreach and surveillance? For fuck’s sake.
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Apple is preoccupied with making everything smaller; McDonald’s, meanwhile, went the complete opposite direction with the Big Mac.
Sorry, maybe poorly worded. “Browsing experience” maybe. It’s a separate app you install, not just a directory you visit on the web, was what I was getting at, so there’s a lot bigger of a barrier to adoption than something like subscribing to someone’s Mastodon feed and getting their recommendations.
Yeah, if it was possible for anyone to create and maintain a library, and the user could ‘subscribe’ to the libraries they wanted to use, that would make it a more useful project, IMO. The concept is interesting, but this is a whole separate, independent browser, not a Mastodon feed. I wouldn’t want to commit to being beholden to one person’s idea of what should and shouldn’t be included, and I think you’d have a difficult time finding too many people who did.
In that case, how are undesirable sites being identified and weeded out (e.g. scams, propaganda, misinformation, etc.) - is that just based on your (or your team’s) opinions and (hopefully) research? If so, how does this not just become a reflection of your views and opinions, rather than an objective list?
How is the ODC created and maintained? That is to say, how do websites get added to the list, who decides when they’re removed or how they’re ordered, etc.?
That’s not what they meant; they’re saying that US politicians prioritize Israel and the Epstein class before US citizens.
It’s more like you have a million apples, and there’s a whole town with 1 apple each who’re starving. It doesn’t matter how you got those apples, that town should storm your house and take them, because you don’t need them and the fact that you’re hoarding them at all is an indication that you shouldn’t be allowed to make that decision.
Yeah, having a measure, and then separate initiatives against that measure, on the same ballot should honestly be illegal. “Do you want to do this thing?” and “Do you want to prevent this thing from being done, now and in the future?” have no place being voted on at the same time.
If the ballot had simply said “Do you want to tax billionaires’ wealth?”, I bet the result would have been different. There were 3 separate ballot measures, one of which needed to be voted Yes, and the other two of which needed to be voted No (as they would negate the first), they weren’t super clear, and there was a lot of propaganda getting shoved down their throats about this. I’d be willing to bet that no small amount of people supported the measure but fucked it up when they were voting.
I feel like if they’re smart, they’ll use the threat of it as ammo to get republicans to play ball with their initiatives. Put forth a bill to do something useful. It gets blocked by filibuster or veto? Great, let’s spend the next few weeks focusing on some really awkward depositions, investigations and prosecutions. Then try again. Repeat as needed until they get the hint.
In the context of sports? Because the argument is that testosterone makes boys more physically capable and therefore provides an unfair advantage in sports when they’re competing against girls. Since trans boys typically don’t have the same levels of testosterone that biological boys do (particularly in high school, where they likely aren’t getting hormone therapy or haven’t been for long), in their eyes, a trans boy competing in boys’ sports would be at a disadvantage.
As a point of interest, in some states, a girl can choose to try out for the boys’ team if they want to, but I’m not aware of anywhere with gendered teams where a boy can try out for the girls’ team.
I can at least understand the opposition argument on this one (unlike most other anti-trans initiatives). To them, a trans girl in highschool is just a boy who decided to call themself a girl. They don’t understand what would make someone want to do that - they just see the surface level, and that logically resolves to ‘A boy can say they’re trans to compete against girls’. I can see where they’d object to that. And purely from a competitiveness standpoint, one could argue that a trans girl who hasn’t started any hormone therapy or anything of the sort is, in effect, as physically capable as her male classmates.
And, yes - a boy who just wanted to appear to perform better at sports could in theory do that. It’s just that reasonable people tend not to want to pass legislation against an entire class of people because of the potential for a few bad actors. It’s like banning N95 masks because someone could wear one to hide their face during a robbery.
“Is your person a top?”
“Are they into the same kinks I am?”
“Do they like to cuddle?”
“Can I have their number?”
I really hope it happens while he’s still alive. It’s petty, but I want him to die knowing none of his stupid monuments to himself will survive him. For some reason, being remembered seems to be really important to him, and I hope we can take that away just like he’s taken so much from the country.
Or they’re uninformed, have been inundated by propaganda by social media algorithms and billionaire-owned news outlets, and don’t understand what they’re actually voting for.
Hey, I understand the sentiment. I do. But we’re seeing, right now, the most decisive win the left has had in a very long time. It’s okay to be optimistic, just for a little while. Honestly, it’s getting very tiring having the first thing I see on almost all topics about this be something negative. Just be happy we got to where we are, and leave the negativity on hold for if it turns out to be warranted. It isn’t solving any problems now, and it’s just bad for everyone’s mental state.
They have lengthy recesses every year anyway; just move those recesses to Nov-Dec. and solve the problem that way, agreed.