Well, that’s the federal government and these are state governments. Of course not THIS federal government, they mean the other federal government, the shadow government. You know the one that disobeys laws, kills millions of people for financial gain, covers up the pedofilia and drug problems of their membership, ignores the Constitution, and is trying to change the world for their own benefit? Well not that one, the other one that tries to keeps everything functioning, root out corruption, and write rules to try and protect people. THAT shadow government. It’s evil dontchaknow and these new laws will definitely show them that the states won’t stand for it any more!

Is your reading comprehension ok?

It takes more than 15 hours a week to raise a child properly

That’s MY point

So you agree that what you wrote in your original comment is a bullshit defense of a bullshit article?

Your apologetics is unbecoming. The article is intentionally written to promote the notion that a 40-hour work week is unbiblical, and the line you’ve cited is included to give plausible deniability to anyone who says otherwise.

If you take into account any “activity [that] is demanding, consistent and productive” most people are already “working” way more than 55 hours a week, especially if they’re a parent. To suggest otherwise is profoundly ignorant or disingenuous. This suggests an ulterior motive: begin manufacturing consent to get rid of weekly work hour limits.

Yeah, this is a very real phenomenon and it’s difficult to do anything about it sometimes. People develope an internal profile of you based on their perceptions, and anything they say about you is based on THAT, not reality. It’s even more difficult when it’s somebody close to you who’s internalized that profile so much it’s become part of who they identify as. You’ll see this with the parents of trans kids where the parent has internalized some aspect of their child and it’s become part of their identity. “I’m the father of three sons” kind of thing. Then one of the kids comes out as female and the parent has a really difficult time with it because they identified themselves as the parent of three male children and that’s turned out to be incorrect, they’re the parent of two boys and one girl and they need to change how they identify themselves in addition to how they identify their daughter. Some parents have a really REALLY hard time of it (they still gotta do it though if they don’t want to be a shitty person)

Basically, cognitive dissonance. They simply refuse to believe the truth, and make up their own fantasies in which everything is backwards from reality. It makes them feel like they have some power over their life, and/or that they’re special.

99% of the time people like this are just deeply freaked out at the idea of a cold uncaring universe with nobody in control.

That’s so fucking rage inducing, and then I read the article.

First paragraph

citing the 24-year-old’s future as a gynecologist

Holy fucking shit that’s fucking EVIL

Unfortunately this isn’t true, which is too bad because it’d be hilarious if it were.

The “everyone is female” thing doesn’t apply until the embryonic stage, weeks after fertilization, while the EO specifies “at conception” which is the germinal stage when the offspring is only a zygote. As a zygote it has no phenotypical sex, only chromosomal sex.

“Everyone is female” may be funny, but bad information doesn’t help anyone and it certainly doesn’t save trans lives.

The only unintended consequence of the EO that I can see is that anyone who’s infertile (specifically anyone who doesn’t produce sperm or eggs) as a direct result of their DNA is now legally unrecognizable by the federal government.

Steinmeier: “Elon is a threat to European democracy”

Elon: “No, you are!”

Here’s the richest man in the world, but he still can’t buy better comebacks.

You just know this is going to give Trump some serious death penalty envy.

But the disturbing thread running through all these requests is how easy it’s become for copyright trolls to leverage the DMCA to intimidate providers

I remember this issue being pointed out by the more vocal critics of the dmca when the bill was working its way through Congress. They warned that “remove first, ask questions later” would be abused by corporations in this exact manner with effectively no recourse for people who can’t afford a lawyer for every single time there victimized by a wrongful takedown request.

And here we are, decades later, and it’s been a problem this whole time.

I hate him saying “get your mind out of the gutter” as if even thinking about people who are gay is itself a perverted sexual act.

Gay people exist. Acknowledging this and discussing whether a piece of media is directed at them is not “mind in gutter” stuff.

I don’t want to go so far as to say this person is homophobic, but it sure does sound like some internalized homophobia, perhaps.

IIRC two states and several major cities have also successfully implemented rank choice, and in every case it’s been because of Democrats.

As more and more local governments make the change, it’ll become more popular and gain more support on the national level.

The problem is that any third party that manages to eventually displace a member of the duopoly immediately replaces that party in the new duopoly.

Because the duopoly is a result of First Past the Post (FPTP) voting. As long as we use FPTP the duopoly will persist, just with different parties filling the two roles.

Anything short of switching away from FPTP for some form of Rank Choice is going to be a band-aid, mere temporary relief, and not even a very good one.

The thing is that the study with the mice was seriously flawed. There’s been more research since then, which is why we’re getting this announcement now (even though the announcement itself is little more than “oh hey there might be something to this? We definitely need more research before we can know for sure.”)

I wish I had your optimism.

IMO the only thing that would get that country to revolt, to the point of creating real change, is mass starvation.

I’m a jeweler 🤷🏻‍♀️

There’s the thing about “'Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.” But then there’s it’s corollary “any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”

I’m other words, Molyneux should know better by now, and the fact that he clearly doesn’t can only come from a willful refusal to.

Well, fascists gonna fasc, regardless of which country they’re in.

Let’s not downplay the value of that photo. Stuff like that is a critical competent component for building AI systems strong enough to visually identify people under a variety of conditions. It’s the keystone to a total surveillance state, which itself is the gateway to things like the social credit system used in China.

Edit: stupid typo

I think the critical difference is “Meta pushes for changes” vs “Meta pushes for changes with the support of thousands/millions of users”.

If Meta convinces Thread users that a certain change is good for them, it’s going to be that much harder for the people developing ActivityPub to push back on those changes. And even if the developers succeed, Meta can just use that to say “fine, we’ll fork off and make our own ActivityPub with data collection and advertisements” and if enough instances in the Fediverse are reliant one Threads for engagement they may just switch to the Meta version of ActivityPub, taking a chunk of our community with them.

And maybe that’s alright for some folks, but a lot of us don’t want any of that to happen, even potentially. I think it’s pretty unethical to deliver people into the maw of the beast like that, so to speak.