If there truly was a proper party split, that'd give progressive, and non-regressive democrats room to start ousting the geriatrics and conservatives from the party, moving the whole country's political representation leftward while GOPα. and GOPß compete with each other to be the new #2 party.
Ya, this is where I stand too. I don't really like how we give special rights to animals based on whether we like them or not. We can be better than that.
It was spun out from within Twitter, initially. It was incorporated independently as a Public Benefit LLC, with Jack Dorsey on its board, intending to make Twitter into an instance of BlueSky.
It's incorrect to say "it's owned by twitter now", as it's less "owned by twitter" now than it was at its inception.
Rae's so sweet, trying to help Claire get close to Thane. It was adorable when Claire let Thane pat her head. And then really stuck the landing when it was called out that Ousama game has nothing to do with being king.
Also, I love this little tackling on the topic of homosexuality. It was great in the novels too and I'm glad they kept it in. It leads into a really raw conversation on the topic, and on Rae's own complex feelings wrt Claire.
Anyways, the practice of age verification itself I don't have a problem with, but any implementation I can conceive is full of glaring issues that render it impossible without us forfeiting our rights to anonymity and/or surrendering our data to an untrustworthy source and or just being plain unreliable to attempt to use.
If you're making less than 100k a year, and you don't have access daddy's money, you're also a "have not". Labour is all the same, and it only benefits the elites to divide ourselves amongst each other.
Any moderation or oversight is considered "abuse", even if it's a result of the instance admins completely failing in their due diligence. Really, how poorly did they moderate CSAM as to necessitate their registrar stepping in???
Smartphones are at a level of ubiquety in many societies where depending on where you live, even the poorest of individuals will have one. It's not uncommon at all to see homeless people around starbucks getting free wifi to connect online with whatever smartphone they have. It's really dependent on where you live whether a smartphone is at all correlated with wealth.
People will understand if I refer to FF in a context where we're talking about browsers. They will not understand "Fx". It'd rather be understood than """correct""".
It's always sad to see a good resource go away but it sounds like this was the right choice. Hopefully all the content there's distributed on other trackers so at least that's not lost.
As Israel expands its military offensive in Gaza, some Democrats in the US are expressing growing criticism of Israeli actions. Younger progressive Democrats have been more vocal in calling for civilian protections and a ceasefire. However, support for Israel remains strong among both Democratic and Republican leadership as well as the general public. While progressive critics want to see Palestinian lives prioritized, Israel sees no viable negotiating partner with Hamas controlling Gaza. The article discusses the long history of US support for Israel since its founding and changing views over time. Some analysts believe criticism from the left lacks real political power but could influence younger voters. Ultimately both sides express pessimism about prospects for peace given the deep tensions and lack of trust between Israelis and Palestinians.
It's evidenced in the vote in the last U.S. Congress to top up American funding for Israel's missile-defence system: a lopsided result of 420 to 9.
I checked who voted which way, and the following were Nay votes:
If there truly was a proper party split, that'd give progressive, and non-regressive democrats room to start ousting the geriatrics and conservatives from the party, moving the whole country's political representation leftward while GOPα. and GOPß compete with each other to be the new #2 party.