Pup Biru

it’s not really based on guessing… another comment here laid out exactly how the abolition of the fairness doctrine and rush limbaugh led to fox news and the conservative propaganda machine that you’ve got today

what we’re comparing against is the observed effects of, and changes since the repeal of the fairness doctrine. i agree its not a given that these things wouldn’t have happened anyway, but there’s at least correlations to draw from. the comparison with no basis is literally “would have found a way regardless”: that has no basis in observation

is it an ideal solution? na… but it’s better than letting propaganda from vested interests run amok

never let perfect be the enemy of good enough, or better

i have very little faith in your broken system… that doesn’t change the fact that what you have now is so much worse

that’s a pretty shit argument… you could say the same about almost any law… this is why we have the legal system. who determines what’s fact? judges and juries… and you have laws in place in order to sort things out before the courts need to get involved

libel and deceptive advertising are exactly the same: who determines what is fact? courts… and people tend to do the right thing to avoid prosecution for the most part

and then you have anti-SLAPP laws to protect against frivolous lawsuits

and yet still better than the absolute cesspool that yall have right now… both sides is better than basically 90% propaganda because at least it shows that not everyone thinks the same

i must have missed the democrat that had a policy of eradicate trans people… or the one that deployed an armed force to politically opposing cities against their own citizens… or the one that tore the government down to the point that previously eradicated diseases and pests are now back in the US… or the one that pissed off fucking canada… or the one that got into literally even a single one of the big military engagements of the last 50 years

shit it’s almost like you’re full of shit and just because democrats are also awful doesn’t mean republicans are provably worse on literally every moral ground

tmux > gnome

wait this isn’t parody?

re argentina, swap lines and private financing isn’t the US government “giving” billions

still laughable, but giving them real “fake news” ammo will only hinder

i’m glad for you, but jellyfin doesn’t have apps on some platforms i use, remained buggy on apple tv, and support for media segments was patchy… these are all nonstarters for me: simply being able to stream video on demand to android and ios devices is barely better than a network share for a huge amount of my use-case

i mean nixon got a fucking pardon too

as did all of the confederates

the US government has been excusing blatant crime for “harmony” since basically forever

if america isn’t there right now, i struggle to see a situation when you’re going to be there

also

bringing guns to a drone fight

also

“You remind me of my daughter”: Stormy Daniels testifies that Trump compared her to Ivanka

god i fucking love that we have compulsory voting in australia

literally solves so many issues

they’ll mug ya for a ciggie all right!

okay but like there are actual ways of doing gendered spaces in australia… or at least victoria

here in melbourne we have the laird - a gay bar that is a male only space. and australia-wide we have female only gyms. they have an exemptions to the equal opportunity act and are allowed to deny entry based on gender. you have to apply to the state for them

ignoring what you actually think about those examples specially, imo they’d have a pretty good case to get exemptions should they apply for them since it’s art… it’s more a case (imo) of not doing their paperwork and getting the correct permissions… boring? sure… necessary? definitely

though with those exemptions you must strictly adhere to your own gender requirements otherwise you’ll lose it

that’s an easy solve though…

it’s pretty easy to put a number to how gerrymandered a region is: ungerrymandered means that if you were to look at all the votes in the state without districts that’s your ideal ratio… if you then add districts and that ratio is different, it’s perhaps gerrymandered

so if the goal is to stop gerrymandering, you get a bunch of states to sign some interstate compact that measures gerrymandering across the country and says any state that’s part of the compact will (perhaps in the next election, perhaps based on projections for the current voting maps based on prior voting behaviour) gerrymander to an equal or greater degree to offset or punish gerrymandering overall… ie you can gerrymander your state but at best it’ll mean nothing when it comes to the ratio of votes

the french revolution was famously not about porcefully taking power from those in power

i read cringe instead of change and i think both readings are valid

i’m from melbourne: the place that has the most notable implementation of hook turns

it’s much easier to think of it not as a turn, but as joining the lanes of traffic going in the direction you’d like to turn… you’re just slipping in front of them, and then follow their traffic lights

no i’m saying that insurance has nothing to do with what i’m saying… government provided healthcare follows a whole different set of rules: i keep pushing back on that point and you keep bringing up insurance, which i agree would show absolutely nothing

however anything that has the government paying for it has has to pass significant hurdles before it gets added to the list of approved treatments - scientific hurdles; not just hand wavy nonsense

chiro might be unregulated where you are, but in australia it is regulated as a medical profession: https://www.chiropracticboard.gov.au/ which is part of AHPRA - the australian health practitioner regulation agency: https://www.ahpra.gov.au/