That it’s still third world shit perpetuates our tolerance of it at all. Our manufacturing industries shouldn’t br able to move factories offshore to developing countries where they can hire workers for pennies.
Some labor unions dominate their industries, and make it super uncomfortable to hire non-union.
So it might be possible to unionize child labor, then force employers to only hire union kids, and then make them unaffordable as a means to discourage child labor practices. Kinda like taxing recreational drugs relentlessly to dissuade their use.
Voters in the US can affect very little change, either by referendum or through very local representation. At the state and national level, both parties are extremely conservative with one of them actively working to roll back progress and neuter elections.
So while we’re in a situation where we are voting to preserve democracy, our young people are taught voting is how they affect change, when it doesn’t do that in state or federal elections at all.
Currently progress is very slow, and may get overrun either by civil war or the climate crisis impacting populations.
Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it’s still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses....
Huh, my first thought is that there also have been extinction events in the past. The Permian-Triassic (known as the great dying because, well, almost everything died) was largely caused by methanogenic bacteria (algae? I’m rusty), so yes, biologically induced climate change.
In our case, we have industry to help us along, so we did in decades what a sea full of microbes took millenia. Still, they killed nearly everything.
It’s a small sadness of mine that he chose sea lions, since I’m quite fond of the sea lion antics in San Francisco.
On some days, all the sea lions come up and sun themselves on the marinas, an inconvenience for owners of yachts and sailboats, but to great amusement for the rest of us.
As the law is, we Californians aren’t supposed to approach within 150 feet of sea lions, no matter how cuddly they might appear to be. (Don’t try to pet them. They don’t trust strange humans and will wreck your week.) But when animal control tries to dislodge sea lions from the gangways, another one swims up for a sunning to take its place.
There are some wooden floats near Pier 39 made specifically for sea lions so that tourists can watch them, but there are still sunny days when the marinas are overrun, and rich folk can’t get to their boats.
This is certainly the obstacle I had to overcome going from a more spiritually minded agnosticism to a purer naturalism. I didn’t want to confront my inevitable death and ultimate insignificance. It was especially rough looking at the catastrophic risk posed by the climat crisis and plastic crisis that the human species may not last a few centuries.
So long as Islam is used to uphold theocratic oppression in places like Iran and Saudi Arabia, it deserves criticism.
Abuse of religion as a device of control may be universal to all faiths, but it doesn’t help your cause when your dogma insists God made us this way.
In the end, the moral systems of government appear to be secular, which means the Islamic State or the Great Commission are going to require the adoption of a lot of leftist ideas before they become viable as a model for a global human society.
Or as the Arabs used to say Trust in God, but tether your camel
Conservatism in the US isn’t about consistent principle. It’s about loyalty. It’s a throwback to feudalism, in which govornors are aristocrats who govern by force rather than by consent.
It’s what we have in the US, oligarchy with some small democratic features. You can decide which plutocratic shill will represent you, though you won’t find any actual representatives of public interest on the ballot.
But letting the people vote and have legitimate power is the alternative to the other means by which the people assert their will.
It makes me think of the Reddit trope I want to give you an award but I don’t have points so take this 🏆
I see it as I want to be supportive but don’t have a good affirming quote and am too poor to spontaneously send material support, so here, have a relevant, funny meme.
A Gish gallop of easily disprovable justifications serves as a good demonstration of how they don’t want to govern so much as rule (or at best, get rich by scaring their constituency).
These kinds of false claims are like blood libel or the stab-in-the-back myth, and will be used to justify the continuing genocide of trans folk, and any other demographic marginal enough to burn.
What confuses me is how Microsoft tried this with Internet Explorer, only allowing Windows tech support on IE. To this day Microsoft forces reinstalls of Edge and only begrudgingly allows for non-edge integration because browser installers force it by twiddling with the registry.
No one wants to be force fed ads, and as YouTube has demonstrated, Google can’t help itself and will push the envelope of public patience. Sooner than that, I suspect angry Linux engineers will crack through WEI so that every system with their patch looks like a bare bones Chrome terminal.
We still should block this effort of we can, and push the notion that Google is not being a good-faith custodian of the net, and should be broken up via antitrust laws. Bit ultimately it will do what the UK and red-state anti-porn laws are doing, driving the rest of us underground along with the Anarchists, Lunatics and Terrorists.
Well, I could have told you this. (Techdirt has plenty of articles on how facial recognition software mostly generates false positives and ruins the days, if not the lives, of innocents).
On a similar note, the massive camera array of London, to which law-enforcement and state security departments are plugged in, is useful for less than 0.1% of incidents.
Access to a dictionary or thesaurus, or the dozens of mathematical axioms and theorems were were expected to know intrinsically might have helped.
In retrospect despite the well-meaning intent of some of my teachers, the institution of the unified school district of my childhood acted in bad faith. It was interested in the containment of children. It allowed for abuse. It taught false propaganda as truth and fact. It deserved far more mischief and resistance than it received from my class.
And schools in the states have gotten only worse, not better.
Without an uncompromised educational system it is up to our youth to teach themselves, to recognize for themselves they’re being molded and constrained to serve as interchangeable, disposable laborers and solders within vanity projects of plutocratic billionaires, in a society that is not yet working towards sustainability through their lifetime.
As someone who is left handed and was always downgraded for sloppy penmanship, I bitterly seethe at the notion and resent every educator who inflicted handwritten essays on me.
I think minors need a union, may help with the safety issues at the work place (web.archive.org)
“Working Families Party 🐺 @WorkingFamilies”...
xkcd #2806: Anti-Vaxxers (imgs.xkcd.com)
Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it’s still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses....
Trans youth are significantly more likely to attempt suicide when gender dysphoria is met with conversion therapy than with hormone treatment (theconversation.com)
The Irony (lemmy.world)
Democrats want to make the minimum wage $17 an hour and give nearly 28 million workers a raise (www.businessinsider.com)
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/916523...
Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you the religion of peace (lemmy.world)
fluffy big doggo rule 🥺 (media.discordapp.net)
Religious conservatives be like (lemmy.world)
rule (beehaw.org)
bruleski (cdn.discordapp.com)
Five Myths In The House Anti-Trans Hearing Against Gender Affirming Care (www.erininthemorning.com)
They know damn well they’re full of shit. They just want to gish gallop this garbage and make us waste all of our energy refuting it.
What happened to Right Click --> "Save Image As..."??
EDIT: It’s a problem or webpage design and not an issue with Firefox. My bad....
And that is why I don't follow any religion (lemmy.world)
those damn libs!!!
Recursive Rule (prxs.site)
"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software (www.fsf.org)
What does it mean that I am upset with the old lady who throws away the blue jewel at the end of titanic? (lemmy.world)
After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)
furry art rule (media.discordapp.net)
is there anything I can do to give off "bi vibes"
Honestly I just want some bi fashion advice. Also as a guy how do I present as more fem I want to be pretty :3
UNESCO calls for ban on smartphone use in classrooms (globalnews.ca)