A Senate bill that would require Canadians to verify their age online before accessing porn is moving through the House of Commons without the support of the Liberal government.
I urge you to fight against this proposal on moral grounds. That might sound like an odd point of view, but hear me out.
One of the greatest challenges facing us with online activities is not what we or our children have access to, but how companies are handling critical permanent identification. Every day there is a new report of some entity that has lost control of information that has a major negative impact on those whose information was exposed.
There are ways to effectively manage such information and there are companies and government departments deploying those systems. However, there is currently no legal or regulatory framework making those systems and methods mandatory. Until that legal and regulatory environment exists, it is not just a bad idea to expand data collection requirements, but immoral.
To be clear, I’m not talking about the possibility that some person is exposed as a consumer of pornography. I’m talking about those whose incompetence and/or low standards of care allow criminals to gain access to the identifying data for use in criminal activity.
I don’t know about you, but the porn industry is the last industry I would ever trust to properly secure and manage identifying information.
I second all the suggestions except the currently reading/online one: in my experience, seeing "currently reading" statistics just makes dead places feel more dead. It's also not a useful statistic: it doesn't tell you how good a post is, or provide any information about the poster, or even show how popular it is (because you can't really extrapolate about the average engagement from only one datapoint). You can't do anything with the number.
Sorry, we accidentally released a beta democracy into production.
Planned changes include:
bugfix: remove unneeded electoral college (slows progress down)
bugfix: replace current hard-set limit on House with dynamic value that grows with population
feat: add protection for voting rights to system firmware/constitution (current piecemeal legislative approach is difficult to optimize)
bugfix: set polling location availability by population density, not population wealth
feat: implement ranked-choice election system (deprecates first-past-the-post)
feat: implement consequences for criminal actions taken by people who are white and conservative
Unfortunately, these changes are not yet available, but these and more will become possible to implement if we fucking vote like our country depends on it at every level.
Every single poster I've seen responding to articles on Lemmy and kbin from this site have been shitty, angry little pricks with regressive takes on everything. We need to block these trolls before they ruin engagement from well-reasoned humans.
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Nearly a quarter of people seeking an abortion in the United States were unable to get one due to bans that took effect after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, researchers estimate. In the first half of 2023, states with abortion bans had an average fertility rate that was 2.3% higher than states where abortion was not...
I think assuming it’s just for prison industry is short-sighted. It’s also to increase competition for labor so the capitalists can pay the absolute minimum to people begging to work for them. Even if we fix the prison slave labor issue, regular labor is still being exploited, and this is all by design.
"MY imaginary friend said people with THAT imaginary friend have to stand on that exact spot for MY imaginary friend to come back and destroy the world …but in a good way somehow, so we gave them that spot decades ago. Now those people with THAT imaginary friend clearly need to kill all those people with THAT OTHER imaginary friend who were on that spot that were forcibly removed and want that spot back.
It’s just common sense!"
These are bloodthirsty man-children playing bloodthirsty pretend with real consequences. When your imaginary friend calls for killing/subjugating real people and you agree, fuck you and more importantly fuck your violent religion and your fake evil deity.
Right Wing propaganda, and their concerted war against public education. They do this for two reasons:
1 - They’re so greedy they hate paying taxes. Any taxes, even though they take full advantage of what taxes pay for (roads, police, fire department.)
2 - Illiterate and uneducated people will believe whatever they’re told, and take whatever is offered. Those raised Christian are programmed from childhood to blindly obey male authority figures.
In short, Republicans want to create a Neo-Feudal Theocracy, with themselves as the aristocracy.
Two members of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing activist group, have reported several Florida school librarians to law enforcement. They claimed they had evidence that librarians were distributing "pornography" to minors and requested that law enforcement officers be dispatched. This represents a serious escalation of the tactics...
Flight AC051 had left Delhi shortly after midnight local time. When Pant’s symptoms started seven hours later, it was over Europe. Pande says she pleaded with the cabin crew to divert the plane and land in order to get her father to a hospital....
I saw this all the time on reddit. Some people seem to have the need to be involved in conversations but don’t have anything worthwhile, intelligent, or even just interesting or entertaining to say. They instead tend to pick an aspect of a comment, often take it out of context, then shit all over it but not in a way that’s constructive, helpful, or insightful whatsoever. They often don’t seem to really even have a point other than telling you you’re wrong. I’m pretty sure that’s what we’re seeing here.
I suggest at most calling them out on their behavior but otherwise just not engaging. They’re basically trolls, even if they don’t realize it themselves, so it’s not worth the trouble and there’s no way to ‘win’.
Y2K was a real threat, and it was with significant coordinated effort that it was resolved.
The ozone hole was (and still is) a significant threat, which was mitigated somewhat by a coordinated effort to stop using CFCs. Unfortunately, there are many more gases that cause huge threats to the protection that the upper atmostphere provides, which have by in large gone unacknowledged by human civilisation as a whole.
Personally, I work in high voltage electricity, and I’m acutely aware of the problems with SF6 as a greenhouse gas (insufficiently regulated under the 1992 Kyoto protocol) and how the exponential growth of SF6 electrical switchgear and subsequent inevitable leaks contributes to a hugely under-represneted threat, which is subject to a 20 year delay for the gas to transition from leaks on the surface to gases distributed throuhgout upper atmosphere.
There are indeed very serious and immediate threats facing humanity, but this article does little to draw attention to them, instead distracting with bullshit hyperbole that is only backed up by a url that leads to:
According to the article, I think a more appropriate analogy would be claiming “I’m going to sell four apples!”, followed by actually selling three apples. Then claiming you spent a fortune to get out of an existing contract saying you would rent an apple-basket for x years, as well as having to pay the apples you sold because you sold them earlier than you told them you would. And then buying two apples from the person selling apples next-door that picks their apples from the same tree you picked yours from.
At the end of the day you’ve only lowered your apple count by one while you simultaneously:
Manufactured a tax write-off for the expenses you incurred by prematurely selling three apples
Manufactured a tax write-off for the expenses you incurred by prematurely terminating the agreement to rent an apple-basket
Manufactured a tax write-off for the expenses you incurred by buying two apples from a rival apple merchant
Sewed seeds of doubt among all fruits, vegetables, and other produce regarding their chances of finding a merchant
Got investors to at least temporarily value your business higher because they thought you had five too many apples and were excited at the prospect of you selling four of them
Keep in mind that in this analogy you had teams of experts that calculated all of this for you well in advance of you even making an announcement, and that the rival apple merchant also took very similar, if not identical steps.
Edit: Oh, and don’t forget that selling apples isn’t actually the business you and your rival apple merchant are in. You’re both actually in the juice business and apples are just a means to an end for you.
I can still boot up games I’ve owned since the age of 5 or games on steam that lost their licensing like Prey (2006) or some Lego games, come back to me next month when you can’t play Persona 5 Royal as it’s getting pulled due to licensing. Time and time again, subscription models are great value until a point where the market share is big enough and the user base is invested enough that the price gets hiked. Just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t make me delusional, and frankly that was a pretty rude comment.
I left a decade or so ago, and I can echo this… They were my first corporate employer. I survived 6 reorgs in my first 3 years as my department shrank from ~55 people to 11, pay was frozen the entire time. The overall workload increased if anything. By the end of it, I worked out that my scope of work was covered by ~60 people in our nearest comparable office.
I was fully vendor-funded (effectively an embedded resource for a close partner - there’s really 2 options here), and as the cuts progressed, I was loaded up with multiple “secondments” where I was doing my entry-level job plus the jobs of between 1 and 4 senior managers for no additional pay. The vendor eventually found out, were understandably furious with Dell, but loved me because while it took a toll on my work, I was still the best in the world at what I did, and it sas clear I was pushed into it. Dell also fought against a payrise the vendor wanted to give around this time (the only one I’d had in years after CPI was giving me an effective pay cut in a role most people burned out of in <6 months) because Dell had been on a pay freeze for years.
Before long, the vendor relationship lead (from Dell) pulled me aside and told me that the vendor was pissed at me and were coming for my job. I looked him square in the eye and told him that doesn’t track - I’m delivering results an order of magnitude better than any of my global peers, and have a great relationship with anyone that matters on their side. If this is a vendor issue, I’ve got to reason to look for a job - my livelihood is on the line here are you sure this a vendor issue? He looked me square in the eye and said yes. I had a similar story from the department head and my manager.
Next day, the vendor calls me, and tells me Dell want to axe me to free up headcount (remember I cost them nothing, and brought in serious revenue), and offered all the support they possibly could, including jobs on their side (far more prestigious). They then went in to bat for me, causing material damage to the relationship, but ultimately failed.
There are some great people at Dell, but from an organisational standpoint, they’re dishonest, stingy, short-sighted, incompetent, slavedriving scum, and tend to actively select for the same in their people managers beyond the bottom tier.
I’ve worked in some scummy, cutthroat, burnout-fuelled industries, but haven’t since encountered the leven of institutional dishonesty and incompetence I witnessed at Dell. I genuinely don’t know how they’ve managed to continue to limp along for as long as they have.
The preferred antibiotic treatment for syphilis is in short supply across the United States as infections soar, and more than three dozen leading public health groups are urging the White House to intervene....
Senate bill would require age verification for Canadians accessing porn sites (www.ctvnews.ca)
A Senate bill that would require Canadians to verify their age online before accessing porn is moving through the House of Commons without the support of the Liberal government.
Feature Requests/feedback from a Kbin magazines' moderator.
Been helping moderate some many huge communities here on kbin such as m/AskKbin, m/Redditmigration and so on, trying to contribute in ways I can....
Chicago police Sgt. John Poulos, whose fatal shootings of 2 men led to about $2 million in City Hall payouts, now running for judge (chicago.suntimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/john-poulos-judge-rickey-rozell…
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Births have increased in states with abortion bans, research finds (www.cnn.com)
Nearly a quarter of people seeking an abortion in the United States were unable to get one due to bans that took effect after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, researchers estimate. In the first half of 2023, states with abortion bans had an average fertility rate that was 2.3% higher than states where abortion was not...
Pastor John Hagee says an Israel-Palestinian peace deal will be the work of the anti-Christ (www.motherjones.com)
Trust in science down; trends worst in minorities, Republicans (arstechnica.com)
When Trump tells you he’s an authoritarian, believe him (www.vox.com)
What's behind the increase in homeschooling (www.axios.com)
Moms for Liberty members call the cops on Florida librarians (popular.info)
Two members of Moms for Liberty, a right-wing activist group, have reported several Florida school librarians to law enforcement. They claimed they had evidence that librarians were distributing "pornography" to minors and requested that law enforcement officers be dispatched. This represents a serious escalation of the tactics...
Grieving daughter says father might still be alive if Air Canada had diverted long-haul flight (www.cbc.ca)
Flight AC051 had left Delhi shortly after midnight local time. When Pant’s symptoms started seven hours later, it was over Europe. Pande says she pleaded with the cabin crew to divert the plane and land in order to get her father to a hospital....
Discord file links will expire after a day to fight malware (www.theverge.com)
“Attackers, Trellix wrote, use the platform’s webhooks to pull data from victims’ computers and drop it into Discord channels run by the attackers.”
CNN Host Left Stunned As IDF Confirms Israel Hit Refugee Camp With Airstrike (newrepublic.com)
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15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could 'Collapse' This Century In Dire Climate Report (www.vice.com)
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Alphabet Shows the Mega-Layoff Announcements Were Just That, Headcount Dropped Far Less and is Rising Again (wolfstreet.com)
18 people dead and suspect at large after shootings in area of Lewiston, Maine, authorities say (www.cnn.com)
Gen Z And The Great Office Debate Won’t End In 2023 (www.forbes.com)
$6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe (www.theregister.com)
Remote work is still 'frustrating and disorienting' for bosses, economist says—their No. 1 problem with it is how difficult it is to observe and monitor employees (www.cnbc.com)
Dell Suicide: Employee died from suicide by shooting at Dell Technologies (news.snbc13.com)
Dell Technologies had $102.3 Billion in revenue.
DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion (www.cnbc.com)
Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle's emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.
US syphilis cases are rising, and STD clinics warn they’re struggling to find crucial antibiotic (www.cnn.com)
The preferred antibiotic treatment for syphilis is in short supply across the United States as infections soar, and more than three dozen leading public health groups are urging the White House to intervene....