Even Trump’s allies don’t know what’s going on … does he even have allies? I think it’s just El Salvador, Israel, Hungary, and Vietnam. Israel is the only one who they seem to tell anything.

Just take the Japanese approach, require proof that your garage is big enough before selling you the car.

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Last I checked they were ghoulishly waiting at the prison in the hopes of watching her be sent in.

The media is garbage. We did not need this many updates on the case, and they did not need to rub it in so much (I think she obviously did it, but on the off chance she didn’t they’re basically bullying her at this point).

You need to win election to fight capitalism. Could you even imagine Australia voting for Adam Bandt to be PM? Incrementalism is not evil, and sure beats the alternative of going scorched earth and handing us another decade of the LNP. This isn’t America, we can’t beat the LNP on turnout.

You want Albanese to single-handedly abolish global capitalism, against the will of the Australian electorate? I think, as far as capitalism goes, small business is on the less unethical side.

Albanese is an adult, he needs to deliver the best outcomes he can from within the system we’re given, not refuse to engage in the hopes that it would somehow fix things.

Education is one factor. A diversity of power structures is another. America wouldn’t be in the state it was if the monarchy needed to approve supreme court appointments.

The monarchy didn’t stop the UK from being taken out of the EU, that was a referendum and they’d bring out the guillotines of the monarchs tried to override that. The monarchy doesn’t need to actually intervene to be effective at maintaining stability, the threat of intervention is enough to keep the far-right from trying to overthrow or corrupt elections.

I think the UK system of the hereditary lords in the house of lords is better than the monarchy. A inherited position sitting at the back of democracy that can delay legislation should it be the result of blatant self-interest or populism. The house of lords is closer to a group of average upper class people with clear limits on their role.

I’ll take every opportunity I can to say this, but we all need to take note of what happened when America overthrew the monarchy. A single system of power leaves us vulnerable to populism, and enables the politicization of the courts.

Apparently America is running out, after giving so many arms to Israel.

Found it: “Partly owned by Axel Springer SE”

Do you, perhaps, have a pro-speed bias?

Still, slower speeds in local neighborhoods makes a lot of sense. In Victoria it’s 50km/h which is way too high even for normal cars.

Just use Qwant. They won’t even LET you log in.

EDIT: I think Qwant may have some ties to the far-right. So maybe not Qwant. But I’m not gonna bother checking.

This seems like a really stupid solution and I have no idea what the government’s thinking.

Can’t be bothered.

You can’t prove it, but you can evidence it. And in some cases you can prove it (we’ve proven vaccines don’t cause Autism, for example).

Although this whole “produce studies” approach is such BS. The “do your own research” slogan is what got us anti-vaxxers (plus, and I can’t stress this enough, I really can’t be bothered). Expert consensus is how we should approach it. The experts know how to read the studies.

Produce studies saying to say it’s not harmful, or be quiet. Social media is too new, and all the psychologists that know the implications are working for the social media companies to make it more addictive. We don’t know whether social media is harmful, but there is ample anecdotal evidence of the three issues I raised. I should not I haven’t actually looked for any evidence because who can be bothered using Google for a Lemmy (Reddit) argument.

In my experience, the type of engagement that social media encourages is not healthy in any way, and this is not on the level of books or movies (some video games fall into the same category though).

Or let’s just go with privacy laws. Any information on engagement with their platforms should be depersonalized before use in content recommendation and ads. Users should need to manually select the criteria of content they want to see, rather than TikTok deciding they’re autistic or something and doing that automatically. In practice though this’d probably just means there’d only be the trending page, but as long as it’s useless (and we’d need to rely on human recommendations) then all’s fine.

I read that as less of a “belief” and more of an “assumption”. Most people don’t think about paraplegic sex at any point on their life, so her assumption went unquestioned until she was prompted to by sex work.

I think the harms are real. They’re not exclusive to children.

There are three categories of harm:

• Radicalization, as the algorithm deliberately feeds you bad takes from your political opponents and good takes from your political allies, to keep you engaged.
• Overstimulation, the YouTube Kids channel Cocomelon is way too addictive for kids. This isn’t exclusive to social media, and YouTube Kids apparently has an exemption.
• Addiction, social media eats into hours upon hours in kid’s days. Time they could spend with their family/friends or processing their emotions, instead they’re being numbed out on their phone.

I think we should ban algorithmic recommendations (or strictly limit them), ban the practices of Cocomelon, and … I’m not sure what we can do about the addiction thing (humans are super prone to addiction). I’d also ban smart-phones in schools, kids should only be allowed flip-phones/brick-phones.

And the chemicals are far more (or less) toxic.