TBH I knew it was going to be something like this from the headline alone. Plutocrats never roll out this kind of thing without it somehow ending up in the hands of people who need it the least. Just like the USA’s Paycheck Protection Loans.
I thought the Mr. Beast Burgers got discontinued because the quality of the company he delegated to was so poor that it was a liability to Beast himself?
Yeah honestly it’s hard to hate a guy who puts water wells in impoverished nations but it’s also hard to like a guy who rents tanks and a gasoline covered burning log catapult to destroy a literal unironic pile of money.
Unfortunately, no, this is a clear case of firearms and alcohol related death. He injected whiskey directly into his veins and fell backwards onto his gun 5 times.
It’s okay to be downvoted. That just means you’re the proxy for which people question what should be questioned (even if the informed answers are already very clear), that you’ve touched on impactful and deep subject matter. Don’t be sad about a meaningless red number.
India has some social issues comparable to the rest of the industrialized world, for sure, but on a completely different scale because of their long arduous history of marginalization and castes. China is an expansionist dictatorship which is a whole other animal.
China took over Hong Kong by means of corruption and military force, attempted but failed to do the same thing with Taiwan. They’ve been raiding Tibet and tearing down temples, rounding monks up like cattle. They’ve even been having constant border disputes with India. That’s all in the last decade. Imagine taking over multiple other nations in a 4 year period and not thinking that is overly aggressive for modern international relationships. Hell, they’ve even been having border disputes with the damn oceans: China landfilled the sea between Hong Kong and Borneo for military use and to gain territory in a contested region. They’ve recently been accused of overfishing with Cyanide in the Philippines, as well.
And this is a place where we have the authority to call people out on their bullshit and make everybody more informed in the process. Deep Canvasing is more effective than Sealioning.
I guess it’s totally subjective, but I don’t exactly see a lot of “shitposts” that are just an image of something like a ball or a rock with no context.
The RPCS3 team who figured out how to emulate the wacky core design of the PS3 are truly mentally unwell and I hope they never get better because the world needs more people like them.
Rulewise that makes sense, but Lorewise it’s a total crock of shit. Wish is ancient ancient magic built upon the culmination of multiple hyper-advanced magic civilizations such as Netheril and Eaerlann who wielded The Weave and The Art like it was origami, if you assume that it’s skill surpasses their level of capability since it chronologically came 100 years after the fall of Netheril who failed to ascend to godhood, then not even ascending to godhood is out of the question. It alters past, present, and future. It is creationism itself.
I know it’s a rhetorical question, but It’s a result of the popularization of ideograms during the spread of writing technology in their region, as opposed to the representation of concepts through only patterns of a small set of character seen in Europe which later spread to the far west. They’re far from the only culture to make the choice.
Technically, he didn’t even find them first. Not only did Christopher Columbus never step foot on the NA continent, but Norsemen such as Leif Erikson were there before him centuries earlier. John Cabot made a much larger contribution to that.
I was gonna say, if a snake like Donald Trump or Boris Johnson can get ahead in this life then a Dragon would be the perfect political figurehead for people to worship support.
I was gonna say, this post seems pretty disingenuous to blame “every public figurehead” for corporate greed. Maybe if we better taxed and regulated those companies this wouldn’t be happening. If only some public figureheads had literally that exact platform.
<span style="color:#323232;">Passed House (03/03/2021)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">For the People Act of 2021
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">This bill addresses voter access, election integrity and security, campaign finance, and ethics for the three branches of government.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Specifically, the bill expands voter registration (e.g., automatic and same-day registration) and voting access (e.g., vote-by-mail and early
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> voting). It also limits removing voters from voter rolls.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The bill requires states to establish independent redistricting commissions to carry out congressional redistricting.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Additionally, the bill sets forth provisions related to election security, including sharing intelligence information with state election officials,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> supporting states in securing their election systems, developing a national strategy to protect U.S. democratic institutions, establishing in
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> the legislative branch the National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions, and other provisions to improve the
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> cybersecurity of election systems.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Further, the bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> additional disclosure of campaign-related fundraising and spending, requiring additional disclaimers regarding certain political advertising,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> and establishing an alternative campaign funding system for certain federal offices.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The bill addresses ethics in all three branches of government, including by requiring a code of conduct for Supreme Court Justices,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> prohibiting Members of the House from serving on the board of a for-profit entity, and establishing additional conflict-of-interest and
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> ethics provisions for federal employees and the White House.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The bill requires the President, the Vice President, and certain candidates for those offices to disclose 10 years of tax returns.
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It was a partisan DNC bill that immediately passed the house upon them gaining a majority.
I’m sorry for calling you an idiot, earlier. If you’re interested in the subject then I’ll leave a brief intro to the US political process.
It’s a bit convoluted but basically for a bill to become law it has to pass 3 chambers: the House, the Senate, and be signed by the sitting President. Even after this, the courts can rule changing the interpretation of the law but generally that doesn’t happen often because Congress can impeach a judge for misconduct, and judicial organizations can disbar them, effectively ending their legal career.
Amendments to the constitution, anything that changes the congressional budget past a defined limit, removal from office a federal official, or vetoing a decision by a sitting president all require a Supermajority (sometimes referred to as a 2/3rds vote) which is 67 out of 100 senators or 290 of 435 house representatives. One tactic people use to prevent a bill from passing is to simply “filibuster” or prolong the debate process by taking a stand at the podium for long periods of time until people leave to sleep, eat, or return to their families causing them to miss the vote, but a 2/3rds majority can also bypass the filibuster and force the vote to proceed.
HR1 For the People Act was passed in the House of Representatives after the “Blue Wave” backlash against conservatives in 2020 where a lot of new DNC representatives were elected to the House. Unfortunately it was short lived as the Senate has been in a deadlock ever since, even now it’s a 48:49 DNC to RNC split with 3 Independents caucusing with DNC to have them elect the majority leader. A total of 45 DNC Senators sponsored the bill but it’s not nearly enough to bypass filibuster or even pass at all without support from other parties.
Your point was that a thing which you claim passed did not in fact pass? And I proved that? Clearly I’m arguing with an addict of some sort, hope you get that sorted out.
If we’re judging purely on readability then I think Allman probably has the edge, here. You can see at a glance where the encasement starts or ends in a vertical column on the far left. Of course, that’s a moot point if the programmer’s color coding is set up to where it is obvious.
That’s fair but I feel like it’s not in Google’s best interests to collect your photos library, clipboard, message history, contacts info, SSN, banking details, etc and then sell all of it to China for cheap. The extent of Data Collection, and the very obvious malicious intent of it, embedded in TikTok sets it worlds apart.
Searching for information about abortion isn’t a crime anywhere afaik, at least not an enforceable one. Google and the state governments are separate entities, and to be used in the US Justice System against you they would need to provide the source for their evidence, which would make really bad publicity for Google which does in fact harm their profits. So the State would have to make a pretty damn good offer to accomplish that. Doubly so for wannabe authoritarian admins like DeSantis, since those are exactly the type of people to turn around and try to restrict the company’s rights and freedoms.
Pretty much the same for the Mushrooms, although self-medicating with full dose mushrooms seems a little over the top to begin with, but I can’t blame the victim in a system where opiates are handed out readily by doctors.
Crypto would probably be harder for China to take than bank funds, but if they did steal a bit from hundreds of millions of Americans then the total loss would be catastrophic for many lives. The USA has no way to fight back in that scenario because while China does utilize American tech brands and products, those companies are not a direct arm of the military the same way that TikTok is for China.
You fail to see why they would collect the massive amounts of data that they’ve been repeatedly proven to collect? Sounds like willful ignorance, to me.
Compared to the dictatorship who are in the process of seizing land and committing genocides on their (according to them) own peoples, yes the USA are fucking saints. See this is my exact problem, two bad things are not equivalent but so many people fail to grasp that.
Meta was sued in India, Brazil, the UK, and the USA for the way they sold data in the 2010s, being fined Billions of dollars total. In July 2019 they were fined 5 Billion in a 3 to 2 vote by the FTC and they’re in the process of a 20 year settlement plan.
Meta also has a proposed trial date for December against the FTC and 46 states after their supposedly unlawful and aggressive mergers to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram, called Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Federal Trade Commission v. Facebook, Inc.). The Mergers are why their evaluation keeps rising.
South Korean companies are offering workers $75,000 to have babies amid the country's desperate bid for more children (www.businessinsider.com)
But will they call you dada? (lemmy.world)
I do not apologize for the joke in the title....
Ad bot working as intended? (lemmy.ca)
LGBT with a twist (sh.itjust.works)
Wow, that's very interesting! (lemmy.world)
Russian war blogger dies in apparent suicide after facing criticism for revealing Moscow's losses (apnews.com)
Remember my sex with a condor post yesterday? This is why you don't break a condor's heart. (lemmy.world)
North Korean Workers in China Riot over Unpaid Wages; 2,000 Occupy Factory, Kill Plant Manager (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
Helldivers 2 Devs to Begin Rolling Out Updates to Fix the 'Most Serious Issues' on PS5 and PC (www.ign.com)
I don't understand the question. (lemmy.world)
Behold the O.R.B. (files.catbox.moe)
The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega (www.videogameschronicle.com)
No Sega, a remake of a, admittedly great, nearly 25 year old game is not a triple A game but does make you sound like a quadruple A-hole.
Playing GameCube classics, but in 4K on a Mac with PlayStation controllers, just as Nintendo intended. (lemmy.world)
My son still needs to figure out how to drive straight lol but he’s rocking it at Paper Mario TTYD.
I was both furious and impressed (lemmy.world)
Hey so I’m gonna be streaming Over on twitch at 1200 EST / 1700 GMT if anyone wants to see me get a little too giddy with some Durge evilness…
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(yes, I also see that it says Chinease)