Drawing an X on the circle next to the name of the person you want to vote for seems to result in elections where the results are known basically immediately (usually the night of the election), whereas any sort of machine seems to end up with questions.
Solving a problem that doesn't really need to be solved, and introducing a lot of problems in the process.
Solving a problem that doesn't really need to be solved, and introducing a lot of problems in the process.
"New Zealand has officially elected Boaty McBoatface to a majority of seats in the parliament, so it's official that Boaty McBoatface is now the Prime Minister!"
Trudeau will fix healthcare right after he's fixed the drinking water on all those reserves.
Any day now.
Any day now.
Environmentalists: CO2 will literally end all life on earth!
Also environmentalists: here's a bacteria to convert dormant plastic around the world to CO2!
Also environmentalists: here's a bacteria to convert dormant plastic around the world to CO2!
The big problem is the focus on safety. As the society more focused on safety than any other society in history, it's going to be more difficult to do great things, because you can only do great things that either are inherently safe to do, or to do 10 times the work to make sure nobody gets hurt.
It isn't sustainable. You can't be perfectly safe. Just the act of insisting on not taking any chances can result in dangers in the long term.
It isn't sustainable. You can't be perfectly safe. Just the act of insisting on not taking any chances can result in dangers in the long term.
I actually really enjoy using my snowblower on freshly fallen snow. Especially when it's still soft enough that you can get right down to bare pavement and everything else is a winter wonderland.
(Then the plow comes by and god damnit......)
(Then the plow comes by and god damnit......)
Any sustainable overarching philosophy requires balancing many opposing but necessary factors. Fairness is opposed to merit because merit isn't fair but both are practically speaking mandatory. Individualism and collectivism. Law and Liberty. Teleological and deontological ethics. Flexibility and toughness. Purity and diversity.
Paradoxically, while fairness and merit are in opposition, they (like some of the things I listed above) aren't necessarily entirely opposite. Merit is often considered more fair a measure than something more arbitrary like purity or authority not derived from merit.
The interesting thing is that the fact that any of these factors being absolute would result in atrocity is an easy path to discredit any of them, but that's a mistake. The fact that a value being held absolutely would lead to atrocity doesn't mean that it is a discredited value. It only means that it can't stand alone.
Paradoxically, while fairness and merit are in opposition, they (like some of the things I listed above) aren't necessarily entirely opposite. Merit is often considered more fair a measure than something more arbitrary like purity or authority not derived from merit.
The interesting thing is that the fact that any of these factors being absolute would result in atrocity is an easy path to discredit any of them, but that's a mistake. The fact that a value being held absolutely would lead to atrocity doesn't mean that it is a discredited value. It only means that it can't stand alone.
I disabled new logins for a while on fbxl video because peertube has incompatibilities with openssl3, but before I did I noticed that tons of accounts were obviously fake and going to become a spam problem. I turned on email verification and it seemed to help a lot since they use fake email addresses most of the time.
It still does bug me the idea that because you're worried about one vaccine you're against all vaccines that these people push.
https://rmx.news/germany/german-domestic-intelligence-agents-are-running-hundreds-of-fake-right-wing-extremist-social-media-accounts/
If you guys were feds you'd tell me.....right?
If you guys were feds you'd tell me.....right?