"Since the Quran contains the story of Sodom and Gamorrah and it has been interpreted by Muslim scholars as saying exactly what everyone else has considered it to say and Islam considers the Quran to be the perfect and unquestionable word of God.... I am legally required to agree that killing gay people is good!"
Huh. Didn't have that one on my bingo card.
Huh. Didn't have that one on my bingo card.
Lol it's like Google search going "did you mean?" But instead of being a question it's a statement.
"the weather is not the climate, unless it's warm of course, then the weather is the climate and every warm day is a reminder that your world is one day closer to destruction so keep watching our channel and don't forget to donate!"
Big problem with laws when the government doesn't follow them is it takes 4 years to resolve.
"We think the problem is these people lack concentration for all the lessons we're giving them about the far right being bad, so we're going to set up a number of concentration camps over the summer!"
Most social media is at least trying to sell itself but If you don't put any work in then the fediverse will sit mostly empty for you. There is no algorithm to bring people to you or you to people (I saw this post because I saw someone I follow repost it, for example). There's some good lists online which have accounts that might be interesting to you, and the other key thing is to follow accounts you think might be interesting (and unfollow later if it turns out they're not quite for you, but that's the next phase -- you pull things you want towards you and push things you don't want away from you)
Another useful thing is that if you don't want to look for lists online you can search and even follow hashtags on mastodon. You might find people with common interests.
Another useful thing is that if you don't want to look for lists online you can search and even follow hashtags on mastodon. You might find people with common interests.
I feel like after a century or two looking for her ex boyfriends favorite rock you might get over it.
Ironically her horoscope said "don't day trade half a million dollars in bitcoin you trollop"
I do think that people don't realize that even in a system with a limited number of viable parties, there's tactics that have an outsized impact.
If you're not happy with either party, don't vote for either party. "But you're wasting your vote!" No, you're putting your vote out there and both parties are looking at that "2% libertarian party" or "2% green party" going "goddamnit, that's 2% I could've gotten. How could I get those?"
In the last Canadian election, the conservative party was so incredibly disappointing that Justin Trudeau won another minority. The conservatives would have kept on course, but I suspect that the PPC getting more of the popular vote than the green party followed by the trucker protests being wildly popular with a small but substantial minority are the reason why there's a new leader who has a chance of winning the next election and potentially actually making some substantial changes rather than just being the NDP but slower.
I do need to mention I may end up totally eating my words on this, predictions are hard and no predictions are harder than predicting the future.
If you're not happy with either party, don't vote for either party. "But you're wasting your vote!" No, you're putting your vote out there and both parties are looking at that "2% libertarian party" or "2% green party" going "goddamnit, that's 2% I could've gotten. How could I get those?"
In the last Canadian election, the conservative party was so incredibly disappointing that Justin Trudeau won another minority. The conservatives would have kept on course, but I suspect that the PPC getting more of the popular vote than the green party followed by the trucker protests being wildly popular with a small but substantial minority are the reason why there's a new leader who has a chance of winning the next election and potentially actually making some substantial changes rather than just being the NDP but slower.
I do need to mention I may end up totally eating my words on this, predictions are hard and no predictions are harder than predicting the future.
One huge counterargument is that it would be successful at doing the thing we'd be aiming for. If you make it so businesses are smaller then you can't get super megacorps completing megaprojects that take billions of dollars to do, since any shareholder in an endeavor may find themselves on the hook for whatever the entire enterprise does.
As a direct result of making enterprises smaller (perhaps even to the extent of just people working together without any sort of organization around them), for example you wouldn't necessarily have giant factories pumping out mass amounts of merchandise because the process of making that factory could have considerably higher risks associated with it, and you might not have giant megamines that take billions of dollars of infrastructure to build.
As a direct result of making enterprises smaller (perhaps even to the extent of just people working together without any sort of organization around them), for example you wouldn't necessarily have giant factories pumping out mass amounts of merchandise because the process of making that factory could have considerably higher risks associated with it, and you might not have giant megamines that take billions of dollars of infrastructure to build.
Because like a good little pawn he claims to believe whatever he's told to believe by the establishment.
Loves who he's told to love, hates who he's told to hate, thinks that he's told to think.
If the establishment told a guy like him to start locking people up in concentration camps, we got to see exactly what they'd do -- comply enthusiastically.
Loves who he's told to love, hates who he's told to hate, thinks that he's told to think.
If the establishment told a guy like him to start locking people up in concentration camps, we got to see exactly what they'd do -- comply enthusiastically.
I used to donate annually, but it was a more innocent time back then and it seemed like the right thing to do.
Takei is a hypocrite and has been for a long time. He's the exact sort of person who would have supported the Japanese internment camps as long as he wasn't Japanese, and this sort of shit proves it.
It's something that I often mention, one of the reasons why all of these organizations can go so big is that they have the protection of the government.
If you or I killed someone by negligently making a mistake, we could be held personally responsible. Spend $900 on incorporation and suddenly you can negligently poison people all day and unless they can pierce the corporate veil the only thing they can take from you is the corporation at worst.
Eventually, without the protections of government capitalist enterprises become far too large to not collapse under their own weight. It's that protection that is the reason everything can be centralized.
So my extremist idea is to abolish the corporation. If you want to run a business, you better take personal responsibility for whatever happens.
If you or I killed someone by negligently making a mistake, we could be held personally responsible. Spend $900 on incorporation and suddenly you can negligently poison people all day and unless they can pierce the corporate veil the only thing they can take from you is the corporation at worst.
Eventually, without the protections of government capitalist enterprises become far too large to not collapse under their own weight. It's that protection that is the reason everything can be centralized.
So my extremist idea is to abolish the corporation. If you want to run a business, you better take personal responsibility for whatever happens.
Not to mention I'm sure that upvotes in downvotes would be used in any algorithm. I'm sure that they would notice that certain viewpoints get thousands of upvotes, and opposing viewpoints often get hundreds or thousands of down votes even if they are perfectly legitimate opinions stated in a perfectly legitimate way.
The whole site became damaged goods after 2008, but by 2018 it's just a hive mind.
The whole site became damaged goods after 2008, but by 2018 it's just a hive mind.