as a democratic nation its probably a bad idea to allow a small number of businesses to control content distribution. Apps should be regulated based on their actions and practices, not national origin.

disinformation does not become a good thing when produced domestically.

there are exceptions to every rule

The line between satire and misinformation is not a thin one.

Imagine throwing an election because you love genocide too much.

It takes a particular kind of brain rot to believe that people who don’t live in america, and don’t do the majority of their business in america, care more about influencing the american people than those who live in america and do the majority of their business in america.

The ban is for the interests of politicians who want to stop the discorse happening on tiktok, and tech companies who want to run a shortform video site and have been unsuccessful in creating their own.

If tiktok is doing what they are accused of, reasonable legislation would ban that practice. When the bill is written to try and let google or facebook buy a successful implementation of shortform video, you know you have an entirely corrupt government.

Unless you are capable of violence you cannot be peaceful, only harmless.

I think the conclusion is accurate given what the researchers found from what they measured during the study.

The results of any experimental study are be limited to the scope of the experiment, and the conclusion must be as well. This is science working as it does.

Everything you say about HRT is accurate as far as I’m aware, but those are only arguments you can make from meta-analyses that take into account the results of many studies.

Don’t take the findings of single experimental studies conclusively. This study is a report on what was found with around 20 specific trans women over a 6 month period. This is published by scientists for other scientists, to direct, refute, or confirm other research. Read all expiriments in that light.

They hold every social media company to the same equal standard. Facebook, twitter, google, bluesky, and tiktok are all equally forbidden from operating while chinese.

This is in no way targeted, like not even a little bit… honest

There are private fire departments. They are owned by companies that own industrial facilities with high fire risk, that need immediate response, such as oil refineries, chemical plants, and and factories.

But you’re right that there aren’t private fire companies to serve anyone on demand. There are no manned fire trucks in LA waiting for a high enough bidder to respond to the fire.

The headline credits the car for the agression. The car didn’t do it, the driver did.

Its called opera.

the word you’re looking for is plurality.

Majority means over 50%.

The settling of the “new world” is one of the few times in history that intentional spelling reforms actually took.

Noah Webster published a dictionary with his preferred spellings, and because those dictionaries that disagreed were an ocean away, we spell things with less vowels and also we sometimes put our E’s and R’s in a different order.

From the previous times details about the typhoon were posted to try and get the devs to add the plane.

Not very effective.

For the rich to get the message you have to hit them where it hurts, in their wallets, their balance sheets, their portfolios, or their vital organs.

Effective peaceful protests do this. If your peaceful protest doesn’t make a businesses have a loss it will be ineffective.

so what will this new party do to be successful that the greens, libritarians, and democratic socialist parties were unable or unwilling to do?

There have been other parties on the ballots, and they always do poorly. How can we make this an exception?

that’s both parties

there is no right choice at the ballot box for healthcare

vigilante justice is the only justice when the worst crimes are legal

yes, but what goods are even made in the us these days?

even if it is the same plan, ceos steal enough to afford any medical bill.