ceasefire in this case absolutely hurts ukraine… russia has manufacturing capability and time allows them to replenish their supplies. time does nothing to help ukraine, unless their foreign allies are manufacturing arms for them in the same way russia will be
it’d be amazing to see an end to the war, but don’t kid yourself: a ceasefire gives russia an asymmetric advantage
Democrats are just as bad fascist as republicans, but people want to say one is the lesser evil?
Where was you lesser evil while the corrupt supreme court was bought and paidfor?
not doing that
Where was your less evil for the last 4 years on abortion right
not doing that
imposing more legal limits on the president instead of less
not doing that
Democrats are just as bad fascist as republicans
soooooo not doing fascist things is “just as bad” as actively doing fascist things? is that what you’re saying?
if the experiment succeeded and they’re both selfless and humble that number should be 0
i agree, but there’s lots of waste in the world. this is just the way of things, and the best we can do is push for making things iteratively better over time - this is that… a wasteful use of money, but at least it’s pushing in the direction of open
tax office in this context refers to the australian taxation office - ie the australian version of the IRS
australia too… go into the tax office app at tax time, next next next agree done
considering their apparent inability to learn, if you manage to teach 1 humility you’d best not waste it: feed the whole billionaire to the next, and then repeat the process until all billionaires in the world are selfless and humble
us-american arrogance is very present
on lemmyliterally everywhere.
ftfy
bsky is an upgrade from twitter, and has methods to allowe limited interoperability to the fediverse… the biggest hurdle to fediverse adoption at the moment is that you can’t leave fb/ig/twitter/etc without abandoning all your connections there with no ability to communicate cross platform. the choice to leave is dramatic… if everyone moves to bsky, that’s a far better proposition for eventual fediverse adoption because with things like bridges, the barrier to move to the fediverse is much lower - perhaps a slight inconvenience, rather than outright loss
slippery slope
corporate shills:
“they have the power”
also corporate shills:
“nobody wants to work any more”
that’s bullshit. labour has, and always will have the power
must be nice to find it funny rather than be scared for your friends lives like the LGBT community is
wow equating Nazis with communists - now there’s a false equivalence
I think we would do well to turn down the temperature a bit and try to understand each other rather than throw around these big insulting words that clearly we don’t really understand.
what a great way to turn down the temperature! being condescending… good work bud
perhaps take a look at the comment votes once in a while and do some self-reflection on your communication style, if not the correctness of your statements and either say: sorry, i’m clearly miscommunicating, or sorry you’re right
And we keep the government out of finding scientific truths for good reasons.
in australia we have the CSIRO, in the US there’s NASA and NSF, in europe there ESA and CERN and i’m sure there’s plenty more.
Also scientific trith is not absolute. No scientist worth his salt will say “x is true and y is false”. They would say “we have strong evidence to support x and we have strong evidence that y is not the case under all tested circumstances.”
true, however under claims that vaccines cause autism there should be labels stating that this is misinformation, if not straight up removed
Courts move slow and only in acvordance with the lae.
okay - i didn’t put this up as the way we should do it, i put this up as an example of how we already allow the government to arbitrate truth to some degree - being the judge in an adversarial process… the bar is “beyond reasonable doubt”, with processes for appeal etc
you ultimately need to grant the government the definition of what is true and what is not
you need to grant some entity the ability to run the process that arbitrates. this does not mean that there is an arbiter of truth; this means that there is a process that arbitrates truth, and that process can ensure independence; just like we can guarantee elections with proper process
you seem to think that this would be some arbiter of truth with no recourse, but we have courts that deal with defamation all the time, and the scientific method… these are all tools we use to, as a collective, come to conclusions about objective (or as realistically close to) truth as we can get
If you create an instrumemt that obligates fact checking, you have to give someone authority to define what are facts and what arent
yeah… and some things are just straight up facts… this is literally the perfect example of slippery slope
this is mostly an american take, and most of the rest of the world tends to disagree with this “free speech absolutism”
it’s the slippery slope fallacy
and then they use that info to perform a credit check to ensure you’re not a “risk” to let into the store
yall is good; especially when trying to be respectful on non-gendered phrasing
i don’t really know too many people that have to claim deductions unless they’re running a business, and business tax is of course different because you have to pay all your employees tax etc (which is what makes it so simple for employees)
it really is just next next next done and you receive a deposit into your nominated bank account