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Uh … source? Really not sure what world you’re living in, but I’m living in one with covid conspiracy theories.

Are you really fucking asking for sauce when there’s two literally already in the comment and somehow got two other people to agree with you lol?

It means they want the right to spew misinformation knowingly or otherwise and not get in trouble for it.

I’m of the opinion that people attempting ‘legitimate’ claims on unsourced dangerous posts should be stamped out with impunity regardless of a forum being more free speech.

It’s one thing to say you believe this despite insufficient evidence. It’s another thing to willingly present near universally incorrect information as truth just because one study might call it into question.

We learned a near decade ago now that deplatforming hate speech, dangerous rhetoric, and misinformation stops it in it’s tracks.

If you want to share your bullshit with other people you know in your heart of hearts is wrong, go to Signal lol.

No disrespect to Signal. They have a place as a secure messaging that’s mostly by invite only for those groups. Not publicly viewable forums.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07524-8

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/960466075/is-deplatforming-enough-to-fight-disinformation-and-extremism

The FBI and governments don’t try to shut down these places for no reason lol.

In reality you should be able to get an anonymized reference number to show your vote was tabulated correctly though.

Right now it comes down to an actual official finding your paper ballot with hand marked tracking and presuming the computer read it correctly on an overall vote total.

Being able to do this anonymously and securely is where the problems lie. Which is also why digital only voting still isn’t a thing anywhere.

I still wonder why if we need more fiber in our diets we don’t just toss wood pulp in everything.

Apparently supplemented processed fiber gives you liver cancer though.

Tldr: Inulin bad.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/diets-high-in-processed-fiber-may-increase-risk-of-liver-cancer-in-some-people

I wonder how depression era sawdust bread would work though.

Sure I’m paying for a pencil and paper, but you don’t need massive investment into means of production to create that.

… now that’s a silly take. A nearly $300 billion industry.

Paper creation is one of the worst sources of pollution and water drains on the planet. Far, far, far more than anything dealing with AI lol. Orders of magnitude higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_and_paper_industry

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1073451/global-market-value-pulp-and-paper/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_paper

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468584419300479

Writing instruments are a $17 billion industry… Get off the internet for a bit. Doomerism is getting to you.

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/writing-instruments-market

Haven’t gone further than the main series.

I’m more a fan of Foundation myself but in my mind’s eye they’re practically the same universe lol.

It could just be the same thing. Total houses in community. Apply solar cells to already owned government land or near where the current plant is anyway like most already have been doing. Just scale up and add wind in. Salt batteries all over. Bam.

Jihad!

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad

Theyre the only people to help during actual disasters though. Good luck getting the fucking Red Cross out short of anything but a federally declared disaster.

AKA, what I said in Doomer.

People are also realizing that it’s not going to be the literal end of civilization though either.

Climate change and the crisis is happening as we speak. Tornados in February in Wisconsin. Temperatures rising. Jet streams changing.

But that doesn’t mean everyone dies. It mostly means huge impacts on mostly impoverished nations creating a larger refugee a crisis others don’t even want to handle.

People joke constantly that Earth will be fine, humans won’t be.

The reality is that humans and anything we absolutely need will be fine. Almost every other thing we can’t or don’t want to conserve will die.

Nothing will take us out short of a stray meteor large enough to make the globe molten or enough nukes regularly to send us into winter for decades. Even average nuclear winter humanity will get around.

The point though isn’t just survival. It’s striving to be as good as a shepherd as possible to our home planet and others we share it with.

That’s hard when 1% destroys it for profits to keep peoples retirements going because they refuse to pay a decent wage.

Trump had more white female and Hispanic voters his second run than the first.

I would take this data with a grain of salt. I’m sure this is self reported yes/no or excludes political vote markers. I’m not sure how they compiled the data when it shows it was simple yes/no to am I conservative or liberal at a glance.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/new-trump-poll-women-hispanic-voters-497199

More info because why not:

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053929419/feel-like-you-dont-fit-in-either-political-party-heres-why

https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-be-more-likely-to-vote-conservative-than-men-but-that-all-changed-in-2017-we-wanted-to-find-out-why-214019

https://1ft.io/proxy?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnytimes.com%2F2022%2F01%2F12%2Fopinion%2Fgender-gap-politics.html