I’ve only ever known Christians to think fish aren’t animals. I’m pretty sure that’s something random that the Vatican decided for bending lent rules or some shit.

at least in my life most people do not have a “reasonably underseood line” where they arbitrarily stop considering animals as animals due to their perceived lack of communication. they have a line where they stop caring about them, but that’s usually about how cute they are, not about how they communicate. if more people understood koalas better they’d be way less popular. they barely have a brain, can’t communicate much, sound absolutely awful…

most people just don’t actually think that much about it. trivia is for the people that do think about things. and it certainly should at least have its answers checked on google.

ten weeks vacation is a pipe dream in the states.

yes lol, look at any conservative influencer on American tv. they all have degrees.

i don’t think this law would actualy change much here in the states. almost every dangerous spreader of misinfo i can think of did in fact graduate college in some way.

i can’t possibly see this law s anything but a tool to control online speech rather than a tool to fight disinformation.

if the goal of to reduce disinformation then this law will be ineffective.

sure, but that’s not what this is doing. it doesn’t say they’ll be held accountable. it just places a high barrier to entry.

i understand the sentiment behind it, but I don’t think this will be effective at curtailing disinformation. it would, however, be a very useful tool for controlling online speech. especially with a government that has so much control over its universities.

oh wow, i thought for sure it came later. i should stop making snap comments when m waking up.

no one cares about the plights of those living in backwater stone age dictatorships. the modern world must move forward on its own.

we Americans have to get used to being left behind and left out of conversations by real adults now.

there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.

it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don’t remember.

other platforms rose up around their success, but I’m pretty sure YouTube was more or less unique when it started.

i just think it’s right that an organization takes care of someone that fought for it. ask other externalities excluded. i believe that is a responsibility that anyone that asks others to doubt for them ought to owe.

my point isn’t that the stats are wrong. my point is that pointing fingers gets us nowhere. the point is that we need to look at the actual issues and not focus on identity politics, but i guess I’m fighting against every dollar that every billionaire pumps into every piece of media when i say that.

we’re all being whipped into a frenzy and probably going to kill each other over it. it will probably only make everything much worse.

you don’t have to ignore with whom the problem lies, you have to keep going.

that’s not the end of the puzzle. that’s not a solution. it’s only anger and blame. demographics aren’t a goal or an answer. they are a guidepost with which we can do further research.

pointing fingers does nothing. we need ACTIONABLE solutions. otherwise you’re just spreading hate and division. the who is useful to figure out the how and why. but if you stop there all you’re going to do is incite blood feuds.

ok, so WHAT’S THE SOLUTION.

if it fully falls to the feet of a race and i an to blame, what’s the solution?

reeducation camps?

people’s skin color didn’t make them this way. to believe that IS racism. no matter what direction it’s pointed.

I’m not saying white people didn’t vote overwhelmingly for Trump. I’m not saying it’s not their fault. I’m saying that assigning fault is inherently the wrong strategy. it’s not a solution oriented mindset. it’s just anger.

so, that’s why i say we need to focus on the HOW and the WHY not the WHO. yes, the who can help us understand the how and why, but it’s not the end of the path. it’s just lazy to get to “the white people did it” and stop.

and would you seriously argue that racism hasn’t gotten worse in america since 2015? because as bad as it might have been, it’s gotten so much worse. the political right finally figured out the internet and are using it to turn as all against each other.

or perhaps making generalizations about people based on race and sex is the inherent logical flaw of racism and sexism even if you feel you have the moral high ground.

trying to find who to point the finger at is the conservative solution. the problem lies deeper. it’s in our social media, our news, our socio-economic struggles, and our culture of “rugged individualism”.

like yes, the racism was always there but it was waning before billionaires got their claws into our social media feeds. and that issue goes WAAAAAY beyond America.

just like when Trump was crazy for saying covid was a hoax aimed at him even though it affected the whole world, it would be crazy to blame this GLOBAL shift to right wing authoritarianism on any one race. are white people responsible for modi?

blaming white people or men could only possibly serve to Make people angry. it’s not a solution oriented approach unless you’re willing to go full genocide.

-a white male who despises Trump among others and has worked hard to fight against him and is tried of somehow still getting blamed.

yeah, it could be the liar guard’s desire or prime directive to send you down the deadly path. to him that could be interpretated as the correct path. especially if these are automatons working off of some machine logic. like, they don’t even need to be out to get you, that’s totally something that bad code could do on accident.

yeah, you certainly can spend more and get better, but most media consumers don’t actually care about long term storage like that.

i only know the pricing on those drives because i just had to replace one in a nas device. i only spent money on a nas device because i work in media and need to keep large files for clients. i follow a 3-2-1 backup system because my job depends on it, but it’s not at all necessary to enjoy media.

lmao, buddy you can get a 10tb hard drive for like $200 and fit all the pirated media you want on it. that’s less money than two mainline subscriptions for a year.

the VAST majority of data hoarders are pirates. very very few actual spend fortunes on their media collections. that’s why everyone is dogpilling you. it felt like you were attacking a strawman of the average user here and they feel the need to correct you about their nature.

it’s not about pirates feeling moral or superior. it’s about you being wrong about data hoarders.

stds on the whole are most easily spread through unprotected anal sex. especially those spread through blood and other fluids. there was also the difficulty of safely having a long term gay relationship at the time among other factors that led to gay men trending to have more hookups than most demographics.

it’s not that aids targeted gay people, it’s just that gay men In that era were more susceptible to stds in general. this was just the first time it started killing people en masse. and, as obvious as it may seem now to wear a condom, at the time we didn’t have the research to tell us how it actually spread or that a contraceptive could stop it. when you think of the condom as a tool to stop pregnancy it’s hard to reframe that as a tool for gay men to be safe. especially since it makes sex feel less intense. the government certainly wasn’t interested in studying it to figure that out.

as far as I understand that’s all that really changed too. we learned how it spreads and some basic tools and techniques we can use to mitigate that spread. it’s still a terrible disease, but that alone brought it from genocidal to what it is today. still dangerous, of course, but not killing people by the millions.

there’s nothing about negatively affecting others lives?

so successful sociopaths and narcissists don’t have a disorder?

i don’t think that’s quite right.

ok, did you read the body of the post?

did you try clicking the link? titles aren’t meant to convey all relevant info.