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Exactly, thank you. It is clear some regular people approve, support, and demand that too. But I think the bulk of the effort comes from big companies and ONGs, pressure groups.

This is at least true for my country, to put it brutally short, European influences are guiding legislative efforts regarding Fake News and media control.

Not even oppose really, the mere act of questioning how secure they are given their track record of being prohibited in Germany, Holland, and India would attract not opposing arguments but name-calling. We are supposed to just trust that everything is well and good.

I don't want a private owned platform that as far as today plays a huge role in being a place for the public discourse to regulate speech.

Of course, and it pains me to have to state the obvious for fear of strawmaning, saved the applicable boundaries like distribution of child porn, terrorist groups recruiting pages and so on.

Take Twitter as an example, does an abhorrent job on that, they have no standard other than liked/disliked people.

- They have no transparency, people you follow will get banned and you won't be notified. - People will get banned for tweeting exactly what "liked" people tweeted. - They made the utterly stupid decision of changing the interpretation of their Verified mark from "This is the real person" which is perfect, to "we kind of support whatever this verified person says" which makes no freaking sense. Can you imagine a Bell PR guy saying at a press conference "We are sorry for what one of our landlines customers said on the phone, we turned their line off"?

It is transparent to me that any effort in making platforms like Facebook, Twitter and so on to take the role of speech regulators isn't coming from regular people, it comes to the detriment of the common folk like me and you.

Imagine a law mandating a sign be put on every toilet stall door with the message "wipe your ass". Rather than overregulating, we should allow ourselves time to adapt to this new world, this might include - block your kid's ears - committing quite a few mistakes and learning with them.

Nothing personal, but this kind of comment really grind my gears. When I read a claim like the one made in that comment, I take that as a lead and am grateful that someone brought light to that POV so I can explore more, e.g. freaking google it.

The [Citation Needed] approach would make all comments boringly long and harder to write, all conversations white-paper like, which isn't bad of course, but has its place.

How many times I felt lazy and just dropped my comment because I knew that the [Citation Needed] comments were bound to come, and while I have a good insight about the subject, I had no will to spend more energy on that nor any inclination for taking flak from lazier unconstructive commenters.

After watching a few Def Con talks, I' am sure there is a good chance of a very dedicated asshole out there trying to target those old systems.

You can't discard the different pressures specific to each gender, and how each gender deals in their own way with those issues. This reminds me of schools that deal with boys like they are "broken girls", they are ignoring their natural gender attributes when assessing what's acceptable behavior.

Women definitely have their share on the stigma, too many times have I seen women using mental issues to emasculate men.

For sure, putting gun runners out of a job

I thought we were over the fact that news agencies don't need any help to discredit themselves.

Doesn't zoning fall under the same category as high permit prices when it comes to roadblocks for new units? Even when you say

> It seems to me rent control and eviction restrictions of this type increases the expected profits for new construction

Zoning and high fees will still be a problem, new units can be rented/sold at a premium but then we have the issue of it being affordable in rent or credit. My guess is that the new rule protects(temporarily) whoever is already in the game, any new comer will still get screwed.

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It is funny how this can be clearly observed about the OK gesture deal. I would say most people see that as your regular OK gestures, while some see it as final proof of subscription to a particular ethnic related ideology.

Blockers have a negative effect on bone density and it is unknown if they affect brain development. I guess we will only really see the negative effects(if any) in a couple of decades.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/when-transgender-...

I' am pretty sure my meter is broke, I don't feel thirsty at all and have to consciously keep track of my "thirst".

To the point of not being able to sleep for a good part of 2018 due to severe pain, I couldn't lie down in any position or my body would ache terribly. It only got fixed after my wife asked me how much water I drink during the day, I had to think about it and my response was baffling even to me "ehr... one glass?". The sleep issues went away after a couple of days drinking more water.

Seems to be more a problem of expectations than anything else, people are too focused on being successful than being happy, on having it all.

I would gleefully take a pay cut to have a 35h work week _if my wage still allows me to eat out once 3x a week_, but I will work 40h + commute and feel always exhausted until I get there. See how easy is to fall on that trap.

My birthplace is roughly 9439km or 5865 miles from Paris, yet I hold back tears while reading and remembering the tragedy.

For people more knowledgeable than me on this, I wonder what a low price point changes, since Elon Musk called lidar "expensive appendix".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w1G2GyPTUM

Funny to read that, I forgot my folding knife which has a reasonably big blade inside my backpack. Went through the security of 3 different countries, no one found it, was mortified myself to find that huge blade when I arrived.

I find it distressing to hear people pushing the idea of ignoring data. As imperfect as they might be, research is our best effort of making sense of things as they are and making decisions based on our best sense of the facts.

"They will hate us and seek to destroy us not for what we've done but for what we are."

Sam Harris pics apart one ISIS publication that pushes exactly this point. But of course, I'm talking about ISIS and not your run-of-the-mill Muslim that lives in Britain.

"About one-third of respondents said they would tell the police if they knew someone who was getting involved with supporting terrorism in Syria. The same proportion refused to condemn people who take part in violence against those who mock the Prophet Muhammad. Almost one quarter said they favored replacing the British legal system with Islamic law." - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/world/europe/poll-british...

They will be able to estimate the era by drilling garbage disposal sites and checking the layers of iphones.

"You can see this layer of IPhone 2's here"

This is my overall take on this. I don't think I' am getting dumber, I appreciate that experience has given me a more nuanced view on things and to be certain about something, unless that subject is really really narrow, is a type of ignorance.

Doesn't mean I don't hold a strong view on some subjects, experience has also solidified things that time has shown as essential.

I read some histories that just sound like someone that financed a big and very specific type of boat, that they couldn't afford to begin with, while living in a landlocked nation with no lakes and a few small rivers. But it is not entirely their fault, a lot of people cheered their young naive ass on to step in that trap.

The silver lining is that they might serve as a good cautionary tale for others.

If having a partner that did porn doesn't bother you, this changes nothing. On the other hand, if it does bother the person, then it enables him/her to rightfully discriminate who will be his/her partner for life.

Least I checked society still accept people to choose by their own discretion who they date.

I wonder what happened to so many developers that turned them so jaded and cynical towards scrum and project management. So far I've dealt with the good and bad of scrum with a good pinch of horrendous PMs in the mix, but I still came out of it with a positive view of the framework. It is hard to run it somewhat smooth and takes lots of motivated people to accomplish[1], but the result had a positive impact on my day-to-day work.

1 - Some people said that this can be a failing of scrum and I 100% agree.

This makes me want to have a recorder rolling all the time when I interact with people from that group, just in case.

> abuse of vulnerable women/minorities is a lot more widespread than what it was earlier believed to be

This is the reason people respond with "I've never seen it", it is a natural reaction once something is presented as widespread.

> tends to always come from somewhere in America

In a Chinese forum about knitting nonetheless

In Saudi Arabia letting women drive was/is deemed a bad idea. Some cultures think it is a bad idea to not cut off the clit of girls. There are Islamic scholars that will go at length on how you should discipline physically your wife, for her own good. In those places/societies opinions against all of it would be considered wrong ideas. If you stiffen speech, you don't just stop the society from regressing, you also rob it from progress.