Boy are you gonna feel oppressed when companies have to hire WITHOUT choosing employees specifically on the basis of personal characteristics such as race and sex, in accordance with Title IX.

Fascists were super happy when they fomented riots and tried to assassinate the other guy, but they were super disappointed when they lost and started getting their people and propaganda removed from government.

I mean, you’re on here. So obviously yes.

Hey, remember when a bunch of “mainstream” republicans endorsed Kamala over Trump?

Those are the ones who historically opposed lowering drug prices.

Really makes you think.

I mean, I do, but I voted for trump.

Feeling pretty OK so far.

Let’s put it this way. “Dune” was originally supposed to cover the events of “Dune” and “Dune: Messiah”, but the publisher said it was too long and needs to be two separate books.

Let’s put it another way: if you cut out all the foreshadowing in “Dune” that hasn’t paid off by the end, the book could be like 1/3 shorter.

Actually I was surprised it ended with a conventional happy ending (more or less) for our protagonists when I read it the first time.

And notably, it looks completely different from the original concept (which would have just been a management game) so its safe to say the original got scrapped, they just liked the theme enough to make it into something else.

Some of these feel mutually exclusive…

On the one hand, it’s sort of funny that the Wikipedia article avoids saying “Nazi”. I think about half of Reddit would say executing people who fought on the side of the Axis is a good thing, or at least downplay it. Indeed it sounds like it was opened up around 2008 and the local politicians basically said “who cares lmao” before getting backlash.

On the other hand, imagine doing something you KNOW is so bad that you FORBID people to talk about it and 80 years later people are basically bragging about it on the internet.

The FBI spied on trump as well as got caught lying about the Biden laptop scandal to help Biden win the 2020 campaign so… Would it be surprising if he directed Patel to fuck with the FBI on purpose?

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Yeah, if the end consequence is creating a giant database of photos of US ID’s (and storing which accounts theyre associated with as a nice bonus) then that is, in my opinion, not great.

I understand Discord is already rolling out ID verification in the UK and their solution is to use a 3rd party service (you send them your, they just send discord a "is over 18? YES/NO). Personally I don’t think thats much better but it won’t be Discord’s own liability when they find out call center employees in India or Vietnam are using the images of your ID to sell online or something.

a lot of .world users say this was a conspiracy

Well. It is a conspiracy. A conspiracy theory, even! I have a very compelling theory that Boeing conspired to kill that guy.

Just because it’s a conspiracy (we allege that people conspired to do something bad) theory (we don’t have absolute, provable-before-a-judge-and-jury hard evidence) doesn’t mean that it’s false. Also daily reminder that the CIA purposefully adopted the term “conspiracy theory” to convince the public to dismiss allegations that they secretly did something bad by associating them with Bigfoot and aliens. At the same time as they were secretly drugging random members of the public with LSD and watching them freak out and fall out of windows.

I think a tumblr post popularized it… Basically it went something like “I don’t like insulting people by saying they live in a basement, so I use CHUD (Cannablistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, after the horror movie of the same name) instead”

There was a time long in the past, where 4chan was the place you could find the most gay porn, and hate for gays, right next to each other.

I miss the old reddit… But “really strange and aggressive advice” would probably rank highly with the problems it had back then too.

Took him long enough.

Must… Not… Heil…

As far as I understand, trans people are still a protected class under other statutes on the UK, but basically just don’t count for any laws like “50% of company board members must be women to receive this tax break”.

Which, idk, seems reasonable to me.

I would like to say, California instituted a $20 fast food minimum wage which was estimated to cause an 8% increase in overall wages (they already trend high there) but a 1.5% increase in menu prices. To my mind this tracks as wages are kind of small (too small) against ingredients, building lease, etc.

Granted, increasing the wages of everybody in the agricultural supply chain would probably have a bigger effect, but overall I think businesses tend to mcfucking lie about the impact of wage increases on consumer prices.