[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Simply require ALL electric powered two wheel vehicles that aren't motorcycles--whether nominally assistive or not--to comply with the same regulations as scooters. Easy, done.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago

Musk is the richest person in the world, AFAIK. I believe he's rapidly approaching trillionaire status.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It isn't though. They---specifically one moderator that seems to have been summarily removed---don't want a separate space that's entirely their own, they want to exist within a greater community. They want to be able to provoke--yes, I use 'provoke' intentionally--people without those people being able to directly respond.

If they want their own space, they're free to set up a defederated instance, or create their own message board.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Libertarians don't usually practice what they call Libertarianism, any more than most Christians practice anything that resembles Christianity. I'm aware of what Libertarianism supposedly is, but that's absolutely not the same thing as what Libertarians say and do.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

My brother in Satan, these are literally the ideas that the US was founded on. That's what the 1st amendment is all about. If irrational, batshit crazy conspiracies are winning in the marketplace of ideas, then it's because people that are sane are doing a terrible job of leading people, and helping them to discover truth on their own.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

I can't imagine Graham switching parties even if he did come out of the closet. He's like the Log Cabin Republicans.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

It's still a CHOICE. No one is born vegan; it's a position that someone arrives at.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 33 points 3 days ago

'Twould be hilarious if Loomer's outing Graham managed to cost Republicans a senate seat.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 50 points 3 days ago

Mostly to avoid having infrastructure and social safety networks overwhelmed. Yes, you will also see wages be depressed by large-scale immigration, but that's something that could--in theory--be controlled by strengthening unions and labor regulations. That's not where we are though; right now, unions and labor regulations are fairly weak, and are being gutted by courts even as the NLRB tries to strengthen them.

Housing takes time to build, and good city planning is necessary to ensure that cities are sustainable rather than being sprawls. (Not many cities do that, BTW; it's usually, "oh, we'll just add another lane to the existing 20 lane interstate"). Given that we're currently in a situation where there's insufficient low- and middle-income high density housing, and few companies are willing to build any more, competition for most of the immigrants that we're seeing--people that are trying to get away from deep economic woes--would be fierce for housing.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 40 points 3 days ago

More like going to a cheap motel and not expecting bedbugs.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago

Going private is an extreme solution with high likelihood of it just dying as a result.

Okay, and...?

That doesn't negate the point: if they don't want anyone else that isn't already part of their group interacting with their instance or posts, why be federated, and why leave things public?

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