I think it's a little racist to remove agency from people who've made moves equally validly explained as self-defence and preservation against a hostile invader.

Pretty much the same as the get up for protest in the UK and France, and I'd assume much of Europe.

Think the US is the outlier amongst the global north.

Isn't Biollante a kaiju?

People say it's keep them safe from bugs. I think the link the other person shared sums it up pretty well.

Free Speech™ is when you can spout racist and ignorant comments without repurcussion at the top of your lungs, literally or metaphorically online.

Disagreeing with Elon though, that isn't Free Speech™, that's treachery and evil and small minded bigotry.

The writer here, rereporting another interview seems fairly Musk tolerant.

RDJ probably is too. But at least he's calling him on a few things.

I agree, but add the proviso that since under capitalism capital is power, those with the most capital will slowly find ways to use their capital to deregulate their income streams again.

Supporting friendly politicians, editorial control of the media, or even just the good old Starbucks/Wallmart practice of squashing independent competitors by leveraging economies of scale to outcompete on price - which at the end of the day, the poor customer has to pay attention to. These are all examples of how capital will find ways to get ahead.

Even if companies can't donate, the CEO or every member of the board still can.

Guess ya'll just have to adapt to a better system.

Give up on imperial while you're at it too, you'll be happier in the long run.

It's also a sample size of 15 all "King's of Judah" which is already urbanised.

But it's good to see some decent data. It's a nice irregular line from there on, and women do gain a lot more improvement than men.

I wish I had access to scholarly journals still to do my own research, but I don't so I'll defer to your stuff for now. Thanks.

My favourite part of Scrabble rules as written is that if another player challenges the existence of a played word the player who is wrong skips their turn, be they challengee or challenger.

Have you tried Invidious?

Or poketube?

They do tend to do better when more mechanisms of the state are on their side, though. (But yes that doesn't mean voting alone defeats them.)