Not to mention billboards, whose only purpose is to distract drivers and take their eyes off the road.

But how do you count “didn’t vote”?

I didn't, that's voter turnout and probably won't be fully available till all the votes are counted. If you're impatient though, here's the washington post comparing 2024 voter turnout to 2020.

If absolutely nothing else, it's conflating support for Palestinians with support for Hamas and is suggesting that the use of indiscriminate explosives is a cool and funny thing to do (assuming you believe him that it was a joke).

But more to the point, if you were to randomly say "I hope you don't die" or "I hope you don't get cancer" or even "I hope you don't stub your toe in the middle of the night" while having a heated argument with someone, it will never be taken as you actually hoping for those things to not happen.

I really don't think CSAM is a fake crime, but we can't all be libertarians.

If you're thinking about proportional representation, that's a separate thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

TikTok is addicting and decrease your physical and mental health, it could be a potential manipulation tool and spying tool. Costs overshadow profits.

How is any of that different for any other social media platform? And why is TikTok the only one being banned?

Your link about social media addiction has a similar page for every other social media site, and your link about data harvesting says

Researchers studied the app's source code and reported it carries out "excessive data harvesting". Analysts said TikTok collects details such as location, what specific device is being used and which other apps are on it.

However, a similar test carried out by Citizen Lab concluded "in comparison to other popular social media platforms, TikTok collects similar types of data to track user behaviour".

Similarly, a report by the Georgia Institute of Technology last year stated: "The key fact here is that most other social media and mobile apps do the same things."

So only banning tiktok tells me that it's fine for people to be addicted to social media and have their data stolen, but only if it's an American company doing it.

weather.gov works fine, thanks

Alright, so monero is good for coffee, maple syrup, and meat bars (?!). I don't currently eat a lot of any of those things, so I'm not sure how this will help me with my groceries.

The first half of the video is about context-less tweets that a consultant for the company made a decade ago, and the second half is about how they don't like how some things were phrased at a GDC talk. The guy in the video also talks a lot about Sweet Baby Inc supposedly wanting to exclude straight, white, male characters, but one of the anecdotes they play from the GDC conference was about how some game studio had made a cast of all straight, white men and were thinking of diversifying by making one of those characters very stereotypically french, and so SBI consultant tried to get a little more diversity out of them by also making that character black.

I'm not seeing a lot of hatred or discrimination against white people, or men, or heterosexuals in this video you linked.

But there is the end segment, in the last 3 minutes or so, where he doesn't understand that there's a difference between being a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consulting firm, and a narrative/writing consulting firm that helps promote diversity and inclusion, so that's fun. He also ends the video by saying that the consultant with the bad tweets from a decade ago is one of the company's leaders.

All in all, not a lot of evidence that Sweet Baby Inc is doing anything wrong, really.

So if I'm understanding you correctly, you went from

you still have to account for the fact that covid might kill an old person that would otherwise die to influenza in a month or two

thinking covid wasn't causing any/many additional deaths per year, just speeding them up a little

to providing a graph that shows thousands of extra people are dying each year

The increase of 2022 and 2021 was expected due to general decline of normal viruses (caused by covid measurements)

to saying all those extra deaths were because people weren't getting sick from normal diseases, despite us not seeing much of a drop in 2020 from people not getting those diseases during the covid restrictions. But now that the restrictions are lifted and they're being exposed to those normal diseases (and covid) again, all/most of theses extra deaths are from the normal diseases and have nothing to do with covid.

Norway absolutely did a better job at handling covid than the US, but the US's death rate seems to just be permanently higher now as a direct result of covid. Maybe removing all restrictions was the right thing to do, but we shouldn't ignore the fact that it comes at the cost of several thousand more people dying each year, just in Norway.

It looks like you're getting the data from here (except the Norwegian language version), so I have to ask: is there a reason you're cutting off the part of the graph showing "Deaths per 1000 mean population" spiking in 2022?

This new table is from here, and you can click "Choose variables" at the top if you want to see different data. But even just the graph you provided shows that total deaths for both sexes jumped up dramatically in 2022, the year you say covid restrictions were lifted. What are you trying to prove here exactly?