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4 votes
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Iceland's biggest fisheries company Samherji stands accused of bribing Namibian politicians
4 votes -
Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change
8 votes -
There's another new faction in the Canadian Senate: the Progressive Senate Group
4 votes -
Global condemnation of 'appalling' coup in Bolivia as military forces socialist president Evo Morales to resign
13 votes -
Impeachment inquiry live on YouTube
16 votes -
The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations
10 votes -
Smart TVs collect data for political-advertising use
16 votes -
Former NSW Fire chief frustrated at Govt for 'sweeping climate change under the rug'
10 votes -
Bay Area students and teachers rally for school funding and Prop 13 reform
6 votes -
The math for Elizabeth Warren’s US health-care plan adds up if you accept its ludicrous premise
10 votes -
'OK boomer': New Zealand MP shuts down climate change heckler with viral quip
21 votes -
Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy
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"Children and Politics" - a 3 minute interview with British children before the 1964 general election
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously...
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously as humans.
EDIT: Somehow I missed the main link, which goes to a BFI page here: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-children-and-politics-1964-online
There are some amazing old (1960s, 1970s) British tv interviews with children carried out by Harold Williamson. He asks children a question and then just lets them answer. There's no attempt to laugh at the children, and there's no attempt to say "zomg look at what this cute kid is saying".
A few clips here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b and there are probably more on Youtube: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b
It's showing its age - "what would you do if your husbands went on strike? How would you run a household?" (asked of two girls) isn't acceptable.
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Discussion: Top 10 Stupidest Things US Fed Govt has done
Okay, so this notion is still a bit undefined in my head, kind of figuring it out now, as I type. I want to come up with a list (doesn't actually have to be 10) of the worst things the US...
Okay, so this notion is still a bit undefined in my head, kind of figuring it out now, as I type.
I want to come up with a list (doesn't actually have to be 10) of the worst things the US government has done, to undermine the ideals and principles that the United States was (at least nominally) founded on ... truth, justice, baseball and mom's apple pie - kinda stuff.
You can go back as far in history as you like (so Civil War, Dred Scott, things like that are absolutely open for consideration) ... but it has to be something that continues to significantly impact US govt, US society and/or the world, to this day ... something they have not remedied.
Off the top of my head, the main thing that comes to mind is the Citizens United case, which I believe has fundamentally broken the US political system (which was, previously, already seriously frayed). I'd also consider the non-consideration (by the Senate) of Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination (by Obama), and the US (both the govt and the public) collective "whatever" to the news that Russia interfered in the 2016 US elections (and continues to do so, now joined by China and assorted others).
I may edit this to refine the idea. But the basic goal is to create a really high-level list of "First Things" the US needs to fix, to have any hope of returning to a state of democracy (okay, democratic republic), and/or normalcy.
5 votes -
The African-Italians who want to send migrants home
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The Trump campaign has held at least 15 contests since 2018 offering the chance to win breakfast, lunch, or dinner with the President. There is no evidence anyone has ever won.
16 votes -
California contemplates a dark and fiery future
9 votes -
Pete Buttigieg’s climate vision: Local fixes for a planet in crisis
5 votes -
Why Americans hate taxes, and why some people want them to
12 votes -
NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
7 votes -
NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
16 votes -
Twitter announces that they are stopping all political advertising globally
42 votes -
‘OK boomer’ marks the end of friendly generational relations
38 votes -
Atlantic Council has published an update to their 2016 Global Risks 2035 report, analyzing geopolitical and technological trends and their potential impacts on the future
7 votes -
Yang vs. Warren: Who has the better tax plan?
14 votes -
House Will Vote To Formalize Impeachment Procedures In Ongoing Inquiry
9 votes -
Why a social credit system is so scary
13 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
4 votes -
Family of teen who died from Ecstacy support legalisation
8 votes -
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock
13 votes -
What Andrew Yang means
11 votes -
House overwhelmingly approves contentious new copyright bill
19 votes -
The invented Chinese names of the 2019 federal election — ranked
15 votes -
What does it take to build the world's best pension systems? Ask the Netherlands and Denmark
6 votes -
Andrew Yang's plan to tackle climate change
10 votes -
Andrew Yang at the CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall
2 votes -
In Norilsk, Russia's most isolated major city, the arrival of high-speed internet gave residents a new window onto the world
9 votes -
Stealthy Russian hacker group resurfaces with clever new tricks
8 votes -
This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
18 votes -
A new high-powered super PAC is going to spend millions to back Andrew Yang
17 votes -
Hillary Clinton accuses Tulsi Gabbard of being Russian asset
12 votes -
FATF – Iceland could land on a gray list of countries which have failed to take sufficient measures to combat money laundering and the financing of acts of terrorism
5 votes -
Do Nazis deserve electricity?
I'm reading about the latest Gitlab shakeup, about (not?) filtering customers on moral grounds. Yesterday, it was Github's decision to continue to support ICE. There's Twitter's decision to allow...
I'm reading about the latest Gitlab shakeup, about (not?) filtering customers on moral grounds. Yesterday, it was Github's decision to continue to support ICE. There's Twitter's decision to allow politicians to (somewhat?) violate its own rules about threats and harrassment. Blizzard banned a star video game player for speaking out about the Hong Kong protests.
I'm on Mastodon, and while it's faded from the headlines a bit, the Gab-war still rages there, with the Tusky-v-Fediverse debate over apps blocking domains, and instances blocking other instances over their support for yet other instances.
Yada.
I'm thinking a lot these days about the "slippery slope". Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, Github/lab, etc ... these are all business(-like) entities, privately controlled, which are nonetheless approaching the status of public infrastructure ... at least, sort of.
PG&E intentionally shut off power to millions of Californians last week, to prevent hypothetical fires. You see where I'm going with this.
When/As smart capabilities for power grid, ISP, etc emerge, do racists, white supremacists, get Internet? Electricity? Hospital/Ambulance service? Where is that line?
Is reverse discrimination appropriate? "We don't rent to racists..."?
Not sure what I'm expecting here. Just starting the thread, see where it goes.
ETA: A really interesting, thoughtful 2-minute excerpt from a Rogan podcast
Edit #2: The Hacker News thread that prompted me to start this thread.
16 votes -
'Meltdown': Trump-Pelosi feud intensifies after Dem walkout
7 votes -
US President Donald Trump wrote Turkish President Erdoğan a letter warning him not to be "a tough guy" or "a fool" as his forces launched their attack on northern Syria
23 votes -
Rep. Pressley announces new caucus on mass transit
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What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
23 votes -
Trump ambushed parents of teenage crash victim, family spokesman says
13 votes -
Finland said that demands for a EU budget worth 1% of the bloc's combined GDP as well as the EU Commission's proposal for 1.11% were both unrealistic
6 votes