falcolas

32 ms·

1.
by falcolas 2y ago
This isn’t a matter of perspectives, it’s a matter of consequences. Consequences which are already happening. Women are dying from abortion laws. Trans individuals are dying due to anti trans laws. The data is out there proving it.
2.
by falcolas 2y ago
[flagged]
3.
by falcolas 2y ago
I see that we have moved on from Denial to the second D of avoiding accountability: Deflection. I wonder if Attacking will be next in a pivot to DARVO, or Diffusal? It's not my imagination, it'd Donald Dump's own words: &quot
4.
by falcolas 2y ago
A difference of opinion? What human rights people are allowed to have is a difference of opinion?? Who gets thrown in jail for being "the enemy within" is a difference of opinion? Which media outlets get closed down for airing Pum
5.
by falcolas 2y ago
> Monopolies require strong states to exist. How so? When competition can merely be purchased, why wouldn't the larger company do so? Or if the competitor doesn't want to sell, the larger company can undercut them until they&#x
6.
by falcolas 2y ago
Wikipedia and the American Heritage Dictionary expressly disagree: "In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers. Such m
7.
by falcolas 2y ago
I don't find it surprising. Leisure time in adults has often been co-opted by "working a hustle" (aka working a second or third job to afford to live). And when they finally do go down, they put on TV or their phones. Of cour
8.
by falcolas 2y ago
Perhaps it's just me, but I'm pretty glad that we don't have the government interfering with our every contracted act (a sale is such an act). On the flip side, without the government to enforce a contract one party has broke
9.
by falcolas 2y ago
Personally I'd agree. But his having different priorities than us doesn't make him a hypocrite.
10.
by falcolas 2y ago
This isn't regulatory capture, this is deed restrictions. HOAs, water rights, mineral rights et.al. use this same mechanism.
11.
by falcolas 2y ago
Bozeman MT also has a huge lot being completely unused because it was a former K-Mart. And Bozeman is growing like nuts, I can't imagine there's nobody who wants the space.
12.
by falcolas 2y ago
Having two opinions on two different forms of land use restriction is not necessarily inconstant. Especially since one is a form of contract law, the other government regulation. Beyond enforcement, the government has no real part in the fo
13.
by falcolas 2y ago
In this case since it's deed restrictions as part of the land/building sale it's not the government enforcing these restrictions, it's plain old contract law.
14.
by falcolas 2y ago
Not at all. The natural end state of an unregulated market is monopolies. As demonstrated again and again throughout US history, with only anti-trust regulation bringing the monopolies to an end.
15.
by falcolas 2y ago
I'm holding out hope that we will avoid that kind of a period of time. The polls show a dead heat, but, well, when's the last time you answered a phone call which was marked as 'potential spam' or which came from an unkn
16.
by falcolas 2y ago
Under abortion bans, more women are getting abortions. Under abortion bans, maternal mortality rates have gone up. The infant mortality rate is up in states with abortion bans too. So even if you consider the flushing of an embryo or fetus
17.
by falcolas 2y ago
> As far as they're concerned, they've lived through a half-century holocaust of baby murder It's interesting how this narrative has developed only in the past 40 years or so. At the time of Roe vs. Wade, the Catholic Chur
18.
by falcolas 2y ago
The only time people didn't have a choice is when they wanted to interact with society. Something which, thanks to the internet and delivery services, is almost wholly optional in this day and age. But, the moment you start interacting
19.
by falcolas 2y ago
I do care, about the woman and prosecutorial misconduct that used her to push an agenda - to promote the idea of "unborn children". She's a woman, belongs to a minority race, and a criminal. Yet I still believe she should hav
20.
by falcolas 2y ago
> even if abortion in that state were legal right up until birth. This isn't a miscarriage due to natural causes or some kind of accident but due to drug use. First, in 2020 abortion was not a crime since it is pre-Dobbs. Second, th
21.
by falcolas 2y ago
I'd think that an average would go broke pretty quick, having to always eat out. Third spaces - particularly free third spaces - in the US don't really exist in most cities. At least not without facing accusations of vagrancy.
22.
by falcolas 2y ago
Is, unfortunately. And the biggest consumer of hormonal treatments as children (in the 99% range)? Cisgendered girls and boys who have no desire to transition. And though you didn't mention it, let's do a quick aside on gender aff
23.
by falcolas 2y ago
There are restrictions and bans on gender affirming care. Most often for minors, but also for adults. It's telling that most of these that are aimed at adults call out exceptions for Viagra. There are laws prohibiting drag shows which
24.
by falcolas 2y ago
> There are going to be a bunch of laws about it voted on in the election next Tuesday Also worth looking at is how these state constitutional amendments have been attacked before they were even up for vote, and how many plans are in pla
25.
by falcolas 2y ago
> The way they act concerning it makes me think that relatively few really believe it.) Enough people in power believe it: At least one woman (Marshae Jones) was put in jail for getting shot while pregnant, while the shooter was let fre
26.
by falcolas 2y ago
State attorney generals are suing hospitals in other states to obtain information on both transgender and pregnant folk's visits, with the intent to use that information to prosecute those people in the AG's state. I'm not su
27.
by falcolas 2y ago
Sure. But it's on by default, isn't it? Just like Apple's upload is on by default. Also, chromebooks require such a sign-in as well, and I'll bet they enable that syncing by default as well. Singling out Apple here is ki
28.
by falcolas 2y ago
At least with Chrome (and stock chromium, IIRC), you don't have to sign into the browser. If you sign into any Google property, the browser will use that auth to log you in. Firefox does not, but it sure prompts the hell out of you to
29.
by falcolas 2y ago
So do Chrome and Firefox. If you sign into them, they download your saved passwords which were uploaded to their clouds.
30.
by falcolas 2y ago
> they make things harder, ... for those around them Agreed. I think the point I'm trying to make is simple, to abuse your examples here: Your not giving a shit is neither my fault nor my problem. And to generalize it, "Your pr

More ›