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Comment Re: Nuts will find a way. (Score 1) 172

You can limit things like up page someone mentioned that now ChatGPT will refer suicidal people to the suicide hot line instead of encouraging them.
Remember, we're all mentally ill to some degree, usually minor enough of a degree that we function well, sometimes mentally ill in such a way (social-pathology for example) that society actually rewards us. Likewise, we all seem to be capable of getting more mentally ill. Go without sleep for a week and you will experience psychosis.

Comment Re:The quiet part: (Score 1) 173

Well, Lincoln was in favour of shipping all the black people back to Africa or to other places. Hmm, according to https://www.politifact.com/fac... he hoped that they would go voluntarily and around 1862 switched to using them as cannon fodder, I mean allowing them to stay as free men.
Previously he backed the Corwin Amendment, which was the opposite of emancipation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How a MAGA views Lincoln is likely complicated.

Comment Re:China still build stuff (Score 1) 78

SpaceX would never of existed without NASA pioneering the technology and paying a lot of money to support them. The intercontinental railways also heavily leaned on government, huge gifts of land and a lot of government corruption. Some American Senators were referred to the Senator from railroad company (replace the name with an actual company). Phones have been heavily government regulated since the early 20th century when the government forced inter-operation, government even nationalized the phone company at one point. Unix was invented by the heavily regulated phone company, government forced them to do research.
Public transport was taken over by the government to prevent them from going out of business as they couldn't compete with the combination of automobile companies and their government pets (roads and laws to encourage automobiles over the type of city where (privately owned) public transport worked.
Going back further, a lot of advancement was encouraged by government as it was in the national interest, shipping, mining etc were important for military purposes.
Even computers were government driven, from doing the census to putting a man on the Moon, not to mention all the military uses.
Sometimes it was government driving industry, sometimes it was industry capturing government, either way government was involved.

Comment Air India's "Perfect" Flight Record. (Score 1) 108

Hi. I think you are confused.

Air India crashes/fatalities:
* Air India Flight 101 CONTROLLED FLIGHT INTO TERRAIN -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Air India Flight 855 PILOT ERROR -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

What does the word perfect mean to you? Those are crashes. People died.

We can even add:
* Air India Flight 182 BOMBING -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Though that's also on the staff at the airport doing security screenings.

Comment Re: Just ditch all social media apps (Score 1) 173

It's called consensus government, doesn't seem to scale up too well and works best with indigenous populations and the Westminster Parliament system. Here in Canada, Nunavut and the NorthWest Territories use it successfully. OTOH my Province tried it early in our history and it failed with budgets and other important laws failing to pass. May have been how the Americans expected things to work in their new countries Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Firefox is great, Mozilla is flaky (Score 1) 240

While I did miss your point at first, I do get it now. I just don't associate marriage with religion so the terminology doesn't matter to me as I consider marriage a government thing rather then a religious thing anyways. Difference in countries I guess though we have too many religious nut jobs who think religious freedom means forcing their views on others.

Comment Re:But more from cold. (Score 1) 66

That site considers things like getting a cold in the winter to be a death from cold rather then direct affects. Here in western Canada, I'm 50 odd miles east of Vancouver, a couple of people freeze to death every winter. The other year we had a heat dome, temperature here hit 44C, 49.5C a hundred miles east, in a climate where being over 30C is rare. It was horrid, never experienced anything like it and hundreds of people dropped dead over a couple of days, 550 IIRC, directly from the heat, not getting a respiratory disease or such. People in apartments without windows that open and such, and its not like people have air conditioning (actually since then air conditioning has become more common).
I've seen other figures where deaths directly from heat out number deaths directly from cold by a lot.

Comment Re:Firefox is great, Mozilla is flaky (Score 1) 240

OK, basically word games. I'm Canadian and for example, my marriage was what you call a civil union, get a marriage license, have a marriage commissioner do a small non-religious ceremony of exchanging vows and we were legally married.
I guess if it makes the religious extremists happy, could rename marriage but personally I'd still consider a civil union to be a marriage.

Comment Re:Firefox is great, Mozilla is flaky (Score 1) 240

Marriage gives certain rights such as making medical decisions for your spouse if they are incapacitated or even simply visiting them in the hospital when they're in a bad way. This was a problem where I am with homosexual relationships when marriage was illegal.

Comment Re:As a former officer... (Score 1) 184

Yea, when I went to school, I was taught a Republic simply had President or similar as head of state instead of a monarch. And today, democracy actually means representative democracy, sometimes with a bit of direct democracy.
Canada, and I think Australia and New Zealand, also no longer have lords and such and seldom interact with the Monarch.

Comment Re:As a former officer... (Score 1) 184

That's what the Romans were saying a couple of thousand years back. Instead they had Emperors and today it is Presidents for life with an inheritable Presidency at times, see N. Korea.
Funny enough, I do have a King, keep him thousands of miles away and he does what the government, elected by the people, tells him to do. He is above the law and his mother flaunted it by not licensing her dogs or cars. In practice, His powers are to advice, counsel, and warn.

Comment Re: 300% MARGIN OF ERROR (Score 1) 110

So they have low taxes for a progressive tax system as the 1% have 30.8% of the wealth, or at least $13,666,778 of wealth (2023).
https://www.visualcapitalist.c... and others agree,
https://dqydj.com/top-one-perc...
I take it you are arguing that the 1% have surprisingly low taxes for a progressive tax system and the idea of cutting their taxes in favour of raising the bottom halves taxes is not good for society.

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