Imagine a world where “money = speech” reconciled with the notion that when it comes to elections, everyone should have an equal voice, and the result is that a fixed amount of money was made available to candidates, split evenly among every citizen, and we were able to choose who our portion went to. No outside funding period.

The cargo company should be prosecuted for littering. Unless they can convince some benevolent locals to go help them clean up the spill.

I didn’t expect we’d be the baddies in WW3 but it feels like that’s where we’re heading.

Let me guess… It was carrying drugs? Just packed full of cocaine? Can’t wait to hear the justification for this one.

Seriously, if there’s this many things about their direct line of work that they don’t know, maybe they should find another line of work.

Eugenics aren’t suddenly okay if they’re only accessible to some people. Healthcare on the other hand should be available to everyone but it’s still a net positive even if it isn’t available to everyone.

You said ‘or otherwise regulate’, not ‘and regulate’, so I logically assumed you were making two independent proposals and chose to respond to one of them, omitting the other for clarity.

I don’t even think it’s a counter-argument, really. As soon as prosperity becomes a factor, it’s a “rich people only” feature, regardless of what other guardrails are in place.

but make people pay […] if they want the additional data to screen for more precise things.

Isn’t that just worse than giving the data to everyone, though? The more expensive you make it, the more of an exclusively ‘rich people’ service it becomes. As if kids with rich parents don’t already have enough advantages in life, let’s make sure they’re physically peak, too?

I know ‘slippery slope’ is a logical fallacy, but I think it’s applicable here.

We scan for disease, easy sell. But since we’re doing it anyway, let’s also include physical defects. Why not also include autism? I mean we have the data already, and these parents are paying for the service, why shouldn’t we give them that information? And if we’re doing all of that, why not also give them data on life expectancy and intelligence? Maybe physical traits - after all, they’d really prefer a blond haired, blue eyed child.

Gattaca was a great movie and definitely didn’t portray any social issues whatsoever stemming from actions like this!

I think most of us are, but a lot of us made the switch quite some time ago… mid-2023 was a pretty big migration wave, and so have largely forgotten about Redditisms. :)

For what it’s worth, that’s probably more of a Reddit thing; I don’t think I’ve ever seen that asked on Lemmy.

That extra bit of context definitely helps to frame why someone would be asking you those things!

Sorry, buddy - can’t get him for perjury, or anything else - those were official acts as president, and don’t you know those are immune to scrutiny?

Antifa Ost in Germany

Aww man, I didn’t know there was an official soundtrack for Antifa! Germans get all the cool stuff.

Unless I’m misunderstanding your question, the specific server is more important than the software they’re running; it doesn’t matter if the software is being developed long-term if the server shuts down in the short-term… your community will go down with it.

Tangential to the point of the article, but this:

Mitchell described how preppers make ready for specific forms of societal collapse, based not on the likelihood of the event itself, but rather, based on how useful they would be in that situation. For example, a water chemist has made extensive preparations for an event in which terrorists poison the water-supply. When pressed, he couldn’t explain why terrorists would choose his town to target with an attack like this, but basically thought it would be really cool if the only person who could save his town was him.

actually strikes me as the best / sanest form of prepping, as long as everyone does it. Imagine a scenario where the water chemist has a plan to save their town from a contaminated water supply, the electrical engineer has a plan to save their town from a wide-spread power grid failure, the EMT has a plan to save their town from the collapse of the emergency response system, etc., such that no matter what disaster befalls them, someone is there who’s ready to step in and apply their expertise for the betterment of the community as a whole.

Oh, man - when your defense has to boil down to “Yeah but sexually exploiting kids isn’t really that bad…”, you know you’re fucked.

The headline is a little misleading, no? He is offering for sale 10 tonnes of old rope as art for £1m; the article certainly does not mention him having found a buyer, which the headline implies.

If it comes out that the entire Trump presidential run was masterminded from the ground up to cover for all the rich people visiting Epstein’s island… I won’t even be surprised at this point. Not even a little bit.