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  • The 6 foot distancing that wasn’t really ever followed well was a compromise to keep things open for the economy while pretending we’re doing something. What amazes me is how there wasn’t any mandate to require air filtration at key points in places with crowds - like a Corsi-Rosenthal box, the DIY stores could have had these in the front with a how-to-build and they would have made tons of profit while supplies lasted. I guess 6-foot stickers and signage was easier and cheaper. Remember when some stores tried to go further and enforce one way aisles?


  • “The founders set that up because they followed the biblical admonition on what a civil society is supposed to look like.”

    The obvious first point is of course that the founders, many very religious, went out of their way to set up a secular process of governance because they knew of both past and their current world where religion and government mixing caused lots of problems, and “the Great Experiment” was all about not following the same path this time.

    I’m curious what Biblical passages he’s pulling from. I’m leaning towards him just talking out his ass (because he can say anything to plenty of believers while invoking “the Bible says” and they’ll nod in agreement without questioning), but I’m willing to give him a bit of benefit if he can find anything to support the claim.





  • Rhaedas@kbin.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPrivacy = no free speech
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    11 个月前

    Free speech also entails how willingly you are to put that speech out there. If you want to cover it with a paywall of any sort, you are most welcome to do that. Keep in mind that free speech and its actions also have consequences. If your content is good enough, people might pay to see it. Free market and all that.



  • Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the UN basically just a collective entity of the majority of the world’s nations and not its own body? The same issues came up with Russia’s invasion and how the UN couldn’t do anything. The UN is more of a neutral place to talk out disagreements than a police force. I agree with everything you say, but wherever I see “UN” it needs to be “United Nations”, as in the rest of the world…and how “we” are all just shrugging our shoulders and saying there’s technically nothing we can do about people dying.