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There are other elections but few with candidates worth voting for, some state level reps perhaps. This ballot initiative is morally unambiguous though.

Excellent, this may be the one thing worth voting for this November

Relatedly, Nelson Mandela was a terrorist fighting against the government of South Africa, to free his people against a government that was just defending itself and ensuring the safety of its citizens. Then apartheid ended, and only then was he changed to a freedom fighter.

Also relatedly, Hamas is a terrorist organization fighting against the government of Israel, to free their people against a government that is just defending itself and ensuring the safety of its citizens.

There actually was an effort to get a ballot initiative on the 2022 state election, but due to narrow timing between the Supreme Court overturning RvW and the pre-established deadline, it didn’t make it. I would be surprised if a similar initiative isn’t on the 2024 ballot, and it would almost certainly pass.

Yeah it’s wild that the US government will fund private projects without getting the same bonds or shares that private investors would expect.

This is the reason why Iran and many in the Middle East believe the US to be the greatest evil. They’re constantly dealing with American and Israeli orchestrates terrorist attacks. The US’ involvement in the Middle East involves supporting the occupation and genocide of Palestine, giving military and financial to despots, funding and supplying rebels against any unfriendly governments, and a whole range of terrorist attacks targeting civilians, governments, and military alike. This is why Iran is building its “axis of resistance”- it’s a reaction to imperialism in the region and an attempt to regain some sovereignty over regional affairs.

Python has been around a lot longer than Microsoft has been involved.

FLAC is compressed, but unlike lossy codecs like AAC and MP3, FLAC is fully lossless. Lossy codecs delete information the authors believe you won’t notice, lossless compression keeps all the data and just tries to fit it in a smaller space. The original recording can be perfectly reproduced (taking into account sample rate and depth).

Blocking a large messaging platform because a minority of people are using it for piracy, of all things, seems extremely disproportionate

I think this is one most people would figure out in time. After getting blocked on their go-to website, they’ll google or bing or whatever videos, and eventually find some that aren’t blocked and bookmark them.

All blocking porn in the states will do is push users to sites hosted in the EU/Russia/Brazil/etc. Probably with even fewer safety checks or regulations.