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GottaLaff , 2 days ago to random

#Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday voted to decriminalize possession of #marijuana for personal use, making the nation one of Latin America’s last to do so, in a move that could reduce its massive prison population.

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-decriminalize-marijuana-personal-use-2ea6a00be557553df8f45676d960f141?taid=667b2780cb18c900014f0b3f

fluffykittycat , 3 days ago to random

What's the #activitypub server software landscape like these days? It's been a while since I've checked and I want to know what people are running and what's new in the past couple years

GottaLaff , 14 days ago to random

Women’s reproductive rights, contraception, LGBTQ rights, IVF, now this:

The Christian right is coming for divorce next - Vox

“Conservative commentators and lawmakers are calling for an end to no-fault divorce, arguing that it has harmed men and even destroyed the fabric of society.”
https://apple.news/AZrx9yMTiQiaZJGSvy9X9Tg

GottaLaff , 15 days ago to random

#WompWomp

An appeals court rejected #Florida Gov. Ron #DeSantis’ argument that he can shield public records due to executive privilege.
The right had not been recognized previously under state law and could’ve drastically expanded the governor’s ability to keep records from the public.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/court-rejects-desantis-executive-privilege-00163015

saddestrobots , 1 month ago to random

none of the shitlibs who are mad at leftie college kids have updated any of their rhetoric or mental models since 2016, so you just get a lot of monologuing about how kids are "entitled" as if america's client state perpetrating genocide is the same thing as your college loans

wdlindsy , 1 month ago to random

As A.R. Moxon, who grew up the son of white evangelical Christian missionaries, says, it takes "very fine people" to sustain people like Nazis, Confederates, Christian nationalists, and authoritarian supremacists. And this is a primary point of his forthcoming book Very Fine People, taking off on Trump's staterment after the neo-Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville that there were "very fine people" on both sides.

#Trump #authoritarianism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.the-reframe.com/very-fine-people/

rms , 1 month ago to random

[2/2] … freshmen had lost interest in physical hobbies and activities (model railroading being one). We both speculated that widespread use of snoop-phones and antisocial media platforms, which were addictive to social groups, helped to bring that change about. A decrease in Americans' use of those systems might perhaps expand the space for civil society.

CelloMomOnCars , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

"#Solar prices have significantly decreased, leading participation to increase. This has disrupted rate equity between solar-owning customers and non-solar-owning customers.

The proposed alternative would have all grid-provided energy billed at retail rates and all excess solar energy credited at [a lower rate].

The billing would only apply to future customers, but would not affect customers who already own them."

https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/04/gru-authority-board-adopts-changes-to-billing-for-solar-owning-customers

Edit: please read whole thread before you get mad

GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

🏆
Via Scott MacFarlane:

There it is:

Rep Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Rep Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) introduce bill to change the name of the federal prison in Miami, Florida to the Donald J. #Trump Federal Correctional Institution

Days after House GOP members offered bill to rename Dulles Airport for Trump

rms , 2 months ago to random

[2/2] … referring to plant variety monopolies, a narrower system that the WTO imposed on most of the world. It is not much like patents, but it does create a private monopoly over selling seeds or plants. It does not last as many years as patents do, but it does make farmers pay "rent" (in economic terms) for what they grow.

RickiTarr , 2 months ago to random

Maybe some people are "sad", because they live in a society that is actually prejudiced against them, and trying harder isn't going to fix it for them.

jeffowski , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/us-crime-rate-still-dropping-says-fbi-rcna144100

wdlindsy , 3 months ago to random

PRRI recently issued a report showing that, from 2002-3, support for LGBTQ rights declined nationally. Melissa Deckman of PRRI explains to William Brangham why this is happening:

"I think what's happening is that you see many Republican leaders in red states, really trying to amp up the volume, so to speak on LGBTQ rights, and really trying to claw back some of those rights across the country."

#Republicans #LGBTQ
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-support-for-lgbtq-rights-is-declining-after-decades-of-support-heres-why

futurebird , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Things people say, nod and agree with, but did we really think about that?

"Short form video content is bad it makes for short attention spans."

Been hearing this a lot with reference to tiktok. But, it's been around since I was a kid. (MTV is bad, see MaxHeadroom satirizing this through blipverts)

OK, the way that tiktok can induce slack-jawed zoned out infi-scrolling seems "bad" because that seems like manipulation.

But short form content? Is it really bad?

futurebird , 4 months ago to random

Aw yeah ban teens from social media but make it legal for them to work the night shift in the cold chopping room at the meat-chopping factory.

These kids will hate us all forever and we will deserve it.

The active shooter drills, failing to protect trans teens, taking their damn phones, burning their books and sending them to the factory. Fail fail fail fail fail.

mondoweiss , 4 months ago to palestine group

The Palestinian Authority’s role has become to delegitimize Palestinian resistance

The PA has allowed itself to become a tool for delegitimizing armed Palestinian resistance, surpassing the bounds of security coordination with Israel. It is now a direct collaborator amid the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/surpassing-security-coordination-delegitimizing-resistance/?utm_content=bufferee703&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza @palestine

luckytran , 5 months ago to random

"No cervical cancer cases have been detected in women who have been fully vaccinated against HPV, Public Health Scotland has revealed."

Vaccines work!

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/no-cervical-cancer-cases-detected-in-women-who-had-hpv-vaccine-public-health-scotland-study-finds

philip_cardella , 5 months ago to random

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wdlindsy , 5 months ago to random

"Trump operates by way of a 'permission structure,' where a leader signals that something that was once socially out of bounds is suddenly okay, even to be praised or glorified."

~ Jay Kuo

Interesting formulation, since both observers in Germany as the Nazis rose to power and historians note the same happening in Germany, as thugs and Brownshirts were given permission to engage in violent bullying behavior previously seen as off-limits.

#Trump #violence #thugs

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-threats-violence-maga-2024

CelloMomOnCars , 8 months ago to random

"Environmentalists are gearing up for their next giant climate fight: They want to force a showdown with the Biden administration over the massive expansion of #US #NaturalGas exports.

More than two dozen new or expansion projects are under construction or under consideration. Opponents say that buildout far exceeds what is needed and will further burden communities of color on the #GulfCoast and other parts of the country."

#LNG
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/17/natural-gas-exports-climate-activists/