wrath-sedan

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[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s probably a trend but according to this (sorry dumb paywalled stats site but the relevant bit is in the free overview) as of now Broadcast TV is still the largest political ad market.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The article note that actual voters probably won’t see much of a difference. The main effect is an even more direct big donor to candidate money pipeline that will mean they’ll have even more influence than they already do.

Plus precedent of course, I imagine it’s usually easier to chip away at campaign finance regulations when you can cite other cases as evidence, but I’m no lawyer.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was about to say the same, that if the political will and power to solidify Obamacare is there then it would probably be feasible to expand it in some key ways too.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah it takes a few extra steps to get extensions/chrome store stuff like that. Probably not the best option if you’re just trying to slap it on a work computer in 5 mins.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you need chromium, your best option is probably ungoogled-chromium which is basically just bare bones chrome with as much telemetry and tracking taken out as possible.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I hate it when that happens.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It makes it even worse that people clearly have no problem addressing Dr. Pepper by their proper title. You’re Dr. Root_beer in my book.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was about to say this. Downside is you have to get a PhD first…

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Oops, my bad I did not read carefully enough haha. Still amazing!

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ender's Game may fit this, but the sequel Speaker for the Dead definitely does. Not to give away too many details, but it's basically about a space anthropologist making second contact with an alien race still confined to its own planet. I'd say the first book has humans and aliens more or less at parity, but in the second the humans are more technologically advanced. Both are more meditations on otherness more than anything.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Different orgs use different style guides as some have already said. In almost all Black is capitalized, whereas white is rarely capitalized but you still see it occasionally.

I’m torn on white/White personally. The reason given by most is that it falls in line with white supremacist rhetoric, and generally has been capitalized exclusively in that context. Totally valid argument to not use it for that reason.

On the other hand I think leaving it lowercase risks making it an assumed default state, or makes it so that white people think of “racial” issues as something that does not include them. Plus allowing white supremacists to decide what is or isn’t whiteness and how we talk about it I think is a bad idea…

More from the AP blog here on their use of Black/white.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing to say except I hope you find relief, you’ve become a recognizable account for me here on lemmybin and I enjoy your comments!

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