I’ve been seeing “one every century or so” rainfalls about yearly. Sometimes more than once a year.

It’s a lot easier to make yourself warmer, especially with modern technologies, than it is to make yourself cooler.

Parts of the Earth are nearing (or passing at times) the temperature at which air conditioning stops working.

There’s an edit icon on that post…

And pointing out edits is good internet etiquette. Since edits don’t change replies, someone could edit their comment and make all the replies seem unrelated etc.

Is that different since Trump’s presidency?

There’s definitely a lot more to it, but research tends to show that hate is learned, not innate. Making the spreading of this kind of bigotry illegal won’t make it disappear, but it will make it harder to platform. And without a platform, it becomes harder to spread. Not impossible. But harder.

I can’t recall what part of India she is from specifically.

A wealthy part would be my guess!

Hah, this was a new hunter2 joke for me. Love it!

he quit all hard alcohol and wine and not just drinks about an 8 pack a night

…is that not borderline alcoholic? And also a ton of calories?

I’ve always been a fan of hotdog fries

I think that’s a bit cherry-picked. I can’t even remember tone-policing being a defining part of Obama’s presidency…

Where is the “for the safety of our children” mob, when we need one?

Busy being weaponized against minorities again

I live in North America. It’s about daily for me. Doctor doesn’t care.

You shouldn’t base a law on “The current government is okay”

The definition of hate speech doesn’t change each time we get a new prime minister.

Without a platform, he would likely have had a much smaller impact, and likely also not even be as extreme in his views.

as anything you don’t like can be labeled as hate speech

That’s not actually how it happens. Countries can define what is and isn’t allowed, and I don’t think “hurt feelings” are the definition for hate speech anywhere in the world.

Ban on hate speech would be like puting on a blind and thinking that you made the sun dissapear.

This isn’t true.

Think about how much more common certain kinds of rhetoric have become since Trump became president.

People (especially those with power or influence) saying things not only increases the likelihood that others will believe it, but makes it easier that these people will find validation and reinforce their beliefs.

You can be okay with that, but it’s wrong to deny that it happens.

Nah. It’s better when it’s not.

I think speech that a reasonable person would know to cause danger to others should be illegal.

Like trying to start a human stampede by yelling “fire” in a crowded stadium should be illegal. Having a club where you talk about how great it’d be if a certain group of people would be murdered, and here are some ways to get away with murder? Should be illegal.

And even if you do think that freedom of speech should include objectively harmful and dangerous speech, Americans need to understand that limits on speech can be placed in more places than not. Private places and businesses can exclude people for things people say. This is much more true on the internet, which is a global space.

I wanted to build a PC last year, but there were no sales. I considered delaying a year as RAM prices went up, but it’s looking like prices won’t even go down after 2 years. I might do it in 2027, but only if my finances are doing good.

It’d be more financially prudent to just upgrade my current (DDR4) machine.

Canadian here - I pay less than $30 taxes in for a grandfathered plan that started with 2GB of data and they kept giving me retention bonuses in the last few years. So now I have about 25GB of data.

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