The problem with that is it limits the government’s ability to change in ways that have no correlate in industry or culture. This inevitably leads to the government being unable to respond to changes that have already occurred or are currently occurring, and in the case of change driven by industry (i.e., most societal change in the US) that invariably leads to regulatory capture.

Welcome to the club!

I’m there. I vote Democratic but there’s basically no representation for my views to be found.

EDIT: Have you really thought through your political philosophy beyond pleasant sounding notions though? While “conserving the present” sounds nice, taken a bit further you’re basically talking about fighting the Buddhist notion that “no man steps into the same river twice”. Things change and if the government doesn’t change along with them it gets eaten alive. That’s partially, I would argue, what happened with technology in the last thirty years.

Conservatives have always been regressive, period. Their entire philosophy emerged as a reaction to the “excesses” of the French Revolution. The forward “movement” (if you want to call it that) was from the “divine right of kings” to the “divine right of lords” (chosen by the market).

To quote the infinitely quotable (Wilhout, from the top rope…with a fucking blog comment):

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

The whole “left vs right” divide itself originates from this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left–right_political_spectrum

I understand the desire to take the positive aspects of a word, apply them to your political stance, and pretend that you’re part of a movement. But it isn’t true. It reminds me of when lefties (often in a USA centric thread) describe themselves as “left libertarians”. All this crap does is confuse people and make you sound like a pedant.

If you think this is what conservative means and that’s what your politics are, you’re basically just politically homeless…and have been since you started calling yourself that.

They just aren’t that hard to use.

As Thelma says, “can’t be that hard, idiots use them all of the time”.

They didn’t become conservatives to understand things…

The concept of the white “race” was created by the acceptance of new nationalities into the fold in America and then dividing “us vs them” in a new way.

It bears some similarity to “Judeo-Christianity” so that we can draw the line between white people religion and everyone else.

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In semi-related news, I’ve become more pro-mask than I ever thought I would become. Because they fucking work and it’s great to not be sick twenty times a year. Now that everyone’s against them they’re less than a dollar a mask.

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Everyone was kind of dumb, they only talked about other people they knew, and told drunken stories about being drunk before- it was boring.

Yeah, somehow that’s a thing, “…and we got so wasted!”. Being somewhat of a lush myself, I am sitting there drinking heavily listening to these stories and want to blurt out, “I’m getting wasted right now just to deal with having to listen to this.”

I’ve found that nonsexual friendships between the sexes aren’t usually possible in practice. It’s not because it’s necessarily the case that all friendships are based upon sex, but instead because someone somewhere (most often outside the relationship) will eventually believe that, and it will lead to drama that degrades or ends the underlying friendship.

It’s really been strange to me that my whole life people have insisted that it isn’t possible for men and women to be friends and that every relationship there has to be either sexual or sexually motivated.

I’m a bit of an odd ball in that I am straight, male, cisgendered and have basically always felt better hanging around girls since I was a child. However, I never felt like I could just have girls and women friends though because inevitably it would be implied from some direction that I actually just wanted them sexually.

I’ve also met very few guys that weren’t into talking about sex and women as soon as there were no women around, and I’m just plain uninterested in talking about sex with other guys.

So, instead now I’m married and I basically talk to no one.

Reaching new depths of absolute loserdom daily.

That would require people to have three to four close friends that could tolerate their presence. That’s an exceedingly rare thing in the US as we’re mostly all intolerable cunts.

Link me to your wonderful social media utopia that isn’t an echo chamber.

Facebook - Echo chamber, actively manipulated to make you be the most pissed off and spend the most time on it as possible and click on customized ads

Instagram - Echo chamber, specifically tuned to make you feel jealous of others and buy shit covered in the ads

Nextdoor - Basically Facebook but with a “locals only” aesthetic

LinkedIn - An echo chamber tuned for people who nod vigorously to everything the CEO says in the “all-hands” meeting

Threads - Echo chamber, tuned toward people to click on ads just like other Meta properties

YouTube - Practically a right-wing echo chamber, you can watch a video about cute puppies and with no watch history turned on you’ll be on Infowars-like content within 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)

Twitter (I’ll continue to have this as my only deadname) - A right-wing echo chamber full of bots including “MechaHitler”

Bluesky - An echo chamber similar to Twitter before it was musked up

Mastodon - A left-wing echo chamber (similarly to Lemmy it’s decentralized, and similarly to Lemmy it is somewhat moderated in a way that rids you of most right-wing / hitler-focused media)

Truth social - I mean, obviously a right-wing echo chamber

Reddit - An algorithmically tweaked astroturf echo chamber full of bots and serving up a daily AI training ground that gets more right-wing as time passes

Hacker news - A libertarian-leaning tech-literate echo chamber

TikTok - An algorithmically tweaked, purposefully addictive echo chamber that shows you what you want to see so you volunteer your money and your data

Shall I go on?

I don’t just allow “both sides” to come into my living room and have a debate with me about whether or not trans people should be able to exist in peace or whether or not minorities should be exterminated. I similarly don’t waste time “debating” them on social media or reading their posts. Tolerance of intolerant people just so we can “cover both sides” isn’t a high priority of mine on social media, and it’s also not available anywhere anyway.

This is true but I ultimately don’t care.

Is there any social media site that isn’t an echo chamber? They’re designed that way on purpose in most cases.

There are enough forums catering to idiots. I appreciate the better moderation, tech savviness, and lack of tolerance for right wing BS on Lemmy.

They also continually forget that you can’t do frontend only validation for things.

Works great if you have extra rooms around your house for each person. Must be freaking nice.

These are awesome thanks for sharing. Also, if you can do magic eye and stereograms, try crossing your eyes when playing those “find the differences between these two pictures” games. They are incredibly easy if you cross your eyes.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/disposable-e-cigarettes-more-toxic-traditional-cigarettes

This is America, you aren’t getting a good regulatory regime on anything. Especially not for things you buy from vape stores (stores covered in ugly ass LED rope lights that look like they are run exclusively by and for juggalos).

anti science denialism

Wouldn’t anti science denialism just be science avocation? 😆

They’re starting to get into the science of it, and it ain’t looking good. Yes, disposables are a big part of the problem.