Agreed, the more I’ve thought about it I keep coming back to it being safer with all users knowing the data is easily accessible by everyone else. That will prevent users from situations as well where maybe they upvote something NSFW/controversial thinking what does it matter if they didn’t comment so no one would know it was them. Some time in the future someone may start aggregating the data to use to kink shame / call out people or such.

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Every vote is recorded in activitypub and carries or else it wouldn’t know you already voted. That information is public on other instances currently, so people you are responding to may have that information.

Passport required? Shit, most of our country would be ineligible to vote as they can’t afford to travel out of the country for vacations enough to keep up to date passports. Valid up to date passports are around 40% of the population in the U.S. I believe it is trending up though. Pre 9-11 they were way lower. (Because you didn’t really need a passport to go on short trips, just an ID)

It also opens the door to more users obsessing/being confrontational with anyone who downvoted their comment(s). May send users off to downvote users comments for lurkers who rarely comment, which could shrink the population/activity over time.

Not sure where I stand on it, I guess if the info is there and will be used by others, it’s good to be aware

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Last 400 years what has changed? A lot. I’m not saying the police are going to change anytime soon, but women have only had the ability to vote for 25% of that. That was a big change. The end of legalized slavery outside of incarceration hasn’t been around that long either… Kinda big one might say. Before I die I hope to see large improvements in rehabilitation during incarceration as efforts are growing world wide.

We can live with hope and keep pushing towards a better life for people, or we can cower in fear and think nothing will ever change. Hell, 20 years ago a universal healthcare system in the U.S. would have been thought impossible to ever occur, now I think that it could happen in the next 20 years if people get out and vote for it.

For every inch we take there is always backlash and sometimes we lose ground. We just need to hope we don’t lose decades, if not a 250 years come this election.

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I’m not so sure training to be a cop has any impact on whether your parents were married 18+ years before.

The police aren’t going anywhere. The path you described means no one who wants to better the system should join… so it will always just be people who want to abuse power. Am I reading your proposal wrong? We should workshop this.

Edit: re-read what I wrote and realized it sounded dickish instead of constructive. Sorry about that, my dumb lump of a brain thought it sounded a lot different when I was writing it.

Thanks for the robust response. You seem like a reasonable person.

Not following what you mean here as I am unfamiliar with Germany’s justice system, but how would a judge be democratic? Criminal trials having the whole country vote on what the individual result would be? Or are you saying they democratically voted for free speech, and this judgement did not follow that?

I would say this is consistent with Germany’s rules about not having Nazi emblems, which would also be against free speech one could argue.

Unfortunately I don’t think you can easily write a law that said, ban people calling for violence against people do to their race, gender, nationality, or other discriminating factor, except when we don’t want it too.

If it is income based taxing: they leave, and the demand is filled by someone else who takes their place.

Easy example: grocery store owner A says I don’t like it, moves. Obviously someone else will open a grocery store there if it is needed. They will be taxed accordingly.

The U.S. never threatened to ban Tik Tok if you are talking about important nuance, they are banning foreign ownership, and it isn’t just for Tik Tok. This goes back to the original discussion that other countries doing something shouldn’t dictate whether local government doing something is right. It isn’t, well China banned foreign social media apps, it should be viewed as a stand alone issue on how it can/will effect our society moving forward regardless.

I think it’s more of people down voting because it is making light of the situation by trying to say their local government has already done it. Both are bad. People hate comparisons on here but it’s like saying someone murdered someone and then saying “well the police do it all the time.” They still commited murder, and that response comes as if it is a defense of their actions

So are we saying fixing Argentinas inflation crises may only have costed half what Twitter was bought for?.. I’m hoping I am misunderstanding this.

I was interested till I saw it was seltzer. Screwdrivers don’t need to be bubbly. Sounds like they mashed a mimosa (good) with a screwdriver ( good) and it’s going to come out like a vodka infused mimosa, which I wouldn’t care for.

Waiting patiently for this one. About to hear about leprechauns with bloody 8 legs and a pint of blood from the last person to go walkabout.

What’s the encryption program?

Did the pilot push them out without a parachute? Then yes.

If religion starts condemning people doing this, then they won’t be responsible.

So let me ask you. When some Russians stripped people of their clothes and made them march into the frozen tundra, do you really believe those Russians werent guilty of murder, it was all the tundra’s fault?