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Ah, another boycott, eh, let's see how this one turns out. Not what I did and nor what I actually said. Besides, this was resolved by SFLUFAN. Hard to abide by rules that aren't mentioned anywhere on this forum but he told me the gist of it now so calm your tits.

Give the guy some credit, he'd still manage at least a moderate trot.

Thanks for moving/merging this, @Commissar SFLUFAN or whoever did it

Finally something progressives and white supremacists can agree on: Fewer African-Americans and Natives on the packaging of their products!

My my, yet another mindreader amongst our midst! I concur with your recommendation though: Don't respond to me if you don't have anything of value to add. Good advice, I just wish you adhered to it yourself a bit more often.

I mean ... that's how he won last time. Didn't see a thread about this interview from yesterday. Maybe not exactly surprising but still a bit ... odd coming from the guy who campaigned on being a "transitional president" and said Guess their time just hasn't come yet, hm? Well, maybe towards the end of this decade then, I suppose. Unless there's still another geriatric "transitional president" that has to show the kids how it's done first before it's their turn.

Producers of 'Rust' fined $100,000 for safety breaches WWW.DW.COM The producers of the movie have been fined for "serious" safety breaches, which led to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last year. Actor Alec Baldwin has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. I guess this doesn't come as that much of a surprise anymore after the previous lawsuit already showed the way this all is probably gonna go ...

Joe Biden intends to seek a second term as US president WWW.DW.COM The president says he plans to seek reelection in 2024 but is not ready for a full-blown campaign yet. Should he serve a second term, Biden would be 86 by the time he leaves office. HUH. Really? Well, this'll be interesting.

Sorry, Shader, it just didn't happen to be up top in the Unread Content list for me before I'll promise to try to be faster for you from now on Political grandstanding, I imagine, to signal to their electorate (by pretending to be doing something without actually doing something). Why was that anti-lynching bill passed some time back necessary even though it was obviously already illegal to begin with? Same reason, different topic. I hadn't considered that but yeah, we'll see.

I'm not saying it would be perfect, Xbob, just one possible way to arrive at a more objective, quantifiable answer to the question of how much of an impact it had. And regarding polls and people not answering, there's an entire science around that so with enough resources I think we could arrive at quality data in theory

Then I suppose you'd be a lot denser than I am and also way more repulsive.

Who said that I said that you were referring to me at all?

Oh, cool, apparently Shader's a telepath now, too. That lad astonishes me every day anew. Just pointing out the flaws in the argument in the article. If the rebuttal is "Well, they'll simply ignore existing law and interpret it however they want" then they could already do so even without this amendment. Reminds me of all the hysteria surrounding bill C-16 in Canada. Wake me up once something actually happens on the basis of it IRL.

If you made it with fortified plant milk, apparently it actually would be

All law ultimately is but I get your point. However, there's already vague enough "crimes" that they can use for that (e.g. "creating a public disturbance") and the paragraph the bill refers to (§ 39-17-901) does further define what exactly counts as "harmful to minors". Of course they can ignore what is listed there as prerequisites for it to count as such but then again, they can ignore any law if they so choose and no one holds them to account for it. Especially relevant seems this part: "(C) Taken as whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific values for minors;" Seems to me normal gay parades would be excluded from counting as adult-oriented entertainment on that basis.