BillyClark

Forum rules should be public, and it’s generally better for everyone if they’re specific, too.

When I report content, it’s better when the report form gives me a list of stuff to choose from, and I can check off the box.

When moderators remove content, they should have the same experience. It makes things easier for them.

Users who read the rules don’t end up getting upset about wasting time having their content that they worked hard on removed.

I don’t think it’s a good experience for users if moderators even appear to be power-tripping, and that’s often what it looks like if they are moderating without rules.

The exception that I think most people would agree with is that when the rules are specific, you can get trolls who specialize in barely not breaking the rules, while tricking other people into breaking the rules. So, good moderators do need a little discretion, but I think most of their moderation would be easier with specific rules.

Honestly, unless we change our electoral college and the way that Senators represent people, which are things that we should totally do, we should break up our most populous states into smaller states. I would say that should be our first goal for new states.

States with large populations ironically have less proportional representation in the Senate, and they have fewer electors, per capita, in the presidential elections. In other words, in populous states like California, Texas, and Florida, the voters have less representation than if they lived in Wyoming.

Plus, the Senators and electors are generally winner-take-all, which means that, if you compare to a multiple state solution, the minorities in those states are essentially disenfranchised completely.

So, with such a large discrepancy in population between the most and least populous states, countless voters are getting screwed under our current system.

The only people who benefit from large, populous states are people who are leaders of some sort in those states. The governors of Texas and California have power over many more people than the governor of Alaska. Wealthy people get more if they buy a state politician in Texas than in Vermont.

It would make more sense to split some states up and maybe merge other states together until there is at least some pretense that each state has a similar population.

I’m mostly concerned with the unnecessary fuel consumption, so in that light, I think it would make the most sense to send them all in a single sailboat.

They should all travel on the same plane.

That part of the title where it says “that many secretly need” is just misleading. Only a couple of the inventions would even have the slightest possibility of ever being used.

The only people who would need those inventions are people who collect useless inventions.

I know it’s not currently the law, but I think if you’re a politician, you should legally have to maintain a higher standard for things like this.

Slapping a phone out of a reporter’s hand? Maybe if it was a private citizen being targeted, or I could even excuse a politician doing that if he was protecting his family.

But just the politician alone in a parking lot, and the reporter isn’t even getting in his face? Unacceptable. Surely there’s some law that he technically broke, like assault or something. Even if you wouldn’t charge a normal citizen, a politician should have a higher standard.

I say no excuses for politicians doing things like that. He should at least be arrested and booked into jail.

Since Trump repeatedly touted that his administration is the most transparent administration in history, I can’t help but feel mildly taken aback by this news. Trump’s chief of staff has obviously gone rogue. /s

Here’s one UN source.

North Koreans are “controlled and exploited through an extensive and multi-layered system of forced labour” directed toward the State’s interests rather than the people’s, the report authors concluded.

Note that this was the first result from my search, so I can only assume that means you never even tried to find any information yourself, yet you still disbelieved it.

Buses exist.

Sorry, are you suggesting that North Korea is actually a nice place, where they’re not brainwashed, and where people aren’t put into forced labor camps if their family members defect, but I’ve just been misled by CIA propaganda? Attached to a story about North Koreans being ordered to kill themselves rather than be captured?

Plus, the implication that your taxes should only pay for services that you personally use, or even for services that you might use, is just plain uncivilized.

Some people have that situation, for example, where they can choose whether to pay for fire services, and if they don’t and their house catches fire, the fire department won’t do anything except protect neighboring houses that have paid for it.

It’s pretty backwards for modern sensibilities.

You called their comment “ignorant and misleading.” Do you actually stand behind those words?

So asking for more research and less talking when the progress of actual research is publicized is just moronic idiotic, and everything else describing ignorance.

They didn’t ask for “more research.” They were asking for more of these cheap and effective batteries to be available for them to purchase.

There seems to be some basic miscommunication here. Your quote has nothing to do with the point I made. Either I made the point badly, or you read my comment badly, but either way, I don’t think I’m going to spend more time on this.

The article mentions, IIRC that 6,000 of them died and only two were captured. Given there are so many soldiers, it’s likely that some of them had different motives, considering what you hear from NK defectors.

Your comment is both ignorant and misleading.

“Less talking. More X,” is a cliche that doesn’t imply that there is zero “X.”

I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding their comment and then attributing your mistake to them as if it’s their mistake.

Either they were completely brainwashed or they were afraid of what would happen to their families if they failed to follow orders. You hear the same thing over and over from North Korean defectors about why North Koreans are willing to do things like that.

Trump certainly seems to be tilting when it comes to windmills.

US government pays an exorbitant amount of money in order to set itself back, just to satisfy insane “windmill” bigotry from stupidest president in history.

I really feel like it should be disqualifying for a candidate to lie about campaign promises. I get that it’s not always straightforward to say what’s a lie, but in this case, it’s obvious.

Not only has he said that he’s going to change something that the Senate has no power to change, but he’s acting like he personally would have the power to do it himself, instead of simply being 1 voice out of 100.

As always with Trump’s regime, the cruelty is the point. The disrespect is the point. The Trump regime are evil people. There are no good people there.