Not only that, all these props are just propaganda to me. I see a bunch of youtube videos constantly telling me that people are gonna die if I don't vote for prop something. No information, just appeals to emotions.
My take is that homelessness is a nationwide issue in the US more than anywhere else in the world, and its more visible in states that have more funding to address the issue. Knowing that, 360M$ is nowhere near enough to alleviate the symptoms, and nothing compared to what needs to be invested to cure the actual root cause.
I keep hearing this, but I live in SF and I never felt that the taxes were that annoying, and considering the misery in the streets I'd be willing to pay much much more for things to improve.
People need to see taxes as a monthly subscription that makes life around you better
The movie has 87% on rotten tomatoes, the director won the Directing Award from Sundance and was nominated to other awards at the Berlin International Film Festival. This is probably not what you think, better to watch the movie and make your own opinion.
It's pretty sad to read French and American reviews side by side, there is really something about America and taboo topics (can't show nipples on tv, can't swear on tv, etc.), perhaps due to religion?
Huh? I never said anything supporting organized religion and I'm not sure how this is relevant. You do realize society can choose an ideological system that doesn't include pedophelia, right? It's not one or the other.
What people say and what people do are not the same thing. Society, when given a recent choice, declared outrage for the children then promptly chose the institution. Any other business with a child abuse record the length of the Catholic church’s would be publicly shunned, closed down, and its assets sold off to compensate its many, many victims. And yet, it’s as strong as ever; a bastion of conservative establishment “do as I say not as I do”.
Look, this is not hard to understand: the increasingly fascistic US Right and its Qanon sturmtrupplers are using their “deep state cannibal pedophiles” narrative (amend as appropriate) as a modern-day blood libel in which to paint all their enemies. Mignonnes is simply one more convenient hook upon which to hang the greater attack. To fixate on the film is just one more layer of misdirection, to keep people angry, active, and blind to the big picture. You cannot understand anything until you understand that.
There is nothing innately anti-pedophile abould US Conservative culture; if anything, it’s proved one of the great hiding places for abusers (51st Speaker of the House, anyone?), precisely because it controls what gets said publicly and what is kept private, cultivating and misdirecting popular rage onto its political enemies, and edging ever closer to repeating the great atrocities of history, from the blood libel-stoked slaughters of first European Jews by Catholics, then of those Catholics by the new Protestants, through to the ethnic executions of the Bosnian war and the wholesale genocide of Rwanda, and everything inbetween.
Now I consider myself European despite being stuck here on reactionary backwards Airstrip One. My granddaddy was Antifa back in Africa and Italy. I also know firsthand how much damage one can do just by choosing a pleasing lie over a painful truth. I have few illusions about how bad things can get, and all it take to get it underway is for enough people to buy into a Big Lie to justify everything that comes next. I have the limitations but also the benefits of an outside perspective on what’s happening in the US right now, and I’m legit worried for the future of our whole damn planet as a large chunk of America charges proudly towards a Russia-like one-party state.
If you don’t wish to repeat humanity’s bloody history (which I can assure you won’t spare the children from anyone else) then you really need to start paying attention to who is spinning the popular narratives and to what goal. Starting in a mirror—because if you can’t be brutally, rigorously honest with yourself about your own understanding and motives, then what makes you think you can defend yourself from others’ deceptions any better?
“Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.” – William Pannapacker
I saw Github's code as a consultants years ago, and I always thought it was crazy that they would ship the whole thing to us. But then I thought, how many employees do they have? Probably enough that security should not rely on the secrecy of the code anymore.
I think the main concern would be the intellectual property around the large-scale distributed system which is storing billions of lines of code in a single system. Implementing git object storage is still hard (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_File_System_for_Git).
Though, that's probably not what they use in the enterprise edition, so maybe they aren't as worried.
“Natives” meaning they’re born there, but their parents or grandparents are usually immigrants. The “native born” statistic is a tremendous argument for stricter immigration controls, as the cultural influence towards terrorism is so high that it can affect even the native born population.
Ignoring NI-related terrorism, that is true (many of whom likely have ancestors who lived in Ireland before the English conquest). But it is perhaps however telling that it's effectively never the immigrants themselves, which leads to questions about why later generations end up involved in terrorist groups. The answer often appears to be cultural disenfranchisement due to not being "British" enough while also being tainted by family as emigrants.
Of all of the utilities, power & water should be considered basic rights. Yet, I find it curious how cities provide water and sewage, yet power utilities are private. Solid waste also tends to be private. There are a few cities that provide power. Burbank, CA is one that I have personally had an account. I would include gas in that, but if you have power & water, you can do with out gas.
In today's age, I think a basic internet connection (5mbps down/1Mbps up) should be required at all addresses, and then premium packages with higher speeds could be purchased. But that's a can I'd be happy to kick down the road if we could get power&water guaranteed to all first.
Whether something can be considered a "basic right" is independent of who is doing the manufacturing and distribution.
Food is a basic right. We have food stamps to cover those who can't afford food. But that doesn't mean we need a nationalized canned soup manufacturer. Or to nationalize Wonder Bread.
With proper money allocation and regulation, there's no reason that "basic rights" can't be provided for by a competitive albeit monitored market.
Come on... There's a million reasons why new startups shouldn't start here, the salary of a CEO is not one of them.