hector

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[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 20 minutes ago

30 some states have votor sponsored ballot initiatives, and most of those ammend state constitutions so it takes supermajorities of often 3/4 of state lawmakers to change. Some red ones increased pass threshold to 60 pc though.

But all those states need ranked choice voting, and giving the drawing of districts to an independant body to ungerrymander. Also voting rights laws. Aforementioned states increasing pass threshold on referendums and making it harder to get on ballot with signatures could themselves be changed back with a referendum.

Even red states these issues play. There are other ways polits can jam these up though, election commissions that approve initiative after signature verification have been known to improperly throw out them for wording, as michigan's did on mj legalization 2x before one got through. Or forbidding wolf hunt by vote lawmakers just passed it again coupled with a budget component making it un referendumable.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 18 points 14 hours ago

They're planning on making vpns illegal. They haven't said that yet but they are.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 14 hours ago

Same. I hardly use youtube and will pirate anything I want to see.

I am planning on open sourcing phones and computers too.

Silicon valley parasites can do their age verification without me, that is the last straw, I hardly use now anyway.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago

There are a number of endocrine disruptors they use not just the one you mentioned,. Consumer Reports has looked at it. But it is also bad for tourist areas that have a lot of swimmers like coral reefs, all the sunscreen washes off and fucks up the animals.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That is preposterous equating all of the toxic shit in everything we use with anti-vaxxers. You must really not know what the fuck is going on.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 0 points 18 hours ago

Yeah I read the article, I was just adding the part about the endocrine disruptors cuz that's what I care about. It said an American company actually had guy go to jail for faking results at some point.

The mineral sunscreens also do not rub in at least the ones I have gotten. So a lot of people won't want to use them.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 8 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Idk about that companies that use toxic stuff always deny its toxic, then if forced to admit it's toxic say it is in amounts too small to affect you.

I certainly would not take their word for it or people they pay to say so.

It has real effects on coral reefs and other areas where people swim and have it wash off in. And there are a range of endocrine disruptors in lots of goods that do have real effects on people even if not quite noticeable. Amphibians are particularly sensitive to them and can wipe out populations in the low parts per billions.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 8 points 23 hours ago

Consumer Reports is not a bad place to start.

There are toxin concerns in sunscreen too, some use endocrine disruptors like oxybenzone. Bad for you and where you swim.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 11 points 23 hours ago (11 children)

Not mentioned is the active ingredients in your sunscreen, many being endocrine disruptors like oxybenzone.

The ones that physically block with like titanium and aluminum compounds are best for not flooding your body and waters you swim in with hormone disrupting chemicals, especially damaging in coral reefs.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

As I referred to classically, it refers to 2,000 years ago or more. Which for a few centuries they had been subjugated by the Greeks and then Romans, the rulers of which adopted Eastern norms and declared themselves God and ruled as an all-powerful monarch.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Part of the difference now is that before it was the National Security type people that had the information, no the politicians themselves will be able to access it, as well as numerous outside groups able to hack the system. So it is a world of difference even if the internet is compromised on a basic level. Especially now with these computer programs able to sort and make assumptions however unfounded about people.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Holy shit, you did not make a typo, that is real they're proposing to give him that. Holy shit, or Unholy shit as the case may be

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