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The thing about the "the FCC can't regulate cable" thing is that it feels like a issue of bureaucratic oversight, but it's one of basic jurisdiction. They can't just fix a loophole, on a base level their authority is vested in regulating a finite resource - airwaves - in the public interest.

Also I, uh, think it'd be bad to give a government agency the ability to censor all content? Like it may "fix Fox News" but the next Republican President could just reverse that and censor MSNBC and CNN instead. That's the base problem with proposals for "misinformation laws", a mistaken assumption that the agencies involved would be neutral and objective, and forgetting that any law that says "it's illegal to go on TV and say Biden stole the election" is just four to eight years away from being a law that says "it's illegal to go on TV and say Biden didn't steal the election"

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buffy the vampire slayer gif makers are truly the best at their craft because how are you producing gifs at a higher quality than this 90s television show even aired in

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i need to eat a food. none of the food in the house is The Right Food. what is the right food? only god knows. and we're not on speaking terms right now.

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clearly Italy as a landmass predates boots so do you think when boots were invented someone went oh nice Italy reference

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#i know those shows exist but i didn’t realize it was its own service or whatever

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I don't get when people say "I wonder what it was like being the first person to discover masturbation" because technically everyone is that person at some point

#fun fact i actually learned what it was from a dictionary #which if that doesn’t just sum me up as a person i don’t know what does

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Expanding on the tags I left on the post I reblogged earlier because the whole "I'm a communist because I want people to have free shit" is like. Such a fundamental misunderstanding of what communism is.

I think it's a topic that also popped up last year when the banana discourse was going on (a.k.a. when global north "communists" were throwing a fit when confronted with the idea that a communist world economy might involve bananas being slightly less available in global north countries because massive amounts of worker exploitation in the global south are currently required to make it possible for bananas to be not only available but commonplace year-round in the global north) and a bunch of people were going "well how do you expect me to support this as a communist, i thought communism was about wanting people to have nice things!"

(Of course I'm simplifying a lot of stuff here but) Communist politics exist primarily in the realm of production. Communism is primarily concerned with the question of who owns the means of production and thus gets to decide what gets made, how much of it gets made, how it gets made, and how it gets allocated and distributed once it's made. And the answer that communism gives to this question is that it's workers who should get to own the means of production and make all these choices, either through the state apparatus, through a decentralized federation of labor syndicates, through workers's self-management, or whatever other medium depending on the specific branch of communism.

Meanwhile, "I want people to have free shit" or "I want people to have nice things" are statements that I think most communists agree with, but these statements themselves are not what communism is, because they are statements made from the angle of consumption, not production.

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Okay so, got here from a book on animal behavior but: Vulcan stand-up comedy as a competitive activity.

Because most Vulcans don't actually pretend they don't have emotions, it's all about self-regulation, right? And good comedy usually hinges on manipulating the relationship between our faculties of recognition and surprise in various ways, you can get pretty scientific with it.

So Vulcans go to the comedy act, and the idea is the comedian is trying to make you crack up, and the audience is trying to not even crack a smile, and if you do laugh, you lose. Like all in good fun, but Vulcans are both really competitive and really aware of how dangerous that urge can be to a society, so this could actually be classified as highly orthodox Surakian practice.

So of course the comedian has to actually be funny, or there's no challenge and the game is boring.

Which means the really good Vulcan comedians (most of whom tend to extremely dry delivery of their bits) are going to go around playing to packed houses, which mostly sit staring stonily back at them, with occasional breaks when someone loses it and reacts.

And after a show you'll have Vulcans walking out discussing with great approval how very humorous that was, with varying degrees of muted smugness or chagrin depending on if they won or lost.

I bet there are human comedians whose grandest fantasy is being good enough to do a set in Vulcana Regatta and have people going around bragging about not laughing at them.

#communal ylyl is a fascinating concept

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it actually annoys the shit out if me when people act like ww2 isn't something that you need to learn about anymore. like no actually that's all still very important sorry

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Klavier Gavin ass product

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i think tommyinnit could easily be peeled like a banana.

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i think my eating has gotten more disordered which is so frustrating

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today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

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AITA for not telling my son we know he’s queer. I 40s(m) and my wife 40s(f) have a 17 (m) son lately he’s been sneaking around and keeps almost starting to come out and then backing out or getting interrupted. It’s exhausting and I think we should just tell him we know but I’m not sure that’s the best course of action? I worry it might come off wrong.the worst part is his grades have been slipping and if he’s sneaking around with a boyfriend that might be what was causing it? I don’t care if he has a boyfriend I just want him to succeed.

EDIT: nvm he’s Spider-Man

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still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

#ehhh i want to rewrite these tags but im gonna go to sleep now #charity is not intrinsically tied to missionary work even if you are motivated by your religious ideals #not that that’s still got its issues but people don’t always mean the evangelizing part #(i say this as someone related to two nuns) #my great aunt G- helps run a school in kenya. i’m sure there’s colonial issues with that school but her mission is not explicitly to spread- #-christianity. i’m sure this school implicitly spreads christianity #but anyway my point is. i can see how someone might think you can decolonize ‘mission work’ but you can’t really