Random niche question, was there ever a time where flag emojis were read out by screen readers incorrectly because they’re a combination of symbols under the hood?

Yeah, and it’s a scourge in those places too

This is the Labor party bringing it in, so you can bet the legislation will just-barely-sort-of do what it says on the tin.

That’s what you get from centre-right governments…

Be careful what you wish for. The only revolution you want to have is lead by the working class (the vast majority), bringing everyone else along, in my opinion.

Letter A4? Lol. Hopefully businesses start advertising things by the double-pounder-kg or the quart-Litre haha

Is letter A4 just A4 with emotional support?

It’s worse than that, the tobacco regulator and the company with a monopoly on tobacco production/sales is the same organisation 💀

Holy conflict of interest Batman

You know what, the people are alright.

I suppose we just enjoy different things about Star Wars then, for me it’s all about the world building, and seeing how characters act within it, the battles and action are just a climax to everything else (I feel this way about all sci-fi and fantasy).

Not saying you only watch it for the battles, but I do mostly watch it for the talking haha

It’s why I still very much enjoy the prequels, despite them being pretty shoddy on the plot (Anakin’s fall could have been written soooo much better written it hurts. Probably would have needed an extra movie to really sell it though. The Clone Wars TV show episode where Tarkin and Anakin meet for the first time was great if I recall correctly. It made kinda make sense why Anakin bought into fascism in the end.)

To me there’s no such thing as a food sci-fi and fantasy without politics (in the sense that there’s some disagreement which motivates people). More trade disputes and blockades please, less holdo maneuvers that break existing rules of the world. The holdo maneuver would have been great to destroy the Death Star with some Kamikaze X-Wings jumping to hyperspace through it…

The battles, to me, are only interesting if one fleshes out the world and the political disagreements.

I once started watching a Chinese fantasy show (was learning Chinese, and like sci-fi/fantasy) and it opened with a 10 minute battle, no context. Immediately turned it off, like why do I care, show?

Ah, I haven’t been keeping up to date! Shall check it out :)

Not in love with all of Disney star wars, but Andor is hands down the greatest Star Wars I’ve seen, so I’ll forgive them for the rest of the stuff I don’t like as much (not including Star Wars episodes 7-9, straight to jail)

I desperately hope you don’t mean episode 9.

Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but damn, do you even like the rest of it? Or other sci-fi and fantasy in general?

The absolute disrespect of not bothering to try to create a coherent world in episodes 7-9 was staggering.

If a piece of media’s plot or storytelling is a bit meh, that’s forgivable, but when you’re just straight up not bothering to think of the logistics or established rules within a fantasy/sci-fi world? Please no. Please stop.

Or at least be writing something supernatural where there are barely any rules and you can hand waive whatever you like.

I’m with you, I use ISO 8601 exclusively at work, even in emails and no one has once questioned me on it.

The problem is the other formats still exist, so MM-DD is ambiguous.

Yes, but we can all agree DD/MM/YYYY is far more valid than MM/DD/YYYY which should be taken out back and shot

The only part I dislike about this, is that I can’t find on their website what portion of the $10 you pay will go to building something on the land.

If you keep capitalism no amount of political donation/lobbying regulation will ever fix the problem. The problem being that having money affords you influence, even without donating directly to political parties, or by lobbying and legally bribing politicians with cushy jobs after they leave politics.

The goal would be to make it so the politicians can only game for votes from the people.

If we allow wealth to be amassed and concentrated in the hands of a few (who extracted that excess value from the workers who actually produced it), we hand control of the economy, and thus society to an unelected oligarchy.

If you control the wealth of a nation, including capital, you control the workers who are economically forced to work for you, as they lack enough money to compete with you.

When you control the capital, you decide what projects are invested in, you can influence elected bodies to bend over backwards for you with tax reductions (see, Amazon and basically getting cities to bid for them to locate parts of their business there).

And oh so much more that I am too inarticulate to make concise here.

You can’t regulate your way to capitalism working, since the profit motive will always work to undo them (see the fact that Anti-Trust is barely being enforced anymore in the US, and the rest of the world generally)

capitalism can work is somewhat more the tolerable if it’s well regulated

FTFY.

I think we’re well past the idea that capitalism is the “end of history”. The profit motive is always gonna lead us back here.

I somewhat echo you feelings on ignorance and “China bad!”, but definitely do not agree with the characterisation of China as a “proletariat government”.

The workers do not have meaningful democratic control over society in China, and to claim they do requires some next-level mental gymnastics.

If one believes in control of society by the workers, as socialists ought to by definition (at least, by my understanding), one really ought not tout China as a government to emulate…

China is a decent place to live, but just as capitalist as anywhere else, and is authoritian (again, like many other places, the US included in that to a decent extent).

And no doubt I’d prefer living there over the US. You couldn’t pay me to visit the US.

What drives me crazy though, is MLs and the Chinese state, claiming that they’re socialist.

I hecking wish they were… :(

I hope people take that as a contract and when they inevitably do it again, sue the hell out of them.

Not that it’ll stop this phenomenon.

Get organised folks, join your local socialist orgs (provided they are sane and not Stalinists and don’t think China is socialist).

I want off this ride, and that’s only gonna happen if we get involved, all over the world.

Considering the rampant late-stage-capitalism practically every where: where? Where does this happen?

So I’ll worry about leftist over-regulation when it becomes a problem

Not sure if the DSA is your vibe then, since it’s openly anti-capitalist, but again, I’m not from the US and known little about the organisation.

Perhaps some leftists will bring ya along and change your views, or vice versa.

I’m part of Victorian/Australian Socialists, and on the topic of “over-regulation”, I’d much rather see a world where the workers have meaningful control over their workplaces (currently, companies are dictatorships, coerced with the threat of poverty)

I’d much rather have industries regulated by bodies comprised of the willing (which would primarily be the workers in those industries, and whoever else cares) who will discuss and vote on regulation, with an overarching national body keeping them in check. (So, similar to regulators of today that work within legislation, but with the difference that people who are making/voting on the regulations actually know what the fuck they’re talking about)

“Over-regulation” becomes much less necessary when organisations aren’t run purely for profit since the incentives are different. I also think over regulation happens when requirements are made way too inflexible - which isn’t a a feature of socialism nor capitalism. That already happens all over the world under capitalism as well.

Just saying, being very left wing (like me) doesn’t equal over regulation.