Why don’t you vote in primaries that affect the person you would want to be president.
You could be voting in a primary that actually matters to you, but instead you vote in a pointless primary for a candidate you have no intention of supporting.
Talk about mask off…
This is just an ad.
There isn’t anything really wrong with Botox in my opinion, it’s not permanent and it works more as a preventative measure for wrinkles and visual aging than anything.q
I’ve had this discussion with many people. Just because that’s how you define it, doesn’t mean that is how it’s actually defined. We aren’t talking about your definition, we are talking about a government’s decision.
I think it would be foolish to expect any governing or organization to classify sites/services like lemmy or reddit as something other than social media, when they are literally completely made up of users interacting which each other with all of the content being posted by users.
Also, you can argue about your definition all day, but the Australian government’s decision included Reddit, lemmy likely has not yet been affected due to the gov just not knowing of its existence.
I mean, not really. Your online banking or bill pay site isn’t social media, neither are (most) storefronts. A simple site disseminating information ( https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ as a bit of a contrived example ) has no direct engagement or content creation between users and no community forming.
But it makes sense that most of the hobby/fun website and applications will be social media because the primary purpose of the Internet is to connect computers and by extension humans and humans like to interact with each other, the main thing the internet does is let us talk together. It’s not implicitly a bad thing that we do it.
While the term didn’t exist at the time, I would also classify newsgroups and BBS’s as social media as well.
They pulled the game from all the markets that don’t have it, so the concern brought up by the article still stands.
I think a lot of people here on social media need a reality check about who is actually participating in the market.
Most people simply do not care about this stuff, they don’t need to learn, because the outcry of an infinitely small minority doesn’t mean anything to them.
It’s exactly social media, just because it’s the one you like doesn’t make it less so.
“websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.” -oxford
“forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)” - Merriam Webster
Lemmy and forums fit the bill pretty clearly.
It’s literally based on arch.
It’s an immutable arch variant with KDE plasma and a bunch of pre installed applications.
Valve index, pimax, vive, varjo?
Everyone’s out here acting like the two options are the quest or the psvr, there are tons of headsets out there, especially if all you want to do is jork it
Holy shit, SRA people still exist!?
If you have a 401k, IRA, company pension, or any other type of traditional retirement accounts, you likely have some Tesla at least indirectly, and while you might not have direct voting rights, you would at a minimum have ownership of funds that have ownership of Tesla.
Also you can record cash sales of the shoes for thousands of dollars but you never actually sold it, just burned it or never even made the shoe, but now you have a legitimate transaction for your dirty money.
That’s just not true, at all.
Car insurance is mandatory if you have a car in the us and health insurance is mandatory in many states in the US.
Many landlords require renters insurance, and banks require homeowners insurance.
In my state workers comp insurance is mandatory if you have more than three employees.
Banks are required to have fdic insurance. I’m sure there are many more examples, but that is just off the top of my head.
Help, I tried to play a flush five at the casino and now I’m in some backroom with a big guy standing over me cracking his knuckles.
Why would a police officer make a medical judgement like that?
No need to lobby, EA are the ones making the decision
This is the case for both PEGI and ESRB, they are insider operated organizations developed to skirt regulations in the form of ‘self governance’.
Don’t need a bribe when EA is the one on the board doing the ratings.
No it isn’t.
If you vote in a candidate in the primary, you can actually get the candidate you want.
You would need an overwhelming majority of people to switch sides, abandoning their choice of candidate, in order to do this spec ops inside job, and the result is you got a slightly less worse opponent in the election.
Meanwhile, all the people left in the party you actually want to vote for, would no longer be ideologically similar to you and would likely nominate a candidate that you don’t like either. The end result is two candidates that you don’t want, except the one you were never going to vote for is slightly more aligned to you (but likely not by much, given that their core ideals will be different to yours)
Think about it, if you could actually convince enough people to switch sides and nominate a less worse opponent, why wouldn’t you just have those same people nominate the candidate you all actually want?
The whole point of the primary is to decide your candidate, trying to spoil a race for the other side just makes worse candidates all around.
I should clarify, the people left in your actual party would not share your ideals, because if they did, they would have joined you in the mission.