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  • Why does postal voting favour the American Democratic Party?

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  • It's just covid, before covid mail votes were proportional, then voting by mail was encouraged to avoid spreading covid. That made the number of Democrats voting by mail go up and the number of Republicans go down out of spite. Republican politicians just followed the reflex of Republican voters to resent prosocial behavior and tried to make use of it.

  • Australians banned teens from using social media. Now, Australians are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes

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  • Nah it's about being mad at teenagers or just mad at not driving a car. The US under Biden passed ebike regulations that are already a lot more strict than just a limit where it becomes a motorcycle, but a bunch of (mostly Democrat) states are either banning all ebikes period or banning most of the federal regulation classes because if Gavin Newsom sees a black kid have fun he instantly becomes Ronald Reagan.

  • China bans hidden car door handles, which can trap people after crashes

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  • The regulation also makes automatic unlocking if the airbags go off mandatory.

  • China to ban hidden car door handles made popular by Tesla in world first

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  • Yes part of the regulation is airbag deployment or ev battery fire has to trigger unlocking all the doors.

  • Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the ‘Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue’ Because Viewers are on ‘Their Phones While They’re Watching’

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  • The amount of reciprocal effort art is socially allowed to demand from the audience changes. The art form gets refined and people respect that and are willing to invest more attention, then at some point it's opera and nobody goes because it requires too much attention and respect. Netflix might suck but on the other hand Christopher Nolan is making movies with inaudible dialogue and Game of Thrones has invisible fight scenes because they got out of hand with it and think they can demand you only watch their thing alone in a soundproof HDR screening room.

  • Can someone please ELI5 the legal issue with genericized trademarks?

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  • Trademarks aren't supposed to be a gift to the company, they're a service to the public to help them know what they're buying so they don't get tricked into buying a counterfeit. If nobody expects velcro to come from one specific manufacturer anymore, that trademark isn't serving the public and there's no reason for it to be protected.

    The Band-Aid company really really wants people to go to the store to buy some band-aids, but then only one box says "Band-Aid" on it so they buy that one because they don't know what "adhesive bandages" are. They love that, it's just illegal. So they have to make sure to run enough "BAND-AID(TM) BRAND ADHESIVE BANDAGES" ads to have a defense in court that no reasonable person is buying Band-Aid because they think that's the only band-aid in the store. But they still want as many unreasonable people doing that as possible.

  • Luigi Mangione hearing tests legality of evidence in healthcare CEO murder case

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  • It's 75% in NYC 50% is probably state average.

  • Shots fired at Border Patrol agents on Chicago's West Side, DHS says

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  • They can go anywhere, 100 miles is just where the supreme court gave them automatic probable cause that anybody in that distance is presumed crossing the border and can be randomly searched without a warrant. Outside of that they just have to remember to lie in court like normal cops.

  • Why doesn't NASA have a go fund me page or kickstarter? Really don't know how they work but would donate. 380 million in the US if everyone gave a dollar would do good?

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  • NASA is allowed to take donations by congress but they have to be unsolicited and unconditional. Gofundme is soliciting. If you want to donate you have to mail a NASA office a check with a note saying it's an unconditional gift and they put it in a gifts trust fund.

  • Waymo CEO Says Society Is Ready for One of Its Cars to Kill Someone

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  • Instead of running a red light or hitting a pole self-driving cars drive full speed under a trailer and decapitate everybody, or someone falls against the car and it detects an accident and decides to pull over and slooowly runs over the person and drags them down the street ignoring all the screaming. The kind of accidents society is desensitized to are the ones they taught the car how to avoid, the fucked up shit where somebody gets hydraulically pressed to death in slow motion while 15 people film it on their phones is what Waymo is going to do.

  • Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi

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  • I would definitely bet the driver didn't say anything like that and the cops just called in whatever they thought they needed to say to get to shoot monkeys.

  • US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment

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  • Yes, Halo is what they believe, the plot of Halo is just standard 2000s South Park conservatism. Fascism is bad I guess but you libs will come crying to the SS for help when the space Muslims attack, so is it really bad?

  • Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors

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  • Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe

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  • If they can lobby they'll just lobby to get all their competitors' data after it passes.

  • There’s a growing number of Americans who think violence might be necessary to get the country back on track

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  • A russian literally wrote the book on how to take down the country.

    Which Russian, the one that says gay atheists take down the country or the one that says gay Jews take down the country?

  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • US media fell for it again award. This is how Trump always negotiates he announces a "deal" that's actually just his initial offer and then calls up whoever it is and begs them to play along and not embarrass him because he already announced it, which works on NYC construction contractors but Xi doesn't give a shit.

  • Can't the American people just denounce the Supreme Court?

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  • Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two millions who have? - John Adams

    The US government is built around trying to put off dealing with the impossibility of a "democracy" swarming with slaves and incredibly rich aristocrats, so it needs unelected people whose job is to say no when people try to vote against the aristocrats. There might be liberals who don't like the racial profiling, but that's the price they pay to have a secretive council of lords who make it illegal for you to vote to make landlords illegal.

  • Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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  • Hydro Quebec invented BYD's battery technology, the only reason they licensed it to BYD in the first place is nobody else was going to do anything with it.

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  • Yes but not because of generated videos. Cop just shoots you and the nearest bystander says "grok what happened" and their camera glasses say "What an intelligent question!!! It looks like someone was just nonviolently apprehended for a serious crime!!! You're so pretty!!!" Then they ask grok if they can cross the street now and get hit by a truck.