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True but in this case it's not populace deciding to make the food import ban, it's the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They are using this opportunity to create a impact on Japan’s economy which is already struggling under the strain of inflation the country hasn't experienced in decades.

It is just political posturing and nothing else. Not out of concern for the Chinese people.

Interesting article. I don't think the linguistic argument used in the OPED is going to sway anyone to support gun control.

I think a lot of the efforts to implement gun control ignore the nature of the US. The country is large and in some areas people can not rely on quick police response or if the police can respond quickly, they can't be trusted to act in good faith.

We certainly need some gun control to prevent those who are mentally ill or previously convicted of violent crimes from owning guns. Even processes for these, if put in place, must be appealable to ensure universal fair treatment. Additionally mandatory wait times would be great as well.

I think bans of X gun because it's scary are non sensical because those bans are not going to win over any gun rights advocates to create a national consensus.

The large majority of gun owners never commit a violent crime and should not be told to give them up because of the actions of a few.

I really wish it had a 3.5mm audio jack. I don't see what companies stand to earn, other than money, when they remove the headphone jack.

I can see why Apple and Samsung removed it because the they can market their own wireless headphones.

Removing the jack only removes capability, it is not like older phones didn't have the capability to connect to Bluetooth headphones

Are globalists and rich people only Jewish though? Not at all.

I think people are really stretching to call it anti-semitic.

I don't like how the song addresses people with welfare but I definitely wouldn't call it racist or anti -semitic. However that's just my own opinion and people can form whatever conclusions they want.

I wonder why your username is AggressivelyPassive. More like AggressivelyAggressive ha.

That's true but couldn't that also be said for the rare earth metals used in batteries to power phones and EVs?

No energy production is perfect. Just good to look at the pros and cons.

I don't understand the hostility. Germany made a conscious decision to turn off their nuclear power plants.

Facts are facts. Nuclear power is the 2nd safest power generation method per terawatt hour. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

Additionally there are ways to recycle nuclear fuel. Most often the arguments against nuclear are fueled by emotion and not fact based.

I wonder if they would ever reconsider what they did for the deactivation of nuclear power plants.

I think this whole discourse regarding safe spaces is a good explanation of why safe spaces, in my opinion, aren't needed and are flawed.

People will normally flock to groups that provide confirmation bias. Why? Because most people don't want to be told their idea isn't good. So safe spaces are de facto already created by group think that already exists.

Additionally, how would the initial comment questioning the need for safe spaces in this thread have been handled in a safe space? Would it automatically be moderated/deleted because it didn't agree with the published safe space narrative? We have all had a respectful discourse regarding the validity of safe spaces which is great. If we didn't have this people could not understand the opposing viewpoint or change their viewpoint.

One thing that Google does is estimate your location based on the WiFi networks around you.

When Android phones connect to the internet, they send to Google the details of WiFi networks nearby. If a user has their location (GPS based) turned on, the phone will send it's location along with the WiFi networks info.

Google is then able to build a database from many user's location with the networks they had around them. If your phone has its WiFi on (even if it isn't connected to one), it tells Google "I see these networks around me" and then Google is able to tell your phone that based on the ones you are seeing you are probably in X location because users in that vicinity have seen the same networks.

The same thing can be done for cell phone towers so even if the phone has WiFi turned off, it can estimate a location based on the cell phone towers it is seeing.

So it is possible for Google to give you emergency alerts with precise location turned off but they probably have treated alerts as an "all or nothing thing" where you give them all your location data or you don't get the alerts. I think their legal justification for not providing the alerts is that you can get alerts from non Google products (radio) and the precise location requirement is "vital" to make sure the right alerts are getting to you.

I think the tone statement is true. There were probably were some ways for me to improve my phrasing.

I go assuming the benefit of the doubt for most if not all posts since they are text only. We can derive a lot of things from body language and actual tone in real life.

Yes I do disagree with the moderation policy here. However, just because I disagree with it doesn't mean that I intend to be disrespectful to any individual on this server.

I stay because at least the mods are active, get involved in discussions, and care to be transparent with how operations are run for the instance (the monthly financial reports are great).

Beehaw is my first experience with Lemmy, have I liked all of it? No but the fact that it is federated (as all Lemmy instances are) and transparent, which doesn't happen for all instances, is refreshing.

It is okay for people to disagree. That's completely fine and it's totally fine for you to make your comment.

I figured people would disagree. That's par for the course here.

Whats not okay is people making comments like "oh you made a duplicate account". Why is that? While the person disagrees, which is fine, it shows that there are people who believe just because you are supporting an opposing viewpoint, you must not be a real person or actually only one person with that view.

Should it be moderated? No, not at all. It is just a symptom of the beehaw culture of moderation to bee nice.

Well the moderating is part of the problem. Moderators that delete or restrict comments that aren't "nice" drives those people that have been moderated into groups that reaffirm their beliefs, however dangerous they may be.

I take a view that even if something isn't "nice" it should never be moderated unless it advocates for violence against a group or puts endangers someone's privacy. In life we may find ourselves in conversations or with people we can't censor or shout down so why would we do it online?

People may ask why I'm still on beehaw and the fact is that I don't agree with many of the viewpoints advocated here but I have to practice what I preach. If I run away from beehaw and don't contribute then the community gets sucked in further to group think on a specific viewpoint.

Beehaw is dangerously close to group think that shouts down/deletes other viewpoints. There is a difficult to discern line between a view you don't agree with and what is labeled here as "close minded".

I myself experienced that when I posed a opposing viewpoint regarding a search for non right wing podcasts. I can understand wanting a podcast without any mention of politics but to say I don't want to listen to X group because I don't agree isn't a positive way to take disagreement.

I have noticed that beehaw tends to shout down people that disagree which is not beneficial. The more you shout down/ignore a group the louder they become. That is the main reason why I think, at least the US, is in the polarized political environment it is in now. We have lost our thought of empathy, discourse and evaluation of ideas different from our own.

This link is to the same article. Was there a reason for posting it?

One thing the Pentagon doesn't mention is that there are already people who will be the acting leaders so they are not leadership. Someone is still doing the job, they just have the word acting in front of their title.

It doesn't make sense while if this data, that would usually require a warrant if not already being sold, is allowed to be collected by companies.

Companies may argue that users consent to this in the terms and conditions of when they start using the product but what about those users that aren't a Google, Facebook or "insert tech corporation here" user? Those users never consented to data collection but their data is being collected just the same.

The issue is not the government buying this data. That is just a symptom of the root cause which is lack of consumer privacy laws.

I am aware of them haha but I know that those who wear them also do not like to wear long ones because of the inconvenience they cause.

I'm worried about the safety implications of bringing them back. What if they got caught in an escalator, elevator door, taxi door, normal door.

Plus I think it would be rude if you are walking down the sidewalk and your cape/cloak keeps touching people who are walking by you.