Even construction companies need finance and HR

There’s no misunderstanding, just pragmatism. I’m saying that the fact is that today there is a national government, and that elections for that government should not be run in a fractured way that makes it easier for bigots to take control.

the solution isn’t telling people what not to believe

Absolutely correct. However, I think far too often in society we err too far on the side of respecting religion. As some examples:

• Religious institutions or individuals should not be permitted to discriminate on the basis of either religion or religious belief. A sexist teacher can’t choose to not teach women. A racist bus driver can’t say “no black people on my bus”. A religious doctor, or any doctor at a religiously-affiliated hospital, should not be allowed to refuse to provide certain procedures because of their religion.
• Religions should not receive special taxation status.
• Religious rituals like prayers should not be involved in any civil procedure like the opening of parliaments and city councils.
• The only time religion should ever be involved in actual Monday-to-Friday schools should be as part of dispassionate academic discussion of theology, not from the perspective of evangelising.

Etc.

I fucking hate these videos. Why are they always playing what looks like an old windows xp screensaver? I fucking hate the robotic voice. These are somehow even worse than those shitty upworthy links that just screenshot a Reddit thread one paragraph at a time with ads between each.

There are very good cases for decentralisation. But if you’re going to have national elections whose results affect the entire country, the rules for them should be consistent and overseen by a nonpartisan national body, not by the highly partisan state legislatures of each state.

The pope’s right hand man, for a long time, was a paedophile who for a time fled to the Vatican to stall facing justice. Eventually he went to face trial, and the pope was one of the first to publicly condemn his conviction, after the High Court decided it could ignore a jury’s verdict and declare that he was not guilty.

People make jokes all the time about paedophile priests, but it’s not something that comes out of nowhere or because of “a few bad apples”. It comes from the former pope’s former right hand man who, at the very least, systemically protected priests under his charge, moving them around rather than leave them to potentially face justice when they fiddle with the same child too many times. And who most likely was himself a paedophile. And the pope himself was complicit.

So yeah, he might have been progressive as popes go. But he was still an absolutely horrible man who helped further absolutely heinous actions happening directly under his leadership.

What if I told you the problems only materialize when people tell other people what, and what not to believe?

I disagree. The problems materialise whenever a person enters the real world and their beliefs affect how they act.

For example, a religious doctor choosing not to administer birth control, or not to perform abortions. That’s a real-world problem caused by religious people’s own beliefs impacting how they personally choose to act, and having a negative effect on society at large.

Pure belief and spirituality is critical for healthy evolution of humanity through personal growth.

Was. If you said was critical, I would agree with you. But certainly not is. We have no use for woo-woo and belief in nonsensical claims today.

I agree that imposing a test to vote is a dangerous idea that should not be done.

But it is worth stopping to consider that America’s history is not the only way things can be done. As everyone is hopefully aware by now, America has a uniquely bad democratic system. Rather than taking the sensible approach of having a single, nonpartisan, national electoral commission, they have each state and even county run elections according to their own rules. That allowed the implementation of extremely hard tests in predominantly black areas while white areas had easy or no tests. Something a unified national system could not do.

Personally, I put that kind of woo-woo in the same bucket as religion. It’s all belief in made up nonsense that is indicative of a lack of critical thinking.

It’s also the name of the shark in the survival crafting game Raft.

RES was around long before new Reddit and it does what it does based on what classic Reddit has in it, and what it gets itself. I don’t know much more detail than that, except that the devs basically lost interest in doing more than maintenance of it after the redesign came out.

should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time trying to accomodate specific shitty platforms?

That’s one way to look at it. I would pose it as

should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time providing the best user experience to the users who are on their platforms?

I’m sure RES doesn’t have a sweetheart deal with Imgur. It must be possible without their agreement.

You don’t need “deals” with YouTube etc. for videos. You just…do it. YouTube supports embedding natively. Imgur I’m pretty sure can be directly linked. Not sure about the others.

A bunch of pictures smooshed together? Like a collage?

Mine is primarily a sports watch. The smartwatch features are just an added bonus.

This is the #1 reason Norway should join the EU.

German law literally restricts bike light brightness to a point of being impractical in the dark. It bans blinking lights despite research showing blinking lights increase visibility of cyclists. It requires cut-offs that make it so you literally can’t see what’s ahead of you until it’s too late to react to it, if you’re riding at speed.

If you’re only ever riding at a slow 20 km/h on relatively well-lit city streets, it might be fine. But that’s just not reality.

You’re required to have a rear light, but it must be mounted between 25 and 60 cm above the ground…so you can forget about a light mounted on your helmet or backpack…or even at the most natural place for a light…at the top of your seatpost. It’s fucking nonsensical. And to learn that despite all this bullshit making cyclists less safe, car lights are unrestricted? Oh boy, am I incensed right now.

Wait, Germany bans good-quality bike lights, but allows unregulated lights on fucking cars‽‽

Oh, this is a video game reference? Tbh I thought it was just a knock on the walkability and bad urban planning of American cities.

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

No. Not when the road curves. Only when changing lanes, turning at an intersection, or pulling out from being parked.