Limit car headlight brightness to an amount recommended by eye doctors and traffic safety experts
Replace all prison lights with light posts that have caps
Cap all stadium lighting
Replace all public streetlights with warm colored lights
Limit brightness of all outdoor LED's (likely to a similar amount of lumens as the car headlights were limited to)
Create biannual event where city owned lights, including streetlights, and all businesses over 50 employees MUST turn their lights off for a dark sky night
maybe: Require all unoccupied parking lots turn off their lights 10PM-5AM
Proposed benefits:
Tourism
Education
Boost interest in the sciences and arts
Mental health
Physical health (eye disorders and reduction of sleep disorders)
Increased productivity of workers due to reduction of sleep disorders
The human experience
Eco friendly (Benefits animals)
Eco friendly (saves energy)
Cons:
Criminals target dark parking lots
Rebuttal:
Criminals can't target dark parking lots if they're all equally dark
''Filistin için Teknoloji''den Paul Biggar'ın ortaya çıkardığı raporlar, Gazze'deki katliamda WhatsApp ve Facebook desteğini gözler önüne serdi.
Raporlarda, Meta'nın İsrail ordusuna, 'Lavender' sistemini beslemek için WhatsApp gruplarını belirli kişilerle paylaşan Filistinliler hakkında bilgi verdiğini belirtiyor.
Lavender, WhatsApp ile bağlantı kurarak yer takibi yapabiliyor. Bu sistemle de İsrail ordusu, sivillerin yerlerini tespit ederek evlere baskın yapabiliyor ya da katliamı sürdürerek füzelerle vuruyor.🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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GENOCIDE PARTNER WHATSAPP
Reports revealed by Paul Biggar from "Technology for Palestine" revealed the support of WhatsApp and Facebook in the massacre in Gaza.
Reports state that Meta gave the Israeli army information about Palestinians sharing WhatsApp groups with certain individuals to feed the 'Lavender' system.
Lavender can track location by connecting to WhatsApp. With this system, the Israeli army can locate civilians and raid houses or continue the massacre and hit them with missiles.🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk
Should I try to monetize this page? I haven't posted regularly since like 2018, but it still has 40,000 followers, and I think I could grow it easily again.
Today in Political Facebook Posts I Want To Complain About (really this kind of post should have its own tag): someone posted a meme with rainbows and the words "Wishing all THE HOMOPHOBES a super uncomfortable month".
I'm sort of down with this and my first instinct isn't to be critical (although the comment under it, suggesting we extend this to the whole year and towards not only homophobes but everyone to the right of "us [far on the left]" -- not my paraphrasing: the phrase "anyone right of us" is literally there -- annoys me considerably more), but it also doesn't feel like the kind of sentiment anyone should want to spread around in the service of being one's best self, somehow. This instead appears to reflect the insistence on a "warrior mode" model of the world which I find profoundly unsettling. I don't really want anyone of any social/political persuasion to feel uncomfortable unless it's a kind of discomfort that directly leads to growth. I feel kind of like responding with something like "Wishing all THE HOMOPHOBES a super enlightening month in which their exposure to gay stuff makes them chill out and realize that 'the gays' are actually pretty cool and not so scary after all."
I think also, part of what rubs me the wrong way about statements like that is that it comes across to me below the surface as, in a way, a form of bullying through exploiting the fact that today, throughout most of Western society, LGBT people and allies have the power to get in the faces of anti-LGBT people and not vice versa on a cultural level. Even as recently as 20 years ago, it wouldn't really make sense to wish an uncomfortable month on homophobes because Pride was still something that was pretty marginalized -- there was a vigorous culture around it and plenty of allies, but it wasn't being blasted into everyday awareness through slogans emanating from every major company, from the White House, etc. But in the 2020's, it is. Homophobes in 2004 didn't have to feel uncomfortable because, at least in most places, they could just completely avoid gay stuff mostly by not being around actual Pride events. Now they generally can't avoid it. And, much as I'm cynical about "corporate wokeness" and companies' role in making such a dramatic turnaround over the past decade, I'm glad that things are as they are in the 2020's rather than as they were in the '90's or '00's. But while for good rather than for evil, the pendulum has swung in the direction of giving the gay rights side the power of shoving it in conservatives' faces. And as soon as you step back from the object-level position of "pro- gay rights is the correct stance" and open your range of vision to include the other side's point of view, "I hope homophobes have an uncomfortable month" becomes "We happen to have the establishment very visibly on our side nowadays, so now I hope that that gets rubbed in your face as much as possible."
It reminds me of a (completely unrelated) Facebook friend, extremely on the progressive end of the spectrum but with a ton of conservative extended family, who a few years back got reported for posting a picture of herself breastfeeding her baby. Of course Facebook didn't respond to the report by taking down the picture because Facebook's policy was that breastfeeding doesn't constitute nudity and is okay. My friend never found out which conservative relative reported her picture but decided the most mature way to show her disdain for them was to post a dozen or so more pictures of herself breastfeeding in order to get back at them by making them super uncomfortable, openly stating that this was her purpose. Now, I'm 100% on the side of there being nothing wrong with breastfeeding in public or with images of it being publicly posted, that it shouldn't be considered sexual or indecent, and that attitudes against it probably ultimately stem from a form of misogyny. But I couldn't help interpreting my friend's response in light of "what if the shoe were on the other foot" or "what if the established rules (on Facebook) were the other way around", so that her behavior looked an awful lot like "Well we have a disagreement and Mom/Dad/Teacher the established authority (Facebook) happens to have taken my side of it, so now I just get to rub that in your face, nyah nyah nyah."
Yes, I know what the obvious response to my views is: how can I criticize an attitude of wanting to maximize enjoyment that a large part of culture is on the pro-LGBT side, let alone call it something like "bullying", when LGBT people have still overall had a pretty raw deal (and the T part of the acronym is still struggling badly to win the culture war, although I'd argue that's a bit of a digression from this post's question). And that something similar (though I have a vaguer idea of what it would be) could be said regarding the breast feeding in public issue. There is a point there, which is part of why a good bit of my gut goes "yeah, let the homophobes feel uncomfortable now; after all, they spent a good part of living memory making gay people feel uncomfortable, completely wrongly." But that still comes across to me as embracing a naive sort of "punching up vs. down" model of moral argument, and either way, it certainly doesn't seem like the path toward changing hearts and minds.
It's wild how companies keep copying each other's methods for short-term financial gain even when they've seen it bring financial ruin in the long-term. Just right now they're watching media companies invest billions in new streaming platforms that offer less content in order to get subscribers, but not even knowing if it's a profitable pursuit (it isn't). They're watching movie studios devote almost their entire upcoming film slate and excessive budgets to cinematic universes and sequels, assuming audiences will rush for tickets every time (they aren't).
And their huge brain business strategy with this information is to just keep putting all their half-rotten eggs in one shabbily-woven basket. Instead of you know, developing a product that can stand on its own and won't get dragged down on a sinking ship because it's become nothing else but clone #17 of That Other Popular Thing.
Those who argue IN FAVOR of working (8hr shift +). Calling gen Z "problematic".
Do those people argue for the sake of hating and their delusions that old times are best and change is bad?
Because non of them defend their standpoint by saying "I love working all day and have no time to myself." They all say it makes you a "useful", "proper" person. What ant mentality is that??
Useful for what? This God awful world that makes basic needs so unavailable that people die EVEN if they work?