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  • Say NO to Mandatory E-Bike License Plates and Registrations [California]

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  • Something else being much more dangerous doesn't make that first thing less dangerous. Otherwise, why worry about rail safety then, for instance? Taking the train is also somewhere around 100x less dangerous than driving (and I'm pretty sure if you evaluated the statistics the way they are in your picture, it would be well more than 100 times less dangerous).

    Add to that, just because it doesn't kill you, doesn't mean it's not dangerous. Injuries are also something that are, well, not good, especially when it's caused by other people's recklessness.

    And let's not mix up licensing and surveillance. You get a surveillance state when that information is then used to track you where you go (see flock cameras). Otherwise you could make the same argument that cars shouldn't have license plates, either.

  • Say NO to Mandatory E-Bike License Plates and Registrations [California]

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  • Honestly, bicycles should have license plates, period. They may not be as dangerous as cars, but they can still be very dangerous. And considering an unfortunate number of cyclists see themselves as above the law, it's necessary. And honestly, I would have absolutely no problem with registering my bike, as long as the process isn't overly complicated.

  • Brazil's Lula says Maduro should be tried in Venezuela, not abroad

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  • If there's a court that could try him that isn't Venezuelan, it would be the ICC.

    Oh wait, the US doesn't recognize the ICC. Well, well, well.

  • A how-to

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  • I feel like this is the beginning of a howtobasic video.

  • Labour aren't left wing.

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  • Ah, right, everyone who doesn't agree with me is an extremist. And politically illiterate. Got it.

  • I totally agree, too much is too much.

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  • I won't say all rules are valid or right, but this one just makes sense (in contrast to rules of some other communities, which outright ban certain opinions). Sometimes you don't want to hear about all the doom and gloom, and for many people, it's not good for their mental health to hear about it all the time. They know what's happening, they need some time off.

  • This is a real "AI" ad from the US government about the end of the mandatory use of the auto start-stop.

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  • Interesting back windshield wiper that only wipes half the windshield.

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • Unfortunately not only a problem in schools. Where I work at there's already a pay per use system that bills the department, with an entire system with separate codes to identify where you belong financially. Now they're debating adding a fee for the ability to print.

  • As Dem Voters Seek a 'Fight' With the Superrich, AOC is Now Their Favorite Candidate: Poll

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  • It's true that two women have failed, but I'm not convinced their gender had anything to do with it.

    This. In fact, many people were driven out to vote for Hillary because she was a woman, despite being a pretty terrible candidate. Let's not forget, she won the popular vote by several million/several percent.

    The sword cuts both ways, so I would rather put gender and ethnicity by side and look at their actual policies.

  • Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

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  • Minced meat on its own is processing the meat of an animal until it is unrecognizable

    Not quite. It's to use the leftovers, and also to preserve them to a certain extent. The leftovers can often be tough, so it's ground. What doesn't change is that the flavor of the meat is still very present. It's not trying to taste like something different, which the vegan "sausage" is.

  • Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

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  • For decades - but they were much rarer than nowadays. You wouldn't find them on store shelves like you do nowadays. And sausages have existed for centuries.

  • Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

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  • For me that comes down to the same argument as "didn't you read the fine print?" If I spent time researching the due diligence you're expecting, I would have time for nothing else anymore.

    And I didn't order wrong, they misunderstood me, because it was so confusing.

  • Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

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  • Fair enough. I guess it just often bothers me that I'll be somewhere, and the choice I get is between meat and something that tries to be meat. I've tried the latter a number of times and always been disappointed. Which often ends up preventing me from reducing my meat consumption, because if I don't want something masquerading as meat, well then there's nothing other than meat.

  • Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

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  • Traditionally, yes, it is that it is made from meat. Even most dictionaries will back that up. Even vegan "sausages" will try to make the contents taste like meat (the keyword is in my experience "try"), which kind of proves the point.

    And yes, most sausages aren't made from intestine anymore, but if you want a really good one - it still is, and there's an argument to be made that it isn't an authentic traditional sausage if it isn't. To be fair, though, the intestine isn't central to the taste, it's more of a functional thing. The filling isn't.

    And I'm not sure you understand what Grützwurst is, then - the base is still meat.

  • Food firms urge Europe not to ban calling non-meat products ‘sausages’

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  • I actually did have vegan "fish" by accident once. Ordered normal fish and chips, but they called the vegan stuff Vish, so it was easy to get mixed up. It was quite the disappointment (I immediately tasted that this was not fish).

    I don't understand why people keep insisting that it has to be called a burger or a sausage. With a burger - OK, I kind of see that we've already muddied the waters on what can be called a burger, but a sausage? That has just about always been with meat until recently, and obviously for many people that's part of the definition. Why can't we just call it something else if the core element of what makes it a thing is absent? (And why do we even have to try to recreate meat by processing vegan stuff until what it used to be is unrecognizable? There's so much more to vegan coming than that...)

  • I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too

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  • I tried to find the article on it, but it was a while ago that I read, so I honestly don't know 100%...

    But I doubt it would be illegal, as a company they're not small enough to fly under the radar and not big enough to flagrantly break laws and get away with it. Two possibilities that come to mind (and both may be true:

    • they did it via black box reverse engineering. That has less issues legally, since you're not trying to decompile someone else's code, but looking what that code does and trying to recreate it

    • the Linux Kernel's GPL gives them certain rights in that area

  • What launcher should I replace Nova with?

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  • What the hell is going on there? Why??

  • I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too

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  • Yes and no, Fairphone has actually managed to reverse engineer some of the drivers for its old phones to provide android upgrades years after the component manufacturers have dropped support. The Fairphone 2, for instance, received a little over 7 years of support and 4 major version upgrades, skipping one on the way. For the Fairphone 5, they've promised 10 years of software support, and judging by their track record, I believe them. They also open source as much as they can and even give instructions on how to build the OS yourself.

    Of course, open source drivers would be better, but that doesn't exist at the moment, unfortunately. At this point, Fairphone is one of the companies that comes closest (with Shiftphone being a close rival).

  • Man’s penis gets stuck to icy sidewalk during bar fight in Canada 🇨🇦

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  • "We were just playing tummy swords"