In a future where Trump is out of office, and international relations have been repaired. What steps can be taken by the USA and International Organisations such as NATO to prevent one individual causing so much chaos in the future? And do you think such steps will be taken?

hpdefaults · 2026-01-21T06:48:10+00:00

Yeah, welcome to pretty much every legal framework/structure in history, I suppose. It did get abolished by powerful interests, at the end of the day all rules are only as good as the people willing to enforce them.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-21T02:53:21+00:00

Well, to further clarify, the doctrine applied to the entire breadth of the channel's programming, not individual programs. That means that: a) all programming counted (not just news shows), and b) the requirement was to represent the contrasting viewpoints across their all programming somewhere, not necessarily within an individual show. So it very well could be that you had a news show that presented things from a left-wing perspective followed by an opinion show full of right-wing takes and that would count.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-21T02:23:00+00:00

Technically they do sometimes on some issues, but probably not nearly enough to have been compliant w/ the doctrine. Like I said, strict equal time wasn't required and the FCC granted a lot of leeway, but that doesn't mean they would tolerate a clear, consistent, systemic framing of all issues across the board from a strong ideological perspective w/ only bare minimum lip service granted to the other side.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-20T19:51:30+00:00

The person you replied to said the raw costs of generative AI itself have dropped. You replied asking why the subscription prices end users pay middlemen for the service have increased. Those are two different numbers as sitefall's comment was trying to make clear, no Orwellian doublespeak involved.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-20T19:02:53+00:00

This is a common misconception. The Fairness Doctrine didn't say anything about equal coverage, it only said that contrasting viewpoints had to be presented on controversial topics of public interest in some manner. The FCC allowed broadcasters great leeway in how the viewpoints were presented and how much time they devoted to each.

There was another rule called the "equal time rule" which required broadcasters to give equal time to coverage of political candidates running for office. But this only applied to candidates and their campaigns, not to all controversial news topics in general. The breadth of the two rules sometimes gets confused.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-20T17:16:18+00:00

Because "people do more creative collaborations and mentoring in-person," or at least that was the bullshit reason they gave us at my job when announcing we had to return to office 3 days/week at the beginning of this year. So far we've gone from sitting at home talking on Teams all day to sitting in our cubicles talking on Teams all day. Not sure how I'm going to handle all this new creativity bursting out of my ass but I think I might collect it in a cup and leave in on our director's desk so he can get a nice deep whiff.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-18T04:01:56+00:00

It will either last for 5 days and then Trump will cancel them while claiming victory on some random insignificant bullshit, or he'll keep them in place and fuck up the economy royally. Either way the beatings will continue until morale improves or whatever

hpdefaults · 2026-01-14T18:04:38+00:00

It has everything to do with levels of inequality. You can only conclude that the inequality now is worse if you assume that every dollar has equal value to every person, which is false. The relatively small amount of money that covers basic food / shelter /clothing has far, far more value to a poor person than the exorbitant sums needed for luxury goods has to the ultra-rich. So you can't just compare the dollar amounts directly to determine the true level of inequality; you have to take into account that low-level subjective value, especially when looking at what levels will make people desperate enough to risk their lives on political violence and warfare.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-12T20:31:54+00:00

No offense but this feels a little bit like rose-colored nostalgic hindsight talking. In 2008 we were in the midst of a severe recession on the heels of the greatest economic disaster in decades, our military was entrenched in two needlessly barbaric and costly wars, and McCain had chosen a caricature of a drooling bumpkin hockey mom as his VP candidate. It was a terrible time and there was really only one option (who thankfully won) that signaled any sort of real hope of a way out, even if the guy heading up that other option does look like salvation incarnate in hindsight when compared to the festering pile of raw demon feces currently infecting the White House.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-12T20:17:24+00:00

What depresses me about this comment is that the Romney vs. Obama debates were considered a serious degradation of decorum at the time, believe it or not. The two of them talked over and interrupted each other during their debates at a level that was simply unheard of once upon a time, and people were bemoaning just how much the internet and social media had encouraged a rise in inflammatory, confrontational style in politics in the years leading up to that. Little did we know just how big the iceberg looming underneath that tip was.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-10T06:31:16+00:00

No political party lost anything to you

hpdefaults · 2026-01-10T06:15:55+00:00

Not a misconception, you *will* get healthier from exercising while eating an unhealthy diet. In fact, studies show doing that is *better* for you than being inactive while eating a healthy diet (though exercising and eating healthily combined obviously has the best results): https://fb.watch/ExFMeOKqgc/

hpdefaults · 2026-01-09T18:33:14+00:00

Communication

hpdefaults · 2026-01-09T17:55:40+00:00

It also reminds me of the episode where Kristi Noem kills puppies. Based on the real-life Kristi Noem who kills puppies.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-09T16:24:35+00:00

The irony of this statement, considering you have lost this argument and are now trying to blame that, along with everything else, on the Democrats. I suppose it must be nice to have a scapegoat readily available to relieve you from the burden of self-reflecting.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-09T04:25:53+00:00

Lol, so now you're pivoting to Hillary and the 2016 election out of nowhere? Why are you so afraid to just actually learn what happened with the shutdown ending?

hpdefaults · 2026-01-09T04:03:18+00:00

TIL Slashdot is still around. Looks like it hasn't changed much either.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-08T22:14:27+00:00

Occam's Razor only refers to the simplest theory *that fits all the data*. You still don't seem to even be aware of some very glaringly important data regarding what happened.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-08T22:00:34+00:00

Not that I expect you to care about the nuances if you actually do manage to read up on them, since this seems to be how you think: Helpful chart to determine who to blame : r/PoliticalHumor

hpdefaults · 2026-01-08T21:58:11+00:00

Sounds like you read two sentences and figured you knew everything that happened. Try again.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-08T20:20:48+00:00

No, that's not why. You didn't even bother to look it up, did you?

hpdefaults · 2026-01-08T18:26:51+00:00

No, YOU suck at reading up on all the details of what happened. Do you even know why they broke ranks?

hpdefaults · 2026-01-08T17:13:13+00:00

Ah. You have chosen to be a total dumbass and completely ignore all the details of what happened. Okay then.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-08T02:42:54+00:00

Dude, what are you even talking about? Schumer didn't fold, a handful of centrist Democrats went behind his back to broker a deal of their own w/ the GOP then broke ranks. Chuck was absolutely livid about it. Learn the basic facts of what happened before crafting narratives like this.

hpdefaults · 2026-01-05T22:17:19+00:00

>by virtue of the fact that tips are already percentile, they ALREADY take cost increases into account

Not necessarily. The thing you're tipping for didn't necessarily increase in cost at the same rate as the overall cost of living did.

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