Started compiling a list, but it posted early, and I got lazy.

List of them here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services

Looking at the first handful, most aren’t medical professionals.

You would still expect that they should be able leverage their resources to have a pre-built response to a question like that.

I think the whole ‘Barbie’ thing is a reference to how the women in Trump’s orbit all have the same over-manufactured aesthetic.

It’ll create a new bottleneck for sure, but I expect there to be a few communities built up by the richest of the rich to survive with as much comfortable as possible. A large number of the survivors will be their serfs, essential staff to maintain their comfort in exchange for a chance to survive.

I’m not speaking from experience with the firefighters side here, but I do think it come’s down to the ick factor of smell is so much stronger than the yum factor.
Smell is how we know if something is safe to eat, so if its off even a bit, that jumps to the peak of our attention.

Usually if you burn something a little bit, that’s the only smell you notice.

By: Phelan H.B. No. 366

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT relating to required disclosures on certain political advertising that contains altered media; creating a criminal offense. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Chapter 255, Election Code, is amended by adding Section 255.0015 to read as follows: Sec. 255.0015. REQUIRED DISCLOSURE ON CERTAIN POLITICAL ADVERTISING CONTAINING ALTERED MEDIA; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) This section applies only to a person who: (1) is an officeholder, candidate, or political committee; (2) makes expenditures during a reporting period that in the aggregate exceed $100 for political advertising, other than an expense to cover the basic cost of hardware, messaging software, and bandwidth; or (3) publishes, distributes, or broadcasts political advertising described by Subsection (b) in return for consideration. (b) A person may not, with the intent to influence an election, knowingly cause to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, or video recording of an officeholder’s or candidate’s appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality, including an image, audio recording, or video recording that has been altered using generative artificial intelligence technology, unless: (1) the image or video recording has only been altered to change the saturation, brightness, contrast, color, or any other superficial quality of the image or video; or (2) the political advertising includes a disclosure from the person or another person on whose behalf the political advertising is published, distributed, or broadcast indicating that the image, audio recording, or video recording did not occur in reality. © The commission by rule shall prescribe the form of the disclosure required by Subsection (b), including the font, size, and color of the disclosure. The commission shall ensure that the form of the disclosure is consistent with other required disclosures on political advertising. (d) A person commits an offense if the person violates this section. An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. (e) This section does not impose liability on any of the following persons for political advertising published, distributed, or broadcast by or at the direction of another person: (1) an interactive computer service, as defined by 47 U.S.C. Section 230(f); (2) an Internet service provider, cloud service provider, cybersecurity service provider, communication service provider, or telecommunications network; (3) a radio or television broadcaster, including a cable or satellite television network operator, programmer, or producer; or (4) the owner or operator of a commercial sign, as defined by Section 391.001, Transportation Code. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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Including the full body does say the law only applies to people engaged in a campaign, and sets specific boundaries around that.

I think these types of laws are important. It seems like the misinformation, including AI generated images to soil a candididates reputation is a clear problem than needs to be address. Not saying the language on this specific law is ideal, or even adequate, but it is a start and other juristictions need to be working towards this to protect democracy in this new world of endless content.

We Canadians just had our elections, and there were plenty of fake AI images making the rounds trying to link our new Prime Minister to Epstein. I don’t want that sort of nonsense to continue into future elections.

Your point is still valid, but it’s not an increase/decrease thing.

Im pretty sure Net Approval means percent that approve minus percent that disapprove.

Not yet…

Some cats are all 4 in 1.

Accessibility is only a tiny portion of it. Most of the US can’t walk to pretty much anything useful.

Lets start looking at ticket prices, and concession prices.

Family of 4 to watch a movie starts at $70 CAD at my local theatre. $10 for a single large popcorn to share, and $5ea per water. Fountain drinks are somehow more expensive than bottled water. That’s $100 for the start of an evening. Take a look at the rest of the economy, and figure out why theatres aren’t seeing the traffic they used to.

Translation : “If I can’t keep stealing US taxpayers funds and funnel them into my companies, they won’t be able to exist on their own merit.”

because they’re receiving fraudulent money, or that they’re the recipients of wasteful largesse

Every accusation is a confession https://fortune.com/2025/03/26/elon-musk-tesla-under-investigation-canada-wrongfully-boosting-sales/

Recklessly endangering the health of an entire democratic system for short term monetary gain is definitely little e evil.

Some women stay and fight. If there were no men, then more women would stay and fight. Your argument is really holds no water.

“Women need men, because a lot of men are terrible people.”

Yeah, just leave the country. We’ll totally let you come back. Promise.

It’s worked well for the republicans for quite some time. Different voter base I guess.

Prison labour

There’s less posts sure, but when I left last year so much of Reddits front page content was just badly reposted bot garbage anyway.

There were some specific communities where there we enough active real people posted to keep it interesting, but I could tell then where it was going, and as far as I can tell I wasn’t wrong.

Artificially created content to force or fake engagement to drive ad sales isn’t any less dead than here.

Also the fact that you’re giving your content up for free so spez can lock it behind paywalls is just insane.

Also, while using the app, there is zero accountability for who told who to do what within the government. FOIA is useless for any conversation happening within that app, self hosted or not.

And what would you have the left do?

Meet the right in the middle. Again?

So that in 4 years, asking that political prisoners be treated with the slightest amount of human decency is just too damn extreme for the right to take seriously?

Seems like a great way to say “I bought into the right wing populist bullshit, and don’t want to be held accountable for the results we’re now seeing. So I’ll blame the left that the right wing populist bullshiit told me to blame for everything.”