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hihihihi1234 commented on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade   apnews.com/article/aborti... · Posted by u/uptown
ModernMech · 4 years ago
For now. Desantis is already saying he will increase restrictions. Do you have any reason to believe this man, running for President in 2024, won’t race to claim he is the king of protecting fetuses? He’s not going to be able to stand on a stage next to anyone who claims they will restrict abortion in any and all cases, and he knows that. Pence was out yesterday calling for a blanket nationwide abortion ban. That’s were the GOP as a party will be in 2 years, and Florida will need to be there before then to shore up Desantis’ political position.

Florida will not be a state where abortions happen soon enough.

hihihihi1234 · 4 years ago
Yeah, fair point. Time will tell I guess.
hihihihi1234 commented on Germany Ends Ban on Abortion Advertisement   nytimes.com/2022/06/24/wo... · Posted by u/5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV
martin_bech · 4 years ago
Ads for cigarettes have been banned in Europe for a long time, thats why there is zero tobacco in Formula 1. In Denmark its now illegal to show the tobacco in the store, it has to be hidden
hihihihi1234 · 4 years ago
True in the UK too. Cigarette adverts were banned forever ago. Then they stopped displaying them in the store. Now, if I'm not mistaken (I don't smoke), they don't even display branding on the packets - the packets have a very plain, uniform design with no flashy colours or logos.
hihihihi1234 commented on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade   apnews.com/article/aborti... · Posted by u/uptown
mongol · 4 years ago
I am not American, so forgive my question, what is the context? Was she expected to step down due to age, so Obama could appoint a new judge? Rather than dying by age under a different president?
hihihihi1234 · 4 years ago
If she had stepped down before 2016, Obama would have been able to appoint another liberal judge to replace her, and the political balance of the court would have remained unchanged. Instead, she died in 2020 and Trump replaced her with a far more conservative judge, which is indirectly one of the reasons why Roe v Wade was just overturned.

Of course, it must be remembered that almost no-one actually expected Trump to win 2016. So perhaps she didn't feel like there was actually much risk of her being replaced by a conservative, so it was safe to stay on.

hihihihi1234 commented on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade   apnews.com/article/aborti... · Posted by u/uptown
standardUser · 4 years ago
40 million women in about 20 states just lost all legal access to abortions.

Additional states will follow soon, but there is no "meanwhile" for a lot of the country. It's already done.

hihihihi1234 · 4 years ago
I don't think all 40 million women have lost "all" legal access. Eg Florida and Virginia are banning abortion after 15 weeks - which is actually less restrictive than in most of western Europe.

Eg France bans abortion after 14 weeks; Norway bans it after 12 weeks.

hihihihi1234 commented on We are removing the option to create new subscriptions   mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/mritzmann
sdfhdhjdw3 · 4 years ago
> Hadn't heard of Mullvad before reading this

Just the only vpn with any integrity left remaining, no biggie.

hihihihi1234 · 4 years ago
Why do the other popular VPNs not have any integrity left?
hihihihi1234 commented on El Salvador's Bitcoin Buys Tracker   nayibtracker.com/... · Posted by u/spaceman_2020
easytiger · 4 years ago
What's he using Bitcoin to hedge against? Any trend bucking rumours that a South American leader might not be totally incompetent?
hihihihi1234 · 4 years ago
El Salvador isn't in South America.
hihihihi1234 commented on CJEU confirms that UK citizens have lost EU citizenship   eulawanalysis.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/robtherobber
hihihihi1234 · 4 years ago
Um... how is this news? We left the EU in January 2020. I'm not sure what it would mean for Britain to leave the EU without Brits losing EU citizenship, and I've never heard anyone suggest that this might be the case.

It's nearly six years since the referendum - who exactly is surprised by this "development"?

hihihihi1234 commented on Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels   noaa.gov/news-release/car... · Posted by u/ingve
PheonixPharts · 4 years ago
Care to post the citation for this claim?

I've read plenty of papers on this but the ability to track "imported CO2" is fairly limited.

The most obvious place that's usually missing in capital gained from foreign investments. If, in a hypothetical example, an investment firm make a billion dollars running a foreign oil company, then put that money into a US startup, this wouldn't count as "imported emissions", but clearly if you worked at that startup your job and all the money you spend would have come from exported emissions.

The second place these studies tend to fail is how long of a trail of CO2 they follow. If one of the reasons it's cheaper to build a product in China is because the factory is closer to a carbon intensive raw material producer this not counted. If the energy to keep your low cost workers is cheaper and that's part of why they are low cost, that's not counted.

It's not the fault of these reports that they can't track all of this, but it's not a great argument for green technology reducing emissions.

If also doesn't matter if the US and EU reduce emissions, it matters if we do globaly. I can also promise you that if we forced China to reduce emissions we should feel that impact pretty dramatically in the west Economically. The best proxy globally to economic development is energy production, we live in a global economy, we all share that energy.

hihihihi1234 · 4 years ago
I too would like to read a citation and further details to support the claim.

u/hihihihi1234

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