You’ve obviously not paid attention to McConnell and Trump weaponizing US courts

You’re describing quasi-public, not public, spaces under US law. Different countries, different laws <shrug>

I’m in the US. Guess I just haven’t tried to access them on mobile Safari in a while since this was new to me.

I generally find NPR the most bearable of US news outlets. I also used to run a member station newsroom and reported for the network a few times during those years.

BBC lost credibility several years ago for hosts talking more than guests and putting words into the guests’ mouth. Their paywall was just a curious additional insult.

Why does Reuters, or the BBC for that matter, think I’ll pay a subscription when ads outweigh the story?

There were a few sites that would run scripts for you during Rexxit. The one I used would poison your data at random times over a few days to be sure of infecting backups. The last round was a deliberate violation of the TOS and offensive enough to force them to remove it immediately. Worked like a charm, as I recall.

Had an account there – briefly – 10? years ago. Deleted it as soon as I noticed my employer’s personnel office activity and posting non-existent “jobs.” Realized that LinkedIn is only useful as a data harvester and HR honeypot.

Europe has an age-gated social media ban? Is this where Australia got the idea?

Not sure what you’re saying about US vetos

Good idea

Hopefully not

I can see good arguments on both sides. On one hand, the current mechanic hands every member state a veto on everything. On the other, if too many members get dragged into domestically unpopular adventures by a foreign majority, other countries will withdraw, either formally or by simply refusing to participate in Brussels.

Then again, given that one of the Heritage Foundation’s (ahem) “Trump Administration’s” stated goals is to dismantle the EU, perhaps Merz’s government are simply useful idiots

Mandela Effect on a global scale. I don’t like this timeline. I want to get back to the real one ASAP. ;)

And they’re providing cover for authoritarian urges in Europe and the US, being nominally part of the “West”

In my defense, it was before dawn here. I’ll do better next time :D

FWIW, I generally agree with you about “Why bother?” With regard to Americans. We seem to have become a population dominated by zealots of one ilk or another in all the federally overrepresented states. It’s exhausting.

Most days, I think the US would be better off if Cornwallis hadn’t surrendered.

I don’t know why anyone bothers.

And yet, here you are. Feel free to stop at any time

Since they’re rights, they are inherent. You don’t get to vote on them

Australia are headed to Chinese style authoritarianism at this rate. Why not go ahead and nationalize everything and make it outright illegal for average citizens to participate in the world? Doing it all at once will save time. <smh>

Nice ASSumption. Actually, yeah, I’d say exactly the same. Human rights are human rights. Fortunately, it isn’t up to people like you to decide who gets them

one of their members

Isn’t collective punishment a violation of human rights, according to the UN?

Because Prohibition and the War on Drugs worked so well in the US, I guess?