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Richard Dawkins, like many atheists, is a Christian
  • Whilst we don't have an atheist dominated society in the UK, christians do not make up the majority of the population either.

    That's only a VERY recent change, within the last decade. Before the 1980s (ie the first half of his life) Christians made up 80-90% of the population.

  • Realtors "running out of money" as housing market struggles
  • I think prices are starting to come back down in my area. I'm seeing homes on Zillow that were bought a year ago put up for rent. Prices are reduced every other month and it still won't rent, so they're selling it.

  • FCC proposes 60-day unlocking rule for all mobile phones
  • Except the proposed rule doesn't do that. It's only regarding carriers unlocking policies. The owner of the phone could still be under contact, and early termination fees would still apply. Carriers are still able to recoup any losses on the hardware through those fees. Requiring phones to be unlocked after 60 days changes none of that.

    As things are now, a poor person would have to pay BOTH. An early termination fee AND then go buy a new phone if they wanted to switch to a new carrier before the (typically 2 year) contact is complete. They lose any money they've put into their current phone because it's locked to a carrier until they have been in good standing for the full 2 years.

    So what it really depends on is if you think a poor person should be trapped with their current carrier until they finish the contract, unlock the phone and move to another, OR if they should be free to switch over to the competition at any time without onerous restrictions on hardware they have fully paid for via early termination fees.

  • FCC proposes 60-day unlocking rule for all mobile phones
  • This argument may have made sense a decade ago, but phones today aren't making the generational leaps and bounds with performance every year. Even the low end phones are just fine for most uses these days.

    If you're poor, and I certainly have been, you shouldn't get into these contacts that ultimately cost you more. You buy a cheap phone from last year and put it on an MVNO that's cheap

  • Supreme Court rejects challenge to Biden admin's contact with social media companies - ABC News
  • She's saying the states don't have standing to bring the suit. They're unable to prove they were harmed specifically, so they don't have standing.

    A better way to read the phrase in question would be "the court's doctrine regarding standing"

    See: Standing

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    Oh pls

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