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None of the links provided by beecee and tim.tdj support the assertion that "some people are saying that alleged victims of sexual abuse and rape should be automatically 100% believed without doubt." beecee's links are examples people apparently being falsely accused of crimes and suffering the consequences prior to being released. Sad but doesn't directly address the assertion. tim.tdj's link seems to refute his own assertion: ""don't assume women as a gender are especially deceptive or vindictive, and recognize that false allegations are less common than real ones."

I would like to make what I think is a very important clarification here: I think that if an alleged victim is not 100% believed, this does not necessarily mean that they are being disbelieved. There is a seemingly subtle but very important difference here.

https://www.vox.com/2019/7/2/20678821/15-federal-minimum-wage-increase-study But there I go again, making a moral argument 🙄

One day, we will see the true value of affordable; but I fear that day will be one day too late...

I can make both moral and fiscal arguments, and my fiscal arguments have not relied on moral stances. I shouldn’t have to point this out given how many times I’ve referred to the data. I can see my point got missed by introducing such an emotional example like slavery. I was merely saying businesses suffered then too, but we still did it because it was the right thing to do. Some businesses will go under due to this change. Some states will be more heavily impacted. That’s not the metric that matters. It’s too simplistic and naive. Jobs will also be created. People will have more money in their own pockets to spend at other peoples businesses, then those people will have more money to spend and the virtuous cycle continues. More people will complete educations and get degrees. They’ll have new ideas and new networked connections. New businesses will be started as people no longer have to work 3 jobs to make ends meet. Kids health will go up as they’re better fed and have their parents nearby more often. The list continues. If you focus only on immediate costs to some particular sub populations and ignore the returns... if you forget this is an investment and not just an expenditure, then of course you’ll be against it. This is an issue of creative destruction. I urge you to focus a bit more on the creation than on the destruction, which nearly all analyses say will be smaller anyway. Adjusted for inflation, minimum wage today should actually be closer to $25/hr. Can we please get our heads out of our asses and stop standing as an obstacle to the still too low baby step of $15/hr?

I would guess that any hard right ( or hard left ) Government that has aspirations of dictatorship ( Poland maybe ? ) would be trying to force established social media out, so that a Government run/controlled media can more easily disseminate Government propaganda. Makes it much easier to control the people.

Hmm... In this case, I wonder if freedom of speech includes a right to create spamming bots. After all, spamming bots are just an information technology that I should be able to use to spread my speech. Or otherwise, where is that important line between spamming manually and making a script that does the same - I guess, they didn't explain this in their proposition? ... (Btw, maybe we should also take a quick look at search engines and rights of their owners to moderate search results - like result ranking. I just read Google did something particular in Australia.)

Perhaps, but I have enough to eat in this one... I just wish you had Markus' eloquence.