Facebook apparently run by sexist boys - boob pics OK, breastfeeding not - massive fail

cos

"any image can be removed by Facebook" but the vast majority of images are never considered. Finding a bunch of examples of images Facebook hasn't removed, means very little. I've seen breastfeeding on Facebook too, images that were up for years and not removed. Maybe that blog post is "correct" but it doesn't contain the information that would inform a reader.

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Downvote due to confusing, ambiguous language. I can't tell what your first sentence means. You might want to post another comment, and write more clearly.

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I wouldn't jump to conclusions based on that blog post. There are plenty of breastfeeding photos on Facebook as well. The mere fact that any particular photo is up doesn't mean Facebook claims it's okay (usually, it means they haven't seen it or thought about it); further, I seem to recall that the breastfeeding photo scandal was about whether it could be the default userpic for something, not whether it could be on Facebook at all.

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At least he gets to have a lot of fun with it now.

Meanwhile, his legacy has deeply affected recent politics in ways many people don't realize. For example, all the barackobama.com Internet stuff was done by Blue State Digital, a company founded in 2004 by a few of the tech people from Howard Dean's presidential campaign. In the meantime, as chair of the Democratic Party 2005 through 2008, Dean built up state parties with full time field organizers throughout the country, in many places the Democratic party had done almost nothing in for decades, putting Democrats in place to take advantage of the opportunities of the 2006 & 2008 elections. And hundreds (actually, probably thousands) of people who first got involved in politics by volunteering for Dean in 2003/04, are now elected officeholders at all levels of government around the country - people who would likely never have thought of running for anything if it hadn't bean for the Dean campaign.

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Unfortunately, I don't think that would've done it. The (unfounded) expectations that he should definitely win Iowa, followed by his losing to Kerry, followed by the fact that there was only one week between Iowa and New Hampshire, were enough; Kerry would likely have won without the scream.

I say this from my experience as a full time volunteer Mass For Dean organizer, who spent a week in Iowa shortly before the caucuses, and the following week in New Hampshire, as well as having organized group trips to NH and canvassed thousands of doors there for Dean previously.

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Dean favors opening up Medicare to anyone who wants to pay the premiums, and if Congress did that, it would definitely count as a public option, so DfA would be satisfied.

If we create a separate public option for people under 65, which seems more likely, that too would be funded by premiums. People with low incomes would have their premiums subsidized, but that's true already under all of the reform proposals being considered. It has nothing to do with whether people choose to subscribe to the public option; the current proposals simply don't give people that option (but poor people still get subsidies to buy private insurance).

So, none of this lobbying on the public option is about adding subsidies for poor people. That's a separate issue.

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One of the most powerful forms of volunteering, in the US, is for candidates for state legislature. Also for county and municipal offices, though I think state legislature is the most important level of government and the one where the amount of change you can get per unit of effort is the highest.

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That isn't a bad word unless you are one of the 85% in America who have had very little rationing for 50+ years.

Must be nice in your fantasy world, but it's not America. Rationing is much worse here, because it's more arbitrary and less transparent.

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You mean Louise Slaughter? From a distance, she's long been one of my favorite members of Congress.

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If you want to send a message but not throw your vote away, I suggest unregistering with your party. Sure, you won't be able to vote in primaries, but that's about it, and the parties will see declines in the number of people willing to associates themselves with them.

Sounds good in theory, totally counterproductive in practice. If you actually want to see a party change, stay in that party and actually do something. You'll have more influence within a party if you register with that party, and especially if you not only vote in primaries but volunteer for good primary candidates. Primary elections are the main way in which parties get challenged to change their ways, while people who unregister and go independent get ignored as individuals. Parties only care about them when it comes time to get their vote for the general election, after candidates have been chosen, which is the end of the process and the least effective point to apply pressure.

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You seem to be very unclear on what the "public option" is, and what it's about. Nothing of the sort can be achieved by the means you describe. Maybe what you really mean is "I don't want a public option, let's do this other thing instead", but if so, be honest about that.

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Fairly solid support, hovering a little over a majority. All three versions of the House bill (from three different committees) included a public option that was better than what the Senate even considered. Although the final vote on the House bill ended up fairly close, that's because of some other contentious issues, and it seems that support for the public option was a little higher than support for the overall bill. Also, something like 70-ish House members have publicly stated that they oppose health care reform without a public option. Many of them might very very reluctantly vote for a final bill without a public option if it's clear that there's no other option, but so far, they've really been pushing every possible strategy and tactic to pressure the Senate into passing a public option, and are the main reason it's still alive.

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Why do you say that? The House already passed a public option.

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Make Love, not Porn - TED Talk Video.

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Note that Nancy Boyda lost re-election in 2008, but Bill Foster did win that special election earlier in 2008 and was re-elected.

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Where "intensive farming" == "factory farming". And yes, you have a point: a lot of the kinds of factory farming that's done today would have to change if they couldn't use antibiotics en mass like this, which is why there's so much resistance. But the longer we delay, the worse it'll be.

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There are a few others.

I didn't list Louise Slaughter. She has a bachelors in microbiology and got her masters in public health, so while she has a solid science background (especially relevant to this particular topic), I didn't count her as a "scientist" in the same way as those few I listed.

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