I wonder how quickly will this one get recognized, at the moment it's just an underground movement on Reddit and "Manosphere" etc.:
http://www.singularity2050.com/2010/01/the-misandry-bubble.h...
This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
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#42The problem with the analysis re: Marijuana is that it appears to leave out the anti-drug treaties we've signed with other UN members. As I understand it, federal legalization is a nonstarter w/r/t that agreement.
The US has a pretty casual understanding of international law...
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every point you have made here is subjective.
No, it's not. The animations add no information that isn't conveyed by the graph already--it just creates a delay before you can see the information. And changing the behavior of core functionality like the keyboard/pointer will confuse people, and on this page there is nothing to be gained in return.
I think the animations do add some spatio-temporal information. Different states get highlighted at different times as the line graph progresses. I can't claim to know much about front-end design but I liked the animations.
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#44I wonder how quickly will this one get recognized, at the moment it's just an underground movement on Reddit and "Manosphere" etc.: http://www.singularity2050.com/2010/01/the-misandry-bubble.h...
I don't recommend the link above. It's garbage
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#45The case comes amid a wave of gay marriage legalization... This phrase, and the title, mask the fact that in the majority of states same-sex marriage legalization came from court cases, not through legislation or referenda[1]. "America", broadly construed, is quickly changing its mind, too, but this "wave" is more a product of judicial thought than public opinion. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in…
At the same time, after these courts have started legalizing gay marriage, public support for gay marriage has followed. I always suspect it's a chicken-or-egg type of situation. Sometimes there is genuine public support for a given issue. Other times, change must occur first, and then people can see that society hasn't collapsed. Once polls began to demonstrate that more people supported gay marriage than were again…
It would be nice to see these charts mapped against public opinion polls, to help show which rights have been led by the government vs the people.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every point you have made here is subjective.
No, it's not. The animations add no information that isn't conveyed by the graph already--it just creates a delay before you can see the information. And changing the behavior of core functionality like the keyboard/pointer will confuse people, and on this page there is nothing to be gained in return.
I like that the animations allow you to follow the trend without much effort of finding the appropriate lines. It's clear, just fast enough, and works smoothly at least on my browser. At the very least, your claims are definitely subjective in terms of usability.
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#47The problem with the analysis re: Marijuana is that it appears to leave out the anti-drug treaties we've signed with other UN members. As I understand it, federal legalization is a nonstarter w/r/t that agreement.
We can always rescind our involvement in treaties.
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#48Re: This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
#49I wonder how quickly will this one get recognized, at the moment it's just an underground movement on Reddit and "Manosphere" etc.: http://www.singularity2050.com/2010/01/the-misandry-bubble.h...
I don't recommend the link above. It's garbage
You have a five minute difference in your posts. Did you ever read the article?
I'm not agreing completely with it, but I'll refrain from commenting until I finished reading it.
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#50The case comes amid a wave of gay marriage legalization... This phrase, and the title, mask the fact that in the majority of states same-sex marriage legalization came from court cases, not through legislation or referenda[1]. "America", broadly construed, is quickly changing its mind, too, but this "wave" is more a product of judicial thought than public opinion. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in…
In America, there's no longer much legitimacy placed in legislation; we generally look to the judiciary for any actual governing thought these days.
Legislation is mostly seen as a stepping stone; it's not until it's been tested in court that a law is really valid.