• California proposes a plan to tax text messages
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That's just not a thing at all.
But California has the biggest GDP in America! They can do no wrong!!
Do you have a source on that lol
A lot? California is a pretty great state with a hell of a lot going for it.
On the topic of California "allowing HIV infected blood to be donated," that's mostly a willful misinterpretation of a (possibly dumber) law California passed. False Headline on HIV Blood Donation That said, California did, as a matter of fact, make it a mere misdemeanor with at most 6 months of jail time for knowingly exposing a person to HIV, justifying it as being brought in line with exposure to other communicable illnesses. In effect this does mean that HIV positive individuals could knowingly attempt to donate blood, and face negligible criminal penalties if they did. Likewise, knowingly sexual (or otherwise) transmitting HIV in the state of California is less severely punished than domestic abuse.
Facebook owns WhatsApp, I can already see Zucc reading these headlines like 'yes yes yes'
Props for pointing out the blood donation thing is fake news but there is nothing actually wrong with making HIV transmission a misdeamanor. The Center for Disease Control, the HIV Medicine Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the ACLU all agree that criminalizing HIV-specific behavior is not only ineffective, it might even make rates of infection rise. You aren't being entirely accurate when you said that it was justified by being brought in line with exposure to other illnesses, that was the effect. The cause was the fact that HIV criminalization laws don't work and the law in California's case was particularly vague, and allowed people who didn't even knowingly infect people to go to prison.
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