This is how fascists will try to end freedom of the press. As consolidated as media is, ISPs are even fewer and will yield to being the iGestapo without protection of 230.

They should go after the content creators and maybe actual child molesters if they have concerns. We have one in the oval office and his party is stuffed with them.

From this morning https://www.wired.com/story/using-a-vpn-may-subject-you-to-nsa-spying/

Yes, but instead of optimizing for what each learner needs it will be to Brave New World meets 1984 Education.

Wonder what it’s like to be at mckinsey and after your company has been advising corps to cut staff and do stock buybacks for 40 years as an infinite money glitch suddenly you’re the bloat.

Gonna need a v for vendetta moment for that to happen. It will eventually as all regimes end but in our current timeline…

“we should pass legislation to limit all new federal spending, unless offset we should have a balanced budget.”

Cool on paper but it’ll be, cut everything humans use and the entire budget will go to Lockheed and palantir. Everyone dies.

What’s app was cool as shit, until, just like Michael Bolton, something shitty in the world happened.

I installed it for an upcoming trip with loathing just because I know I may stay in places and not be able to connect with a hotel or host if I don’t use whatsapp. The EU better get their shit together since they were trying to lead on digital privacy…

Sorry to be one level down but I open the door with my shoe if there is no paper towel and I have to use hands, because I know someone had fecal matter on their hands and touched the doorknob. My action of the shoe makes it worse but protects me? I also throw paper towels on the floor if they have the can back by the sink in a larger bathroom. If I can “shoot a hoop” or open a can with a foot opener I’ll get it in there but if logistics force me to choose between having fecal matter free hands and the owner having to pay someone to clear up paper towels I’ll do the former. When I worked in restaurants I always dragged towel cans/garbage toward the door for this purpose. How do health inspections (I guess they just never happen) not catch this stuff?

The federal minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2009. It’s been 17 years.

Water conservation. 80% of water use in CA is agricultural, i.e., Big Ag. Consumers are told to take 60 second ahowers, while water intensive crops like alfalfa are grown on land with senior water rights sold to foreign interests like Saudi and UAE who aren’t stupid and have money. The state has a water crisis because it won’t involve the heaviest abusers in the solution.

Well…Bezos now owns MGM studios. The next James Bond movie (MGM IP) can feature an insane, bald megalomaniac psychopath trying to take over the world, and it Bezos can star in it as himself. He can print the headlines of his own amazing acting debut in The Washington Post that he bought and then muzzled, fired or laid off staff who would not bend the knee to fascism and trump when Bezos wanted his to be a friendly mouthpiece for his Trump payday.

Bezos owns whole foods too…

Because someone has to coordinate to let Saudi royal families safely exit nationally closed airspace after 9/11 when 15/19 plane hijackers were from Saudi Arabia!

Can you imagine what might have happened to them if not? Luckily we then started having those same agencies spew stories about WMD that didn’t exist in Iraq so we could fight a proxy war in Iraq.

The US is China’s bitch, Israel’s bitch, Saudi Arabia’s bitch…

It’s also just generally a good barometer of a good idea. If people can’t independently evaluate an idea and come to a similar conclusion on their own, it just means that you simply apply coercion and then you get to be right! It’s excellent as a management practice which I’ll note all the big 4 claim to offer…

That’s the beauty of it, now that the oil-ligarchy has defunded alternate energy and removed tax incentives, the companies responded by reversing 2 decades of development and finally getting hybrids and evs common in us automakers.

Now that electric is off the menu, and protectionism is back on, it means the places those cars are being made and made well–like china–americans simply won’t even know about them or be able to buy them as they’ll be tariffed out of existence.

Triple win for the oil-ligarchy

Kids toys.

You could almost say a that would be a really unhealthy place to live when the influential and powerful in a society and country think that is the best use of their position.

Damn. Hope he’s ok quickly. The NBA is better when there are more relevant teams and it’s been too long for Detroit especially given the season they’re having. The east needs at least 3 reasonable title contenders or playoffs suck and the finals is a foregone conclusion.

To be fair, who could have ever predicted that an expensive, finite, geographically remote resource our economy has been lobbied to be dependent on would ever be more at risk of cost or cause more problems than the infinite free ones available in our sky, air, water and even atoms?

The amount of brutally obvious “beauty app” filters people put on teams pictures and whatnot…it’s the 2020 version of Glamour Shots in the US. Like dude/dudette/whatever, you look SO much better no matter what you think without digital fucking plumped lips or exaggerated fake chin lines and only-exists-in-1st-gen-terminators-smooth skin.

Love yourself people.

It’s a great end, but the tax was fucking regressive as hell with a low eligibility threshold ($1k in annual income pays the same as someone making 7 figures?!?) and was administered in a fucking stupid way. This was known during the runup.Could have been progressively structured and easily and automatically administered.

Instead arts admins bleated it was a false dilemma and if you weren’t with them you were against them. They must have picked up the “taxation and ballot proposals for dummies” kit from Office Depot when they submitted the proposal, and the public–including the kids that were supposed to be the beneficiaries of the benefit–continues to get limited benefit for maximum cost and pain.

I imagine it hasn’t been fixed because they know it has been so unpopular and the realities of the failure are still coming in years later they’re too cowardly to try to fix it with voters.

It’s a great example of why you can’t just rely on your party/group/alliances to know whether you should support a political cause of candidate. Lots of people trying to do “the right thing” did that with the arts tax and hopefully they’ve absorbed the lesson by now. Reject garbage, ask it be made better, then approve it.