We SHOULD be passing laws that protect people’s rights from corporations the same way we protect those rights from the government. We SHOULD be passing laws that enshrine the right to be forgotten, by forcing companies to either respond quickly to delete requests, or have massive penalties per day, paid to the person, not to the govt. We SHOULD be building public, free alternatives like a library in cyberspace that is for public good, not profit. We should stop forcing ID laws, and start forcing encryption. Think bigger than tech withdrawals, instead take the opinion that tech should serve everyone, not the rich and powerful. Hobbyists and open source built practically all of the internet, and only later did money and politics take over.

The internet used to be a quirky free library. They turned it into an aggressive rent seeking monster.

Get a load of Mr. Moneybags over here, having enough equity that he could mortgage something…

God forbid they set their sights as high as doing TWO things

https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/2372-catapult

Is a solid choice.

What a time to be a fascist dictator trying to control the media! Easier than ever.

But what a way to go …

Wouldn’t the magnitude of forces involved make it impossible to keep the oscillation frequency “low enough to be easily noticed”? Like, to not collapse into each other you’re going to need some pretty high speeds, and conservation of angular momentum is gonna only make it faster as you “Square” the wave.

Except the DNC icing out Bernie in 2016 clearly indicates that they aren’t actually democratic, they clearly indicated that they are a private org with no legal requirements to enact the will of the people.

All that said, you better believe I’m still voting for the not fascist party, but also still trying in my weak little ways to advocate and advance ranked choice voting to enable the undermining of the two party system.

Perhaps the difference in anecdotal reports lies in the widespread corporate tendencies to post hollow job listings. Positions they are not really hiring for, just “keep a pulse on the market”, or trending data, or perhaps contact info of potential hires when they actually will hire…

Sow doubt and suspicion. Claim fraud, steal election. Martial law the riots, fascism.

This is from the 2024 campaign. Which he won, bafflingly.

He is directly telling everyone that he does not consider Americans “we”. His “we” is, AT BEST, oligarchs in America.

The difference is that we’ve allowed a private, for profit company to do the surveillance, and they are not beholden to all of the laws that we put in place to keep the Government in check. Capitalism’s latest innovation is outsourcing fascism. The privatization of all of this oppression is accelerating.

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” -FDR

As frustrating as it is to see, and despite my overwhelming desire to scream “duh” and " I told you so"; The only path out of this division is to try to be gracious and welcoming when someone wants to come back to reason. So please don’t fight the folks that are trying to agree with you in a way that saves them their wounded pride. Go watch Behind the Curve to see how these echo chambers make it socially toxic to change your mind, which means people get “trapped” by the fear of judgement, so they just stay in the cult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Curve

I just feel like posting this completely unrelated story on every automated traffic camera thread, I can’t understand why I feel this compulsion.

https://cybernews.com/editorial/israel-hacked-iran-traffic-cameras-us-war/

I still don’t know how this new economy they see in the AI future works. If 70%+ of the population can’t earn a paycheck, it’s all gonna collapse. They are killing the worker, completely oblivious that the worker is also the consumer…

This is Minecraft. Like literally, this idea spawned Minecraft. https://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/

VR game. Finger tracking controller mandatory. Basic gameplay is that of a wizard, casting spells. Each finger is an element, like air, water, fire, earth, life. You cast a spell by holding an element and drawing a shape in the air then gesturing. So a fire bolt would be hold fire, move in a line to point the direction, release fire mid throw. To make a fire ball, hold fire, then draw a circle in the air, then throw, release in the throw. Allow the user to make up spell effects by combining elements, shapes and gestures. Combine air and earth, draw a spiral, point at an enemy to trap them in air bands and earth bonds. Paint an ally in broad strokes with life to heal, etc. Moderate inspiration from Wheel of Time, if you’ve read it.

The gameplay of finger-wiggling mage sounds fun. Add bullet time for easy mode/overpowered.

IANAL, but doesn’t settlement mean they don’t admit fault, they have no judgement to actually force changes, and the same case can’t be brought again, aka, they get to keep harming kids, just have to cough up some tiny slice of profit and offer some lip service to doing better? Or, to rephrase, as long as the government gets a cut, they can keep abusing?

You are in fact right, but given a binary choice between war crimes, or war crimes AND Fascists, I’m afraid the right choice is war crimes without the side order of Fascism.