I’ll get complaints from people they can’t add/remove members from a group chat, and it’s because I’m in the chat, and use Google voice.

Read “Nudge” by Richard Thaler. Choice architecture is a real thing that has impact on whether things we want to happen actually happen. It’s not because people aren’t smart enough.

Protests aren’t the only thing that activists in the US are doing. It’s not an either or situation.

I’m curious, are you a developer? I’m just a hobbyist but reading his comment on the article it seemed reasonable. The problem is the capitalist handling of technology, not the technology. And tools like Claude are actually very helpful with coding, provided you have an understanding of the subject matter and aren’t just copy pasting what it’s giving you.

There is. If you read the article these are tickets issued by a speed camera. My understanding is there may be a legal obstacle to taking someone’s license if the ticket is issued by a camera because you can’t prove who was driving the vehicle. The whole point of the article was to promote the “super speeders bill” in New York, which won’t actually take anyone’s license, it will just require that those with 16 tickets in a year have to have a speed limiter installed in the vehicle.

What is the furthest you’ve connected to on Meshtastic? I’ve yet to buy hardware, but I see a lot of complaints on the Meshtastic subreddit about range and low activity. On the other hand I’ve watched a couple videos about big Meshcore groups, connectivity from Vancouver to Oregon, stuff like that.

I’m a socialist so no big fan of capitalism. That said, I don’t think capitalism is just about selling things for more than they’re worth.

We add value through our labor. Think of a log, it has some value as raw material. A worker might cut it into planks, and another might make a table out of it. It’s now worth more than when it started. The value came from our labor, and we should be compensated for it.

The issue with capitalism is that the few benefit off the work of many. Based on the rest of your comment I think we’re pretty much in agreement, but just want to highlight that as a worker-owner (vs robber baron) there’s nothing wrong with charging for what you’re worth.

Wow if its rumoured it must be true

Fuck these guys.

It’s also a really nice feeling to help someone jump a car, or help push a disabled car off the road. It’s this short(ish) and well defined opportunity to do good, without much gray area of “is this the best course of action” or “am I making an impact” you get with longer and more complex activism.

If the instance is in the same country, a government can much more effectively exercise leverage against some guy running a server than a publicly traded corporation with lawyers on retainer.

If it’s not the same country maybe easier just to ignore.

The best case in terms of privacy is just not collecting data. Something like mullvad vpn where they don’t keep the sort of records that governments ask for.

Unfortunately anti spam measures often involve collecting identifying information (like email addresses).

Talking about America or any country as a single organism with just one train of thought is unproductive.

Yeah. I don’t like these guys, but for our own credibility we should be factual. TPU has had many questionable opinions about public health, including covid. But they weren’t founded specifically related to covid, or as I understand it even with a particular focus on health/life sciences.

Article about the founder dying: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077

“with guns, there is no such thing as an accident”? Negligent discharges happen all the time. It’s a reasonably big part of gun injury statistics: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7250a1.htm

Guy should get in trouble for what happened. But it’s not reasonable to frame this like “we know he intentionally shot his daughter because of her views on Trump.” And don’t get me wrong, fuck trump and fuck maga.

Is that an upper class student radish hanging out with a subsistence farmer radish?

Like the European Union?

Barney is famously purple

I was at my neighbor’s house and we were just poking around to see what there was to do online. We found a file (what we would now call a supercut but we didn’t have that word then) with a hundred instances of Homer Simpson saying “D’oh”.

We downloaded it, which took twenty minutes or something like that, and my recollection is when we went to play it there was no software on the computer that could. That doesn’t seem like it could be true, maybe I’m mixing memories up. It wouldn’t have been an mp3 file because it was too early for that, and I’d expect windows to at least be able to play .wav. maybe it was some weird format. So we had to do another search and found a freeware program called Goldwave which we downloaded and were able to listen then. I still used Goldwave for years and even paid for it.

I don’t think it’s supposed to literally be Goku and friends

Garfield did talk about dieting a lot. Sort of like the trope about quicksand, dieting seemed to occupy a much larger mental space in the Garfiverse than in my own lived experience.

I just tried reading about xenogender and can’t say it made any sense.