Zaytes

donated 20 EUR, was at 99987.

This comment isn't helping, but I can't resist - HN is inevitably devolving into /r/technology...

Kind of sad.

Prop 13 in California

What can be done to make biking more safer in the states?

Require more stringent testing to grant drivers licenses. It seems as though issuing DLs is treated too much as a revenue stream and not enough as an education/screening process.

continued human operation of commuter motor vehicles is a bug not a feature

OK, we can widely adopt encryption and use alternets whenever possible, and attempt to affect technological activism. That is feasible and should be done as swiftly and as widely as possible. Evangelize these measures to the less technically inclined people in your life.

But as far as "removing" US military and intelligence presence from Europe - that will literally never happen, as all of Europe is entirely complicit in our presence and information gathering activities.

My patriotism took a giant hit with USAPATRIOT. Its been in an abject freefall since Citizens United.

I used to venomously ridicule people who suggested 9/11 was a false flag event. As time has gone on, I find it more and more likely that they let it happen to justify perpetual war and the fullscale rollout of the Panopticon.

We live in a fascist state.

Correct, that and the NSA infrastructure on European soil has to vanish.

The odds of either of those things occurring are perilously near zero