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And how exactly do we maintain equal application of the rule of law?
Transparency and constant monitoring.
To understand how to run an organization without trust, think like a capitalist.
Does a bank function because of honesty?
No, everyone is watching everyone else, all the time.
One person's petulant complaint is another person's rebuttal.
I think what you're really saying is you don't agree with OP's perspective...
Flock had credibility?
I'm hesitant to say...
All democracies run on the honor system
That's total bullshit.
Democracy runs on the equal application of the rule of law.
Of course, no democracy is perfect. The degree of imperfection can be measured in how much they run on the honor system...
I'm pretty sure they just did...
Is this riffing on Strunk and Whites: The Elements of Style?
Often referred to as "The Little Book".
So much of the terse, utilitarian, DJB Way was overpowered by bloated corporate crap 8-/
One still functional example exists in voidlinux's init system.
There was never any need for systemd 8-/
Except leveraging RedHat/IBM's domination of the linux user space ecosystem...
My expectation is that it will be worse than this analysis implies.
The world energy mafia, primarily petroleum, but also nuclear and coal, will not give up their revenue streams.
Carbon concentrations will continue to rise, and quite likely accelerate.
The overwhelming majority of sustainable generation is in large, regional scale projects, because this keeps the profit in the hands of the established energy utilities.
Nuclear... nuclear... I would pose a question to every bone head here who advocates it: Can we start storing the spent waste in YOUR garage?
The profit motive loves nuclear energy, because tax payers pay to build and decommission it, while industrial scale utilities get to operate it while money is popping out.
Nuclear is the most expensive form of electricity generation, by far. By very very far.
Distributed generation and storage is advocated by no one with an equity stake in the status quo.
The fundamental problem, is that the world economy is run by organized crime.
The US whitehouse has now made this explicit, however the situation has existed in this context since the invention of distributing petroleum and electricity.
One has to wonder:
offering gravity-defying, compliant, and tactile embodiments for indoor cohabitation
The summary is so full of fluffy nonsense, I wondered if this was some April 1st joke 8-/
Maybe first, they need to invent anti-gravity?
And "cohabitation"? Are the little things going to be breeding?
It makes me thing the ACM is loosing it's shit...
It's not fully modded until it's electric 8-/
Having been through 3 midlife crisis, I can speak with some authority on this...
Abject Idiocy does seem to be crossing a threshold from neurosis into psychosis...
I agree (and upvoted you btw)
That's why I think this nit-picking, "no doom-scrolling" regulation is worthless.
A) It doesn't strike at the root of the problem, and therefore won't solve ti.
B) Orgs like these, that do immeasurable public harm, should just be eliminated.
#1 This sucks
#2 This is the personal version of what europe is going through now, with the realization that those cloudy cloudy services may be convenient, but don't bet your life on one.
Keep a local backup!!!
In fact, local backup first, with the cloud as a backup of your backup.
As a leftist, I'd be really happy to see most CA legislators banned. Let's start with Gavin, and his pro-utility, anti-consumer CPUC.
Now that that problems solved, let's just ban meta, the twit-verse, and twerk-tik completely. The whole asocial media industry is just a giant waste of time and space.
One has to winder if the whole thing wasn't bootstrapped as a feed industry for the mental illness industry...
Even if you uBlock origin 24/7, Daily Mail will still be total shit...
#1 suggestion: Get rid of Identities!
There is no reason for the client to insist on knowing every email alias that delivers to a mail store.
Whatever the To address of a received mail, use that for the From addr in any replies...
#2 Suggestion: Make calendar reminders not get lost on snooze...
The claims by VISA and Mastercard, that they are committed to nternational markets, adds up to a big 0.
If the US government issues sanctions, they will comply.
Countries outside the US are wise to pursue other infrastructure.
The big surprise is that this problem has been ignored for so long.
Of course, here in the US, we will not be alllowed a free instant payment system, because giving 3% of gross sales away to an absentee business, is patriotism 8-/
I think it almost doesn't matter what pockets 8-/
The routinely noted decline in US "educational achievement" correlates most closely, with the propagation in the school aged population, of "smartphones" and the algorithmic websites at which they're aimed.
I've been saying lately: Apple caused the collapse of US educational outcomes.
Truly.
"Make the libtards cry"
Was enough of a hate monger campaign promise, to put the most blatantly corrupt president in US history, in office.
The descent of the US population into abject idiocy has been striking.
From the article:
It is an impressive sight.
The fascination with this is more than a little disturbing.
Somewhat reassuring to see that many comments here interpret the images as a call to eliminate nuclear weapons. But it's hard to image our current ape man species moving away from mass murder as an international policy implementation.
The propensity of our primate species for self annihilation doesn't pose much hope for extended survival.
Innate murderous tendencies that may have encouraged the caveman's survival will surly be what wipes us out...
Sorry for the very late reply.
This article was just pubished:
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/09/nx-s1-5872786/iran-war-evs-so...
"China exported more than 2 million electric passenger vehicles between January and May"
Now, with the awesome deal with Iran of a "Big, Beautiful, not-a-nuclear-nonproliferation Treaty" blown out the window, along with the rest of the hot air emitted from our idiot in the oval office, oil prices are going through the roof again.
I am very glad to hear that affordable electric cars are available in England. This is a giant step forward.
I'm not glad for the reason, but I'm also glad that countries around the world are accelerating a transition away from petro based energy.
Here in the US, GM is announcing a new coal powered car, with the slogan: "Bring back the Stanely Steamer".
While all Chinese EVs are banned.
Where are the good search engines, for anything?
As the push to force users onto LLMs, search has plummeted in effectively finding relevant pages. And not just goggle.
Why isn't anyone applying LLMs to interpreting the semantic meaning of the search query, and finding pages that closely match?
Except that people build LLMs, train them, and prompt them.
Without humans, there are no LLMs.
I continue to be annoyed by reports that "LLMs solved some problem".
People developed the LLM s/w, trained the model to solve the problem, with other human's prior work, refined and revised the prompts and feedback until finally reaching a tenable solution.
But somehow, the LLM solved the problem 8-/
Compilers didn't end programming, neither will LLMs...
And they're certainly not even in the realm of the scope of abilities of biological life.
If you really feel that an LLM is superior to a human, you should get outside more.
p.s. I'm totally in agreement with you about the murderous psychosis of the state of Israel. Many Israelis are Jewish Nazis committing genocide. That doesn't make LLMs superior.
The main spam i get these days are "your cloud account has expired, pay immediately or you will loose your data".
It's something telling about the internet when spam transitioned from Viagra to cloud computing 8-/
Um, sorry. If you've ever sat behind a poorly maintained vespa at a stop light, and in it's cloud of exhaust when it takes off, then you definitely don't think it's cool...
Same thing for old beetles and VW buses. Total smog creators.
Electric is where it's at.
Can the cool kids catch up?
The main remaining question:
Do they provide anime and video games?
Yea, nothing makes a kid feel more accomplished than putting a choker collar on 'em and teaching them to heal.
It's especially rewarding for them when they get the dog biscuit at the end...
While I agree with you, laws are being routinely ignored by the US executive now.
But I would also say, the only impediment to executive overreach has been the constitution, as little as that impediment has been.
Albeit the current supreme court has also stretched the interpretation beyond all previous bounds.
The US certainly needs a modern revised constitution, but I don't see the DNC as having the vision or the balls to accomplish such a thing.
We're pretty much fucked here...
Weak country Weak constitution
I have to agree with this in whole.
It's like looking at the EU now and wondering, how did they not see this glaring dependency before now? Both the petro energy source and the US military support were never as secure as it seems they were assumed to be.
Here in the US, we're still sitting on a constitution from 250 years ago. Apparently no one though an incoming presidential administration would rape and pillage the place like we've seen in the last year and a half.
European countries did largely overhaul their constitutional documents after WWII. The EU in general has much more modern legislative bodies, and electoral systems.
Here in the US, we're still stuck with founding documents that expect Pony Express to deliver the ballots 8-/