If the Dems aren’t running on abolishing ICE and completely dismantling the police state, now, they’re setting up to throw the 2028 election.

Oh yeah?

I just live out of my downloads folder until its time to back up the important stuff to the server and reinstall/ distrohop.

I mean I pretty much browse new and see almost everything. Do you have any specific examples?

Nope. Any examples?

People who have been holding off on building a new systems due to part prices since 2020

I should do a kickstarter for a wifi connected butt plug that starts vibrating anytime a major AI providers system goes offline.

Well ain’t that a thing.

My personal #1. Got to meet Le Guin at a play in Portland.

Also, the colonists from the view of the oppressor are “free on paper only” from their view.

I’m trying to learn more about EU politics, and when something like this won’t die after being beat down several times, in the US it’s almost always some industry lobbying organization.

And a problem we have globally, is that there isn’t an organized counter movement in the opposite direction (that privacy is a human right, that this isn’t a path to security, that states need to be restrained and restricted in their tendencies towards authoritarianism).

Without that countermovement, it’s almost inevitable something like this will pass as the lobbying organization can long outlive the current generation of activists or politicians who see the problems with something like chat control.

Thank you.

But what groups are advocating for this? There is clearly a significant campaign behind this. It doesn’t seem at all grassroots.

It feels like this is just going to keep coming back, and that it’s being pushed by a centrally organized project. If privacy protections aren’t effectively enshrined in law, inevitably this kind of nanny state surveillance will happen.

Who is promoting this and why is it constantly coming back?

peaks out from behind tree

The Lathe of Heaven.

Someones having some really bad dreams and fucking with the timeline.

Like, a forum, at least in the default view, is like a waterfall of conversation. This is because every topic is single threaded.

When you have subconversations and quotes that form, the entire conversation history gets bumped along with the reply. It ends up being like… an avalanche of text.

Threading, like we have here, means I don’t get barraged by a wall of text if we have a long conversation. Its nested and makes coherent sense, and doesn’t overwhelm.

Its a major improvement.

Yeah. The way forums threaded made things impossible to follow.

I had a friend who was always on coke and acid and always was asking people to get spongled with them

Dr. Pnut, wherever you ended up, I hope you’re still spongle-ing.

We’re gonna need to bring Bubba in to evaluate…