If the supreme court can't subject laws to constitutional scrutiny, and there is no longer separation of powers, I think that's basically the end of the US Republic.

That's a fun hobby. I recently spent a while troubleshooting mine, in the end what fixed it was swapping out the failing power supply.

Downsize your life. Some of the things money buys are really important (food, shelter, access to healthcare), and others are less important, so organize your priorities so you aren't trading things that are priceless for things that are not. I'd expect your wife wouldn't consider you dying early and miserable from stress to have been justified by a little extra financial comfort. Buy back more of your time and use it to take care of yourself.

Being a kid before the internet was a very different time

Explicit types are just laziness, you should be catching exceptions anyways.

Cities banning homeless people from sleeping outside while failing to give them any alternative is bad, but I think the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment is a poor protection against that. This is the sort of thing we need actual laws passed to deal with.

A while ago I read the book Swarmwise by Rick Falkvinge about the process of starting a political movement in Sweden, and some aspects of how their democracy works seemed comparatively impressive to me, and better capable of genuine representation because the barriers to getting started are not so insurmountable. Still, I'm not convinced overall of the narrative of changes to the structure of government being generally positive. You used a technology metaphor, but it's been a clear trend for tech platforms to actually become worse over time in terms of user agency, privacy and exploitation, something that to me seems mirrored in government. A lot of what people see as solutions to problems take the form of an increase in centralized control and a weakening of barriers to that control, and I see those barriers as the ideological core of how the US was originally designed to work. A specific law might be shown to have positive results in itself, but be achieved by an unsafe concentrating of power. In particular, I think the way the executive branch has been expanding over the last century is very concerning especially with stuff like the Patriot Act and everything associated with it.

Basically, especially right now it's clear that a lot of the people in power are malevolently insane, incompetent and demented, and it's really important that we maintain and improve protections to keep them from doing too much damage, so I am skeptical about ideas for major reform especially when the idea is to take the shortest path to policy goals.

Can you give any specific examples

Yeah, I get the concerns about bots that publish content, but I don't have sympathy for complaints about bots that only read.

Looks like slow dancing but then the guy got frustrated and pushed the woman away? Meanwhile another man plays drums on a chair and a woman brushes her eyelashes over a garbage can, all in a subway station or something

The police believe that the motive behind this hacking was to reduce network-related costs, as torrent transfers can be costly for internet service providers. KT, however, claims that it was merely trying to manage traffic on its network to ensure a smooth user experience.

Sounds like they admit it but object to the negative tone lol

So the metaphor here is lewd the AI, got it

Scammers targeting people who have been scammed already is so common and they are incredibly brazen about it. Basically every post I see on smaller crypto subs on Reddit where some hapless individual has lost money somehow and is asking for help, half the response comments are obvious scammers offering to privately 'assist' them through their problem in DMs.

I think maybe rather than trying to gather biometric data, the choice of this form of authentication is related to the intimidation factor of implying they might be.

I can agree it's a little bit racist and wrong to tell the story using that sort of slur, and honestly I kind of think likely the entire story is very racist due to being fake and made up to get a laugh at the expense of Indian people, but if it's real it seems worse to be knowingly bringing harassment down on your coworkers by intentionally antagonizing people for a laugh when you're supposed to be doing your job, I think that probably does more actual harm.

CBDC seems like a bad idea

killswitch doesn't work because packets can still get through between the time when the VPN goes offline and when it activates, need to bind torrent client to vpn or have some firewall configuration to prevent non-vpn traffic

The data collected by ID.me has nothing to do with the processing of a FOIA request.”

So why collect it? If the data is irrelevant to the request it shouldn't be asked for. What is the IRS even trying to say here?

Also I want to say I've had to use this system to do my taxes and it's creepy as hell.

As long as they aren't putting ridiculous terms on model usage like SD3 and the weights are provided I'm happy with it

This often happens to me on Windows with the Index so it might not even be a Linux specific issue