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From the linked System76 blog:

New York’s proposed Senate Bill S8102A requires adults to prove they’re adults to use a computer, exercise bike, smart watch, or car if the device is internet enabled with app ecosystems. The bill explicitly forbids self-reporting and leaves the allowed methods to regulations written by the Attorney General. Practical methods for a bill of such extreme breadth would require, in many instances, providing private information to a third-party just to use a computer at all. Privacy disappears.

That’s appalling, and NY won’t be the only government trying it. This is going to be one of those battles we need to fight again and again.

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The old Israeli approach to ceasefires.

Have you not been paying attention?!

Of course not.

And we didn’t used to have just the two seasons, winter and everything on fire.

Because a communist country minding its own business while trying to provide for its people is evil, while a capitalist country bombing country after country non-stop for decades while trying to provide for a handful of billionaire sociopath pedophiles is good.

I was recommending it to anyone reading the thread.

Ardour is also good.

Hey thanks for doing that critical investigation. Although I posted propaganda and that wasn’t smart of me, It’s good to know those numbers are likely a misrepresentation and Israelis may not be as thoroughly extreme as that report makes them look.

On the other hand the responses of Israelis in opinion polls are not encouraging. From last July:

Personal response to the reports from Gaza: From examining the conduct of the state, we moved to a more personal question, asking: “To what extent are you personally troubled or not troubled by the reports of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in Gaza?” A very large majority of Jewish respondents reported that they are not so troubled or not at all troubled personally by events in Gaza (79%), while the majority of Arabs said that they are very troubled or somewhat troubled (86%).

In the Jewish sample, we found no difference by gender (with 80% of women and 78% of men not troubled), while in the Arab sample we found that women are more troubled than men by the situation in Gaza (women, 92%; men, 80%).

https://en.idi.org.il/articles/60357

Don’t start negotiating until you have a deal ready to go: that’s how you get the USA to bomb you.

When has Trump ever realized he’s being played?

Rigging an election you also cancel seems like a bit of a waste of effort.

How about cutting off USAID and thereby causing the deaths of about 10 million people by 2030, or accelerating the pace of climate change beyond what anyone thought possible, and thereby killing life all over the planet? Those are also big achievements.

Overregulation and underregulation are both problematic, so it’s not an easy thing to get right. But sometimes you get the impression a regulation is all agenda and very little thought (e.g. this one in California, and the FCC’s recent banning of foreign-made home routers).

I suspect it just indicates the excessive power of corporate lobbyists.

US doctors defend Trump, “This is how we all dress now”

“The worst of the worst”, “dangerous criminals” - Donald Trump

Trump wouldn’t be capable of that, either intellectually or psychologically.