These laws are not written by the technically literate. They are written by attorneys based on the whims of old legislators who think that Siri is a real woman that they are talking to.

While the people who write the laws are competent, the legislators are not.

At the state level, it’s even worse because they are often given legislation carefully written by lobbyists and special interest groups.

If you have any inkling to run for office, please consider doing so because we need smarter people in every branch of government.

The West Wing

Yes. Conservatives, specifically the alt-right, need ways to identify each other in public so that they can “feel included”.

And the reason they feel safe is that liberals and progressives are largely non-violent.

I know nothing about mobile OS development. How realistic is it at this point for someone to fork Android?

I know that software like Edge and Iron Fox can be forked and worked on by independent people. But Android is developed to integrate tightly with proprietary hardware.

I remember reading a study about speeding in neighborhoods. It’s not unusual to have people driving 50+ in a 25 MPH neighborhood.

Speed bumps actually caused people to drive faster between the bumps.

What worked was more curves and narrow roads. Essentially making it more dangerous.

So you’re not wrong.

You can thank the blue wave. Virginia has a super majority in the House of Delegates and a majority in the Senate.

They still are.

Oh I definitely have. I usually follow up with “Would you vote for him again?”

100% of the time they say yes.

These people are a cult

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

The problem with “age” verification is that politicians are confusing it with identity verification.

I should not have to prove my name and other biometrics to prove age.

Age verification is the fascist way to get people to identify themselves and their online activity. Almost every state that has some sort of age verification law has zero method to actually verify age. No digital ID service, no way to share a credential for verification.

They want people to upload an ID.

This isn’t about keeping children safe and it never is. It’s about identifying critics of the government.

She’s thinking “parliamentary tactics” is what’s going to save the country.

Ma’am: Republicans have shown multiple times they are willing to kill to have their way. How will “breaking quorum” stop them?

Am I the only one questioning why Microslop has a Discord server? Don’t they have a chat product?

The same public libraries that vigorously defend the privacy of our reading lists

The Patriot act allows the feds to get the books you’ve checked out at your local library.

Trump is a symptom. Removing him won’t save anything.

We need to gut the entire ruling class.

I do on my laptop. Mostly so I can present with one user that has a clean browser history.

My main user has access to all my porn.

J6 was a trial run.

They learned their lessons and they will do something else to usurp the democratic process. And this time it will work.

Not only that, but bare in mind that most government employees are there to do a job. They don’t always agree with the laws they have to enforce and sometimes they will make it as challenging as possible for fascist ideas like this go through.

Complaining to them is like complaining to the checkout cashier at your grocery store that the prices are too high.

!waterfox@programming.dev

It got Trump’s dick hard as well. Can’t forget that.