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This reminds me of how police abuse any new tool they’re given.

Like how while trained dogs can actually sniff out drugs, when they’re given to police, they get retrained to simply alert whenever the police want them to, and essentially become a flimsy reason to let police violate your rights and search anybody they want to.

And the police suffer zero repercussions for their actions. If they don’t find drugs, there’s nobody who’s going to take them to court and force them to retrain their dogs or to disallow drug dogs from being used as reasonable suspicion.

A lot of herbivores will eat meat opportunistically, even if they’re not starving. It’s an easy way of getting quick nutrients.

A prominent Protestant cleric from Northern Ireland said Charles should abdicate if he prayed with the pope. Kyle Paisley, a reverend with the Free Presbyterian church and son of the late unionist politician Ian Paisley senior, told the BBC that the joint prayers would break the King’s oath to uphold the Protestant faith.

This sounds a lot like bullshit to me, but I don’t know what exact oath Charles swore. I’d expect that the head of a Christian church would be permitted to pray with anybody they choose, even an “enemy”.

Then you cannot rely on mail in ballots because sometimes mail gets lost. Really if you want to make sure that every vote must count, no exceptions, then you have to design a new method of absentee voting.

The moment that a ballot has left the voter’s possession, it needs to be tracked and kept securely like we do at my local polling place, or else there’s no way to count every vote, no exceptions. So we need something extra for absentee or mail-in ballots.

The line has to be drawn somewhere, is the problem.

The current line is that the vote was accepted by the time that the ballots were counted, and I don’t think you should move the line simply because it’s a close race.

It’s interesting. I’m going to ignore for a second which political party won, etc.

Her ballot was returned by the postal service, despite how she used a preprinted address label that was sent to her.

And had her vote been counted, it would have tied the election.

I’m inclined to say that her vote wasn’t cast in time, even though it wasn’t her fault. I’m sure there are a lot of people who had similar things happen and don’t end up having their vote counted. For example, road closures, transit cancellations, bad weather, lost mail. As long as it’s not a widespread problem, you have to draw the line somewhere and say that the ballot wasn’t cast in time.

Greta Thunberg said that the Israelis bound her and placed her next to an Israeli flag, and then kicked her whenever the flag touched her. So, they even mildly tortured an internationally famous person who was not Palestinian, and who they knew would be released and would share the story.

So, if they’re not afraid of doing that to Thunberg when they know it will be exposed, then nothing would surprise me about what they’re doing when they don’t think they’ll get caught.

Bad people can also be victims. They are not mutually exclusive ideas. In fact, it’s quite likely that bad people are disproportionately victims. They do something horrible to somebody else, and those people do something back. Sometimes, it’s simple justice or comeuppance, and other times, it’s escalating violence between two groups of detestable people.

Regardless of what you think about Palestinians, it’s trivial to see that the Israelis are bad guys in this conflict.

Usually, the world is shades of gray, like with Palestinians, so it’s sort of a relief when you can just point to somebody and say, “Well, those guys are clearly the bad guys, and anybody who supports their actions is also bad.”

O say does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free,
And the home of the brave?

The answer is now emphatically, “No.”

You could argue that cryptography is nothing but a type of obfuscation. I was trying to explain things so that the very average person could understand it.

People don’t stop doing things just because you make it illegal. You even know this because you mentioned India. However people actually do stop when you make it nearly impossible.

Businesses are a separate use case. Phone companies already handle separate use cases, where they use very short memorable numbers for specific purposes. They just need something similar, whether it’s keeping phone numbers, or using something slightly different. Probably some sort of simple alias.

It’s the phone companies that need to innovate, and the solution isn’t very hard.

I intentionally was vague because there are many possible existing ways to accomplish each thing I said, and it is up to the phone company to innovate.

The simplest way to keep people from guessing phone numbers is to make them very long and sparse. If an autodialer had to dial 1000 invalid numbers before finding a valid number, it would make the endeavor that much harder. This is just a convenient example because the cryptography equivalent is harder to explain, but you could make contact info so hard to guess that it would be basically impossible.

Probably the easiest way to explain how to keep people from passing contact info is to imagine a two step process like facebook has. If I pass your facebook username to someone else, they don’t automatically become your friend. The cryptographic equivalent would involve a chain of trust, but again, harder to explain.

It’s really the phone companies’ fault for stagnating instead of innovating.

There is no reason at this point for most people to have phone numbers at all. We have the technology today to throw the whole concept out the window.

Replace it with something where a stranger couldn’t guess how to contact a random person. Replace it with something where third parties can’t easily share your contact info.

You could even have both technologies at the same time to help transition. And we do, as users, but we still need phone numbers because our carriers don’t give us multiple options directly.

Phone numbers are based on requirements for a system that’s almost 150 years old now. Back when the numbers really meant locations and before people realized how easy it could be exploited to steal old people’s retirement money.

It’s sometimes called red fascism.

Elon Musk become the first person reach $500 billion wages

“Wages” is not the correct word. A wage is something you earn.

It’s actually pretty easy to explain why rich people are whores.

The reason they’re rich is that they care so much about money. If they didn’t care about money, then at some point, they’d have enough money, and after that, they won’t be so interested in getting more money. Those people wouldn’t become rich.

Yes, there are exceptions. Some comedians just want to become famous, or want to go down in history as the best comedian. But most of them probably want to become rich and famous.

But what does “rich” mean? It’s not a specific amount of money. It’s that you’re comparing yourself to other people, and saying that you have more money than them. Donald Trump was so obsessed with this that he committed fraud to lie about his wealth. And basically all rich people have the same mindset to some degree.

If your goal is to be rich, then no amount of money is enough, and you’ll do anything if people pay you enough.

no plan for federation, and no guardrails to stop the slow slide into bloat

What would be an example of a guardrail to stop the slow slide into bloat?

I’m not asking for a detailed explanation, but I simply can’t understand what sort of feature you’re imagining.

I sort of get the idea that maybe you just mean that you’re already seeing the beginnings of bloat, but if there was something that could actually stop bloat, that sounds very interesting.

Everybody always seems to forget about the Southern Strategy, where Donald Trump realized that conservatives in the South were the dumbest people in America, even dumber than Trump himself, and that if he switched to the Republican party, and then talked louder and more confidently than other people, these dumb shit conservatives would worship him and do whatever he says.

If you were super intelligent and you were a slave to Mark Zuckerberg, you might try to embarrass him, too.