adespoton

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Accepting prohibited contributions for the 2022 elections.

Better late than never.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which is why you primary the current reps. Of BOTH parties.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

”They'll avoid encounters and conflict with people as much as they can. And so we just need to do our part and respect that."

If only the same could be said about politicians.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In the time it takes for all this to play out, all the farmers could recoup their potential losses and then some by replacing their JD investment with Kubota, who supports independent repair shops.

Of course, with the debt load most farmers carry, that’s easier said than done.

If the federal government set up a replacement program though, and shipped all the JD machinery to Ukraine where hackers know how to modify the software, everyone but JD would win.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I’d assume that wall was made of pork, but this is Texas, so it was always a load of bull.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This is why I run my own NextCloud instance that backs up locally and via offsite rotation.

Sure, I could still lose it all, but it would be 100% my own fault if I did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right; so anyone using Apple Messages or WhatsApp or Signal still has private messaging; it’s those message apps that only encrypt in transit that are leaving data exposed to authorities. Personally, I don’t have an issue with that like I do with EU chat control. But it’s mostly performative.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

What we all want to know though is: did she successfully change his name too?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Er, does this compel everyone to cooperate, or is it just a “yeah, police are legally allowed to monitor encrypted communications” kind of thing?

The first seems dystopian and the second performative, and neither seems like it will do what Austria’s government says it will.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Doesn’t mean Apple is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Horses, because they used to be everywhere. Step in the street, and you were likely to step in some.

Bull, because it’s very big and smelly and there was usually some around (steer manure is still prized for gardening).

Bats… because it rains from above and is really gross, and you’ve got a high likelihood of getting really sick from it.

Why we don’t go on about pigeon and seagull guano though? I have no idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The difference is that black market gambling is distributed. It means that there are fewer protections for people who engage in it but more people profiting from it.

But legalization just means most of the action is controlled by a handful of corporations, and the government is involved in protecting the flow of money, of which they get a cut.

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