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Gotta do something about Alice first.

Yeah, all we got is man made tragedy of the commons disasters where the data centers deplete not only the water for humans, but the water for the data centers. Poof, no more data.

Why the hell are they trying to build data centers in the fucking Sonoran Desert anyway.

I do not likev the flounder eyes of the fish in bed.

Circle? It clearly says draw a line around whatever you decided wrongly to indicate. Lines don’t curve and aren’t boxes, so good luck.

The problem is looking at it too functionally. You cannot fix it by “fixing” voting as if voting magically creates a functional government. It’s a method to derive consensus. You cannot look at a system that is failing to produce consensus and then fix it by directly removing anything that increases consensus. That’s insane.

You need to critically look at the entire system and identify what the problem is. In this case it’s largely the abstraction layers. People now interact with their government through filters even greater than the old Hearst days. Information flows from media filters to the population and from the population to government through social media filters. And both of those filters have their own agendas. Of course nobody believes the resulting government is responsive or legitimate. It’s not.

There are many potential solutions for civic engagement. But that largely means breaking down the very walls that powerful interests have created. There’s no easy solution to it. Certainly not “let’s make these stupid people unable to vote.” A solution is much more radical and takes understanding both what you want to achieve and how the current system is preventing it.

Sure. Disenfranchise most people. That’s a suitable hack to a
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stable, legitimate, and responsive government.

Even China would have more political legitimacy than such a system. It would collapse almost immediately.

If you ever want a good example of functionalist ideas leading to absolutely uncritical nonsense, here it is.

Where does fluxbuntu come in?

Those are the worst el reg comments I’ve ever seen.

Specifically “old/young”

We are all monsters on this blessed day.

I guess I’m a train now.

Hard to have standing over a third party not doing something to someone else that would hurt them to maybe(key point here) help you. It’s possible to argue yourself there but the bar is incredibly high. If you can’t assign direct provable causation and redress, you’re SOL.

It’s kind of like how nobody really could challenge DACA in the courts from the Republican side because all the harms they cited were hypothetical.

The legal basis is someone with standing would have to sue him over it. Tiktokm certainly isn’t going to and Congress… Well.

Yay.

The ice it was on melted and it sunk.

Anticompetitive structures in South Korea? I am shocked.

So what, one takes waist up and the other’s on booty duty?

Edit: Lawrence is going to ban me for adult content.

I get what you’re saying, but giving yourself a fast lane in other business areas is an explicit choice to be anticompetitive. That decision on its own is inherently malicious. It doesn’t allow you to then say the consequences of that decision are neutral because you didn’t single out this specific competitor to block (or at least there’s no evidence you did). This is frankly a slam dunk case in the EU that will result in heavy fines for Google.

I’m actually certain that the issues facing Nextcloud are not some malicious anti-competitive effort, but yet more sheer and utter incompetence from every enterprise/business facing aspect of Google.

That both may be true and anticompetitive at the same time. Google cloud services apps certainly aren’t randomly getting blocked or going through the same system. Google has steadfastly refused to reply to them or consider their needs.