The British turned London into an absolute surveillance nightmare, and sadly most British people seem to be fine with it. I’m not surprised that OSA passed, nor that it’s doing exactly the kind of chilling of speech that it is.

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I’m extremely wary of any law that can be used to censor or otherwise remove material online, but one gripe i have with the Techdirt article is their assertion that hash matching is expensive or difficult.

Generating a SHA hash of an image when uploaded is very inexpensive in terms of processing, and there’s already going to be a db somewhere that stores the image metadata, so it’s not like putting the hash there is hard. Similarly, a simple No/SQL lookup for a known hash is incredibly simple and non-intensive.

The real issue is the lack of an appeal mechanism, the lack of penalty for, or legal mechanism to, ignore false reports (which should probably be about spam/ volume of requests, rather than single requests), and the lack of definition around what exactly a site must do to show good-faith, reasonable compliance.

I agree that she’s not at all progressive, but she is Centrist, and that’s too progressive for the DNC. I suspect that Biden made the call to make her VP independent of the DNC leadership, given that he’s generally had his own circle of confidants and friends.

They’ve literally been lying about theft data for years to try to push their anti-consumer practices. CVS closed stores in SF during the pandemic, claiming it was due to shoplifting, only for people to find out later it was union-busting. The NRF is a lobbying group, plain and simple, and nothing they report should be taken seriously.

Too progressive for the DNC, for them to allow her to win. Not progressive enough for voters.

Ubisoft has never been a mod-friendly publisher, and none of their titles support modding to any extent that I’m aware of. The mods that exist for it are pretty limited in nature (i.e. they modify existing values and textures, and don’t really expand the game afaik). I like FarCry 2, 3, 5, New Dawn, and 6, but the series has definitely written itself into a corner. Removing the guns makes it not work (e.g. Primal), but they’ve literally ended their timeline with 5 and New Dawn, and 6 just makes it feel like they don’t know where to go and are doing offshoots. 6 felt more like Just Cause than Far Cry, to me.

I’m saying that’s why she lost then. She was in a field of better progressives as well as the status quo rep.

This ^ is what tacosanonymous said. I’m not sure where you are getting “lost something because she was too progressive” from that.

Here you go:

1. She was never very progressive, which made her less appealing in an open primary like 2020 (to actual voters) than other options like Sanders

2. She was still too progressive for the DNC to back her, until Biden dropped and they were left with the prospect of a snap primary they couldn’t exercise control over, at which point they backed Harris running with a platform that was significantly less progressive than her 2020 primary platform

After Biden dropped out, if she had been more progressive, more voters would have backed her, but if she was more progressive the DNC would never have backed her. You need both the voters and the party to back a candidate for them to win. The DNC refusing to move leftwards towards voters is why they’ve lost 2/3 of the previous elections.

My conclusion is not that we need to replace all the buses with trains, it’s that I’m not okay with replacing manned buses with unmanned ones. Unmanned trains, I’d be fine with, but just keep the manned buses.

Are We Ready For Driverless Buses?

If they’re on a set of parallel metal beams on the ground, absolutely!

He was, but it wasn’t without Hillary controlling the DNC to weigh everything against him, including by using the funds that were meant to go to whoever was the elected candidate, during the primary. But don’t take my word for that, that’s straight from Donna Brazile, who became head of the DNC at the end of the 2016 election cycle: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/

“Wait,” I said. “That victory fund was supposed to be for whoever was the nominee, and the state party races. You’re telling me that Hillary has been controlling it since before she got the nomination?”

Gary said the campaign had to do it or the party would collapse.

“That was the deal that Robby struck with Debbie,” he explained, referring to campaign manager Robby Mook. “It was to sustain the DNC. We sent the party nearly $20 million from September until the convention, and more to prepare for the election.”

The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.

I had been wondering why it was that I couldn’t write a press release without passing it by Brooklyn. Well, here was the answer.

This is OSA in the UK, not KOSA in the US. I don’t disagree with you, but this was just British conservatives doing their thing, not based off of US legal precedents.

While I wish he had a longer sentence, he was coming up on the end of his, and he was already living at home due to being part of the white-collar convicts sent home for house arrest during COVID.

I also highly doubt Biden was briefed on every one of the 1500 people he commuted in those 2 days.

Once a group has fully dehumanized another, no amount of suffering will ever budge them. If they also make the dehumanized group The Enemy, the suffering becomes a positive thing.

Sadly, it’s already being forgotten despite it still being ongoing.

This “conflict” has been all about clearing Gaza for settlements. That includes removing Hamas, but they’re just a subset of the real goal. They want all the Palestinians to either die or flee Gaza, so they can finally solve their Palestinian “situation”.

They’ve been saying it themselves since the beginning, but all the apologists and propagandists just keep claiming otherwise.

Coming soon

Not to my phone it’s not!

Or their hills that spew smoke 24/7 (because they’re on fire).

Missing no chances to be complete pieces of shit.

One thing to note is that the campaign to make him into a ‘broken’, ‘damaged’ individual is well underway in the media. There’s nothing positive about being well-adjusted to a harmful system, and being broken by a harmful system is not a personal failing.

Is he going to be a perfectly polite, mild-mannered person in court? Maybe not. But don’t let yourself be tricked into the narrative that this discredits his reasoning, or into thinking his actions are the result of some personal failing rather than a reasonable reaction to a harmful system.