feels awfully close second one… especially now that i found out they’re deputizing bounty hunters to impersonate federal officers, with masks on… and paying them >$1,000 per brown person they kidnap…
i mean i knew it something extra odd was happening but a lot of these guys are contractors… and ofc white supremacists…

you can’t put all elected officials in the same basket, at the very least, they care about getting elected again and a huge protest threatens that….

protests accomplish a lot, but not by protests alone.
for example: sending a message to elected officials, increasing awareness, bringing like minded people together to work on the problem they’re addressing.

We also have a policy that if you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle, and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety. And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.

it’s a completely pointless law. You were already allowed to defend yourself if attacked by a mob (but not if you drive into the mob and then they start attacking you)
so yeah, if you go to a planned parenthood protest, and they all surround your car, threatening you and attacking your car, you can drive away.

that’s a lack of imagination….
just because i can’t think of a great solution doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
off the top of my head, here’s a system without a centralized surveillance database:

1. porn site gives you a random token,
2. you then hash that with a time-stamp,
3. get the token signed by your government ID system (like a dmv),
4. return the signed hash.
5. the government only knows that you used age verification for something somewhere….

now the hard part is just explaining cryptographic signatures and hashes to people….
of course people could still give a kid a verified account, but at least it’s harder for them to access it, i don’t need perfection….

i think it should be a little harder for a child to watch anal prolapse fisting porn than “click yes if you’re of legal age”….
but… not a good excuse for creating a citizen surveillance database.

that’s not what gatekeeping is….
you don’t “gatekeep” qualifications and skills.
“you’re not really an artist because you were born rich” would be an example of gatekeeping.
“you’re not really a doctor because you didn’t graduate from medical school” is just the definition of a doctor.

page 25:
https://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconference1978.pdf

explain to me why tiktok is promoting these videos and not censoring them?
they censor cuss words on there, but not videos of encouraging kids to hurt themselves or others?
but, there were always idiot fucking things up in school… well before the internet. tiktok is just channeling that.
….
also, forcing kids to use chromebooks is child abuse… especially since schools spy on kids through them

that’s wise of them…
but, i bet their next album will be pretty good….

and aren’t you sick of punk shows where everything goes smoothly and you buy a t-shit and go home? i want punk shows where the cops show up and a riot breaks out… like the good old days….

ffs

🥵 i stand corrected

how?

well what’s important to remember is that nothing anyone could possibly do would help, and everyone should give up and not resist fascism….

or, seriously, it takes a whole lot of things.

are you trying to discourage them?

no, but it will be good for punk rock and comedians… everything else will hurt.

his whole purpose is to distract from the global conspiracy

i wish open source developers would pick better names… lemmy, diaspora, mastodon, gimp, linux…
it’s nearly impossible to talk about this stuff to a non nerd…
i think half of Bluesky’s success is due to it being much easier to talk about.

it’s the only plausible explanation

fuck