I sure am glad that we learned our lesson from the marketing campaigns in the 90’s that pushed consumers to recycle their plastic single-use products to deflect attention away from the harm caused by their ubiquitous use in manufacturing.

Fuck those AI users for screwing over small creators and burning down the planet though. I see no problem with this framing.

A simple toggle, secured with a password would do it.

Yea, that’s the thing - I don’t think it would ‘do’ it for legislators. Like you mentioned - it’s not really about protecting children, but also the only way to enforce a law like this would be to log or register devices to specific people or children. This would essentially just shift the point of verification from the individual website to the point of sale of the phone or tablet. Verifying the age is the part that necessitates identification - the only thing a hardware-locked strategy does is centralizes that verification to a governing body instead of individual websites, but it still associates individuals with specific devices.

I get why this might seem preferable, but the problem of online privacy still persists.

I’m so tired of this civility meta.

Lemmy is half as uncivilized as any other social media space I’ve ever been in, including reddit or Twitter. I think people are just confused by a lack of centralized authority to settle disputes on what is or isn’t ‘civil’ behavior - but it certainly isn’t the case that it’s any less civil than just about any alternative.

Maybe this places extra stress on instance admins for constantly addressing complaints of users on and off their server, but that has less to do with the kind of user civility people are talking about and more with a culture of mob justice evidenced by communities like MoG and PTB.

People seem uncomfortable with multipolar systems, and maybe it’s because of my political bent but I think distributed systems are way better.

I don’t think this is a good idea…

This is even more invasive - it would mean all the traffic and activity in every device would be traceable to a registration. Whereas now they might have a pretty good lock on individual device ids, they’d then have an actual registry of devices and owners to verify it against

K but who gets the fatwa? The doctor?

Yes, and they are not required to run in a primary because those are run by each party (being independent means you don’t have a party to begin with)

There’s no limit (AFAIK) to the number of candidates on the ballot, but there is a deadline to file and that deadline has passed. Cuomo had preemptively filed as an independent candidate in case he didn’t win the primary (I think Mamdani did this too), but had not publicly stated whether he would use it until now.

It was a reference

Did you know that it’s illegal to say, “I wish someone would kill the president of the united states”?

Im not saying it, im just letting you know that it’s illegal. Like a public service announcement.

voting heavily

That’s not how that works.

Lesser, greater, middling.

Force ranked choice voting by… loudly supporting them no matter what they do?

Force is a relative concept, it seems

My BIL who works in ecology asked me why people are freaking out about low birthing rates, because in his area of specialty most people are still talking about the need to slow population growth down.

Gee I wonder if western media has done this with other conflicts

If Cuomo runs independent, the democratic party loses any hope of keeping their progressive base and it might actually split entirely.

After bullying their base for the last 10 years to get in line behind their shit moderate candidates, if they were to suddenly decide that primaries don’t mean anything then they’d never be able to convince progressives to vote against their interests again.

Cuomo is backed by the democratic establishment and the DNC’s donor class. It doesnt matter if he’s independent, he’s the establishment pick and would be running with their funding.

“Vote blue no matter who”

Mamdani wins historic primary victory

“…shit”

Not that I’m aware of, no

Once you’ve finished this project, you’re only a hop and skip away from this 3D printed Machining Mill. He uses the 3d printed pieces as a mold for reinforced concrete, so that it’s heavy enough to resist the vibrations so that you can mill solid metal stock.

The single most impressive 3D printed DIY tool i’ve ever seen.

Inshallah, Trump abandons Israel to deal with Iran by themselves because he doesn’t want to be blamed for WWIII.

Europeans need to be reflecting on what kind of leadership they want to replace the US now that they’ve started stepping out.

For all the chaos they’re causing, especially in regards to this conflict, it’s not a bad thing that the US is losing geopolitical relevance. I just wish I had any confidence that something better would come from it.

Now is really the time for people to be organizing.

“DA says”

A little misleading without the quotation marks