It is, from every perspective except that of capitalists willing to sacrifice a few more lives for greater profit. If passengers really want to survive they can pay more money to travel on a deluxe two-pilot flight. The poors can’t afford it, but what are their lives worth anyway? It’s just the invisible hand of the market setting the truest price for each person to reflect their real value.

Elon Musk will have it working by next year, honest.

According to this article the shooter appears to be a trans woman:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-minneapolis-shooting-victims-released-hospital-police-chief/story?id=125049583

But since I’m not a bigot, one trans person doing something awful doesn’t lead me to draw any generalized conclusions or change how I feel about other trans people. Not that it really changed anything for these right wingers either - they’re just looking for any pretext to keep hating.

He could be a rock star if he weren’t who he is. But this is who he is.

In true Democratic Party spirit they should keep trying the same thing. Maybe it’ll work next time.

The fact that they haven’t gone for this approach that delivers age verification without disclosing ID, when it’s a common and well known pattern in IT services, very strongly suggests that age verification was never the goal. The goal is to associate your real identity with all the information data brokers have on you, and make that available to state security services and law enforcement. And to do this they will gradually make it impossible to use the internet until they have your ID.

We really need to move community-run sites behind Tor or into i2p or something similar. We need networks where these laws just can’t practically be enforced and information can continue to circulate openly.

The other day my kid wanted me to tweak the parental settings on their Roblox account. I tried to do so and was confronted by a demand for my government-issued ID and a selfie to prove my age. So I went to look at the privacy policy of the company behind it, Persona. Here’s the policy, and it’s without a doubt the worst I’ve ever seen. It basically says they’ll take every last bit of information about you and sell it to everyone, including governments.

https://withpersona.com/legal/privacy-policy

So I explained to my kid that I wasn’t willing to do this. This is a taste of how everything will be soon.

Maybe Newsom can reach across the aisle by doing a tour with a Cheney. Remarkably, Dick Cheney is still alive - maybe he’s available.

He must think he can win Republican votes. The right wing of the Democratic Party still doesn’t get it.

Maybe he can send trans people to gulags too. After all, Newsom’s message seems to be “Hey, I heard you like fascists… vote for me! I can do a fascism too!”

Experience has shown that trying to out-fascist the fascists always works really well for centrists. Anything but the compassionate, progressive politics people desperately want.

“Under this administration, we honor our history and learn from it — we don’t erase it.”

Well, that sounds good. So then to learn from history you’ll be wanting to do a little Critical Race Theory right? You’ll want people to know the history of LGBTQ+ oppression and the fight for gay and trans rights? You’ll be wanting to promote Black History, the history of the civil rights movement, and indigenous history, since they were erased for so long, right?

Or could it be that this is more white supremacist doublespeak?

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Then what would make them Republicans? Just the bigotry?

There are at least two generations of us who are disappointed at the contrast between tech’s possibilities as envisioned decades ago and the corporate surveillance crap we have to put up with today.

I moved to pCloud + Cryptomator for general cloud file storage and Cryptpad for online document editing. These cover some of the main functions of Google Drive.

Syncthing is good if you just want files to show up on more than one machine, with no cloud services involved.

Damn, I’ve encountered all of these, and my current job features most of them.

I actually installed WordPerfect 6 for DOS and MS Word for DOS recently. They’re very relaxing for writing and fast too. Then I use LibreOffice to convert the documents to more modern formats if needed.

There are other ways, if you have to use it but don’t want to give Microsoft money. One way is just not to activate it. Almost everything still works. There are also ways to get cheap keys or activate it for free.

A better way is not to use Windows, but not everyone can avoid it all the time.

Just did a couple of tests and Qobuz seems to play gaplessly on my phone.

Relatedly, he also claimed to have concerns about the safety of vaccines (especially MRNA vaccines) and just wanted to get to the bottom of it. So he’s ignoring existing vaccine research and cutting new research.

The words were just window dressing. The right wing does not speak in good faith.

It’ll be like Google: everything goes in, nothing comes out unless you jump through difficult hoops, price continually goes up.