Dark Arc

WebChain of trust, the site only trusts certain attesters (yes this would be really bad for Linux).

EDIT: Used the wrong “of trust”

Thank you all for your votes (also a part of this one) :)

This is what angered me the most about this issue. I’m happy my fellow Ohioans were able to see this for the power grab that it was.

It is ultimately run by elected representatives though. Popular opinions matter

Honestly this can be taboo regardless of your gender

I heard Oregon (?) was having similar issues there where they made similar changes

Google sold their domains (and customers in the process to, I think it was square space)… Definitely just go with namecheap, they support the EFF, have a good website, and reasonable prices

It absolutely is, and actually it used to be even closer to the house of lords. Up until this last century the US Senate was not directly elected, the state government would appoint the state’s senators. IIRC the Senate was inspired by the house of lords, the major difference being term limits instead of lifetime appointments.

(I imagine the Senate was more meaningful back when the state government couldn’t talk to people in Washington in seconds)

In RuneScape’s case it was a neat idea, but you basically never saw it happen, at least I never did.

but it absolutely makes sense most of the time

I’d contest that, that shouldn’t be taken for granted. I’ve tried several questions in these things, and rarely do I find an answer entirely satisfactory (though it normally sounds convincing/is grammatically correct).

Welcome to (let’s be honest, Republican) policies that cut “in-house” staffing for decades at various federal institutions, instead outsourcing important work to contractors, under funding of important projects, and general “backwards” operation.

I think they already do in a sense; that’s the standard deduction. If you want to maximize your returns you might be better off itemizing though, and that option is what makes everything complicated (I suspect they’d have a hard time sending you a bill for everything you itemize… I don’t know that they really know everything you could itemize; I think that really only comes up when it’s suspicious/you get audited).

i.e., if they did that, you’d basically get fewer options, and maybe less money back(?)

A lot of the time these are either people who entered the country illegally or are runaways. It’s not an excuse, but it definitely limits the amount of law enforcement eyes that would otherwise be looking (i.e. a handful of families report missing children vs dozens).

Sure, but these things exists as fancy story tellers. They understand language patterns well enough to write convincing language, but they don’t understand what they’re saying at all.

The metaphorical human equivalent would be having someone write a song in a foreign language they barely understand. You can get something that sure sounds convincing, sounds good even, but to someone who actually speaks Spanish it’s nonsense.

No it’s a clear case for increasing our education budget 😉

Here’s the problem with these things… Even if it’s not a thing right now, are you 100% certain it won’t be a thing at some point in the future?

Electronics can very easily contain code, or outright hardware that changes after a set time or when given a signal.

It’s the equivalent of having an agent of a foreign dictator and hostile power working as part of your police force. You don’t know when it’s going to turn, maybe it’ll never move against you, but it’s loyalties are elsewhere.

The US won’t, not until it has enough domestic chip production capacity. It would be an outright war, there would be troops sent, there would not be this game of military aid.

Ukraine is not critical to the US interest, it’s important but not critical, Taiwan at the current time would cross a line.

It’s 100% a new problem. There’s established precedent for things costing different amounts depending on their intended use.

For example, buying a consumer copy of song doesn’t give you the right to play that song in a stadium or a restaurant.

Training an entire AI to make potentially an infinite number of derived works from your work is 100% worthy of requiring a special agreement. This even goes beyond simple payment to consent; a climate expert might not want their work in an AI which might severely mischatacterize the conclusions, or might want to require that certain queries are regularly checked by a human, etc

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I think this is a really great response; I agree with you on a lot of this. I (personally) think we need more of this sort of dialog and less “American society is crumbling.” I hope you’ll agree here/try to keep that in mind as much as possible. IMO some outwardly expressed optimism and hope is really important and can go a long way towards fighting the collective depression and overwhelming feeling that we’re up against an insurmountable force … IMO we can get through all of this, we just have to work together and have constructive discussions on how.

There’s definitely been some dropping the ball by previous generations, and I hope (and if we try, know) we can do better in the coming years.