That it's a competitive system is the problem. The world advances through cooperation.

Completely removing internet anonymity. There was just a story of some dumb racist commenting on a black woman's Facebook and since Facebook has real names she tracked them down and drove to his place of work.

Now it's all well and good for some racist asshole, although that's a really dumb thing to do this since you never know if he has a gun, but increasingly internet anonymity is the only thing we've got to push back

When that piece of shit Charlie Kirk died multiple people lost their jobs for doing nothing more but either quoting what the man said or just saying he was an asshole which he objectively was. Also funny to watch after decades of the right wing complaining about cancel culture being happy to use it to attack their enemies...

It's like nobody around here remembers the McCarthy era. Did they stop teaching at the kids in schools or something? I mean we stopped teaching slavery was bad so...

A good chunk of that is labor and environmental regulations. China doesn't have to pay for either of those things. We know damn well they have slave labor in their supply chains. And you can Google the phrase cancer villages and start reading.

American businesses cannot compete against the government that abuses its people as badly as China does.

This is not to say that the Auto industry doesn't have problems with affordability. They've gotten used to selling $60,000 SUVs as a base model and that's not really going to fly. Hell a base Honda Civic is 25,000. A low mileage used Corolla is 20K... Also doesn't help that I'm using Japanese car companies as my example because American owned corporations employ fewer Americans...

So yeah the American Auto industry has problems but at the same time make China follow the same environmental regulations and clean up their supply chains and we will talk.

You seem to have forgotten we have read your comments.

Good. Fuck off and don't come back, hypocrite.

I see that you are ignorant of the USA's entire history in Central and South America. This is my surprised face.

So here's the thing: I think most websites can tell whether their content is "safe" or not, even given the varied desires of parents. And it'd take all of thirty seconds for the W3C to come up with a standardized way of indicating whether a page is intended to be adult or not. And it'd take all of an hour for Google to add something to Blink to respect a preference set somewhere, password protected of course, as to whether to show adult pages or not.

Most of the arguments would be "But can we guarantee that this type of content isn't seen as adult-only" and TBH I think the W3C could easily define it, and legislators could then basically decide whether it's worth the hassle of going beyond the W3C's recommendations. (Remember that a world wide standard for what constitutes adult material is going to be an issue anyway, to obey Australia's law as well as those of various US states a website will have to go for the most all encompassing definition to cover both. So having the W3C define something reasonable, and having nations decide whether they want to accept that, or basically create something unworkable more likely to result in their region being blocked than anything useful, would be an improvement.)

So we have a potential solution that doesn't involve the extreme "Upload your driver's license and other forms of ID and basically reveal to the world who you are and fuck anonymity just when we need it most" garbage, we just need to implement it.

The question then becomes: would Reddit support it under threat of prosecution? My guess is they would. My guess is Facebook, Reddit, X, etc, would happily mark their websites as adult-only to comply with a social-media-adults-only law. They wouldn't be happy with it, but the alternative, which blocks adults too, is worse.

It’s like pissing in lake Erie. No republicans will break from the cult and vote for impeachment.

Whatever I think of Newsom as a candidate still I hope more and more governors start using his playbook. What he was able to do on Prop 50 was impressive.

The crypto thing in general I think is enough it really should be more out in front, it's so blatant, there is zero justifiable reason that venture should exist.

Yeah you're probably right about Ukraine not resonating and it'll always be tied into that now it's really more the fact that even if you support a negotiated end to the war right now the guy doing it is supposed to be representing us and our interests as America and trying to get a fair deal and this guy absolutely has such obvious conflicts of interests all over the place.

It's like how Trump has so many of his own private attorneys acting in official capacities it's unbelievably corrupt.

Also Dems should really be working stuff like this clip of Noem and the deported combat vet. in front of people whenever possible.

That goes along with making new laws, this can all happen if Congress wants it to. While the concept is 3 co-equal branches in reality and in the writings, one of them is more equal than the others.

There's a lot of rules and norms and decorum but if 75% of reps and senators want something to happen Federally outside of new amendments they can do it. They can keep impeaching and removing Presidents until we get whoever in line they want. They can reduce or expand the size of the Supreme court, they can disband many Executive agencies because technically they still operate under a mandate from Congress.

Congress has a lot of power they just don't want to use it, usually for craven political reasons and the fact it is so wildly partisan, there is basically zero crossover so all those real power moves are just never in reach. There really does need to be reforms because the system as designed isn't quite set up to deal with politics today.

We need to get them 67 Senators and getting even close to 60 seems impossible, particularly in '26 which is not a great map. In a better world there should be 10-20 Republicans who have spines and principles and a sense of duty but alas.

Usually you go with a process like that to "get everyone on the record" for the public to see but it is theatre because we all already know they're worthless. If they wouldn't do it after Jan 6 they ain't gonna do it now.

That's a bit up the voters, more so in 2028 than '26 but there should be a wider spread of candidates and that will be an issue.

Pretty sure some Senators and Congresspeople have talked about it and Newsom has mentioned it and the 2028 Democrat primary is going to be wild and I expect at least a few candidates to run on the out-for-blood message and if it's got support then who knows. Republican's had the "nice guy" in Biden, he was by the book in regards to the DOJ and look where that got all of us. Next person can't be so cordial, I think more have learned that lesson and others just need to hear it more.

I think it's well deserved that some members of this admin will have to be investigated and trialed. Others, particularly if they are pardoned we should use the 14th amendment and bar them from future office.

I saw a video of a DJI drone with a mounted LIDAR scanner and it was mapping down to the power wires so that might just take another 10 years to get everything.

Are Trump coin purchases able to be tracked? For any other admin in the past century, either party, this pardon is 0%, at least for a decade or so at a minimum but this one, this is easy, 1-in-5 I'm giving this this guy legit gets a pardon in the next 24 months. The President of the United States built himself a bribery system and we're just A-OK with that. Unreal.

And that fucknut Witkoff is Trump's partner in it and is also the guy we have negotiating with Putin while he also represents a number of Russian interests? In a not so different world this alone is impeachable and it's just one of many.

How do you square up that you support the party that has been pushing this number higher and higher and pretty much runs on that idea? It wasn't always this way and it doesn't have to be, we've been making that choice, we made it again in 2024. It's not headed in a positive direction either.