Private parties can write up any contract they like.

And law enforcement simply investigates vandalism they are not going to pay for it or fix it!

A private party can sometimes be treated as a government actor, but it is rare to fit the narrow definition that prior courts have carved out.

And the 13th Amendment covers private actions, so it is example of a case where Amendments are not purely about state action doctrine.

People have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Piecing together information from the thousand or so cameras that see you everyday is a violation of the 4th Amendment if sold to the police or otherwise is acting on the direction of the police. They need a warrant and Chatrie v. United States is only the beginning of how privacy violating tech companies are going to get slapped down.

Failure to achieve perfect compliance is not actually failure. I think anyone with a few braincells knows that a law is not perfect and will not stop every instance of a behavior.

Some people confuse strength with being a violent fool

Many of the provisions expired in 2025.

We have human grown slop right from the Boomers' mouths

If I was running a town budget I wouldn't want to insure that shit. If any vendor offered to pay for the vandalism and eat the insurance premiums and deductibles, then that is a huge point in favor of that vendor. Disasterous for their business though.

Not even downsized, more like taking a short break from the regularly scheduled fascist dystopia. The fake concern and imagary compliance is very much temporary. Once the American people lose interest and follow a new distraction, they can install 2X more cameras and 10X more AI

Believing in one person, one vote and the concept of individual liberty is playing right into their hands.

You don't have to engage if you really don't believe it is plausible that something catastrophic could happen by hooking all of our infrastructure, law enforcement, surveillance, and military into statistically-driven software stuck in a feedback loop.

It's Covid/Two Weeks to Flatten The Curve/The Terrorists/SARS/9-11/The Russians!/The Nazis - all over again.

Just reactionary FUD to try to herd sheep into a specific direction.

This shit can't be trusted.

100% bullshit.
This is indeed the world in 2026, but that has not always been the world. It doesn't HAVE to be like this.

It used to be two people could sit down and talk about almost anything without it turning into politics.
Not everything is the fault of the libtards.
Not everything is the fault of the MAGA legions.

Your (and frankly, all of social media's) obsession with slavishly consuming the bullshit binary is unhealthy.

Of course subjects CAN have political relevance, but they don't have to. We can talk about local students struggling to pass basic performance benchmarks. My "blaming the fucking teachers' unions and their DEI woke agena" is no more productive than you saying "it's the fucking Great Orange Satan". Both are ways to AVOID substantive change by scaling the argument beyond what either of us can meaningfully change; they're both excuses for accomplishing nothing but getting a righteous frisson of rage and maybe a little extra hate.

If your code doesn't compile in Rust just wrap it with unsafe { }
Hacking around and doing it the wrong way is much easier than figuring out how to get a complicated data structure through the borrow checker and value** lifetimes.

** I think of Rust values as objects in the general sense.

There we go. I appreciate your contribution 100% proving my point.

Like throwing chum in the water to sharks. It doesn't matter the subject, it's always political, isn't it?