The question "who is responsible for accidents" here is no different from a thousand other "who is responsible" judgements. Unless you have some reason to think that a repaired John Deere tractor is more likely to cause accidents than a non-repaired one, this is just a distraction.

We have a legal system that addresses questions of who is responsible. If you don't like the way these decisions are made, you need to fix the legal system, because changing right-to-repair laws won't do beans to solve that problem.

The use case is you have a decent size screen on a device that you can pocket. If you look at the latest foldables, they aren't much thicker than non-foldables. About as thick as an iPhone from a few generations ago.

They seem to have reached the point where the tech is reasonably mature and not excessively fragile. Now they just need to get the price down.

Not shedding tears does not mean i think it's good geopolitics, in fact its quite bad geopolitics but still, the Iranian regime is composed of some awful people with awful actions. Don't knee jerk react to 4 particular words in a row and try to comprehend my entire statement, you know, like human beings are supposed to be able to do or have we all burned those parts of our brains out from outrage baiting media.

It's a bit like when that firefighter was shot at the Trump rally. Yeah it's bad, people shouldn't be doing political violence but I have zero sympathy for a Jan 6 supporting guy who got clipped, particularity when the guy he supports has turned the violence temperature up to 11.

Yup and that's why no matter how cringe it makes one feel it's time to swallow that pride and vote Democrat in 2026. Then again in 2028 and then again in 2030 and then once more in 2032. After that amount of time being crushed maybe the Republican party will be in a place where the nation can consider viable stewards of governance but not before then. Things to get fixed and certain generations need to die off more before they can be trusted again.

Every time you get angry at somebody screwing you over in a systemic way the next question you need to be asking is, does this change how I vote?

If the answer is no then your rage is impotent and useless.

The average temperature in places like Arizona is approximately 1C greater than it was 100 years ago. There were some rather short events in the 1930s when peak temperature was very high, but even then the average is lower than now. It being hot in July 1936 does not mean the 1930s in general in SW USA was hotter than now. And the year is longer than summer.

Puts anyone accused of being Satoshi at great risk.

When you win the lottery in the UK, they help you hide the wealth. Special bank accounts, advice on how to avoid other people finding out, that sort of thing. There is a risk of both crime and people coming to beg for money.

So it's not like the editors have anything important to be posting about right? Everything is just so calm and dull but you've got to expect this. It's just one slow news day after another and has been since the beginning of 2025.

There's nothing ironic about it they got what they paid for. People forget that Trump was a Russian stooge for ages. The reason he wasn't bankrupted during his most incompetent business deals is because he was laundering money for the Russian mafia.

Never mind the fact that Russia and the Israeli government both have massive amounts of dirt on Trump thanks to his long-term friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. You would have to be incredibly naive not to know that the Russian government has evidence of trump raping kids. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure that out. We learn from the Epstein files that the Russians provided a lot of girls to Jeffrey Epstein and we have eight credible women accusing Trump of raping them when they were children details of which have been corroborated by several journalists.

The problem is you can lay out all the evidence and proof of that but nobody is going to believe you because it's too fucking insane to think that we elected a pedophile who is under the control of a hostile foreign Nation to be president of the United states. I don't think the human brain is capable of grasping the enormity of that.

You get the same problem with things like the Iran Contra affair or how Ronald Reagan arranged for Americans to be held hostage so that he could win his election. It's just something that you don't want to believe is true no matter how true it is because you don't want to face a world that fucked up.

Huh. Many of the paperbacks I bought in the 90s are yellowing and the paper is cracking. The paperbacks from the 70s that I 'inherited" from my siblings (when I moved away from my parents) are all in bad shape. Nothing against paper, but a single-minded "paper good, four legs bad" mindset is just as bad as the opposite single-minded view.

So now we have to deal with an energy crunch, big gas prices for a few months, a potential global recession and Iran still gets to control Hormuz with a fancy new tax (which Trump said today we might take part in collection fees? So the terrible regime now we're gonna jump into business with?) and for what?

To stop them from making a nuke? When we were told their nuclear capability was obliterated months ago (remember that?!?) and when we could have simply continued or renegotiated inspections from the JCPOA but instead Trump scuttled that his first term.

And before anyone starts no, I'm not going to shed any tears for dead ayatollahs but that doesn't make this whole thing an embarrassing boondoggle and it certainly doesn't help almost 6 years of Trump regime foreign policy being a fucking joke that has made us look like lunatics on the world stage while China gets to sit back and plug away at building more tech and infrastructure. (also notice that there's not even mention of an infrastructure bill this term after so much talk in the first? yeah because Biden actually got it done. Twice. That's a real deal-maker.)

There's something to be said that both parties are the same in that they will both go play world police sometimes but for Republicans that means being the piece of shit corrupt cop.

The rank and filed that those radicals need to stage an actual revolution aren't. Just like when 9/11 happened in America I can tell you right now that every single regular Iranian person is going to rally around the government and the military. Doesn't matter how terrible the government and the military are when your country is attacked you rally round them.

On top of that Trump has done numerous stupid things guaranteed to undermine any opposition of the Iranian regime. Go look up YouTuber Belle of the Ranch. She does a good job talking about it and how incredibly inept the Trump administration has been. Like criminally inept.

There are no upsides and no good outcomes from this. This is downhill for everybody. Which is to be expected from a man who bankrupted casinos.

So that Russia could have more access to our politicians and voters. It worked Trump's president again. But it does mean that we are substantially more vulnerable to other attacks. Especially when a senile old man can easily be tricked into starting a war that even Bush Jr wasn't dumb enough to start...

As for Iran yeah, we attacked them without any reason to do so. We already had a perfectly good deal to stop them from building nukes. But it came from a black man so it had to go.

And now it looks like all told this little adventure is going to cost us about a trillion dollars. That's another trillion dollars of debt and inflation. Almost as if electing a well-known rapist and pedophile with a long history of bankrupting businesses including casinos was a bad idea...

Funny thing is I don't see anyone defending El presidente in public anymore. Trolls will yell TDS at me but they never actually defend his actions anymore. Not outside of their safe spaces.

And despite $4 a gallon gas and a huge wave of inflation about to hit in a few months that we all know is coming, Trump still somehow has a 36 to 40% approval rate depending on the poll. I don't even know what you do about that it's fucking insane.

A sizable percentage of likely Democrat voters are worried that a woman would get bullied in international negotiations by male world leaders. This is of course a silly thing to think but they think it.

To counteract that women who run for president, and this goes for both Kamala and Hillary as well as the various women who ran in the primary, all have to do a bunch of saber rattling to show how tough they are to those voters.

The problem is that saber rattling inevitably backfires and a bunch of young men see it and get spooked that the woman in question is going to drag us into a war with a draft.

There's an old saying about war, don't give your opponents problems give them dilemmas. What I described above is a dilemma. There's no actual right answer or good solution. If you skip the saber rattling you lose the voters who think you aren't going to be able to negotiate and if you do the saber rattling you lose the voters who think you're going to draft them off to die in the Middle East.

The Republican party has a lot of these kind of dilemmas and they can usually solve them with overwhelming propaganda and dog whistles because they have a much larger media apparatus and a lot more money. Those aren't options for the Democratic party.

Because of all this under the current system it's basically impossible for a woman to become president. I think if they completely eliminated voter suppression then they could win but that's going to be a multi-generational effort.

This is what Jasmine Crockett meant when she said the Democrats are going to nominate the safest white boy they can find. They aren't in a position where they can risk running a woman again. We've got 20 or 30 years of civil rights organization and voting rights organization before that can happen...

No, Governments are not expected to move humanity ahead.
That's a bizarre disconnected form of Statism on your part. Do you have a shrine to the Government in your home for all its noble deeds?

Governs are expected to do what they're elected to do, no more, no less.

You can't make routers, but you can choose whether or not to buy one.
Do you also believe that you should be able to use the Government to force routers to be what you consider secure?

I think you are a cancer. Itching for a boot to lick, as long as it's a gentle one. No holocausts this time, please.