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Comment Re:Dictators (Score 3, Informative) 54

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

Comment Re:scares me too much ill never do that (Score 1) 75

i fear this will eventually be forced on people who dont want it; who would rather get thru their problems themselves; rather than having their brain rewired and possibly personality changes no way i dont care how bad off i get i dont want anything changing who i am; how i see the world; or how i process my emotions

Years ago I lost quite a bit of money with a so-called meme stock Mind Med. Their idea was that psilocybin could be an important part of therapy, but not to be provided separately from talk-therapy. It was never meant to be over the counter medicine.

As for changing the way you are... trauma does that. wearing glasses does that. exercising does that. Let's not get too defensive.

Comment Re: My SciFi dream is still Fusion to Synfuel (Score 1) 183

What's your dream in the meantime?

My fiction story starts with a flashback to the POTUS accusing China of releasing Covid19 as a bio weapon. This time around however, it was exactly what they did.
With many millions of people suspicious of government intervention and big pharma, the body count is horrendous and the USA are firmly in failed State territory.

The same happens in many other developed countries and when the situation is stable again, the population aged 50+ is so scarce that the new Eco fascist regimes are now predominant and decide to commit permanently to that sort of population control.

Comment Re: Standard tactic (Score 1) 81

So I am pretty naÃve perhaps on unions.
But I thought the way it worked is a bunch of workers agree to strike if their demands are not met.

There are many possibilities before workers withdraw their labour.
The union should advise their members about what they can aim to achieve and what legal ramifications exist.
They should be easier to deal with compared to 5000 ignorant people, although not as easy as 5000 people who sign any contract without asking questions.
While the employers can pay a retainer to HR experts, 5000 people need to pool their resources to get similar quality of legal advice. This should be the basic understanding, rather than "unions = strikes".

Comment Re:Cisco vs. TP-Link (Score 1) 183

One of the lessons we've had as the Federal, multi-branch nature of the US governmennt has frustrated Trump is that the government may be fucking us over, but it's not doing it in *unison*. It's doing it piecemiel, on the initiative of many interests working against each other, just as the framers intended. The motto on the Great Seal notwithstanding, there are myriad roadblocks to consolidating power in the hands of a single individual. It takes time and repeated failures. This is why the second Trump Adminsitration is worse than the first; they've figured out ways around things like Congressional power of the purse, put more of their henchmen in the judiciary, and normalized Congress lying down and letting the president walk all over them. It's a serious situation, although fortunately Trump isn't long for this world.

Comment Re: Contributed to Moral Decay (Score 1) 92

but my understanding is that OnlyFans was about reducing corporate exploitation of streaming models.

Mine was that OF upheld standards of moderation and censorship that were acceptable enough that mainstream payment providers did not rush to refuse service to OF, their consumers and their creators.
As a consequence they became the legal venue for adult content even if they wanted to be an alternative to YT, Vimeo, etc.

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