BTW it's an unmaintained and unsecure open source driver that's crashing, which was also abandoned and isn't maintained

I'm confused - is the driver maintained?

It's a lot easier to pass social policies when you see your neighbor's as people like you that you want to help. We don't have that in the United States.

I don't think as many people have that mindset as you think. I see lots of people that look like me fucking over almost every facet of this country and I don't feel any connection with them. The problem is economic inequality - the people at the top are fucking over the people in the middle and the bottom. If people in the middle and bottom are too preoccupied fighting with each other based on inane nonsense, such as "why should I help that person because they don't look like me" then nothing is going to get better.

That situation reminds me a joke. Three guys just split a job and then sat down at a table. As they're seated, the manager comes over and pays them their wage: $100 in one dollar bills. The first guy immediately snatches 97 bills and gets up to walk off before the other guys can react. The second guy saw that and quickly grabbed two of the remaining three bills. The first guy saw the second guy take two bills and proceeded to lean over to the third guy and say "are you just gonna let that guy take that extra dollar?"

The idea that social policies don't work in the U.S. because we have different races and cultures is bullshit propagated by the rich to prevent the masses from voting for policies that can benefit them, because the only way the U.S. could pay for those policies is if we made the rich go back to paying their fair share of taxes. And they've spent decades having the tax laws rewritten and finding loopholes in the remaining laws to ensure that they never have to do that again.

At the end of the day I'll keep voting for fewer taxes

If you want lower taxes in America, you'll need to make a lot more than 70k. Dems won't reduce taxes because they know we can't afford it with our national debt and Republicans will only lower taxes with any significance if you're rich or a corporation.

Europe isn't socialist. They have some social policies. Much of which are under strain as they are increasing their military budgets, now that they can't trust America to keep up the World Police act.

And Mamdani isn't trying to replace capitalism with socialism - he's trying to generate similar policies as the ones you mentioned in Europe.

Ask Germany how that Russia gas is. Seems odd to directly support Russia while they attack Ukraine, but I get it. Germany has no choice but to fund the machine.

And what does a European country buying gas from another country at fair market rates (aka capitalism) have to do with socialism or social policies?

My taxes might go up. I'll still get NOTHING from the government, since you know, I'm fucking rich at 70k a year in San Diego.

Why would your taxes in San Diego go up because New York City is enacting social policies that benefit their citizens on the other side of the country?

Must be nice to live in a country of 10 million that all look the same, talk the same, have the same cultural values and the same religion. You can't remotely compare that to 330 million diverse country that America is. We have every culture, religion and creed here. With all our diversity, we are constantly striving to understand each other.

Just what in the hell does racial, cultural, and religious diversity have to do with an economic system?

Besides, if you are talking about Norway, they are exporting global warming to make their 10 million citizens lives much more peachy.

Does your vehicle not run on putrified dinosaur juice? If it does, where do you get your sense of moral superiority?

I think the HEU is probably safely stored in a bathrom in Mar-a-Lago.

GrapheneOS, which this person was using, has features similar to what you describe. You can segment file system access so that each app has access to certain aspects on the primary storage mechanism (contacts, photos, messages, etc), or an empty clone (the app thinks it has access to those things so that it can perform its basic actions - it just thinks you don't have any contacts, photos, messages, etc). I believe it also has the ability to specify multiple user environments with different apps installed for each user.

You're not wrong, but if we have to go that far out of our way to safeguard information that is already protected by the Constitution, are we really living in the "land of the free and home of the brave"?

He was using GrapheneOS which has extra security protections in place. It disables the data pins of the USB port while the phone is locked via the firmware and the OS. Someone may be able to boot the device into some other environment and clone the file system, but it's encrypted and the key is kept in the secure enclave of the phone, so they would need to break that encryption.

I've read a lot about the security mechanisms of GrapheneOS and I'm extremely impressed. I imagine it has to have some weaknesses, but man they've gone to insane levels to secure it while still making it pretty usable and any countermeasures are going to require a lot of effort.

I agree with the essence of your statement, but unfortunately the U.S. courts don't. Under most circumstances, a person needs to be suspected of a particular crime and due process is necessary (warrants or subpoenas) to gather evidence limited to that particular accused crime. Unfortunately, the courts believe that CBP doesn't need to provide any probable cause because..."national security". I guess I missed the fine print in the Constitution that says any part of it can be ignored if some government prick utters those two magical words.

The CBP wants to act like the border is a magical place that is both inside and outside the U.S. at the same time. But in reality it's a binary situation: either it's inside the U.S., in which case U.S. citizens have all of the rights outlined in the Constitution, or it's outside the U.S., in which case the CBP, as a U.S. government institution, has no authority to operate. They're trying to treat the U.S. border in a similar manner to the way they treat Guantanamo Bay, and unfortunately some traitors in the Supreme Court have decided to grant them that authority despite the fact that it's clearly unconstitutional.

They lost their local-government salary while moving into a much nicer house in a much nicer neighborhood far away from the site of the new data center. Whatever will they do?!

First of all, nobody is going to balance the budget. Dems and Republicans both spend like there's no tomorrow.

Secondly, printing more money is one source of inflation but it is certainly not the only one. Inflation also happens when demand for products goes up and/or supply goes down. The increased demand for goods and services after Covid generated price increases that corporations have latched onto and refused to let go of after the surge has subsided. The war in Iran is causing a shortage of fuel and fertilizer that has been driving prices up as well. And don't forget about the tariffs. Sure, the breakneck pace of printing money isn't helping, but right now there are other factors that are having a much larger and more immediate effect on pricing than "money machine go brrrr".

It's not that BNPL will cause the bubble to pop. A large increase in the use of BNPL is a bellwether that indicates that people are struggling to afford basic necessities. When this happens, it means that we could likely see an uptick in delinquencies of mortgages, auto loans, student loans, and medical debt. All four of those things are currently in bubbles that are ready to pop, not to mention cryptocurrency and AI stocks. All of the sectors of our economy are so highly interconnected now that it's very hard for a huge setback in one industry not to have a widespread effect on the others.

Winner! This is about Chinese drone companies being forced to pay bribes to Trump to remove the tariffs, and if that fails then the fallback is that the tariff is enacted and acts as a national sales tax. Republicans have wanted a national sales tax for years because the lower and middle classes spend a larger percentage of their income on goods than rich people do. And for importers and retailers, tariffs are much worse than a sales tax: sales tax is only paid on items that were sold and the retailer has already collected the money that needs to be paid to the government while tariffs apply to all items imported, including items that may never be sold, and they need to be paid upfront which requires lots of extra liquidity.