If anything, this is a demonstration as to why age verification isn’t a good solution.

Won’t stop surveillance state bad actors from arguing exactly the opposite, though.

I mean, they’re fascists. They’re almost certainly into full-on eugenics, let alone phrenology!

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Income taxes go straight from employers (or payroll processing companies) to the federal government without passing through state government hands.

They know that the mass firing of union-protected workers will weaken public unions, so they let it go through.

If the consequence of mass-firing union workers isn’t the courts reinstating them, then the consequences simply become wildcat strikes, sympathy strikes, breaking scabs’ kneecaps, etc. instead.

Somebody needs a reminder that things like the National Labor Relations Act and Executive Order 10988 were created to protect them from us, not the other way around.

Nope.

I remember when Qanon pretended to think that, though.

while their governments are such cowards?

It’s worse than that; they’re fascists. It took a fucking general strike in Italy to get them to deploy the naval forces to begin with, and their Mussolini fangirl prime minister called them off again as soon as she could bullshit an excuse.

Neat, now do it again because Meloni screwed you and abandoned the flotilla.

I don’t know how people can build these tools with a clear conscience.

Have you seen the job market for programmers lately? It feels like it’s almost all for AI slop, abusive rentier middleman business models that add no real value, defense war contractors, or all of the above at once.

That’s not to say that it’s acceptable for people to work those jobs with a clear conscience; it’s to say that for a bunch of people the only ethical options would be to remain unemployed or leave the industry.

The notion of a “peace plan pushed by US President Donald Trump” is a farce to begin with. This is nothing but fascists colluding with fascists to piss on us and tell us it’s raining.

Pistols are tightly restricted weapons under New Zealand law and possessing one requires an additional permit beyond a regular gun license.

Restricting pistols (i.e. the type of firearm most useful for crime and least useful for hunting or militia defense) more than long guns makes a ton of sense, and it’s a shame the US doesn’t do it that way too.

from the it’s-the-only-real-story dept

Maybe a little against Greenland (Denmark) and Canada too, as a treat.

School boards… too.

As seen in another thread today, some podunk shithole town in Oklahoma just learned that the hard way, LOL!

You think a government shutdown would stop ICE thugs from being deployed?

Democrats don’t have this luxury. If they feel like the Democratic Party sucks, they won’t vote.

All the more reason Democrats need to start fucking listening to their voting base (working-class Americans) by moving left instead of conspiring with corporate donors and moving right to screw us.

The key thing to understand is that there are no mythical “moderate voters” to court. Those are nothing but a fucking fantasy; a lie perpetrated by the Democratic Party as an excuse to chase money at the expense of votes.

push all the moderates out of the Democratic Party so we’re left with only the truest most liberal of politicians.

Why should we listen to you when you have no idea what words even mean? The moderates are the liberals!

On top of that, your argument is ass-backwards anyway, even after we interpret it as you meant (“the truest most leftist of politicians”) instead of as you said.

By your logic, since the MAGAs successfully pushed all the moderates out of the Republican Party so we’re left with only the truest most fascist of politicians, they went on to win only 20 Senate seats and never saw the presidency again.

…oh wait.

It’s the UK. What’re ya gonna shoot them out of?

Unlocking the phone voids the warranty?

No, it doesn’t. Motorola apparently claims it does, but they’re lying. The Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act requires them to honor the warranty no matter how you modify your property unless they can prove your modification caused the fault you’re trying to claim the warranty for. They don’t just get to presume it because you flashed the firmware.

Don’t even joke about that.

I’m not saying Trump is a traitor working behalf of Putin to deliberately destroy the US, but his actions are indistinguishable from what they would be if he were.