I don’t understand your comment, I thought liberals had a majority government…?

Well said. Also, if you get too picky about your allies, you might never win the war.

I agree with the general point, but I don’t think people don’t know how to fight: there’s just apathetic. Mass entertainment media and many social media platforms do a great job at distracting people from politics. Add this to the decline in education in the US, and you have an explanation for whatever’s happening in the US right now.

That’s it. As a teacher who has been dealing with this in the last 2-3 years, the only reliable way I have found is to do short interviews.

Students hand in their work, I grade it, then I ask them verbally a few easy questions about what they mean in specific sections of their work. How they score on these questions is used as a coefficient that I apply on the grade to get the final score.

So they can use LLMs, but they have to understand its output.

Keepassxc DB has strong encryption.

Every non Republican since 2016 has been hoping that someone is gonna come somehow and save the US from Trump. We’re in 2026, Trump is still president and nothing seems to push back against him.

I don’t believe in a sudden revolutionary surge in the US. Shit’s gonna get worse, slowly, irrevocably, unless the general population develop some sense of solidarity and there’s real political involvement from the population at every level. But that’s hard in a population as divided as the United States’.

So what’s your plan then?

The problem in the US is that no one seems to realize that 1. Political change is not instantaneous and 2. Political change needs efforts/sacrifice.

Organize, vote in every election, make your voice heard in the primaries, etc.

There’s no meaningful opposition party

Indeed, the Dems suck right now, but that can change. You just need enough people speaking loud enough with a clear message.

It could be a dangerous path indeed, giving the government full access to your phone. I’m not sure the bill says that though.

But I think most people already do… A huge bunch of apps collect everything they can on you; tiktok used to be the worst. I wouldn’t trust a government less than a private company.

I dunno, maybe forcing companies to put (or remove) specific features on their software could set an interesting legal precedent: it could be used to stop companies from pushing features people don’t want or designing apps with dark patterns.

Ok but isn’t it already the case anyway? How would age verification make it easier?

I see how this is bad from a privacy standpoint, but how does it affect device ownership?

If your friends are embarrassed by the apps you choose to use, maybe it’s time to find better friends

Can’t they send a ordinary text message to your phone number?

Organized religion, at any scale of organization, is about only one thing: power.

Now that’s a subtle opinion.

It’s not when nobody asks you to present facts to support your claims.

There are post mortem pics of him in the Epstein files it seems.

And by doing this, journalists would be taking the focus off:

• The Epstein files
• ICE
• Election meddling
• etc.

That’s the plan.

I’m not from the US but I’m old enough to remember 9/11, and what’s happening right now in your country seems waaaaay different from then. There was no ICE. People weren’t kidnapped in broad daylight. Bush wasn’t trying to subvert the electoral process. Minorities at large weren’t explicitly targeted.

40M is nothing to Bezos, and it’s a good investment if it wins him a few favors from Trump.