The rub there is that the government probably now has a record of every site you have an account on.

What we really need is a system that’s anonymized in both directions. Where the website can verify the specific claim, age, nationality, etc, but the issuer of the verification, aka the government, can’t track where that verification has been used.

I think this should be possible, but it’s different from the way standard identity providers operate, and I haven’t heard of any of these government identity providers operating this way. That may be because it’s easier, and it may be because governments like the idea of knowing everything we do.

Rage bait

Sounds like an issue of joint correlation. It makes sense that homogenous communities are better at building unions. Building solidarity with people who are different from oneself is more work than with people who are similar.

And it’s been found that exposure to different people and cultures reduces racist beliefs, so it also makes sense that homogenous communities would be more racist.

So the causal feature would be homogeneity, and the correlation between racism and unions would be effects.

I am also not a frontend dev, but you got me curious, so I did a little digging. Sounds like if you think you may ever turn it into a mobile app, choose React. Otherwise flip a coin between Vue or Svelte.

Modern replicas of many of these historical weapons are often twice as heavy as the real thing. A field Zweihander would have been somewhere around 5 lbs.

If you are what you do, then what determines what you do? Random chance? I don’t see how one can argue that people don’t have an essence and explain why they act at all. Rousseau said it was benign. Hobbes said it was wretched. It has to be something. If people were perfectly free of compulsion, would they do nothing?

https://www.redwingshoes.com/heritage/ I have a pair of the iron rangers that I’m moderately pleased with.

Do you have a reference on graphene being affected by the app signing? I tried to find an answer earlier, and came up with nothing.

How did it never occur to me to ask where bee’s wax comes from?

Last I heard Trump was cold calling world leaders to beg for Nobel peace prize nominations.

I’m not really qualified to evaluate the merits here, but as a science-interested layman, I’d be glad to see an alternative to dark matter and energy. Setting aside the technical arguments, the dark matter and energy approach smells like questioning the observations when your theory doesn’t match observations.

I skimmed the paper for testable predictions, and nothing stood out to me. Fitting existing observations is a good place to start, but if the only prediction is that nobody will find dark matter or energy, things may remain undecided forever.

Now that is an interesting idea. Don’t know if you’re joking, but has anyone tried using an LLM as a TTRPG character or DM?

Rage bait is the life blood of social media… I should go read a book

War was the original purpose of the modern nation-state. It exists to this day because it is extremely effective at taking and holding territory, and the associated tax base. All of these other functions were bolted on to either mollify internal discontent, or to build the economy which fuels the war machine. Sure you can get a lot more nuanced than that, but the history of the rise of the modern nation-state over the older aristocratic feudal systems is one of military conquest.

Punk, est. 403 BC.

Do you think he was crazy before the obscene wealth, or did the money drive him mad?

that deep, dark internet, the Reddit culture, and these other dark places of the internet

Lmao

I think the point about due process is the key here

I was looking for something that would trigger on normally protected speech, and I don’t think that’s in there. The term “aiding and abetting” is a common legal standard, so I wouldn’t call it vague, but placing the onus on the individual whose passport has been revoked to show that the Secretary of State was wrong makes it ripe for abuse and harassment.

As usual the headlines are sensational and misleading, even if there is a real issue.

IANAL but where is the “thought police” part? I see a specific exception for the first amendment. Material support is defined, and doesn’t mention speech or advocacy.

I suppose if they declared that a bunch of liberal and/or Democrat non-profits were terrorist organizations, then this means they could also take one’s passport, but I’m pretty sure losing your passport would be a minor addition to the general disaster that would entail.

Okay but the studies I’ve seen suggest that EV batteries typically last between 15 and 20 years.

EDIT: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ev-battery-life