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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • It’s a bit of both. Yes, Republicans have a bad track record in general, bit also has they’ve gotten worse and more blatant about it.

    I don’t know if this guy is a “Republican who voted in 2024 and now regrets the choices coming home to roost” or “somebody who has been a long time Republican but at least had enough brains not to vote for the racist goon squad more recently”, but at least there’s some growing awareness there.

    The Republican party is gone. Now you’ve got the Appeasement party and the MAGA party and both could really benefit from jettisoning a bunch the members that have pushed them towards such and away from the people.













  • Assuming age ID wasn’t invasive and stupid to begin with, there could be other ways to set it that would be much less invasive for many devices, such as setting an “IS_ADULT” flag on devices (or even an associated account) at the time of registration.

    “Hey Mr Smith, it looks like you’ve never registered a device on our phone network before but you’ve got a driver’s license from 1979 so we’ll just set the age code on your account aaaand, done”.

    Then you get a sheet of random scratch-off AV codes pulled from a drawer that you can use on other shit, similar to how VPN providers do to separate payment vs login. Nothing should ever say who you are or even your age, just “hey this person is old enough, fuck off and let them at it”.

    It’s still annoying, but less privacy invasive. And it’ll never fly because what they really want is to tie all communication back to a person not just an age.




  • You can call it “white majority” if you want to be cynical, or you could also call it compatibility with a country that was pretty much built (in current incarnation) with a strong origin in European immigration, and still has many citizens who have strong roots/ties back to Europe with strong overlaps in law and common culture. The origin influences the skin color yeah but that doesn’t mean the skin color itself is the deciding factor.