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No one has watched Ukraine unfold and said "Yes, it will indeed be easy for me to invade a smaller but technically sophisticated neighbor" China will never invade Taiwan, but they …

Between this and the Headlight situation, it's bad out there. One of those issues where the two-party politics are really toxic and prevent any action. Realistically, we need a new…

We've already stopped the "Worst case scenarios" by rapidly replacing Carbon-intensive energy with other sources over the past decade: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/climate/em…

You need a certain baseline of power and influence in order to inspire a backlash like what we're seeing in the US. It happens because so many Scientists are influential, and in pa…

Right. A lot of "Internet Freedom" is just dishonest Anarchism. A thought terminating cliche that halts otherwise brilliant people from actually considering the tradeoffs of polici…

Back in 2008, we'd perfected the art of combining high-grade and dogshit Mortgages into one Security which could be sold on to, of course, Pension Funds. Took almost 20 years for s…

I've done this. I'm very surprised that, in your case, the POA was not sufficient to get your business done. I'm not sure what alternative you are proposing. This only gets much, m…

There are no other online choices. If my Bank login goes totally Kaput, though, I can take my ID down to the Branch to get it sorted. Same with my telecom provider. I try to only d…

If Claude meetups are the new Tupperware parties, OpenClaw meetups are something darker still. The tech is indeed worth discussion and celebration, but the Brands are clearly takin…

Fair point. I'll never argue against greater police accountability. This would indeed be the best outcome. A framework of accountability we all trust and modern tools to do their j…

Is a dozen replies on a forum really so much? And yes, I will wave to the SF speed cameras I pass today.

How about we eliminate Police entirely, since they will inevitably misuse any power we give them? Of course we have to strike a balance. We just disagree on where "cameras on a pub…

Your terms are acceptable. That's not what the killed legislation did, though.

I don't regard complete anonymity on a public roadway to be an "Essential Liberty" and neither would the Founders.

Were the lists really the problem though? Or was it the Genocidal Intent? The first mass killings, on the Eastern Front, made no use of such sophistication and had no need of it. I…

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This is such a silly perspective and it stands in the way of making things better. Cops are not going away. And we're not going to hide from them through Cyber-Libertarianism. We c…

The FBI has been an IBM customer for a very long time. Like maybe the "cheap cameras everywhere" part is novel + important, but "central data store" truly is not. Slippery reasonin…

... And what do you think stops them from revoking the passports, today? Do you think it is Courts and the looming Midterms; or are they just flummoxed by the lack of good surveill…

Why would they "almost certainly" have been caught otherwise? This is a load bearing component of your argument and it seems thin. From my perspective, you are synthesizing a harm …

I am not harmed when I go through a toll plaza or an express lane. Nor when I pass a flock camera. You are boxing with phantoms, I think.

We need to tighten the legal guardrails around this data and punish cops who misuse it. This would move society in a positive direction. Making the data itself a Taboo, just to avo…

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We need to ensure a diverse student body - by making sure that smart kids of every race, class, and culture are given a thorough math education. The K-12 public schools in Californ…

Fair enough, if you're certain the final bill will only penalize "false advertising" like this. I see how the article supports this view and maybe I did read too much into it. My c…