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Track Biden – The first 100 Days

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Re: Track Biden – The first 100 Days

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I'd be curious too! "Federal mask mandate" : LMAO. In that country ! This mandate would attract so much politics and all those crazy "freedom" fans from the Donald fanbase. This alone would be a good drama for the hundred days.

Re: Track Biden – The first 100 Days

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post #2

I'd be curious too! "Federal mask mandate" : LMAO. In that country ! This mandate would attract so much politics and all those crazy "freedom" fans from the Donald fanbase. This alone would be a good drama for the hundred days.

As far as I can tell there already is a mask mandate at all federal facilities I know of.

Re: Track Biden – The first 100 Days

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I think almost all of these are great, and it'll be cool to follow the progress of most of these. The one thing I disagree with is this "ghost gun" policy:

> Stop “ghost guns.” One way people who cannot legally obtain a gun may gain access to a weapon is by assembling a one on their own, either by buying a kit of disassembled gun parts or 3D printing a working firearm. Biden will stop the proliferation of these so-called “ghost guns” by passing legislation requiring that purchasers of gun kits or 3D printing code pass a federal background check. Additionally, Biden will ensure that the authority for firearms exports stays with the State Department, and if needed, reverse a proposed rule by President Trump. This will ensure the State Department continues to block the code used to 3D print firearms from being made available on the Internet.

I think it's wrong to try to ban code.

Re: Track Biden – The first 100 Days

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post #2

I'd be curious too! "Federal mask mandate" : LMAO. In that country ! This mandate would attract so much politics and all those crazy "freedom" fans from the Donald fanbase. This alone would be a good drama for the hundred days.

It's such a disgusting state of affairs that people have been brainwashed into openly mocking Americans concerned with their freedom. We went from the land of the free, home of the brave, to this. Trump was the last dying breath of anything that America once was, it's all over now. With near complete partisan control over mass media, big tech, and education, it's never coming back after this.

Re: Track Biden – The first 100 Days

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I think the broader idea of increasing political accountability through data tracking/visualization/notification could be a powerful tool for improving democracy

In the past I've thought about doing something similar at a local level, for county commissioners and the like. Local government - due to most people not paying attention to it - is known for having some of the highest corruption of any level. Imagine shining a light on it with data (maybe partly automated?), identifying conflicts of interest, sources of egregious waste, and elected officials who don't hold up their campaign promises. Most of this data is made public already, it's just on hard-to-find webpages and in hard-to-parse formats (and not aggregated).

One could do the legwork to find it, scrape it, organize it, and then publish both the raw data and various analyses in a digestible format, and that might have a real impact. Imagine signing up to get a push notification whenever your councilman votes on an issue

Re: Track Biden – The first 100 Days

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I'm going to say that any website that has its own "enable push notifications" popup is automatically malicious.

Though I agree with you, you'll notice that it is a feature explicitly provided by your web browser. Ergo, web devs will use it.

Just disable it.

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