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> How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days

That is only 1 VIP twitter recipient, not the total received by Twitter.

It wasn't even a topic in the governor race, despite the numerous well documented connections between the governor and PG&E

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals/pge...

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/investigations/gavin-news...

Why did he buy 10% of twitter stick? That wasn't a momentary lapse of judgement.

Since all the clients have to do the work, doesn't that result in a net increase in electricity consumption? Since most electricity comes from fossil fuels doesn't that in net hurt our battle against climate change?

There is a school of thought, primarily from critical theorists and their derivatives, that proposes constant agitation, there is no neutral. E.g. Kendi's anti-racist. As this school of thought has taken root in schools and media, political discussion has expanded to encompass more and more of life. It is the intended result. Fair to say they have been wildly successful.

> This comes up all the time that "you can't make edgy jokes anymore", but it isn't true.

What would be your explanation for Nimesh Patel being removed from stage at Columbia?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-snl-writer-nimesh...

Is Spengler the only person describing cyclical history? Probably not since someone above your post mentioned

> Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Muslim scholar from Tunisia

No reason ad tech companies should have freedom to associate real world data with online data. This seems like the perfect candidate for a US state proposition.. no company engaged in online ad tech may combine or allow any other entity to marry online identities with real life.

> It would be good to analyze what happened between 1965 and 2022, what has changed that instead of progress we see some kind of downward spiral.

Whether you agree with him or not, this video highlights how the 70s changed everything (in the US at least)

The Cardboard Box Reform - Nixon's Ghost Bill & A Crucial Flaw in Democracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY

Its a Motte and Bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle

> without that community college plus a cheap state school isn’t expensive.

UCLA is 13k per year, *if* you are from California. Classes are likely impacted (even upper division) so even if a person goes to UCLA just for the last 2.5 - 3 years they could easily owe > 30k

The real cost

- rampant corruption (in california, if they ever opened the books on the non-profit entities it would be a major stunner and awakening for many people). Last I saw there was ~100 non-profits serving ~20 campuses . You can read more https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/auxiliary-organizations/.... But what they don't tell you, those books are private and not shared with the public. Rest assured, they are money laundering machines.

- rent seekers like Pearson and Mcgraw Hill (fun fact, did you know the 2 joined forces to run a company called Follets that runs most campus bookstores (how is that allowed?)

- administration bloat

> We were warned - time and again - and each time that warning was ignored.

And at least in the US, their are 1000s of people receiving good money to take that warning seriously. And they still failed.

remind me, what happened in 2013?

A great use case would be data collected in the process of complying with general govt regulations.

Why this is better than central DB: Allows govt to outsource IT Public interest in the data will result in 3rd party clients being developed It makes that govt data more accesible for all parties - no gatekeeping

Use case examples All modern houses have a ton of compliance docs - window installers, insulation installers, HVAC, etc. Recording that data on the public blockchain provides a universal storage mechanism and API to that data. There is no reason for that data to be private / behind gatekeepers and a whole range of stakeholders - home builders, academics, environmentalist - want access.

Tracking highway per mile marker. Similar to the home building example - the govt collects a whole bunch of data (accidents, pollution run off and constituents, expenses). Many entities could use that data and relying on all govts worldwide to provide it seems cumbersome to unlikely.

That completely ignores leaving the gold standard... which was necessitated by... runaway govt spending

The democratic party famously screwed over VP Wallace in a highly rigged convention (so power leaders could get relative neophyte Truman in)

Rumors are the mob delivered the election for Kennedy; even those historians who argue otherwise essentially characterize it as the democratic party stealing the election "An order from the mob to work for Kennedy only insured a total Chicago effort of the kind that historically had been known to work miracles in the early-morning hours of vote counting"

Lyndon Johnson famously stole his 1948 senate election

Democrats were plenty happy to use vote harvesting to take Orange County, Ca while arguing against it in Georgia (2018).

[ed] And a new one just hitting news today, https://www.phillymag.com/news/2021/10/13/marie-beren-voter-...

I would respectfully disagree with your assertion this is a one party issue

* refuse to accept college IDs as valid for voting, even those issued by the state government because it's a state school (college students are more likely to vote for the "wrong" party). Hunting licenses? Cool (people with hunting licenses are more likely to vote for the "right" party).

* prevent college students who live most of the year in-state, and can prove it, but have an out-of-state driver's license, from voting.

* place extra hoops on people whose name doesn't match their birth certificate, make them produce every document with every change and toss their registration if there's a typo (this mainly affects married women, who are more likely to vote for the "wrong" party). This is an effective way to disenfranchise a lot of older women who don't have a current driver's license.

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Do you have studies/papers/numbers for any of these groups?

I'm curious how a similar tool built for airplane and helicopter crashes. What if it was due to mechanical failure, would you want the story to focus on a mechanic?

Check out elsagate on reddit... https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/

That is a pretty broad brush.

Would you be ok with a strip club and liquor store next to a elementary school? I wouldn't, and appreciate zoning laws for that reason.

Simply blaming NIMYism feels like lazy analysis. Every community is different.. how, why, and where things are built is far too complex to explain w/one word.

Ban algorithmic account suspensions to users who have derived $250 from a service in last year - all must be confirmed by a human.

Gives Google, fb, twitter, et al time to ban the bots (in first 30 days of an account life), while still protecting users from ever expansive tech cos.

> Legislate what, specifically?

I got some suggestios - No company w/more than 1 million MAU and deriving any income from online advertising may not combine any online information about a user with any physical real-world data; they may not sell data to another 3rd party that will combine online and physical;

- Ban the algo: Any user deriving more than $250 in value from an online service may not be banned by an algorithm. They must be given 60 days notice and an opportunity to remove their data from the service

- No company may own more than 1 domain in the top 5,000 (as measured by monthly traffic). All domains must be consolidated to 1

- No more hiding behind scale, expand the carve outs for 230 form beyond child porn to definitely include any threats of violence - but especially death threats

Thats just a start...