And the iPhone screen size didn’t change until the App Store had been around for 4 years, during which time it became huge. I am not sure why this person is trying to discount what you’re saying.
Are you saying to start calling all of it ActivityPub? In which case, I would think that’d be extra confusing since lemmy and mastodon don’t cross-interface very well and you really need one client for each type.
Good parenting in the age of streaming platforms and social media is a frigging minefield. I’m not saying it should be easy, but it has entirely new challenges that didn’t exist for all of humanity before the internet. You can’t even ban your kids from the platforms to solve the problem because schools depend on YouTube for instruction, and work is done on Chromebooks that parents usually have no admin control over.
Again, not saying parents get a free pass, but the challenges are evident.
That is NOT how things went down with the ACA. It bothers me so much that there always seems to be someone who repeats this. The Democrats went for the ACA during the very small window of time that they had a Senate supermajority, so they didn’t have to depend on the Republicans. Single payer healthcare was considered but could not get the support of all the Democrats needed to pass it. The ACA ended up having to be a compromise in order to get all 60 Democratic votes, including the most conservative Democrats at the time. For example, the ACA was supposed to have a public option, but it could not be pushed through, because of people like Joe Lieberman. It barely got passed as it was. The window of time to succeed was a couple months.
They weren’t counting on Republican votes at all. If they had gone for something more progressive at the time, it would have gone the way of all of the other many failed healthcare reform bills.
I figured you were going to say 2009-2011, guessing that you were too young to be aware of what actually went on back then, where they only had a supermajority for about 2 months which they used to pass the ACA, but I’m really surprised you even included 2021-2023 — You saw that with your own eyes! Were you paying any attention?
I want to hear which several years you believe the Democrats could have done anything totally unobstructed and with zero resistance. From when to when?
Any Blu-ray player has to know the key in order to play a disc. So they’d have to have some way to update every single player. There would be no feasible way to do that.
And the iPhone screen size didn’t change until the App Store had been around for 4 years, during which time it became huge. I am not sure why this person is trying to discount what you’re saying.