DocMcStuffin @ DocMcStuffin @lemmy.world

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I went to college before it was app everything and our student id's were smartcards. Dining plan associated with the smartcard. Just stick it in the reader when you show up and you're good. You could put cash on your card then use it for the vending machines or laundry or any little incidental on campus. If you needed cashed added to your account, your parents could go online and do it, or you could. That was the only online component. The entire system just worked without any fuss or privacy concerns or anything.

Those two aren't even young guys. How long have they been practicing medicine? This is beyond disturbing.

I see. But that's kinda the thing though. It's not just the model legislation that makes ALEC effective. It's when they couple that with the other activities that are unethical to bordering on illegal. For example, when ALEC got busted voting together with politicians on model bills behind closed doors. While not illegal, backroom dealing like that is super unethical.

But to bring things back to your original idea. I suppose we're not just looking at model legislation, but also getting it in-front of politicians. While not engaging in the same nefarious activities ALEC has done.

I just skimmed. I see it now. Thank you.

Yikes! I wouldn't sully EFF's name by equating them to ALEC. I'm not aware of EFF writing any model legislation. More of what they do is analysis of laws and raising awareness of technology and privacy issues.

I honestly see this being a continued expectation to be a bigger issue. Two communities with the same name on different servers could be very different spaces. Giving users the ability to group them together homogenizes them in a way that is likely bad for the ecosystem overall.

I see the issue, but I still see the tradeoff as being worth it. Right now, if I want to browse technology commies I have to click into each one I'm subbed to. This means I'm going to go the to biggest one first, then second biggest, and so forth. This pretty much favors the big commies over the small ones because this is just annoying to the end user. Grouping gives those smaller ones a better chance of appearing in someone's feed thus spreading out activity over a larger part of the lemmy fediverse.

There's going to be ups and downs. I wouldn't be too concerned right now.

I see the bigger problems being community discoverability, not being able to group communities together, and moderation tools.

Hello, Satan. Glad you could join us.

Quite literally, if I saw the headline "Taylor Swift Performance Stops Trump Presidency" I would believe it given how messed up our timeline is.

I'm kinda disappointed that there's nothing in !drama@lemmy.world about it.

Case in point: her husband exposed himself to two young women while they were dating. She decided he was still marriage material. Absolute trash.

That kind of sounds like a straw purchase, and is something with a legal precedent. Why wouldn’t they go for that?

He only owned it for 11 days because his wife threw it in the garbage.

Their CEO was a former EA CEO. My money is on greed and arrogance.

But only if it's the right kind of speech.

We have a very large christian population, and they all don't behave in a monolithic manner. For surveys it makes sense to ask which denomination or type of christian they are. Some will response Catholic, Baptist, Protestant. Some will respond christian, sometimes non-denominational christian. It improves the survey results. For example, you might find differences between Catholics and Baptists that wouldn't show up if you grouped them all together under a christian category.

For reporting them, probably not. For trying to opt-out with a STOP reply, depends on them playing by the rules. Do you think they will play by the rules? I don't. I would assume malice. That they would forward your number to a bunch of other lists. You might not get Nikki's spam, but you'll get spam from 3 other PACs that are only 2 months old.

Digging into the FCC's website reveals that robotexts are illegal without prior consent. However, if they hand enter the message, that's legal.

That lines up with my experience the one time I kept getting annoying political texts. There was a human at the other end. They happily removed my number from their list after I threatened to vote for the other team if they kept harassing me. But that was the Democrats.

You can try some of the FCC's recommendations, but I would generally assume malice in this instance. The political entities will probably disappear before anything can be done.

Report Unwanted Calls and Texts

If you think you've received a political robocall or text that does not comply with the FCC’s rules, you can file an informal complaint with the FCC at fcc.gov/complaints. If you are receiving texts that you didn’t ask for, report the sender by forwarding the texts to 7726 (or "SPAM"). Campaigns should also honor opt-out requests if you reply "STOP."

Oh, he was a former CEO of EA. That explains a few things.

Time to see a vet.

One of my cats has both a food allergy and is higher anxiety. I caught her ripping her fur out a couple of days after I brought her home. We put her on a prescription diet, and I give her medication for the anxiety. She does much better now. Her anxiety will never completely go away. I know some of it comes from either neglect or abuse from her original owners.

I think term limits would be 90% effective. That and fixing gerrymandered districts. How many of those old folks in the House have been cruising to easy reelection due to rigged voting districts? Limit the House to 5 terms and the Senate to 2 terms. That's a maximum of 22 years someone could be a federal elected politician excluding the presidency. That's more than enough time to leave their mark on the country.