TechNerdWizard42 @ TechNerdWizard42 @lemmy.world

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Is this bad? Yes.

Now please read about Texas rewriting the US history to say things like slavery wasn't bad and they got a lot out of it too. Or if you're American, lookup the actual winner of the war of 1812 and why it started. And for that matter look up the real reason those founders dumped the tea and what that tax was for.

History is written by the winner. Always has been.

Not only are most structures authoritarian, but most of the loudest "democracies" are not.

If you're American and championing for freedom and democracy, you're a hypocrite. You live under an oligarch style of authorianism. Look at the very well done Princeton study that showed percent of population for or against a certain idea versus the percent probability a law in the favour of the populous would he passed. In an ideal democracy, representative by the people, if 25% want X, then it should have a 25% chance of passing. If 75% want Y, it should have a 75% chance of passing. A 1 to 1 linear relationship would be ideal democracy.

In the USA, the probability of passing a law is 30%. That doesn't make sense, it's not a function, it's a value! I hear anyone with sense say. That's because it isn't a function. If you are 90% of the population by mostly wealth, what you want or don't want has zero affect on the outcome of law. Not a little bit, or a relational amount. Zero. You have no voice.

If you are in the top 10%, you fare better. Once it gets to being popular, it has a good chance of passing. On the low end it's about the same.

Authoritarianism is a label America pushes upon other governments that it can't control as well. They just function for a different purpose.

I know most people here won't understand it because the American propaganda is strong. But next time you're alone with your thoughts, give it a think. How much of a voice do you really have? All these freedoms you supposedly have, do you really have them? Spoiler alert, you don't.

You're just objectively wrong throughout. Not liking it, sure. You do you boo.

It was never a show about nothing. It was a 90s sitcom. It had an A plot and a B plot. Had arching character stories that ran season to season that were directly related to how shows didn't drop all at once but once a week for a period of time then NOTHING as a cliff hanger for a year. So a drastic change or a big season finale actually meant something because there was most of the year someone would talk about it.

As to you just not liking it, I can see that. Especially if you're younger. When I was younger I hated it. Absolutely not funny. When you are their age, all that crap that happens to them, happens to you. Obviously they are the worst versions of people possible which is the point. And yes that too is pioneering, because you were always supposed to support the characters. Give it a decade, and rewatch. You may chuckle. Or not. Doesn't matter.

Seinfeld himself I don't find funny. And he's a terrible actor (self described). Jason Alexander is a god. Dreyfus is intolerable. I can't stand anything she's in, except Seinfeld where I hate her but watch her. But even with that, it's a good standard 90s comedic sitcom. Formulaic and somewhat unpredictable the first time. Obscenely quotable today.

For 30 years it was the same way as the UK, based on the system. It wasn't until Gore v Dubya that the NYT printed it in colour with red being republican. The reason? Both red and republican start with R.... They really knew their audience!

Yeah, and that's also wrong. The shitheads in blue should not get access to any private video feeds.

It is but only as a secondary. The US can't censor Tiktok and therefore anti-genocide content, often directly from those being genocided, makes its way to their eyeballs. Freedom of speech and or individualistic journalism.

But the US obviously doesn't like this, and that's what the ban is for. Sorry "sale that is not even slightly reasonable and is more akin to highway robbery than capitalism", not "ban".

This was in the news at the time. Nobody seemed to care. Additionally 2 full time staffers were hired to tape back the papers for the archives at a cost of a few hundred thousand per year. Again, nobody cared.

They do have the power and they do compel US companies to do exactly this. When discovered publicly they usually limit it to the first level of the "vulnerability" until more is discovered later.

It is not conjecture, there is leaked documents that prove it. And anyone who works in semiconductor design (cough cough) is very much aware.

NATO border idiot

A cheap USB-C hub can only output so many power and voltage levels at once. Looking at that device it's only a single USB C PD in and a single USB C PD out. Not a bad device, but not really a real charging hub if that is your goal.

Anker uses pretty good controllers. It's of course possible you got a bad one, but it's highly unlikely this is systemic.

It doesn't matter if you're pro Murica or pro Russia. It's a bit disingenuous to say Russia is arming the border! When the border has literally moved thanks to the Nordic countries getting into NATO and no longer being neutral.

For example if Russia and Mexico formed an alliance, then the US lined the Mexican border with guards, tanks, anti aircraft, etc... That would make defensive sense. It also would not be fair to be portrayed as "USA returning to Mexican American War of 1848 posture, tripling troop counts on the border". No it's a very predictable and publicly shared outcome of a very predictable and publicly occurring series of events.

The more probable answer is that the NSA asked for the backdoor to be left in. They do all the time, it's public knowledge at this point. AMD and Intel chips have the requisite backdoors by design, and so does Apple. The Chinese and Russian designed chips using the same architecture models, do not. Hmmmm... They have other backdoors of course.

It's all about security theatre for the public but decrypted data for large organizational consumption.

Great marketing and propaganda line. But when you really think about it... Is it?

The answer is very clearly no for most of the world. And having lived with many forms of government, the absolute worst is American democracy which is really just an oligarchy with extra steps.

Tell me you know nothing about it without saying it... Go spend a half hour and read it. Or spend 10 minutes and watch the literal recordings of the explanations for why this measure was vetoed.

It was put forth only for headlines like this. And it only works on an electorate too stupid to know otherwise.

Smart enough to not be a bootlicker.

ACAB. Americans are the stupidest pieces of shit in the world.

That's the opposite argument every weapon carrying redneck in America uses. You serve justice at the door, not the court.

Serving a no knock at dawn by a paramilitary force is not something that happens in a free democracy.

Fuck these and all police.

Rednecks fought for the right to shoot an intruder in your house. It doesn't matter if he was stupid or guilty. He shot someone breaking into his house with his legally acquired weapons while a completely innocent man.

If that's no longer allowed then let's make it law. Because now, it's just hypocrisy

We should be so optimistic! A traitor and failed insurrectionist pushing for 1800s style laws is only barely being beaten by our own octagenarian! Woohoo!

Yeah that's not even remotely true. You can read or even watch the actual statements by China and Russia. The US has been the one vetoingball ceasefire action since the beginning. They put forth this resolution which called for a ceasefire to be examined except it would also allow for various continued operations that don't count and added extra crap that doesn't belong in a ceasefire. It also did absolutely nothing to address the concerns the US has had all these months, completely ignoring its own dire warnings.

Smoke marijuana? 25 years in prison. Try to overthrow the government and murder the vice president? Best we can do is 5 years, and since time served is 3 years, actual length will be 0 (half of term minimum before release usually).