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The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

  • Bro left freedom on read

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  • I guess that shit is just in the water here in the US.

    The United States was founded with the help of private firearms and it's citizens have always distrusted and disliked their own Government. What you're talking about is literally baked into the fabric of our culture.

    Meanwhile, showing a cop your gun is a recognized form of suicide.

    Meh, it's all about where you are. I could wander around open carrying a firearm here in Wyoming and have little or no trouble. If I tried it in a liberal area of the country, for example Denver, I'd almost certainly have a problem.

    It's all about the culture of the area.

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  • Some dude’s AR-15 is not going to stop a tank.

    You don't use the AR-15 on the tank. You use it on the people involved in the logistics chain. If that tank doesn't have a driver, mechanics, fuel, spare parts, etc then the tank is useless. Insurgencies in far away lands didn't have this option but an insurgency at home certainly would.

  • What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?

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  • MFA is the biggest hurdle. I literally could not do my job without it.

  • Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads

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  • I want Roku to fuck all the way off with that plan.

  • Rinse & Repeat

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  • Those aren't tanks and Police Departments get them for little or no money as the US Military declares them surplus. It's a federal program called LESO / 1033 and it's been around since the '90s.

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  • A civilian armored car would do the job too but I suspect there’s lobbying/insider trading involved.

    Police departments used to do that but someone noticed that while Police Departments were spending money on armored vehicles the military was throwing them away. It was a waste of money all around and so the LESO / 1033 Program was born out of the National Defense Authorization Act of 90/91 and then expanded and made permanent in 1997. (Remember that year, it's important).

    The program actually makes good fiscal sense. Why waste equipment when one branch of Government no longer needs something while another one does.

    A big impetus for police departments participating in the program that many people online today weren't alive for was the North Hollywood Shootout in 1997. A couple of Bank Robbers carrying full auto weapons and wearing body armor tore the shit out of the Hollywood PD because the Police Department didn't have the equipment or guns to deal with the problem.

    In the end they had to use hunting rifles taken from a nearby civilian gunstore and a commandeered armored car. Every Cop in the country was scared shitless that it would happen to them because almost no departments were equipped for that level of violence. So they started grabbing surplus IFVs (MRAPs now) and other gear from the 1033 program.

    As time went on and the "Warrior Cop" mentality took hold, primarily from Police Departments hiring untold numbers of returning Gulf War & GWOT Veterans, those Vets pushed to expand their departments use of the 1033 program so they could have access to most of the same gear they were already used to using.

    That's how we got to where we are in 2025. Each individual step makes sense but the outcome of those cumulative decisions is increasingly problematic.

  • Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube

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  • Why does it have to be one or the other? I both read books and watch YT videos nearly every day.

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • Yep, and every one of them already complies with age verification laws so as new laws are added they're going to comply with those as well. There are very few web admins / sysops / site operators out there who are willing, or even able, to buck these kinds of national laws.

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • Many fediverse hosts will make an effort to stay open by shifting their servers to countries that are out of reach of verification and law enforcement but that will only last so long.

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • Why do you assume that the old school forums are going to get exempted? They are going to get on the bus or get run over by it just like everywhere else. Government has already proven that they can, and will, regulate those forums.

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • Unless you are one of the extreme privacy people, like deep into freakaziod territory, the folks who build tracking / id systems would maybe need an afternoon to go from your Lemmy username to your home address and underwear size.

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  • decentralized apps, fediverse

    Those apps and / or the fediverse itself would get sued into the ground and shut down one app or server at a time. There's nothing stopping any Governments authorities from going after servers inside their borders and there's nothing stopping them from "harmonizing" identity verification restrictions among other countries. They've already done it once with Intellectual Property law.

    This push to de-anonymize the Internet isn't new either. Microsoft started this back in the oughts with their Passport / Digital-ID program. Google and Meta, along with others, long ago launched their own versions and it's why you can sign into so many websites with a Google or Facebook account.

    It's generally referred to as IdP and now that the Internet has been fully corporatized, with minor holdouts, you can bet your bippy that the days of anonymous access are ending.

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • You made me do this, capitalism.

    This is a problem with Government not an economic system. It's about control, not dollars, pounds, or yuan.

  • What Happens When Housing Prices Go Down?

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  • America really needs to get back to building small scale housing such as onsie-twosie projects of singe level 4-plexes and 8-12 tenancy two story apartment buildings. The kind of stuff that can be both financed and built locally.

    The finance industry has us twisted up because they only want to fund overly-large and expensive single projects; typically entire neighborhoods of outsized single family homes or enormous multi-building apartment complexes. That means those are the only projects getting financed which means that those are the projects getting built.

  • What Happens When Housing Prices Go Down?

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  • As the article notes, with examples, we're already seeing that happen.

  • The Prototype: One Step Closer To Fusion Power

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  • Oh hell yeah

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  • Meh, unlikely. Gen X doesn't have the sheer numbers to drive and sustain culture. The Boomers number something like 74,000,000 and Millennials are around 83,500,000. Meanwhile Gen X only has about 49,000,000 so we're sandwiched between two Generations that are nearly double our size.

  • Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers

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  • For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)

    I maintain several multi-wan commercial setups and they don't have this problem. I obviously don't know what your setup is but I'd guess something is wrong with how its handling flows / connections. Once a connection is established between your edge and an internet resource that flow should remain "stuck" to whatever wan port it started with and it sounds like that isn't happening.

  • Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law

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  • Australia got the criminals while America got the prudes.

  • Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations

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  • Eh, you're assigning an awful lot of malice with no real reason. A smartphone manufacturer already has access to the kind of data exposed in this attack, regardless of whether the headphones were hooked up with wires or bluetooth.

    Samsung, Apple, Xaomi, Huwaei or whoever else doesn't need some stupid BT vulnerability to know what attached devices like headphone are up too. They already have root level access to the phones hardware.