Yeah, and a county could say “you can’t do business in our county anymore” and block them

A country can ban dildos, but they don’t get to tell a foreign factory they can’t make dildos. If an importer orders dildos anyways, that’s between the importer and customs. Which in this case the importer is the ISP

Because they don’t work as phones, at least not for practical use

No one has cracked it yet, some projects seem to be getting close, but the radio in a phone is a very complicated and poorly documented black box

Well, considering how fucked things are right now…

1. I gather up the publicly active billionaires and bring them into stage with me before starting a speech on inequality, really digging into the fact that they probably don’t feel safe in public anymore, then I announce that “these industry leaders have volunteered to help fix this, and will be staying in Washington until we have a plan”. During the speech, I’d kick out their entourage and after I’d trade out their phones for ones that can only make calls

2. I’d keep guards everywhere and make pointed implicit threats, but leave that wiggle room for civility. I’d use this distraction to keep other parties from interfering as I sic the FTC, SEC, and FCC on trust busting basically the entire economy. I’d have the NSA help behind the scenes to speed up this process, hell I’d expand the judiciary just for this purpose, to push it through as fast as possible

3. I’d deploy the national guard everywhere to basically open soup kitchens and shelters. I’d probably send in large portions of the military as well - we have the resources and logistics to feed everyone for an extended period of time, so I’d use it to mitigate the short term damage

4. I’d call on other world leaders for aid. I’d make a big speech about collapsing empires and the dangers of the coming dark age. I’d call for a new age of cooperation and solidarity as equals, of breaking the cycle by playing another game. I’d ask for medicine and aid workers from around the world to help us through our trying time, then I’d parade out the billionaires to let them announce their plans to use their wealth to create jobs (and make sure they talk about how they want a world where they can feel safe, no matter how forced). Not all of them would make an appearance, but they’d all pop up later

5. From there I’d try to stabilize this whole mess legislatively. I’d overturn citizens united by making it expressly illegal with huge penalties, come up with a transition plan to nationalize healthcare, I’d create a program to buy food from independent farmers at cost to keep the soup kitchens open, I’d expand the supreme Court and put restrictions on them, and as things settle I’d make a big deal about restricting certain powers I used to get all of this through

It would be a huge mess. Like a total shit show. The plan is to basically turn the economy off and on again without loss of life

But I’d make sure people had food, housing, and hope for the future. They’d be terrified day 1, they’d be terrified as they lose their jobs and the stock market disappears, but then they’d have people going door to door arranging free food deliveries and healthcare. The power would stay on. The Internet would still be up. The evictions wouldn’t come… And

I’d make a show of limiting my own power, and it would be largely true… But we really have to rework a lot of things, and I’d get the public buy in to do that by becoming a firm lifeline for them. I’d move much more slowly from then on

So that’s my 100 day plan. Flip the table, burn the boats, then hold things together by giving people what they need until they can reorganize bottom up

I think I’d be reelected, I think I’d have to firmly reject a third term

The cause is obvious… It’s those damn vaccines! Optional isn’t good enough, we have to ban them all

And if you agree to their new terms of service (there’s only an accept button when you open the site), you agree it’s not discord’s fault!

Such innovation.

H is the funniest. You’d get to pay people in rocks. That will lead to so much interesting slang

Because it hurts to be accused of something unfairly, even if it’s just an implication.

It will help if you try to make it a choice. In a way, this is something that will protect your child - the tiniest sliver of doubt could taint your child’s relationship with their father. And that seed has already been planted

Even if they back down, I think you should insist on it.

Honest people don’t tell you they’re honest, they show. If you want, you could politely insist they read the test results themselves, to make sure there’s absolutely no doubt that would taint their relationship with their grandchild

It would turn this around on them, it’s the third path solution. They’re going to try to brush over the unpleasantness when the results come in, if you make them linger on it for just a moment they’ll feel shame without hurting the relationship

If you do that or not should probably depend on how supportive they are during the pregnancy, but I’d personally like having that option in my back pocket

45 seconds maybe? Depends on what it is

I like my videos to be at least 20 minutes long and in the background

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That’s dumb as fuck.

Your enemy’s enemy is not necessarily your friend.

When your enemies are fighting, what do you do? You put fuel on the fire, obviously

No. A year ago I would have said yes, but I’ve come to realize some uncomfortable truths.

The Internet is dying, the parts that will remain are able to manipulate users, and actively doing so to create a global rise of distopian authorization surveillance states

I think we can either have an underground Internet of technical minded people, or you get a weapon that will be used against the people

There’s no digital ID in my system, there’s digital disclaimers and parental locks on the devices

The way we’re going now is digital IDs, they would try to throw it in regardless, but under my plan there’s no place where it could come into play

You could go further than that… Mandate that all new devices and app stores must have a parental lockout available out of the box

Then when you get your kid a phone or computer, you just set up the permissions. This already exists to a large extent, this would just standardize it all to turn it into a usable system

If they were serious about protecting children, they would have a device level lock and force web pages and apps to positively affirm they are “safe” for minors

That would work, this clearly won’t. This is just censorship, you can’t sanitize the Internet, you can only carve out walled gardens

There’s a difference between cute, sexy, and hot. You’re very much sexy, no qualifications needed

Because you can go through your whole life with zero negative social corrections. It’s a low trust, collapse of society thing

What’s a pure technocrat? Technocracy wants to control all aspects of life, they want the tech oligarchs in charge, they want to be generally isolationist and carve up the world into blocs

That’s how these people act. That’s where they focus, that’s what they hint and feel out responses for. This is the roadmap they’re using

Spirituality? Religion? Patriotism? These things are a veneer to fascists. They don’t believe in any of that, hell they generally don’t even believe in Technocracy… This is a means to an end

They’re Fascists. They don’t believe in anything but power and using it against their enemies

They’re the Technocracy movement, started in the 1930s and stewing as a behind the scenes backer of conservative movements, such as the heritage foundation

Wikipedia link. If you read through that, you’ll find a lot of the seemingly random shit they say, like taking the Panama canal, Greenland, and Canada, it’s all related. This is the end goal

Ethnic groups are not a race, it’s a culture. You can leave it by leaving and not taking the culture with you, you can join one by showing up consistently

Yeah, well, searching things is impossible these days, and after clicking around for a while I found one that looked similar.

I did read an article about one, went to their page and it was listed as $8k, I looked up the specs and it looked like it could pick up about 20lbs and has a weak but reasonable grip, and it made an impact. Then I saw video of someone recording one running down a sidewalk - it was a cell phone recording, but the robot was controlled by someone filming a demo in public

I don’t really care if you take me at my word or not, the price factor to me means more because it means every robotics program in the world will be able to play with them.

But again, this isn’t the core of my argument at all, but by the time I was looking up links I was kinda getting bored with this. I like to argue over ideas, it’s a field I’m following closely with so much happening and we’re just too far apart to make this constructive.