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When We Create a Hostile Offline Environment for Teens, They Take Refuge Online

One of the things people talk about with age verification is that teens are sucked in and need to get off. That's not what's happening.

https://www.freezenet.ca/when-we-create-a-hostile-offline-environment-for-teens-they-take-refuge-online/

#Censorship #Editorial #News #ChatRoom #Internet #kids #social #SocialMedia #teens

The fall of Platner from Democratic politics (I expect him to re-appear as GOP or other) is an unqualified good. One of the things that helps to keep Nazis down is convincing them that Nazis don't get anything.

#uspol

If you ever forgave Platner for the Nazi tattoo and the rape fantasies and the allegations of assault and the imperialist mercenary work—even before the rape accusation—then you have no business, for even a moment, expressing confusion as to how anyone could support someone like Trump.

The most apt analogy for the relationship between the state and its subjects is to the farmer and a herd of livestock.

Once you internalize this, a whole host of seemingly unrelated phenomena, and the relationships between them, become crystal clear.

Borders and immigration controls, concentration camps and genocide, national IDs and passports, conquest and forced migrations, taxes and conscription and corvée labor, slave labor and prison labor—it’s all just the state managing and harvesting from its herd.

@HeavenlyPossum

The livestock industry has applied ethologists like Temple Grandin to design systems that keep the herd calm and compliant during the breeding, fattening, and slaughtering processes, exemplified in papers such as "Transferring results of behavioral research to industry to improve animal welfare* on the farm, ranch, and slaughter plant," and the state has police, educators, scientists, psychologists, regulatory agencies, etc., to keep us calm and compliant as well. The sheep spends its life fearing the wolf only to be eaten by the shepherd.

* Industry jargon reflects the idea that livestock fares well when they don't cause trouble for their keepers.

So my firm conviction remains that if Trump were to order an actual military invasion of Greenland, the US military would simply not comply. I'm dead serious. The men and women of the armed forces of NATO countries have decades of intense training and actual deployments together, and the respect they tend to have for each other runs deep. There's no way a US service member is going to just turn his weapon on the very people they just spent training and deploying with.

Ordering such an invasion would mean the end of his entire administration and the single largest crisis in US history as the US military would face massive subordination and refusal to carry out orders.

Crazy that you need to video your entire life just to have an alibi and you still have to deal with weeks of police and court dates.

This one sparked a big debate on patreon, that concluded with the idea that their arms would actually be flapping wildly in the wind, making me wish I knew how to animate.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/zod

On the day the EU Parliament passed Chat Control v1 through a procedural coup, I attended #DWebCamp, where activists across the political spectrum demonstrated how their peer-to-peer technologies could protect the universal human right to privacy with a form of end-to-end encryption that could survive any form of terrible regulation.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-lose-out/?ref=activitypub

Some of them wanted to go further. Alexander Hamilton, whose reputation was completely white-washed by that musical so beloved of liberals, advocated for life-tenure for Senators and the president. He believed this was necessary to ensure that wealthy elites, the only people capable of ruling, would be completely insulated from democratic demands from the public. He wanted, in short, to recreate the British monarchy and House of Lords on a republican basis.

It’s hard to overstate how much these people absolutely loathed the poor—not just the women whom they excluded from power or the Black people they enslaved or the indigenous Americans whom they murders and robbed, but also poor white men. The poor were lazy; they were stupid; they were greedy; they were wasteful. Above all else, they had to be kept from power, because if the poor exercised power, they would immediately take everything from the rich.

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Article I, Section 8 of the US constitution is quite explicit about why the document exists at all:

“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States…”

Most people probably skim right over that part today, if they bother to dig through it at all, but that line is the constitution’s entire reason for existing. Washington, Madison, Adams, Hamilton, and the rest desired a central government powerful enough to suppress the American public and extract taxes and debt payments from that public.

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Player Run Minecraft Servers are “Piracy”, ESA Says

As next generation consoles go digital only, the ESA is arguing that player run servers are "piracy".

https://www.freezenet.ca/player-run-minecraft-servers-are-piracy-esa-says/

#Copyright #News #California #CallOfDuty #ESA #Minecraft #piracy #server

Shays’ brief revolt was not successful and Shays himself had to flee into hiding for a time, but the revolt had a major impact on the thinking of American elites. The public was opposed to paying debts or taxes to finance those elites, and it had created governments to empower the public to erase debts. Where governments were more favorable to creditors, the public staged revolts. This was intolerable.

Even worse, the governing charter of the new US republic, the Articles of Confederation, created a weak central government that struggled to raise money to finance its operations. The central government, for example, failed to raise an army to confront Shays’ Rebellion; the rebels were ultimately suppressed by a local Massachusetts army that was *privately funded* by wealthy elites in that state.

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On top of this, recall those promissory notes the Continental Congress had issued to soldiers in lieu of pay. Without any money, those soldiers often sold those promissory notes to wealthy speculators who paid pennies on the dollar. When the war ended, those speculators demanded the US government pay them the full face value—including interest—netting them enormous profits.

Former soldiers lost twice, first by having to accept a fraction of the pay owed to them and second by being taxed to finance interest payments to wealthy speculators.

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#WorldCup

You disappoint me Internet.

Just lettuce take a quick nap

Edit: 1st image is genAI sadly, but the 2nd one isn't!

@JamesBaker I’m intrigued to know what they think “making them more visible online” would entail. Are they planning to force (mostly non-UK) search engines and social media apps to adjust their algorithms? Or are they going to make UK ISPs block “less trustworthy” sources altogether? Or, as usual, are they just completely failing to understand how the internet works?

The UK does authority in a deceptive manner. Do you want Government to control your information sources always, sometimes, or are you unsure? #UK #authority #control #stopkillingtheinternet