Fully agreed that it needs to be done right. I’m definitely not the best person to try and write it.

It also needs to be area specific. A predominantly republican area would need a different message to a predominantly black community.

Has Amazon ever actually said it wouldn’t sell the results of face tracking to data brokers? I can easily see it happening. It’s a lot of tasty data to them.

Dating isn’t about fitting in with the 95% of people that don’t match your vibe. It’s about finding the 5% that do.

Wear your weirdness proudly, it left fellow weirdos find you!

A better option might be a leafleting campaign.

It would need to bypass the “I’ve nothing to hide” effect. E.g. “Does your friend have an ex they don’t want to know where they are? Facial recognition would easily put them on your doorstep. Would you like a visit from them?”

Leaning on the ICE issues right now would also work in some areas.

If someone mocked up a few variants for different demographics, that could actually help.

Also, does anyone know an easy layman alternative to ring, that is more ethical?

I’ve fixed this several times with a bit of thick tape. It wasn’t actually the button that had worn down, but the plastic stub that pressed it. A bit of extra material kept each working for months/years after.

My current mouse has this fix over a year back, and is still working reliably.

Their biggest problem is media capture. With the loss of twitter to Musk, there’s no large scale organisation path that hasn’t been captured.

As the phrase goes. “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

I’m UK based btw. I had my tangles with the police at protests in my younger days. It’s intimidating, even when nominally peaceful. I have a lot of respect for those of you willing to face off against the nastier crowd control methods.

It’s worth noting that there is still a huge difference between what you dealt/deal with and shoot-to-kill military weapons fire.

If I thought it would help, I would (unhappily) deal with tear gas etc. I’m too old, with too much to lose to risk rubber bullets etc, but respect those that would. VERY few people would face gunfire without the ability to fire back. The American Left is not at the point where they are willing to escalate to that point.

Money actually has a strong diminishing return on happiness. A lack of money can definitely make you unhappy. More money also makes it easier to be happy, but does make it easy.

That’s actually the hole that the rich can get into. They (subconsciously) assume they would be happy with just a bit more money. They delay or ignore the things that would make them happy in trade for more money/power.

It would actually be quite sad, if it didn’t fuck the rest of us over completely.

I think the Germans might have some ideas to draw from. Or at least what doesn’t work as well as you might think.

There’s the acute situation and the chronic one. The acute one needs action now. You also need to keep an eye on the long term goals.

It’s a common thing that’s been discovered with extremist groups. A good number of their members get in before it becomes extreme. By the time they realise, too much of their identity is tied up with the group. They get drawn deeper and deeper. This makes getting out both emotionally and practically costly.

Giving a release valve to remove these people from the group is emotionally unpleasant, but extremely useful for collapsing the group.

Also, those same people are often in the best position to help with deprogramming other members.

I’m not saying to let them walk Scot free, but you need to leave some way out. Unless you are willing to stand and systematically gun down them to a man (bare in mind, they will be firing back).

Unfortunately, most mesh networks rely on civility for long range. They just don’t have the power to punch through.

It would be relatively easy to jam large areas.

Those who turn soon should be accepted. Not Scot free, but accepted. There’s the possibility they were roped in by propaganda, and got too deep.

If they don’t turn now, they definitely knew what they were doing, and should face the appropriate consequences.

It’s also worth remembering, always give your enemy a way out. It’s a lot easier to run down the die-hards than deal with a group of cornered animals.

I’m not American. I’m only aware of them in passing. It’s not the sort of thing we learn about in school, over here.

In its defence, that assumed it was properly funded. Its actual funding was very limited.

I believe most of the critical problems have been solved. The only major one left is keeping the reactor walls stable. They have a tendency to transmute, which causes multiple problems.

In France, the worst they will likely be met with is water cannons, tear gas, and potentially rubber bullets/beanbag rounds.

In America, it’s more likely to be automatic assault rifles.

They are excellent in the hobby world. It’s generally when you need to do a bit of quick logic, an ESP32 can be dropped in to do it. E.g. change the colour of an led depending on a sensor.

They also form the core of a lot of IoT devices. Simple sensors and relays that can connect to WiFi and throw up a simple web interface. ESPhome, tasmota and WLED exist to make this extremely easy.

They are basically the hobbiest electronic multi tool. Powerful enough to do most jobs without bothering with code optimisation. Cheap enough to throw in and leave there.

In an ideal world, you have conservatives and revolutionaries. The revolutionaries want to make changes to try and make things even better. The conservatives act to maintain the status quo. When they balance properly then you get steady change, but slow enough to detect and fix cascading problems/failures.

In this situation, the centralists act as the balance point, being swayed one way or the other to set the path.

Unfortunately the only place this is actually close to accurate is Sci-Fi novels.

Fully agreed.

I’m the sort of person who wants people to be judged on their actual choices and actions, not those taken out of context.

The Clinton’s going nuclear, in public, would be unlikely but amazing!

It’s niche, but it lets them get the best of both worlds. Even when a company does early access right, a lot of people would rather wait for the complete game.

This would let them refine and build up with early access, then get a significant boost at their proper release.

On his defense, there was apparently a 2 hour legal discussion on the topic. His statement was correct within the legal framework established. Out of context it sounded dodgy as hell though.

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