Yes, but the central government has a bunch of rules surrounding how it’s formed that can be summarized as “not elected by the people, but by the amount of land you own” so the central federal government doesn’t do anything that helps people, only things that enable big businesses to make more money.

It doesn’t matter if you’re JD Vance

Remember Mike Pence? Even if you meet the exact blue print of the movement you still get fucked over by fascists.

Death, death to the IDF!

I don’t know if this was your intention, but you come across as being completely dismissive of someone who just went through really horrible and traumatic abduction.

No, you really, truly can’t “rugged individualism” your way out of a societal problem. Remember that wedding you went to a few months ago? Someone uploaded this photos and now your social graph has been recorded. When your friend’s kid had a birthday party a few weeks ago? You were uploaded and graphed again. When you were out at that restaurant and you were in the background of someone’s date selfie? Graphed again.

The only solution to this problem is real data protection law, like the GDPR in the EU.

The boomers are not on their way out. We have the exact same politicians in power that we had 30 fucking years ago.

I suspect someone is still sneaking food to her.

Do they do any reviews of cars after a few years of wear and use or only brand new from the factory?

Why the fuck is there a king in 2025?

When you convince yourself that everything you do is automatically morally correct because your imaginary friend says so, it’s quite easy to become disconnected from reality.

It’s a synonym for “anti-genocide”.

This sounds about as useful as the California law that tells ICE they aren’t allowed to cover their face, or the California law that tells anyone selling anything ever that they have to tell you it will give you cancer. Performative laws are what we’re best at here in California.

This doesn’t satisfy the “crumple zone that is not my face” requirement.

And you refuse to condemn the genocide in Gaza, so you are definitely an expert on baffling and undisciplined takes!

Because it’s literally a newspeak prize. They gave one to Obama and fucking Henry Kissinger, whose death count is only rivaled by maybe Gangus Khan.

I literally don’t believe you. Wi-Fi? Zigbee? Z-Wave? Not a single reset or re-pair because you changed some password or bridge or the power went out and one of them needed a little encouragement?

Yes but I have done zero maintenance on my light switches in over 30 years. No downtime either or updates.

It hasn’t even been a year.

It does. Installing them is intentionally obtuse and is buried in the “share” menu.

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