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The anti-coercion instrument, known as the “big bazooka” of the EU’s trade arsenal, would give the commission powers to go after US multinational companies, slapping extra taxes on the digital revenues of tech firms.

Nice

Well thanks anyway for sharing what you know

I guess for me the ideal would be, I can install linux on it and run a MotionEye server. Second best would be it doesn't connect to remote servers by default and has a well documented local api.

Honestly being a child is awful in many ways, wouldn't want to go back

It can get kind of old seeing stuff on social media that's just using every easy trick available to fish for engagement though, especially when now a lot of it is probably bots and various propaganda campaigns. Especially if it's being posted somewhere that people can otherwise have more thoughtful and interesting conversations.

Pointing a gun at someone is dangerous. Pointing a moving car at someone is dangerous. We are gentler on car accidents because almost everyone relies on them and they are so normalized.

Is that a wrong approach though? I don't have to point a gun at anyone to visit family, but practically I do have to get behind the wheel of a car. That can be fixed by being rich, but not everyone can be rich. The reason people drive despite the inherent risk to themselves and others is more about infrastructure than poor personal choices. I think it might be better to focus on solving the infrastructure problem than being more willing to put people in prison for driving mistakes, because the latter isn't going to deter people from driving when most of us basically have to in order to live a normal life.

Like you said, it's societal negligence. With guns, owning one is truly optional for almost everyone, and I think it's reasonable to impose a much higher standard of personal responsibility on their use than with basically anything else. If you have a gun you better be capable of always using it correctly under pressure or else you should not have chosen to have one and criminal liability makes perfect sense.

What tech do you think is going to be introduced?

Designer pandemics

Are there any good ones that are local network only or open source etc? I like the idea of them except for the part about becoming part of Amazon's spy network

I think what's really needed is more development in the anonymous web. Unfortunately hosting a blog exclusively on Tor or I2P isn't a very accessible option at the moment. Probably fair to expect that the need for this will become more broadly relevant going forward.

In theory, yes, but you'd have to get a jury in one of these conservative states to agree that it qualifies as obscenity.

Someone can lack education but be pretty mentally sharp in some cognitive tasks regardless

There is absolutely a difference between education and being smart.

These statements aren't in disagreement, but accusing "street smart" people of actually being stupid is contradicted by the first one

At this point I'm just hoping for reduced federal influence over blue states and measures to help out refugees from the places whose own state governments are working against them.