It’s a bit random which laws they still obey

Hopefully I am grandfathered in

Surely there will not be a repeat after happening dozens of times earlier in the last 2,000 years? People are more civilized now…

More fuel for change later, not sure what kind of change or if it will be bad or good.

But a lot of potential social energy is being stored up and it had to go somewhere later!

It’s still early days, most likely many years later it will be both worse and better than is feared by me

Plenty of good journalists have worked there, often with high ideals. But that is not the whole picture. The NYT is soaked with blood and poverty for all the other things it has done. Almost everything we read as bad in history has had its proponents or motivators or mitigators working in the same hallways

The NYT has issues going back 7 generations, it’s not like it started to go downhill recently

I have thoughts this is an excellent sample of those who watch Fox News

Our Omnibus draws samples entirely from the SSRS Opinion Panel, which has a probability-based recruitment methodology. No one can volunteer or sign up for the SSRS Opinion Panel; members are randomly selected and invited to participate. The panel recruits randomly selected panelists using a nationally-representative address-based sample (ABS) design with a randomly dialed prepaid cell phone supplement (RDD). This reduces the risk of bias and ensures that bots or fraudulent panelists are not recruited.

So, people who answer strange phone numbers. I think 15 years ago that would have been fine. But now, not so much, and I really don’t think this filter is talked about as much as much as I would like.

Try looking for “ssrs scams”, and mixed into that are actual experiences with the survey, by people asking about what they experienced. Also mixed into are the various actual scams that pretend to be legitimate.

A huge percentage of mentally healthy USA adults would not participate

Wow, just doing the bare minimum for a legislature is enough to let one grab national headlines.

Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.

It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.

Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!

I think nobody understands exactly how anything works, but enough of us understand our own little corner of tech to make new things and keep the older things going. I’ve been coding for decades, and proudly state I understand about 1% of what I do. This is higher than most

AI will make these little gardens of knowledge smaller for most, and yet again we, as the human species, will forever rely on another layer of tech.

So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.

I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now

I tried compiling gentoo a bit later, upgraded from windows 95. Could never get to a login screen, I quit, and started using Linux later when it was easier to install

Oh yea, I did not read it accurately. Sorry, am sick today.

In that case PTB and you did not deserve it, the other should have been rebuked, if at all. Obviously someone did not like what you said and gave you the ultimate downvote

It works for me, both people seem passionate about their positions. OP did an accusation that the other was lying once. Otherwise was civil? I think op mildly broke rule one on the civility rule, but the 2 hour ban was mislabeled . ( edit it was the other commenter and not op)

TL;DR intellectual slap fight, probably the mildest of infractions for civility. Have no clue if that caused the ban or not ( edit and someone tried to shut down op)

I also think this reflects the true number of the user base: less reports because of what you said, and also there are less people who see the material

Watching the different institutions take sides shows the political fault lines that have built up for more than a generation. It’s sort of pretty, and educational.

Harvard was always old money, and most the older families of the super rich do not support what is happening. They want the old empire back, among other things.

Columbia is more new money, and the politically connected , one will see the more recently wealthy , as a rule, or the older ones who are more opportunistic.

Maybe you’re right, or maybe this is not important at all because there are no effective checks.

I’m no legal expert, and I don’t understand many things. But it seems to me if there were effective checks, then others would have applied it already.

My unjustified opinion is that this, if real, is a last gasp by a few patriots who do not see the writing on the wall, and whose actions will largely be forgotten in the chaos to come.

I hope I’m wrong

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