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The problem is, the people who wrote the 14th amendment didn’t specify how that is supposed to be enforced.

Criminal conviction? Well trump was only convicted of a state charge of fraud, not insurrection.

Simple majority of congress? Republican congress could just ban democrats.

2/3 Supermajority of congress? It’ll never pass

Supreme court? Well, a majority of them is republican.

If its too easy to invoke it, it could be weaponized against progressive candidates. They’d just declare BLM protests as “insurrection” and ban them from the ballot.

No, but every rental unit in the US is now owned by Musk. 🙃

That’s the double edge sword of a lifetime apppintment, they are beholden to no one after getting appointed (nothing short of a 2/3 senate conviction or illegal autocoups)

Next time it’ll be Terrorist Children

I trust my cat to not bite me while petting the belly more than an oligarch.

(My cat actually doesn’t bite when I pet the belly, most of the tine)

AI isn’t real, Cats are real, warm, soft.

Cat is love, Cat is life.

When you use an app like Whatsapp, if you try to send a message witbout internet, it gets queued until you get internet.

With RCS, if it fails, it doesn’t get queued, it automatically falls back to SMS/MMS, which is how they got those stats.

I mean, I’d say a majority of messages send on 3rd party platforms in developing countries are probably “sent” while offline, but only actually gets delivered when they are on wifi.

If this were RCS, they would’ve just get converted to become SMS/MMS, which is how those statistics came to be. RCS that gets downgraded will never count as using RCS.

In the US, its a common thing.

Before, it’s actually just X GB data, you run out, you have nothing.

Then later it became “Unlimited, X GB of 4G/5G Data*” with a huge asterisk

Then in the fine print:

*After X GB is exceeded, speeds is reduced to 128 KB/s

Which is just a fancy way of saying: X GB Real data, after that we’re just trolling you with the unusable slow as molasses “data” and trying to get you to buy more data.

This is because these are the older, cheap plans. Like these plans could be anywhere from $15 to $30, per month. The real unlimited plans are not gonna be cheap.

Right now, I pay like $60 /month to have unlimited data + unlimited hotspot at reasonable speeds (like 15-25 Mbits up/down if its not congested) I do have wifi at home, but that’s a family network that don’t trust (long story, but I have trust issues with family)

The current standard requires carriers to make it work.

Maybe someone needs to make a new RCS without needing carriers to also do anything. Because if we are relying on carriers to implement something, its likely they’ll not get implemented for decades.

Yea, RCS requires both the carrier and Google’s systems to inter-operate. Meanwhile, Apple’s iMessage only requires Apple to work with themselves.

Google could theoretically build a Google Messages counterpart to iMessage and skip the Carrier as the middleman, but then it wouldn’t be interoperable with iPhones since it wouldn’t be an “open standard”

Its actually enabled by default in new devices. Problem is, RCS requires internet, and not everyone has unlimited data.

RCS only works when its connected to the internet. Not everyone has unlimited data, and the 128 kb throttled data after using up the fast data is slow as molasses that sites would fail to load and it’s likely a reason why messaging would just revert back to SMS/MMS. (And some people don’t even have the “unlimited 128 kb/s” after their fast data runs out)

They need to make RCS not require internet. Or carriers need to stop being greedy and just not count RCS data usage as actual data usage. (The data use is so insignificant it should not cause congestion anyways)

Bruh, I know (as in an acquaintance, not someone I’m friends with) a “middle class” family which the parents are talking about not giving any inheritance to one of their children because he has mental health issues, the parent’s reasoning being because “they will get welfare anyways” and that “its a waste to give wealth to someone that can’t even appreciate it”.

Like wow, its crazy how people actually have this ableist idea that people who get welfare are somehow “lucky”.

Bitch that shit aint even enough to survive, I know its legally within their rights, but jesus christ, how cold hearted could you be.

But I don’t know them well enough to confront them, and I don’t think I’m in the right to confront them as an outsider. Oh well, I hope the kid grows up the hate the parents.

Edit: I think this is probably the same thought process the 1% rich also have. Like Elon and his Trans kid that Elon hates for some bigoted reason.

I don’t think changes anything. Hasan was detained by CBP, not ICE.

And you can’t exactly just abolish CBP. Most Americans still would want “secure borders”

And modern society to too entangled with the concept of the state and law enforcement that I don’t see any way of any law enforcement organization to just be abolished. There no political will to do so.

Most Americans lean liberal, not leftist.

Maybe so reforms and a “you can’t detain/arrest non-violent undocumented immigrants” rule but that’s the most I realistically see happening.

You abolish ICE, they are just gonna use CBP, FBI, National Guard, or whatever. I mean, if they are gonna violate laws, they will do so reguardless of what name/banner the Gestapo is labeled under.

Americans be like: “sLeEpY jOE’s fAuLt!”

We can make a Fedi-Wiki that requires you to agree to the terms that everything you publish is considered public, kinda like a source code under GPL.

Edit: Lol I just remembered it’s called Creative Commons. Its what Wikipedia uses.

Here’s your cupcake receipe ingredients:

• 1 cup of water
• 1 cup of flour
• 1 egg (tastes better if tariffed)
• 12 fl oz of Polonium
• Access to a window in a tall building

Enjoy! 😋

Intellectuals are usually the most willing to resist authoritarianism.

That’s why they are usually one of the very early targets.

I heard about that in Man in the High Castle

We need a “Boston Massacre” to trigger the 2nd American Revolution.