Buelldozer

A comment up above says that in Canada the age limit is 50.

David wasn’t God’s Son nor was he a Christian, but you knew that already.

Even the Apostles got it twisted while Jesus was alive. Luke 9:51-56 is relevant here.

You’re not wrong but I was specifically referencing the ground based drones with my comment. Apologies that wasn’t clear.

China’s SPR is the largest in the world, by a lot, but it’s also the world 2nd largest consumer of oil and it imports almost 70% of what it uses.

The US SPR is about 1/3rd the size of China’s but it is also a net exporter with a surplus of around 2.4 Mbbl/s per day.

It’s generally accepted that China has a large enough SPR to cover about 120 days. The US is essentially limitless since, at least on paper, it produces more than it needs.

I viewed some analysis over the weekend proposing that China would run into petroleum problems in mid-June if something doesn’t change with the Iran situation.

Source.

I’m not the person who made the claim but Device Fingerprinting has been around for decades and Hardware ID is certainly part of that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

“You shall know them by their fruits.” - Jesus Christ

Neither Trump nor Vance are Christians.

Until the drones start getting used on civilians. Which is absolutely going to happen and soon.

Diesel at $5 a gallon is going to concern him a lot in a couple of months. In fact it’s going to be a very great concern for the entire Republican Party.

It would be nice if you put the country in the title.

I happen to agree with you but Rule 4 sort of prevents that.

Our kids still get up to things online that we wish they wouldn’t.

Remove the word “online” and that sentence is not only still true but it’s been true for Millennia. It doesn’t matter what our beliefs as parents are, our children will always do things we wish they wouldn’t.

I lean hard on letting them have the freedom to make choices but sometimes I think I’ve made a mistake.

From one parent to another I honestly believe that that you are doing parenting correctly! You can’t raise children to be responsible and mature adults if they aren’t free to make decisions until after they leave the home. We give them space and training commensurate with their age and ability while they are still kids so that we can teach them and pick them up when they fall.

Isolating kids from “not approved” voices is a key dream of the Heritage Foundation and the other think-tanks of big tech, corporations, and Christo-fascism.

These kind of age verification laws meant to silence “not approved” voices are happening in BLUE states. Are you seriously arguing that the Heritage Foundation and “Christo-fascism” have significant voices in places like California, New York, Colorado, Illinois, and Michigan?

Big Tech is involved because they are tired of getting their balls sued off and are trying to find a way to shield themselves from liability. If it were up to them they’d stick with the system that has been in place for the last 25 years.

No Clue how anyone can support letting the US government of propaganda, queer erasure, burying unpleasant history;have MORE control over kids.

Look around you bub, that stuff ain’t being done by the US Government. It’s being done by the States themselves and in this context it’s being done by the so called Progressive Liberals.

They’re so Progressively Liberal, or Liberally Progressive, that their brains have fallen out of their ass.

The Internet is meant to be anonymous and have free speech. I mean the US definition of speech too not the ridiculous “Free when we like the message” bullshit that so many simpletons seem to prefer.

I don’t think there are.

My Son will graduate from College this May, was recruited to a company a year ago, and will start work in June. You will not be hired for his kind of work without a Degree either, at least not in the United States. The jobs are out there and many of the better ones require the Accreditation.

Perplexity AI

All she had to do was release them.

It took a literal Act of Congress to get maybe half the files and they were so heavily redacted as to be near useless.

In my opinion she’s either been ordered not to release them or she herself is in them; there’s no other explanations for ignoring the massive amount of pressure she’s been under.

No one gives a shit who the Trump Administration chooses as a scapegoat; we’re all interested in just two things:

1. A full release of all the files as commanded by Congress.
2. When the prosecutions of Epstein’s clients will start.

That’s it and that’s all. The rest of this is just noise intended to keep people distracted.

I think my main focus would be to end the two-party system by switching Congress to proportional representation.

If I understand your comment correctly what you are describing is how Congress was originally setup! It was broken by the Re-Apportionment Act of 1912. No need to re-write the Constitution it’s “just” a Federal Law.

a drastic reduction of presidential power is an obvious step

The President only has as much power as they do because Congress has been steadily handing it over since the 1940s.

perhaps have both a president and a prime minister like many European countries do

We weren’t far away from the spirit of that but we broke it in 1804 with the passage of the 12th Amendment.

The Supreme Court needs reform…

It’s really not SCOTUS that needs reformed it’s actually our Constitution. It was simply never meant for the environment in which it now exists, it’s unfit for purpose. The easiest way to explain is that the US Constitution wasn’t meant to control an all powerful central authority, it was meant to prevent one. SCOTUS twisted that shortly after the Civil War and now here we are trying to manage ourselves by looking at a mirror reflection of our guiding document.

Stupid.

Maybe we can get more people on the Fediverse

Once there’s enough people on the Fediverse it will get noticed by the Authorities and when that happens you’ll see instances start shutting down as they are unwilling, or unable, to comply with the Age Verification and Social Media laws that are being passed all over the globe.

I’m somewhat surprised that the NSFW instances haven’t already been hit by the Age Verification laws that many US States have but as soon as a single state, say Utah, notices the rest of them will pile on and the Fediverse will start to unravel.

This isn’t just a US problem either, there’s Age Verification and Social Media laws being proposed or already in effect in many Western Nations. Hell the two Australian instances are already afoul of the laws in their country so as soon as their Government notices they are going to have some difficult decisions to make.

If they said that about Lemmy i would tell them to fuck off

Lemmy will eventually be targeted by the various Age Verification and Social Media laws popping up all over the globe. More of them are being proposed and passed every week and the confusion and risk just grow higher.

As an example my home instance, lemmy.today, is run out of Washington State and they have proposed legislation that could impact us. HB2112 and HB1834 are just two examples.

Even if none of them pass in WA, and one of them surely will, it won’t too be much longer before the NSFW instances in the lemmiverse start getting targeted by the wide range of States who already have such laws. Instance operators do not have the money to challenge these laws in court so their options will be: comply, shut down, or get fined into oblivion / risk jail time.

I’m not happy about it but in IMO Lemmy is living on borrowed time.

Content like this is why I come here.