The idea that other countries exist and have their own goals and motivations is just not even a thing to Trumpists

Like they think freedom is them doing what they want, and us thanking them or facing consequences

I try to stay extremely general about anything vaguely associated with my work, though I’m not any sort of expert just a random software engineer

very uninterested in professional blowback for shitposting about politics On Here

I am genuinely at a loss for a precedent here. Very, very few states in history ever enjoyed the success of the USA even on a regional level and I just can’t think of any of them dynamiting it all for absolutely no gain

we'll get another bite at a shutdown in a few weeks and that's a spot where maybe he can make a play.

but we're running into the very basic problem that if you're the minority party you need bipartisan action to win a majority of a vote.

If you, as a company, know or should have known that users would request abuse material, and do not take industry-reasonable steps to mitigate and prevent the generation of the same, your senior executives should have liability for that production

This is the whole thing, right? There are a ton of genuinely very socially positive uses of this technology. There are also a ton of genuinely very socially negative uses of this technology. And those are *both* true at the same time. Folks who focus on just one but not the other run into troubles

I think we could do quite a lot to improve the situation, some of the tools are very poorly designed and need to be reformed (hello, supreme court, and impeachment generally needs some work)

but there's no foolproof system that will stop lockstep "we're simply not following this rule"