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hypna

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  • Whats his problem?

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  • Elon Musk barred from accessing US Treasury payments data

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  • Yeah leaked data stays leaked. You can often find out what was leaked tho.

  • Elon Musk barred from accessing US Treasury payments data

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  • I imagine this looks a lot like what people in the cyber security sector do after a breach. Audit all the code, scan all the servers, monitor everything for several months. It's a ton of work and very expensive, but there are people with lots of real-world experience unhacking systems.

  • Musk vows to cancel grants after gaining access to US Treasury payment system

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  • There have been two court orders requiring that payments continue normally. It looks like Musk has decided that court orders do not bind him. It hasn't even been two weeks and already we're at the constitutional crisis?

  • Top Democrats warn Trump tariffs will ‘hit Americans in their wallets’

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  • I think the idea here is that, as Republicans have repeatedly demonstrated, the minority party can do a lot to simply break the government.

    If the Democrats had the intestinal fortitude to be real resistance against an authoritarian takeover, they could start filibustering everything, and using every procedural trick to delay or block every Republican action until some set of demands are met. Perhaps removing Musk from every government system, or reinstating all of the DoJ personnel who have been retaliated against.

    Here we see Democrats basically unanimously going along with the Republican agenda so that they can feel like "the adults in the room," rather than fighting for the life of our republic.

  • Protesters Blockade DNC Party Meeting, Demand Democrats Put Workers and Climate First - DeSmog

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  • I'm not sure the head of the DNC really has anything to do with the party platform. It's always seemed like more of a fundraising and coordination position. I dunno, maybe someone with an agenda could take the position and try to do something with it, but that doesn't seem like the norm. There doesn't seem to be much leadership happening anywhere else in the Dem party.

    Anyone care to offer arguments that this election means anything?

  • Kansas joins effort to stop counting noncitizens in census, but communities fear damage.

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  • Neither illegal immigrants, nor non-citizen residents get to vote. In what sense are they represented in either case?

  • Kansas joins effort to stop counting noncitizens in census, but communities fear damage.

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  • Then they have a higher hurdle to clear. All I'm saying is it seems reasonable to give a state representation based on the number of citizens.

    I got curious about the size of the issue. The numbers I found for Texas was an estimated 1.6 million illegal immigrants out of a total population of 30.5 million, or roughly 5%. There are 38 reps from Texas, so they'd lose one or two.

  • Kansas joins effort to stop counting noncitizens in census, but communities fear damage.

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  • This doesn't seem like it ought to be all-or-nothing. Knowing the number of citizens and the total number of residents is useful for different purposes. Electoral votes: citizens. Disaster response: residents. And so on.

  • If All This Sounds Delusional, That’s Because It Is

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  • This mirrors how I've been thinking about the broader world trends. The neo-liberal world order is dying. It has solved all the problems it has the capacity to solve, and the people have run out of patience with the problems it can't.

    The groups that have been best positioned to fill the gaps created by these retreating institutions are the ones that had always been excluded; nationalists, authoritarians, xenophobes of all kinds, et al. The left? They joined the neo-liberal coalition to try to change the system from the inside, or refused to participate and languished in obscurity.

    IMHO if we're going to avoid a century of oppression, the left needs to abandon the neo-liberal coalition, and get into the fight for what comes next. We're already two steps behind.

  • Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell him

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  • That's roughly the total COVID death toll for that period. The term "excess deaths" is used to refer to the deaths which occurred above the typical yearly mortality rate. In other words, the deaths which are roughly attributable to COVID.

    I don't know if that's what you meant, but it would be easy to read your comment, given the context, as saying that Trump caused 522,368 deaths in 2020.

    If you want to quantify the deaths caused by Trump's mismanagement, you'd need to compare COVID deaths relative to population. I actually managed to find that (to my surprise)

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

    If you sort by deaths per million (total), the US is 16th from the bottom right above Brazil, Slovenia, and Lithuania. And right below Latvia, Chile, and Poland.

    You could also download that data set there, find the global average, sum up the difference between that and the US, and roughly say that number is the death toll for Trump's mismanagement.

  • Spanish PM calls to end social media anonymity, force digital ID

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  • I think there's a place for both. So long as none of it becomes mandatory, and online communities can freely choose to offer anonymous or verified identities, it's an idea worth trying.

  • Yes, Trump is back. Yet I remain hopeful about America | Robert Reich

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  • Resistance requires hope. I appreciate people being willing to imagine how things could get better from this point. If you aren't willing to allow yourself to even imagine victory, you've already lost.

  • An American tragedy: how Biden paved the way for Trump’s White House return

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  • I wasn't thinking so specifically about Biden voters who stayed home in 24. I see that's what you were talking about initially.

    If you simply ask everyone who voted for Trump, the economy was the top issue. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/13/what-trump-supporters-believe-and-expect/

    That's all I was saying. But there are, I think, three groups which it would be interesting to have this answer for. The first is the one you mentioned. The other two are people who voted for Biden and switched to Trump, and people who chose not to vote in 2020 and voted for Trump in '24. I couldn't find those answers readily.

  • An American tragedy: how Biden paved the way for Trump’s White House return

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  • Big? Sure. Biggest? No. Biggest was "the economy". It's practically a law of nature that inflation ends governments.

  • California politicians are waiving green construction mandates designed to combat climate change which is driving conflagrations to speed reconstruction after LA fires

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  • I don't know the specifics here, but when there was a wildfire in my area they did something very similar. It wasn't just the lead time on materials, it's that most insurance only pays to rebuild what you had. You have to have additional coverage for upgrades, I think it's called local ordinance or law coverage, that pays the difference between the value of your house as it was, and the cost of building a new house to current code. Turns out most people don't have enough of that extra coverage to actually meet the expense.

    So they made an exception and let everyone build back to the standard they had. Afterwards they changed the minimum for that local ordinance coverage state-wide, and premiums have like tripled since.

  • 'I got death threats when men thought I put feminist gesture in video game'

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  • Perhaps he's objecting to having the alleged hand gesture referred to as feminist. A bit of a quibble, but not completely baseless.

    Then again it may not be fair to claim that whenever feminists do hurtful things in the name of feminism, that it's not real feminism. Feminism can do bad things too. Any philosophy can.

  • Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were dropped by their insurers before the Palisades Fire

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  • I know some areas have laws mandating certain minimal coverages. I wonder if the insurers would even be allowed to issue policies that didn't cover wildfires.

  • Meta now lets users say gay and trans people have ‘mental illness’

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  • I think it's more about being able to play as the oppressed, and whip up their base. There have been many platforms where they could post their hate. Censoring speech just fuels outrage and invites the Streisand effect.

    But in this case I don't think Zuck really cares about enabling these right-wing messages. It's about saving money by cutting a bunch of expensive fact checkers, and displaying friendliness toward the new president; either because they don't want to be singled out for punishment, or they hope to be rewarded with some largess.