We have the electoral college, the senate, and gerrymandering.

The outsized effect of the EC and Gerrymandering have a very simple fix. I wonder why Democrats never talk about it?

It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement,

One of the few things that both Democrats and Republicans work together on is making sure that there are no viable third parties. They make it extraordinarily difficult to get ballot access at any level whenever possible and on the odd occasion that a 3rd party candidate does make it into office they pull out all the stops to make sure they lose the next election.

Tiedrich? Blech, tired old has-been who, like Trump, should have disappeared years ago.

Okay that I’m aware of but I’ve never heard of it referred to as “bootstrapping”. Thanks for the explanation.

Firewire was good for high bandwidth devices like external hard drives and video cameras because it didn’t require the CPU to do any heavy lifting. These days USB is mature enough and CPUs are so fast that we (mostly) don’t notice any performance impact but in the Core 2 Duo days you could easily max out one of your two cores with a large file transfer over USB.

My internet being bootstrapped by ISP…

Seriously, what does “bootstrapped” mean in this context?

Edit: if you are going to downvote at least explain if you got a counter point, otherwise it seems y’all just butthurt haha

Okay.

How is this different from US ISP bootstrapping peasant grade internet?

1. Whatabout-ism is annoying AF.
2. How is nationwide re-configuring of DNS to enable censorship different than “bootstrapping peasant grade internet” is a dumb question on it’s face.
3. I’m sitting in the middle of Wyoming sending this comment via a 2Gb/s fiber optic connection. This is not “peasant grade”.

So basically you are getting downvoted because your comment is irrelevant 'Murica bashing.

Now you know.

You think the people who brought us Stuxnet aren’t fucking with Russia?

would it surprise you if these are still the only two instances of parents being held accountable?

Yes it would. Adults, including parents, are increasingly being charged in other types of shootings such as when one child is playing with a firearm and accidentally shoots someone else. It’s not happening often enough yet but it’s growing in popularity. If you can remember long enough, I know I won’t, check back in a year and lets see what happened. :)

The psychology that causes school shootings…

The United States generally has a violent culture. If you removed every shooting of any type (school, mass, crime of passion, etc) from the crime statistics the US would still have a higher rate of violent crime than any other industrialized Western nation.

Aside from that it’s time to stop blaming Reagan for the mental health crisis in this country. Aside from the fact that our mental health system was a horror show when Reagan ended it the guy hasn’t been President for over three decades. That’s plenty of time for individual States and / or the Federal Government to have reversed course.

Plenty of countries with more guns per capita than the U.S. that don’t have school shootings.

There is no country with more firearms per capita than the United States.

Even if you go by household, to reduce the effect of people who have more than one firearm, the U.S. still ahead of any other nation.

To be clear we can and should do more to reduce gun violence in the United States and small things like prosecuting adults who are accessories to shootings are a good thing.

It’s slowly changing.

The father involved in this Georgia shooting was arrested. The parents involved in the 2021 Michigan shooting were arrested, charged and sentenced to 10-15 years.

I strongly disagree. I’m about as Pro 2nd Amendment as it gets but what happened in Georgia was entirely preventable. The father should not have provided a firearm to a minor and especially not to a minor with a history of making threats.

Parents need to start going to jail for that kind of behavior and gun owners overall need to start securing their firearms so that children cannot get to them.

It’s not that damn difficult to do.

100,000 rides a week. Impressive.

Nah, Starlink doesn’t reset the Wi-Fi SSID for a firmware update.

They didn’t, the commenter is making things up.

Wouldn’t you be able to say the same thing about Facebook and Twitter?

I don’t know. I haven’t used Xitter since before Elon took it over and I’m only on FB once every couple of months.

It is especially visible with YouTube which had downvoting from the start and decided to remove it despite user protests.

Wait, you don’t have a thumbs down button on YouTube?

I don’t even do that! I’ve just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I’m not interested in it and doesn’t show it to me.

The closest I get to watching political content on YT is Peter Zeihan so the algorithm simply doesn’t put political junk in my feed. If you’re getting tons of politics, from either direction, in your feed its probably because you are watching political content on YT.

That’s the best explanation I can come up with about why our experiences are so different.

Can’t you simply not connect your display to the Internet

Probably, but maybe not. I can think of three ways a Smart TV could potentially get internet access without the owners knowledge.

1. Amazon Sidewalk
2. The TV Manufacturer cuts a deal to access the closed WiFi network that many cable operators have on their cable modems or routers.
3. Via the manufacturers app installed on a smart phone. They often use the app to make setup easier and / or to cast content. There’s no reason the TV can’t log data until the app connects and then use the app to transmit that data to the manufacturer.

So while the owner could choose not to give their Smart TV a wifi connection that doesn’t mean the TV can’t get one another way.

What does YouTube have to do with this? I’m on YT quite a bit watching a wide array of content and I’ve yet to see anything thing Pro-Trump or Pro-Russian.