That was the joke? The racist uncle at Thanksgiving bitching and moaning about a societal expectation to treat people with respect even if you don't agree with their choices, thinly veiled as a "joke?"
He didn't want to invite out the women's team, or any women's team for that matter, because they're not likely to be Trump supporters and he can't handle having his feelings hurt.
It upsets me how correct you are. We already judge the worth of public services by how much profit they generate (or don't). Conservatives and right-wing libertarians would jump at the opportunity to privatize everything. I hear people at work suggest we hand over all postal service operations to Amazon whenever they're slightly inconvenienced by their rural post office.
You're right, we don't need to ID-gate anything, but that doesn't mean we should trust the companies' implementation. Just look at what's happening with Discord.
If you're supporting actual legislation for banning teens from social media at this point, and you think tech companies aren't selling off age verification data to surveillance capitalists, then yeah, that's what you're saying.
BTW, I really hope your car lasts as long as possible, and/or you don't have to get another one anytime soon. Car manufacturers are tracking literally everything you do, because they also "care about safety."
In the game, even if you've built yourself up, an unlucky roll can still lose you the game. As opposed to real life, where the government decides you're too big to fail.
Oh, I'm well aware there are some ulterior motives, as always. I'm concerned about the voters that will only take it at face value and be like "this is good for us! How can you possibly be against it?"
Do you really think tech companies are creating age verification software that isn't harvesting that data for mass surveillance? If your car was made in the past few years, then yeah, it does monitor your seat belt usage (among plenty of other things) and sends that data off to who-knows-where.
The idea of banning social media for teens, at the government level, doesn't have anything to do with keeping them safe either. Look back through the past few decades of bills that claimed to be about "protecting the children" and see all the draconian shit built into them.
It's becoming more and more obvious that we can't make laws in America without tailoring them to special interest groups and baking in exploitable workarounds. And it's obvious that these huge companies don't give a shit about safety and privacy so long as someone out there is willing to buy the data. So don't try to say the government has our best interests in mind and the tech companies will play nice.
At least he said some vaguely leftist things before launching into hours of racist anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy that'll get a lot of people killed. Preventing corporations from buying homes might be good if there's not some stupid loophole baked in. A universal 401k sounds okay at face value, but it's clearly a way to pump money into a collapsing stock market. Making AI companies pay for their own power would have been nice if it didn't mean that we would just be spending more tax money for them to build their own power plants (bonus: looks like company towns are coming back!)
Asking the 5-year-old girl that is currently relearning how to walk to stand up was some Parks and Rec-level shit.
That was the joke? The racist uncle at Thanksgiving bitching and moaning about a societal expectation to treat people with respect even if you don't agree with their choices, thinly veiled as a "joke?"
He didn't want to invite out the women's team, or any women's team for that matter, because they're not likely to be Trump supporters and he can't handle having his feelings hurt.