What an insane dependency tree, that driving a truck in a field to plant some seeds requires a computer operating in space. I really hope there is a push-back on this unbounded complexity. Mind boggling.
We are taking the nodejs solution too far.
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The pendulum has clearly started to swing back to sexual repression. Society has started to see sexual freedom and expression as grotesque. Now the only question is how far it'll swing.
>Society has started to see sexual freedom and expression as grotesque
When has it been not grotesque? It's just that “American” “norms” are actually starting to “progress” to the mean.
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Over 60% of the US population think abortion should be legal.
More than half of US states are (or are very likely) to institute abortion bans.
To the broader point, there has to be _representative_ democracy for decentralized decision making to be fair
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2021/nov/...
No state is representative of the whole US population. Don't think the US is a united whole.
maccolgan commented on Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions bbc.com/news/science-envi... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru
Here's the thing: some of us start from the point of view that the Constitution might be bad. I know it's sacrilegious. But from there, all sorts of rulings seem like improvements on a baroque 18th century piece of paper. If you DO uphold the Constitution as being "the greatest legal document ever made" (faith-based view) then yeah all these conservative SCOTUS put-downs seem logical to restoring the US source code. It's just a piece of paper though being stretched to apply to situations unimaginable to their originators and badly need of updates.
What's stopping people from changing it?
Except TikTok is operating on behalf of an authoritarian regime with no protection for human rights, freedom of speech or thought, rule of law, separation and balance of power, or any of those quaint things.
Almost all the world doesn't care about any of that when it comes to external behaviour.
The EU is partially reining in the abuses of those companies (and more should be done), but this shouldn't be equated to TikTok and what China is doing.
FAANGs aren't state-controlled and Europeans do have access to the American market.
I think the CLOUD Acts essentially make them proxies of the state.
An all-American clone of an app like TikTok is not much better than TikTok itself imo, all things considered
There are deeper and farther-reaching issues here than competition between nation-states for information supremacy
Effects of regular use on cognition and attention span, data harvesting, pervasive advertising, etc
This affects humanity at large and the US particularly profoundly, as the US is friendlier to the most pernicious media business models than nearly anywhere else, and we are among the world's most addicted to new media
National sovereignty/security concerns are understandable and legitimate. This is a criticism many outside the US have been leveling at relentless American cultural export for decades
“American” is a granfalloon.