Because it’s misinfo to reduce people bringing food to the pool. Same with the pee indicator thing… Someone must’ve been on a crusade

But the cramps thing just isn’t true. Light exercise like a walk or casually swimming is great

Why are you taking a Republican senator at his word?

They’re lying. They don’t know how this would actually play out, no one does

It doesn’t matter what they say today… They’re going to immediately push this as far as they can if it gets through. They operate in bad faith, every time

And maybe you’re right and that’s how it does play out… But this is a play that ends democracy if we lose.

And let me remind you, they literally just argued in the supreme Court to do basically what I’m describing

The bond is meant to pay for damages of the lawsuit if it goes forward

Can judges set it to $1? Maybe. Or maybe that’s grounds to have a mistrial, or lodge a complaint against the judge. Maybe it becomes another step in every lawsuit against the government - where both parties try to get the judge to nail down a cash value

Or maybe, they can’t. What is the process of doing this? When is appropriate to take a bond, and when is it not?

This administration will stretch the law as far as they can. Maybe the judiciary can win this fight, maybe the administration can use this as another shield.

This is entirely legal theory - it’s not even law yet. No one knows how it would shake out. We have to read laws with the worst possible interpretation, because that’s how the administration is going to play any card you give them

Yes yes, we’re on the worst timeline. That’s no excuse for mockery

I loved how he kept calling people up to congratulate for records, and he’d let them speak and they all said “I love my friends” and stepped down. You could see him taken aback, like he thought they were going to glaze him

It was also wild to see him start out giving a normal commencement speech… Then suddenly it was like the meds wore off, he froze for a second, and he just started doing his normal rants. And that was like a quarter of the way in

Oh, I’m not saying it’s not horrible and not a terrible part of the bill…I think you what you laid out is pretty close to what they intend to do

But I’m still saying, this doesn’t even matter. Literally, one of the buried clauses let’s the government blatantly ignore the courts, which means they get to blatantly ignore the law

If they pass contempt clause, the federal courts lose all power over the executive. It even cuts the path to getting the supreme Court to hear cases on unconstitutionality

This literally just doesn’t matter, because the brown shirts could do whatever they want, and the states would have no mechanism to stop them anyways

This literally doesn’t even matter. This bill is so much worse than that

There’s a clause making it so judges can’t enforce contempt charges against the federal government. The executive branch will literally be above the law… There’s nothing the courts could do to enforce it

Don’t get distracted, there’s 1k pages of terrible bullshit, but this is literally democracy ending

Wokeness is what keeps them in the air, which is why they’re falling out of it now

I do find it interesting…I don’t think it addresses the problem, but it sounds like a great idea

Realistically, how much are companies going to pay out in royalties? As little as they can get away with

Let’s say it’s 2% of a game that made $100M - you’re looking at tens of thousands each when it’s all split up. Which is great, maybe even life changing for some of them, but it’s not financial security kind of money

And then let’s say the game flops or gets cancelled… Well that’s not going to help much, so you can’t really rely on it

So I think the idea is great, but it’s still just fiddling with the knobs of capitalism

Who gives a fuck about that, it’s tied to making the executive branch immune to contempt charges for ignoring the courts, retroactively no less

And it has a soft abortion ban (and maybe birth control too?) by banning any health plan that gets government assistance from providing it

And then there’s weird shit… Like indoor tanning is getting a tax cut, as well as gun silencers

Also, there’s the stuff on the label… Stripping food and medical care from the most vulnerable people. Which also fucks over farmers, because food stamps are a farming subsidy

This whole bill is really, really bad

Of course - they certainly have to be replaced.

That’s what the struggle over the dnc vice chair position is about - someone won who wants to use funds to primary representatives “asleep at the wheel”, so they’re pulling out procedural reasons to redo it

There’s a plan… It’s not a sure thing, but it’s building a lot of momentum

People don’t know what socialism is…Most people’s understanding of socialism includes the government doing basically anything

What people want is free healthcare, affordable housing, tax the rich. We just need to double down on that populist messaging - and when they cry out “that’s socialism” we have to stop trying to run from it

Tax the rich. How are we going to pay back our deficit? Tax the rich. Why does everything suck? Because we haven’t taxed the rich. What are we going to do in office? Tax the rich. Isn’t that socialism? Who cares, tax the rich.

Harris lost by a razor thin margin, and there’s legitimate concerns that they cheated (more directly than usual). They lost because they tried to ease up her messaging to avoid alienating the people who were always going to vote for Trump

We need to rally around what everyone wants - free healthcare, affordable housing, tax the rich to do it. Just chant that over and over. Anyone who does that is going to win

No, we don’t have time for that. We just have to do a tea party on the Democratic party… Which is what she’s been doing

They do have to go, but we’re keeping the house and the dog

Well… Yeah, that’s why we’re taking it over. What do you think all the tours and rallies are for? The fight is on, actual progressives and opportunity chasers are positioning themselves for it… It’s happening

It’s tea party time

You say what project they’ll be transitioning to as less and less bug fixes are necessary. Could even be dlc

Yeah, it takes longer

It’ll be a bit late then.

I know how compliance works, and this is setting off all my alarm bells, and the EFF and privacy community agrees… This has truly horrifying implications

If you’re going to let human rights be further erroded because it came in a pretty explanation, not much I can do. But when the next patriot act comes back to bite us, remember one thing… When they say it’s about the children, it never is

That’s what they say it does. What it really does is make sites responsible for “harmful content” shown to minors

It’s all completely vague. You say it just affects the kids mode accounts… The bill doesn’t say anything about that. It doesn’t provide any guidance on how to properly comply, just like the porn id laws.

You can’t assume the government is going to use this for what they say they will. You have to look at what this would let them do as written

Ultimately, this gives the government censorship powers over what is allowed in the “open” Internet, and to IDs users in the “adult” Internet

Because that’s not what this is. It’s just like the porn site laws

How does a site comply? Maybe they use AI to look at your face, maybe they have you send in your license. The law isn’t clear what’s enough to prove it.

How long until third parties step up? Nice convenient orgs that can sell the collected data that can guarantee compliance, because they sell the data to the government directly. Or even first parties… Facebook and Google are happy to sell this kind of info on their users

This isn’t about protecting kids, it’s about identifying users. What they say this is for is good, what the laws actually do is far removed from that