i.e. Helping others modify their own devices

You’re splitting hairs

Gary Bowser got fucked by Nintendo for doing shit to a device he bought. Got sentenced for nearly 4 years, now owes like $15m

Go on Elon, just another line of ket and you’ll get your revenge

Funny, we had similar in our ostensibly actually left wing party in the UK a few years ago. We have a democratic leadership process and the labour membership elected an actually left-of-centre leader

Reports followed Jeremy Corbyn’s run as leader of the party that the BlaIrite wing (centre right part of the party) did everything in their power to sabotage him.

Social liberals are almost as megalomaniac as standard conservatives, it sadly seems. If they don’t get to be in charge, no one does, in their eyes.

That’s not at all how any of this works.

The petition only makes legislators aware of the issue

They will then come to their own conclusions, through outreach and research.

There is no way in hell that any legislator just takes the words of a petition without thought or any further research.

Petitions are about numbers, not words.

The wording of the petition has zero impact on any legislation that may follow.

A petition’s purpose is literally only to alert the governing body that enough people give a shit about this that they should have a discussion about it. It has no additional power beyond that.

That discussion might end up going nowhere, it might end up convincing some politicians that maybe we need some legislation in this area. What they will then do, is talk to everyone they can about coming up with legislation that’s practical and works for everyone involved.

The wording of the petition does not matter, because it has no bearing on any subsequent action whatsoever. All a petition can do is force a conversation between politicians.

Your comment is a fantastic example of how he has muddied the waters, none of what you have said is relevant at all to the petition process.

We are not a direct democracy, legislators write legislation. Petitioners don’t.

All this guy is doing is silencing people.

From what I’ve read, his criticisms aren’t valid because this is a petition to legislate, not legislation. He seems to think the wording of the petition is important when it isn’t, the number of signatures it gets is

Best case scenario he’s got no idea what he’s talking about, worst case, he’s deliberately muddying the water.

Truly baffling that left wing policies designed to help the most people are appealing to most people

PirateSoftware thinks the status quo of only owning a license for a game, which can be revoked at any time, is a good thing that should be kept.

What kind of head injury does one need to sustain to come up with that conclusion

The amount of effort necessary doesn’t make it worth it usually

Ah you figured it out,

Was going to say if you’ve not got any alarms set, an application will be (ab)using the system alarm functionality to do something at a scheduled time

Seems a little odd for signal to use it for scheduled messages, but that’s what’s going on regardless

Sure, but it’s the valiant choice.

A truly valiant leader probably wouldn’t find themselves in the situation where it was necessary to do that

That wasn’t the question I was answering, but I’m sure very few if any

Owning your actions and taking the consequences with grace

If a dead thing would pickle, pretty much everything in the sea would end up pickled alive

Why does this look so blatantly fabricated… Is anyone buying that?

Edit: to be clear I don’t doubt Trump posted this, but even just the first line is ridiculous and it doesn’t really improve

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Murphy’s law is that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong eventually

It did potentially originate from an aerospace engineer talking about safe plane design, but the law as everyone knows it is the one above.

Finagle’s law is an extension of Murphy’s law by replacing “eventually” with “at the worst possible moment”

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