That’s what I was getting at, I was trying to understand the mechanism by which they were doing this

When they say access to social media on smartphones does that mean restricting connectivity to certain sites on devices using mobile IP addresses?

I assume they have no mechanism to remove apps from individual devices.

Interesting idea. Sometimes it’s easier to act and come up with something first, then ask other people to join later.

I really want this to move the needle, please!

I don’t care what Shrek thinks

Sorry friend, but if someone is asking a question, telling them to read about it rather than provide the meat of the answer doesn’t seem too helpful.

You’re under no obligation to explain anything to anyone, but if you’re going to take the time to respond why not elaborate?

I don’t get my hair cut that frequently, but to each their own. This was downvoted to zero when I found it, I like to imagine one of the “six months” or “never” guys were responsible.

Yeah, I used to go to a place where they’d schedule me out based on three weeks, which I liked better, but now this new place leaves it to me to remember and schedule myself. I don’t remember, so it’s closer to 4-5 weeks.

I don’t generally think “we already know” is a useful response to a news story. Just because you already know doesn’t mean there isn’t a wide audience who is being exposed to information for the first time.

Specifically for Kirk, I remember mentioning him to my wife a week beforehand and she didn’t know who he was.

Now that he’s dead, MAGA people are trying to make him into a martyr who was such a great guy. It’s helpful to have countering voices saying loudly, no he was not.

I get that things are concerning and stressful right now, but read the thing and think about it - they have to actually commit a criminal act to get arrested. He’s trying to head them off from doing it before it happens. The governor of California didn’t say something like this, but the governor of Illinois is saying it.

They have to commit the crimes before you can arrest them. He’s saying if you do get deployed in Chicago don’t fuck around or we’ll hold you accountable. Yeah, have to actually see follow through, but this is more of a warning shot

You’re right it’s bad that they shut down. Does make me wonder about the use of “traitors” since I don’t think tiktok could ever have been considered on the side of the people.

I hope these events result in better lives for Indonesians.

Yeah most children I know accept the police escort over detainment

So in this system, would all citizens have to vote on a bill in order for it to become law? How would it be determined that a law is valid/good enough to be brought up for a vote? You could imagine thousands of proposed bills each year. And certainly most citizens wouldn’t pay the kind of attention you’d hope would be given to legislation affecting the entire nation, even if it was only a hundred bills.

I do like the idea of a referendum, where if you get enough signatures then it goes up for vote to the entire electorate. But I think that needs to be in tandem with professional legislators.

Thanks for your reply. I’m still having a hard time understanding how it would work. Say for example that there needs to be a new law. How would it get written, and then how is it passed?

When you say direct democracy what do you envision?

I’m all for that where practical, but the complexity of the necessary tasks and knowledge of issues quickly exceeds what people can realistically keep track of. Governing and legislating needs to be a full time job I think.

It’s not just the US. It’s pretty much every country with a high standard of living.

Right, but we could have the same number of people while being ecologically sustainable. The problem seems like more one of distribution and technology, not total number of people. And besides, what’s the alternative? So I think it’s ok to say it’s a good thing the population outlook is downward while recognizing we’ve still got problems

I could be mistaken but based on recent demographic trends I don’t think people are talking about overpopulation much these days. Seems to be a trend that industrialized countries population goes down. China is looking at falling below replacement rate. Of course there’s the argument that we already have too many people, but if everyone starts going down then hey problem solved

Yeah, Germany has a sort of mix of single transferrable vote and proportional representation. I’m jealous!