canceled a workshop about the “fragility of democracy.”

And yet I feel like I have learned something about the fragility of democracy. Curious.

It’s not about sex, it’s about power.

Oof. Thanks!

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I learn a lot about him from the fact that he apologizes to his staff but not the victims.

edit: I meant the survivors of the abuse network, sorry for not making that clearer.

It’s not about curbing the drug flow. It’s about invalidating the rule of law (and normalizing killing people).

I was using the wording of OP who seems to be talking about tokens. The service asks the trusted entity if the token is valid, the trusted entity deletes the token after the first time.

Making the certs short-lived (a few minutes) and single use and having a rate limit for users could make it difficult enough with serious risks (if you make it a crime) for little profit (I doubt many kids will pay serious amounts of money to watch porn; definetly not drug-scale amounts of money).

“Kids shouldn’t be driving cars, it isn’t safe!” Yes, but somehow we have made it 100 years without requiring proof of age/license to start the car.

Driving is a much more visible activity than looking at your phone in a locked room though.

Signups + random checks to prevent reselling accounts.

They can only subpoena your data if it is stored. Make the code open source (by law) and only store the cert, no connection to the user.

How do you prevent valid certs from being sold?

Sold by whom? The created cert can be time limited and single use, so the service couldn’t really sell them. You could rate limit how many certs users can create and obviously make it illegal to share them in order to deter people from using them. That’s not enough to prevent it completetly, but should be an improvement for the use cases I hear the most about: social media (because it reduces the network effect) and porn (because kids will at least know that they’re doing some real shady shit).

Maybe DOGGO got involved - the Department Of Gross Government Overspending.

a fascist state in its infancy

It was “refuse to leave their post” ;)

I doubt that it will stop the fascists if the good guys quit though.

“Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group.” Wikipedia (content warning - prominently displayed picture of a lynching victim)

I know the US is different than Europe, that’s why I mentioned my POV.

And I still don’t really understand it, because the numbers are really very different. Oklahoma City (without the metropolitan area) is about as big as my as my hometown Bremen. We just had protests because our chancellor-to-be collaborated with the fascist party - we were about 1500 people, with about 24 hours notice. Big protests are up to 25000-50000 people. And as you said, other protests in the US were way bigger.

So I don’t think “time for preparation” is an important factor, especially as it is not really a surprise that Trump became president and is doing shitty things. Unless protests in the US are more complicated for some reason I don’t see yet?

From an outside perspective, I would guess it’s more about work culture - people being burnt out, no protections from getting fired. This might lead to less of a protest culture culture overall maybe. Which is also weird, because the US also has seen some very well known and successful protest movements.

Bonus: current Hollwood movies always seem to make it a point that the protagonist is very much trying to not get involved. I wonder what that says about the (current) culture in the US.

Do you have any numbers? Because the numbers for the 50501 protests seem really small to me as a German.

Props to those who organize and participate of course!

Not just the economy. He’s also getting a lot of people killed, injured and traumatized.