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Cake day: 2023年12月18日

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  • Serving Ohio’s 9th since 1983

    That’s 43 years and 22 elections.

    This should have been the year we dusted off the shelves and sent these relics to the pasture.

    I keep seeing these headlines about how badly the Republicans are going to lose, and I’m not so sure. It seems like the progressive voter base is growing and it’s getting a lot harder to vote blue no matter who. Seems like this dinosaur would probably even support some of Trump’s policies.

    I don’t like my representative choice in November, she’s definitely not going to cosponsor anything further than left of center. But I’ll probably still hold my nose and vote for her and double down next cycle to get a progressive on the ballot.




  • There was no both sides there. Only a well thought out condemnation of establishment Democrats who are too weak and way too enriched.

    And test they do good things occasionally. They act as a barrier to some of the worst things the others try to do. But they don’t break shit.

    You said it, it’s a lot easier to break than to fix. And if we get over trying to fix everything and start building in the ruins instead of trying to put Humpty back together, we just might achieve modern progress. Stop thinking that everything must be a certain way, start asking what it could be.















  • This might be the most anemic open ended bill I have ever read. On its face, it has no teeth. The most well defined portions of the bill are to make sure that applications have access to age data. Making this look more like a way for corporations to gather data and verify real people as opposed to online personas.

    There is zero regulation actually defined and instead they have a 180 day period to define the regulation and a year for it to be contacted and implemented. The bill could pass tomorrow and we still wouldn’t know what age verification looks like.

    As scary as these efforts are, they are also a bit humorous to me. By and large software exists independently of its creator, especially in the FOSS space. There would be no way to require an individual to install an OS that supported this or even use an updated browser that supported it.

    Ultimately, the only way to really enforce any sort of age verification system is to force all content providers to have an age verification step. This presents as OS level, but you have to give people a reason to upgrade in order to implement. If Wikipedia suddenly required some sort of OS based age verification protocol to access its content, it would become a lot harder to avoid.

    They are putting this at the OS level, but I think this is a way to back into removing anonymous access to the Internet.