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I propose the death penalty for politicians who propose ineffective laws.

(P.s. I'm not a politician)

Real authoritarianism is easily found in Communist countries.

You will be thrown in jail for six months for saying the wrong thing.

The surveillance harms/thread of a Chinese state owned app need to be fully explained to really make sense.

Unfortunately, going into the minutiae of app based surveillance technology would run head-on into other surveillance based tech from Facebook, Google, and so on.

And it would bring up the touchy subject of data privacy. Oh gosh, if Americans had data privacy this would impact a lot of American businesses based on surveillance tech.

So let's just accept, on good faith, that what the Democrat's portrayed as Trump's Xenophobia, was OK as a natsec issue when Biden did it (no xeno here, folks!), and now that Trump has his bargaining position it's time for "let's make a deal!" (and that Republican who stalled the initial TikTok ban has probably been a good boy this Christmas, and maybe deserves a quid pro quo gift).

It says "The following is the dedication of James Lambert a soldier of the Revolutionary wars with the Americas."

blah blah blah

Indeed, I've seen "data center" maps, and was surprised they were just a tenant in some other guys data center.

I guess we can always try to re-hire all those "Sys Admins" we thought we could live without.

LOL?

now?

You aren't familiar with Software Defined Chainsaws (SDC)s? It's all the rage.

I recommend against Rust.

I suspect it might have something to do with the prevalence of earthquakes, the likelihood of said structures being damaged in earthquakes, and building codes (I've heard) that require re-building on a regular basis.

When you build you civilization on active volcanoes having long-lasting buildings may not be a reasonable assumption.

And, yes!, they have insurance. So if you can insure buildings in volcano country, you can insure anything, anywhere, maybe?

The topic was "is the world becoming uninsurable?" with some climate-panic being implied, oh gosh.

If a country with 1/10th of the worlds seismic activity can have (earthquake) insurance, then well dammit, I think it can be done.

Insurance, afaict, is just gambling, and well darnit you can gamble on anything.

The odds might be terrible, but there's ways of hedging your bets I've heard.

I am not a gambler.

I like how despite my comment on Japan, I'm characterized as a geographically challenged American.

How about you take your stereotypes and go have a nice burger at McDonald's?

In earthquake prone areas concrete and bricks fall over. You want that in hurricane prone areas.

No matter what happens with Devin specifically, I think this is a really important topic and I enjoy reading updates on this kind of review every time.

Please keep them coming.