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Same as the current labeling/moderation service: any participant can verify any other participant. Which verifiers gets a check to appear is a property of the AppView.

If Bluesky becomes evil, you just configure your AppView not to trust their verifications.

Of course, that's the problem: right now we mostly have one AppView (bsky.app), which is the current SPOF in the mitigation plan against the "Bsky becomes the baddies" scenario.

No need for the monospaced requirement - it would reduce the search space, but it's solvable even before this reduction.

It won’t come back, as it never were in the US.

It also puts more tax burden on the less wealthy. Sales tax is regressive; income tax is progressive.

But yes, that’s exactly why the American right makes taxation so cumbersome and horrible: to make people think that taxes are bad, as there’s this assumption you can have civilization without paying for it.

> Hey has been doing great business with an only-paid model.

[citation needed]

Assuming you speak English.

All smoke alarms have expiration dates. Mostly due to the isotopes used in them, which decay.

The alarms themselves should be able to work even without network connection, but you won't get to use any of the connected features, loosing all the "smarts" that they charged about $100 premium over other smoke alarms for.

It seems the current plan is to let the device reach their use by date before they shut off the servers, but Google being Google, who knows if they won't change their mind and decide to shut off the server before that.

Can't wait for the Monday issue of Matt Levine's newsletter.

I don't believe it has to be said: It's not about product, it's about manipulating the balance sheet.

The problem is the camps. It's forces framing certain traits as something that requires exiling people who show them.

He has no heart. He is cruel, as he subscribes to the idea that a disease isn’t something you get because you rolled the dice wrong, but something that can be avoided by being “pure”. For him, pure health is never systematic or unlucky; the person is at fault.

This is not only immoral and vile, but borders on the psychopathic. The man should have never been allowed to make any decision affecting public health.

Not if you know how militaries and intelligence agencies are run.

This is a wild exaggeration - very few people are a good fit for serving in a military, and while the Israeli army ignores that, and drafts many it shouldn't (resulting in high suicide rates on one hand, and alleged war crimes on the other), it still only drafts ~69% of AMAB and 55% AFAB.

It does gives free technical education and experience for some recruits (not necessarily the top, and that experience isn't always teh best), but of course that affects tech employment - you'd see higher rates of service across tech employees, as that service gave them a jump start on their tech education.

That said, even if the Israeli military decides to draft a person, that person can stand up and refuse. It ain't "free" (may result in imprisonment,) but it's a choice that even if too few make, it is one, and making it is a strong signal about what kind of person they are.