For the Gulf of Mexico they changed it to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" for Canadian traffic, I can't imagine they take the same approach for this.
Stop believing that nothing matters, stop believing the propaganda that leads to empty cynicism and learned helplessness. The only reason we are where we are is because of who stepped up and who stayed home.
You make it sound as if Trump was the only choice, but there was an alternative to Trump on the ticket. Biden's age isn't the reason Americans voted for Trump, and it isn't the reason Americans didn't vote for Kamala Harris.
Stronger punishments? Probably not, but better enforcement? I believe so.
It has repeatedly been shown that the severity of punishment does not sway crime nearly as much as the certainty of punishment does [1]. This all feels like a byproduct of the hyper-individualism we have in the West and the US, especially.
Indeed. Wasn't there a study where a policeman stationed on a street corner decreased crime or something even if he was just standing there doing nothing? Like a scarecrow effect.
Of course people will come out and scream Gestapo! And talk about their freedoms, but are the only two choices in life complete anarchy and a police state? Can't we live somewhere in the middle like a reasonable society? It's really just slippery slope fallacies all the time like either we don't police at all or do north korea style surveillance.
Also the demonization of police, the need is to have better police, not no police! It's just absurd what people come up with, it's so unreasonable yet these ideas gain such a large following.
there are police booths on many street corners in urban areas of china. they're very common, and people don't act afraid of them. the most common interaction you see is people asking them for directions
Sorry I don't understand your reply. Are you agreeing with me? The police booth is not to make you afraid. The idea is that it would deter pickpockets and other petty crime just by being there, regardless of whether the booth was meant to do so or not. Yes it could just be a almost retired security guard inside giving out directions but that would still work better than nothing at all.
I like Tailscale, but it's difficult to argue with a straight face that it's not seriously suffered from product creep.
This is the inherent problem with tech start-ups. Once they solve the problem they were founded to solve, then what? It's feature complete, but investors insist that the line must go up. Can you imagine if `sed` or `vim` was brought to market by a venture-backed company?
IMHO, capitalism and FOSS are fundamentally incompatible.
To be fair to tailscale, I think all the feature creep is stuff that enterprises actually need to have solved. Without it it’s a product that 99% of users would just use free tier and never pay a dime for.
Perhaps it would have been better to split the product into a simple consumer thing and then a separate enterprise product suite.
That’s [part of] what regulatory frameworks are supposed to accomplish: minimize and compensate for capitalism’s excesses. A free market can do a lot of very impressive things with surprising efficiency, but it fails on a number of things societies value, FOSS included.
IMHO, there should be more robust publicly funded support for license enforcement, facilitated access to forming charitable/non-profit organizations, subsidized grants/loans, and something akin to the Public Broadcasting Service, but for the internet. Sort of like a national intranet, with federated social media, web archives, public service portals, email, digital asset storage, and software development and distribution resources.
But that’s just my democratic socialist head-canon. No doubt such a system would be incredibly difficult to implement, and come with any number of unintended consequences that, for the purposes of this discussion, I chose to ignore. It’s also worth noting that there are several of those things in the USA’s federal government already: you can find open source software repositories for a number of federal agencies, like NASA and the NSA (which includes several fun projects).
That's comforting to hear. I can't remember the last time I've used one of these, but the map says there is one just north of my house, so maybe I'll make the trip soon.
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