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I haven't looked at technical proposals or anything, but I'll bet that they will propose the equivalent to the Google Play Integrity.

Your anticheat software won't work unless you are booting Windows from supported hardware with a working TPM2 module and an unmodified kernel signed by Microsoft.

It is necessary to recognize the tipping point where working with the system is no longer a useful way to save the system. I vehemently disagreed when those fucking tankies refused to campaign and vote for Harris based on that logic, but now that point is passed.

There are plenty of things you can do, but they no longer have to do with electoral campaigning and a lot of those will be steadily made illegal.

Being vocal against the pedo elites is one of those things. Fascism thrives on unearned legitimacy and this is a threat to that. Keep your neighbors angry, keep pointing out that the emperor has no clothes and that he's not-so-secretly fucking children.

Ranked-choice voting is a decent choice for uninominal elections.

Proportional elections are a popular alternative, and they are arguably fairer than even RCV because they are not susceptible to gerrymandering or votes otherwise being weighted by geography (i.e. your vote still matters just as much as anyone's if you live in Redneckville, Mississippi). They do have other downsides though.

Unfortunately here in Belgium we do proportional voting and the Prime Minister is nonetheless a far-right separatist in charge of a right-wing coalition so, uh, maybe FPTP is not the only thing that stands between the citizenry and a communist utopia lol

Usually it's because some chucklefuck put SSO in the requirements so now everyone has to suffer so that SSO users get their redirect before being shown a password field.

Sometimes though it's an absolutely braindead web designer who definitely doesn't have SSO as a requirement but has no idea what he's doing and is just doing the mr-bean-cheating-on-a-test.gif and copying their Microsoft login form.

"Regular" SDDs can only be done within 5 business days apparently. Not that I would know, my bank certainly doesn't offer a magic money back button to their private customers, and as I remember it my contract only allows transaction reversal in case of identity fraud, basically.

As far as I can tell, SDDs are a B2B-oriented tool that can only be initiated in particular circumstances such as a merchant being unable to fulfill an order altogether – i.e. when the legal case for a breach of contract is so unambiguous that it isn't worth either party's time to go to court. That's very different from the American thinking of "my hotel room wasn't as clean as I like it so I'm going to do a chargeback because that's my Visa-given right".

Eeeeeh. I mean sure, we do have stricter requirements, but not nearly as much as fantasized by Americans. My grandpa still has a license that he got where the whole test was saying "I solemnly swear that I can drive". Here in Belgium the country is extremely car-dependent so license suspensions are actually vanishingly rare, requiring you to get caught red-handed more than 40 km/h above the speed limit (50 in practice due to radar correction), and even then the suspension is only temporary; I have never heard of anyone who lost theirs permanently. Most people here do consider driving to be a right. Until a few short years ago temporary license suspensions could even be scheduled only on weekends and holidays!

Another angle to see this problem: I see Dutch people driving in Belgium daily. And they're absolute menaces. But they're so chill when they drive in Holland! What gives? Well most roads around here have more in common with American roads than Dutch ones... Give a dutchie in a BMW a wide straight line and he will do 75 km/h in a school zone without a second thought before changing lanes without signalling, then barrel through a roundabout while ignoring right-of-way. They aren't better drivers, they just have such good road infrastructure that forces them to drive one very specific way: slowly and carefully.

It's multifactorial. Cities like Helsinki and Amsterdam are poster children, but Europe also has plenty of areas (especially suburbs) that are as car-dependent as equivalent US cities.

However traffic deaths remain much lower than in the US thanks to less idiotically-designed streets.

Step 0, by far the biggest impact-to-cost ratio, is narrow the damn streets. Take the biggest road-legal vehicle allowed on that street, mark down the path of travel, and put some plastic bollards a few inches on either side. Watch as everybody instinctively slows down even though the flow of traffic is not even impeded or redirected in any way. This policy - by itself - doesn't even reduce car dependence! If you do it as part of the regular road repair schedule, it's literally free.

America's wide-ass roads constantly astound me with their profound stupidity. There's literally no tangible gain, and so many downsides to public safety. I understand (though I strongly disagree with) the usual refrains for why the US is car-centric, but making streets too wide is simply inexcusable and unconscionable.

What Americans tend to refer to as "fraud protection" is charge back policies, where the payment processor acts as Content Police and revert transactions if they hear the vendor was unfair to their customer (and they usually are on the side of the customer).

My EU bank won't do that even on my credit card, because it's insane that one would expect a financial institution to be judge, jury, and executioner in the case of a disagreement over legal services rendered.

Americans have to own up to the uncomfortable fact that dependence on these policies is what keeps the big credit cars companies in power, on top of severely driving up consumer prices (unfairly weighted towards the rich of course who get cashbacks thanks to the obscene money Visa makes on their enormous transaction fees) and being incredibly unfair to small vendors who don't have the means to meaningfully dispute fraudulent chargebacks.

That is... not the threat that you think it is.

I highly recommend watching Fantasies of Nuremberg. Be warned, it is extremely heavy to watch. But it is absolutely essential framing to keep in mind when talking about Genocide.

People on the more spiritual side of things thought that being photographed meant trapping a part of your soul into the camera. It was a more existential creation than we give it credit for. Before then, nobody had ever stopped time.

A computer-generated "Van Gogh" is not art any more than a mass-produced coffee mug is artisanal, no matter how "realistic".

This has all happened before. Take photography. People thought it was the end of visual art. If anyone can take a photograph, why would anyone spend years learning to paint?

Artists answered by pushing the medium beyond the limits of realism. Impressionism. This did not make photographs go away. But when I see a picture of someone's cat, I don't usually go "art!" – even though 200 years ago the mere existence of a photorealistic picture would have implied very impressive artistry.

The work that clankers are very quickly taking over is that which does not require art. Visual filler. Lorem ipsum. Corporate communications. Out with artisans, in with industrial machinery. This is the same story that has already happened to almost every artisanal trade, from scribery to pottery to smithing. Visual artists and writers thought themselves exempt from the industrial revolution; they aren't. It will be a worsening socio-economic crisis. But it won't "end" art. Clankers definitionally cannot, and will never do art. Not until they gain a conscience of their own.

Furthermore, appliances compatible with Type F are almost always compatible with Type E as well, it's just a matter of including both grounding mechanisms which they all do to avoid designing multiple cords.

I haven't yet visited the UK so the only time I've had trouble plugging in something in Europe is in shudders Italy.