Ah, yes, let's make the already illegal thing even more illegal. As if that ever stopped anyone...
valaramech
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Kurzgesagt made a video that I think is related to this. I found it rather enlightening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0
I use uMatrix (uBlock's big brother), so sites that do this generally lose first-party JS privileges real fast.
Have you met these people IRL or online? Most of the people I've met online do fall into one of those two buckets, but almost nobody I've met IRL does.
I would assume this is selection bias before attributing it to some other thing. The kinds of circles you run in are going to heavily affect this.
I read a decent rebuttal to the "paradox" of tolerance. To summarize for those that don't know, the idea is that tolerance is a social contract. You tolerate everyone that's behaving according to the contract. Refusing to tolerate someone that has broken the contract isn't a violation of the contract; it's required in order to enforce the contract.
You break the rules, you lose the protections. Simple as.
Sure, but now they can insinuate that China did it intentionally and get people real mad over bullshit to keep them distracted from other things. Maybe also to get their base behind the tariffs against China so they can then turn around and say that the price increases aren't the tariffs but Chinese retaliation against the tariffs.
people who like Chicago deep dish are wrong
[Chicago will remember that]
NASA gives SpaceX fat government paychecks. He doesn't want anything to happen to them.
The 22nd amendment to the US Constitution bars Trump as a viable candidate for the Office of the President. It would require an additional amendment to be possible and there's no way that 3/4ths of all US states will agree to that shit.
The only potential loophole that I can discern is that there's no clear consensus on if Trump would be allowed to run as Vice-President on someone else's ticket. If he can, then, theoretically, he could run for VP and then have the elected President immediately resign, making him the President again.
We've actually discovered a few of these! Though, nothing quite so catastrophic as you might be thinking.
My understanding is that running most of BlueSky is possible on small to moderate hardware. However, running all of BlueSky requires basically cloning 100% of all the content on BlueSky (which, as of Nov 2024, was ~5 TB).
So, like, yes, one can run part of BlueSky or a clone of BlueSky which has none of the main instance's user's content without much trouble, but actually running an entire BlueSky stack is eventually going to become cost prohibitive.
I found this write-up to be enlightening on the subject.