I’d rather treat them like a threat and automatically cap the size of a company at a percentage of a nation’s GDP (not a big one either), break up any that exceed it and change the penalties for financial crimes to also be percentage of gross revenue for the company and its executives.

Treating them like states invites them to declare sovereignty, which they do not deserve.

Fentanyl is a WMD… Weren’t they upset at us not too long ago for “all of the fentanyl” coming from Canada?

Are they gonna free the shit out of us now with their flimsy legal justification? Guess we’re all going to find out!

Building off this, the last time I remember anyone being a copywriter at a software company I’d worked for was IBM in 2015.

They simply expected the developers to write the documentation. Strangely, this actually worked some of the time, but is usually why modern docs are cobbled together and half-finished, or omitted entirely.

Say what you will about AI being used in this way, but it’s still fuckloads better than the current trend of putting everything on fucking Discord jfc whyyyyy

How long before a new government amends it again to strike the Criminal Code exception?

These people think we won’t do anything about their bullshit, and they can’t wait to call us all Convites if we show up in Ottawa to protest.

I think it’s time for a general strike, regardless of whether or not they back down. This won’t stop until we show them where it leads.

The speed is slower but the slope is slippery all the same.

Beware the fallacy fallacy.

What makes you think it will stop there? Once the groundwork has been laid for this framework, all they need to do is roll out v2 which requires a little more from the user, etc.

Most servers won’t check this bit at first because they don’t need to or care, but once the technology is in place, it won’t be long before legislation mandating the checking of that bit begins to roll out affecting industries and providers that deal in topics and goods deemed to be bad for the children (it won’t stop at porn).

Once that happens, minors will learn ways around the check (or parents will be lazy and give their kids access to adult logins, etc), and the “need” to enact stronger checks will be pushed for and…

Put all of it together and you’re heading towards an Internet without anonymity in a couple of decades.

Any sort of hardware attestation that non-trivially identifies a person to verify their age is going to be used to track and exploit people.

Anything less than that isn’t going to be effective for the supposed purpose.

The moment we need photo ID or government issued keys to access computer systems, things will get a lot more ugly real fast.

The IKEA chest rig really completes the look.

Cyberpunk without the cool implants.

Last time I had a sandwich from Tim Hortons, my farts smelled like egg replacer the next morning. There was no egg on the sandwich.

The Bethesda Model™

Relatively speaking, research suggests Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms hinders its security services from being able to detect and investigate terrorism-related offences given the greater importance placed on individual rights compared to Australia, where there is no such Charter equivalent.

Wow. Let’s change the Charter to fight terrorism, everyone! We don’t need guaranteed rights and freedoms, they just get in the way of keeping us safe!

Doing more risk assessment and planning to prevent this kind of thing doesn’t require stripping citizens of their protection from government overreach. Sneaking this in there feels like someone astroturfing for Bill C-2.

I legitimately am never going back to disposables. It’s awesome, and I’ve never cut myself with it. I 3d printed a used blade box to put the old blades in which solves the only problem with them.

I’ve tried other safety razors in the past with no luck, so I’m glad this one works as advertised.

They’re only doing it cause almost no one wants to pay for the news.

Then again, so many of them make it painful; I bought a sub to the Guardian a few years back and my reward for that was to get even more popups telling me to subscribe to additional features.

Naturally, to cancel it, you have to call someone in the UK during their business hours.

That’s why all these megarich assholes own newspapers and media companies; it’s a cheap way to establish narrative control and kill off independent media.

I stopped buying nectarines and other Israeli produce; I have no idea if it’s being grown in occupied soil.

Unfortunately, I think you’re right. As long as property can be owned indefinitely with inconsequential payments into the system (property tax), the race to own useful land will be the last chance for people to establish their own rent-seeking behaviour.

Eventually, the bottom of the pyramid gets crushed or gives up trying to hold the rest of it up. Guess we’ll find out soon enough :(

I’ll admit that nothing I’ve come up with was something I couldn’t immediately poke gaping holes in.

The problem with any economic system is that there are always weaknesses that knowledgable people can exploit if they’re not concerned with those who are hurt by the strain that exploitation adds to that system. Ultimately, the battle is the attempt to impart a near-universal understanding of the negatives and positives of greed and how to best control it to our mutual benefit.

Capitalism is failing in this goal because it requires the promise of endless growth, but can’t meet this promise in the physical world, so now it must grow in the virtual/abstract sense. People’s control over their own lives and their access to society are quickly becoming a tiered subscription, instead of a goal we work towards of our own volition.

Cynical capitalists might argue that this was always the case, but it was previously a consequence of a natural system instead of one engineered by an “owner class” to extract value for a select few that don’t have to participate to enjoy the rewards. Once we had passed the tipping point in which new businesses rarely grow to match existing mega-firms before being bought or crushed, we had essentially locked in the next generation of nobility.

Really, we should be doing what we did in the beginning of the previous century; tax the hell out of the rich and get capital moving again (this, of course, solves nothing long-term).

You’re not woefully ignorant, you’re correct.

This is the thing people keep missing with those prior experiments; their limited nature insulated from the negative consequences of the devaluation of money because neighbouring communities were meta-stable under the current strategy.

The second we have universal basic income, money will devalue until the significance of that money essentially trends towards zero in terms of impact.

In other words, we’ll make the “free” money worthless, which will cause hyperinflation or require extreme market controls that traditionally haven’t done much but stifle economic activity.

You never play a game using someone else’s rules. You either change the rules or change the game.

Telegraphed?