Some of those are absurdly strong. I have wild grapes in my yard that got ahold of an old clothesline with 6 lines across it. Now I didn’t use said line so figured just let it be to feed the birds and such. Turns out it got thick enough that one winter when a particularly heavy snow came through the weight of the snow on the vine mat was enough to bend in the poles that are a good 3 inches thick.

For those willing to do a bit of CLI work there are even tools to pull your whole library automagically. Just make sure you got the space for it. Sitting at just over 1.5 TB here.

https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

I wonder just how far down the road they think they’ll get. The ‘little free libraries’ and ebooks, legal or less than, would be near impossible for them to push this show onto.

Information will be free, like it or not the stories will be told and you can’t do a damn thing about it.

Extension cord for this maybe?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_killer

The whole concept of corporations as distinct eternal entities could use a reworking. From copyright, to liability, to corporate ‘speech’, it all shields to interests of the well heeled from responsibility for their actions. Some level of separation from an individual is needed or no small business would ever date take the risk of starting up, but at a certain point somebody needs to own the actions of it. How we define that is beyond me, but for now I’d take removing non-breathing entities from the voting pool and political funding as a start.

They as a candidate don’t, the campaign as a whole is important to support though. Particularly if it can be shown that the funds come from small doners it shows popular support. I would rather see a crowd funded candidate with millions of $5 donations than a handful of super-pacs funneling dark money into it. It’s exactly the kind of problem that citizens United caused that we need to revert to show the popular will of the people.

In my state you can take a class that gets a special marker put on your driver license forever (took it when I was maybe 10 and it’s marked today) but so far as I gather it’s just some sort of trophy badge rather than having any function. Even something like that as a pre-req wouldn’t be a bad start when the baseline now is just don’t be a felon.

There are some use cases other than web page compatibility. One for me is in dealing with firewall and proxy policy, if the agent is a browser and comes in on specified explicit ports then force authentication, things of that nature.

Or one could view it as regardless of efforts at future prevention, we still need to pick up from the past. If we stopped every scrap of plastic in production today that pile of junk would still be floating about for the next millennia.

Then when the 5th largest economy in the world decides they don’t feel like playing with you anymore you get to find out what a budget deficit really means.

He knows just how badly she was able to pull his strings and play him like a puppet. Time and time again. The bit with poking at his rallys was priceless to see.

It’s tough to fathom the people who bite at his bullshit. So much of it is plainly made up on the spot with no connection to reality, how does that not bother someone to the point where you might question giving this person executive authority…

I’m pretty sure they’re just trying to boost the classic car market and spur on innovation by opening the door for new competitors that respect their customers privacy and wishes. Why else would they do something this half-brained?

You get a full podium sweep, gotta do some acrobatics to be on all the spots for the pics though.

People have done that for ages. Pic taken of the screen with another device, try and block that now. Basic rule, if you send it out assume it’s no longer private.

Doe strawberries fit that too? So far that’s the only one I’ve tried and got a similar result.

At some point they should start requiring a commercial license for some of those over the top trucks.

I’m going to try one more time here…

Nobody said ‘deny’ at any point in this exchange. The OP said mandatory/compulsory, aka force them to do so.

Deny and compel are NOT the same thing, they are in fact functionally the opposite each other.

What point is there to compel someone who self-selects as lacking in knowledge/interest in the process. You waste time and resources for the voter, the process administrators, enforcement personnel, everyone any anyone involved including the willing and eager participants by creating longer lines and a wasting their tax funds just to satisfy a mandate by having Cleatus write ‘fuck you’ on a ballot.

If that is too complicated to understand I can’t help you.

One of the few places it could be posted on Lemmy without being down voted to the abyss, but only because it can’t be.

No, it’s not. Forcing someone who is not knowledgeable or interested to vote is in no way the same as testing whether someone is educated to determine if they should be allowed to.