Not-so-fun fact: Surveillance drones, that we know of, go back as far as the Vietnam War.

The first UAV attacks date back to the middle of the 1800’s.

100%, grade-A, unadulterated, unfiltered, pure, angelic talent right there.

Went to turn it off.

Apparently I already did. Marvelous.

It’s never going to be legalized because it makes both ruling parties so much money. Based off the Roe repeal leak alone the Democrats pulled in $80,000,000 in donations. (Donations that they can legally pocket by loaning their campaigns money at 20% interest.)

And you can’t expect capitalists to kill a golden goose.

I know it doesn’t matter, but after all I’ve read about Nintendo and the Switch 2 in the last year?

Fuck 'em. I’m going to get a Steam Deck or a Lenovo handheld, and I’ll just enjoy the Nintendo products I already have. I’m not spending a small fortune on a console that they can brick remotely, or force me to buy a $50 proprietary charger for, or a “virtual game cartridge”.

Fuck all of that bullshit.

The irony is that one of the few things the USA does better than other countries is disability accommodation. (At least for now.)

You’re right.

And the big social media platforms will censor any information about it. We already saw with January 6th that Americans are perfectly happy to just ignore what they can see with their own two eyes, so I suspect, it won’t be too heavy a lift for them to step over dead bodies in the streets as long as the smell isn’t too much.

I try to make it a point not to use the word ‘detention’ since it’s so purposefully sanitized.

I’ll add it to my list. Thank you for the recommendation.

You’re not wrong.

Having read a lot of history on the subject, the hope I do have is in the thousands who resisted the Nazis and Russians in small ways. Most of their names are forgotten (or fake, as is the way with resistance), but their stories survived because many of the people they helped told those stories after the war. Not everyone can be a Schindler or a Winton, but there are going to be more than a few who find a way to help people where needed as things get worse.

Sadly, yes.

I think here in the States we’re a 9/11-style event away from happily embracing totalitarianism.

I’m currently reading Hitler’s First Victims and while I knew Nazism was gaining power in the early 1930’s, I didn’t actually know that the systemic murder of Jews began this early, nor that anyone in the legal apparatus at the time tried to stop it, so this was heartening in a way even though they didn’t ultimately succeed.

There are a lot of parallels with what’s happening now under Donald Trump, particularly the intentional destruction of the rule of law, which made the establishment of Dachau and the kidnapping indefinite imprisonment and murder of Jewish political prisoners possible.

Jesus.

Yeah, sounds wild, until you realize that the police are a civic religion and the Federal Government 100% supports this kind of activity. Hell, everyone involved in Uvalde got reelected.

This app sounds exceedingly useful to me.

Not sure if he pushed the original measure but he was definitely instrumental in the compromise they attempted to insert into it.

That vote tally, though.

Totally, and the deal’s going to happen in two weeks. Definitely two weeks.

it becomes a form of censorship when snall websites and forums shut down because they don’t have the capacity to comply.

In this scenario that’s not a consideration.

We’re talking about algorithmically-driven content, which wouldn’t apply to Lemmy, Mastodon, or many mom-and-pop sized pages and forums. Those have human moderation anyway, which the big sites don’t. If you’re making editorial decisions by weighting algorithmically-driven content, it’s not censorship to hold you accountable for the consequences of your editorial decisions. (Just as we would any major media outlet.)

Getting weird is why we love Bioshock so much.