Thanks

You have sources for this?

Vous avez beau ne pas vous occuper de politique, la politique s’occupe de vous tout de même

(You might not care about politics, politics will take care of you nonetheless)

I might be mistaken, but I don’t think a government can force it’s citizens to have a phone. There has to be a way to pay your taxes, buy stuff, etc that doesn’t rely on you having a phone. Paper money still exists after all.

It might be possible to live disconnected rather than giving away your privacy. You’ll have to say goodbye to social media, but I don’t see it as a bad thing.

In 1936, Roosevelt was elected despite millionaires pouring money into Hoover’s campaign.

Voting is important.

https://www.americanheritage.com/1936-fifty-years-ago-2

I guess some people believe the US can become a social democrat country the day after the next midterms, and won’t settle for less than perfect candidates.

I’ve said this elsewhere, but if the left is so obsessed with purity tests, fascism will win. Your in the US for crisssake, don’t be too picky choosing your allies…

It would be, if people voted in municipal elections.

Yeah this is what I don’t get. Of course the first 2-3 times you try, it might be bad, but use your senses! Use ingredients you like, try adding a little something, look, taste, put more if you like, stop if you don’t. If the texture seems weird, try to correct it (add a liquid if it’s to dense, let cook if it’s too liquid). Get that feedback loop running!

My longtime friend got diagnosed with a very aggressive stage 4 cancer 3 weeks ago. Last Thursday, his kidneys and liver began failing. He was hospitalized and doctors didn’t think he would survive the weekend. A dozen friends came on Sunday, and he’s doing a little better now. Still, I know his chances aren’t good.

But your picture gives me hope, and hope is always a good thing.

Yeah but you do realize the reason those cars are stuck in traffic is because THE BICYCLE LANE TAKES ALL THE AVAILABLE SPACE?!?! /s

I don’t understand your comment, I thought liberals had a majority government…?

Well said. Also, if you get too picky about your allies, you might never win the war.

I agree with the general point, but I don’t think people don’t know how to fight: there’s just apathetic. Mass entertainment media and many social media platforms do a great job at distracting people from politics. Add this to the decline in education in the US, and you have an explanation for whatever’s happening in the US right now.

I’m not a lawyer, but in my view the presidential immunity doesn’t mean the president can do anything he wants. It just means he can’t be personally prosecuted for his actions.

So it didn’t give Biden the right to remove whoever he could: the legal process to impeach a Supreme Court judge would still hold. It just means that if he killed a political enemy, he couldn’t be prosecuted for murder.

Still a shitty ruling though.

That’s it. As a teacher who has been dealing with this in the last 2-3 years, the only reliable way I have found is to do short interviews.

Students hand in their work, I grade it, then I ask them verbally a few easy questions about what they mean in specific sections of their work. How they score on these questions is used as a coefficient that I apply on the grade to get the final score.

So they can use LLMs, but they have to understand its output.

Keepassxc DB has strong encryption.

Every non Republican since 2016 has been hoping that someone is gonna come somehow and save the US from Trump. We’re in 2026, Trump is still president and nothing seems to push back against him.

I don’t believe in a sudden revolutionary surge in the US. Shit’s gonna get worse, slowly, irrevocably, unless the general population develop some sense of solidarity and there’s real political involvement from the population at every level. But that’s hard in a population as divided as the United States’.

Among the buyers is a company called Affinity Partners, founded by Jared Kushner.

Jared Kushner’s Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts - The New York Times https://share.google/BSHyiajMtLLCxjsQh

So what’s your plan then?

The problem in the US is that no one seems to realize that 1. Political change is not instantaneous and 2. Political change needs efforts/sacrifice.

Organize, vote in every election, make your voice heard in the primaries, etc.

There’s no meaningful opposition party

Indeed, the Dems suck right now, but that can change. You just need enough people speaking loud enough with a clear message.