Two things can be true:
Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and
Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.
Came in with a party and managed to get back to the entrance with them? Well I hope they don't mind your helpless balloon self rolling over all of them as you tumble back down into the dungeon, only to find out where the pit in the first room leads. >w>
It's the water channels BTW. >w>
One of my favorites is a weight-calibrated trap right at the exit.
It'll NEVER go off on someone who's just entering. But someone who's managed to get all the way in and make it back?
They'll certainly be heavy enough.
And it goes off, they'll roll right back down the entry stairs. >w>
As someone who's slime sona is almost always formed into a trap riddled dungeon of just such a sort:
Buoyant inflation traps plus sloped ceilings.
Weighty inflation traps plus calibrated trapdoors.
Water channels that underinflated intruders can navigate, but will sweep away hapless balloons. :P
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Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of.
Call your reps NOW.
Got reminded of the bad role model sequence I did back in 2020! Had way too much fun with that sequence. Even know thinking back on it, It had me way too into the inflation mode for like a month straight XD
It's a big, noisy, aggressive peanut gallery. But it's still just a peanut gallery.
They'll say whatever they can to try and make you feel worse than they do.
Remember the numbers, extract any useful feedback, and leave the rest where it belongs.
Forgotten.
You're being harassed by a trainload of people.
And ignored by BILLIONS who aren't on that train.
For those people to even FIND YOU in the first place, enough people had to LIKE your opinion enough to share it, including people SO DISCONNECTED form you that they were near the harassers.
Self moderation isn't it, since for this, it can only really be applied retroactively. "block and move on" requires an encounter, and thousands of encounters is still a harassment wave.
You can't limit circulation, people can screencap.
The best you can probably do is remember the numbers.
It creates a warped perspective where, while the hate is coming from a PITTANCE of the whole, that pittance FEELS like "the entire world", since it larger than anything they've encountered before.
This is a fundamental problem with the internet currently.
I'm sot sure it has a solution.
As a result of just how many of us there are, when someone says or does something that draws the ire of even a MINUSCULE MINORITY of the internet, that's still thousands of people.
Likely more people than that person knows in the rest of their real life and internet dealings COMBINED.
A fundamental problem with the internet is that, purely because of how many people are on here, it MASSIVELY empowers the outspoken naysayers.
Humans aren't meant to deal with THOUSANDS of people to begin with, let alone thousands deciding to harass you over a nothing-burger opinion.
We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act!
Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!
I truly hate when little Right Wing Hitler youth open their mouths and give opinions in their over sized fake glasses, that they think will make them seem smart ,on things they know nothing about.
But listen to a real farmer rip her apart.
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Some people have misunderstood this.
We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible.
This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.
Kinda tired of this now
when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile
reddit: "I visited my identical twin brother at his college where a lot of his floor didn't know he was a twin. That night he had some people over in his apartment and I hid in the bedroom. Note, he has a beard and I don't. While they were hanging out (and me hiding), he announces to the group that he's tired of his beard and is gonna shave it off, so he escapes to the bedroom where I'm hiding as if to shave. We switch clothes and I walk back out to the group with my bare face. Everyone takes note and, while it's generally an unusual thing to do at a party, nobody thinks much of it. After a bit I announce, "ya know, I kinda miss my beard. I think I'm gonna grow it back". At which point I go to the other room where my bearded twin was hiding. We switch clothes back and he walks back out to the group immediately rebearded. People lost their freaking minds."
This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.
Even though it's not historically accurate at all, having chainmail do up at the front has been really fun creatively.
Turning hauberks into hoodies.
the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.
