General, assuming you think most will enable federation in due time. I’m just looking for the most appropriate place to join with.

Oh, my bad. I was confused. I assumed ActivityPub was some specific sub-app rather than a general communication protocol. That makes sense. Would still be good to get a list of instances.

Love the idea of a federated github, but I could only find this list of instances, and from my basic test it looks like the search doesn’t bring up projects from other instances? Unless I’m doing something wrong.

The supreme court is an illegitimate institution that regularly declares itself arbiter of things it has no business in. It has effectively become first among “equals” in a government of increasingly questionable legitimacy. Doesn’t matter whether they do something “good” or “bad” we shouldn’t view them as having any legitimate authority in the first place – Certainly not in elections.

Today they have a voice in gerrymandering. Tomorrow? Will they declare lottery elections illegitimate? More Money is speech nonsense? Can’t Tax political donations? Can’t tax political advertising? There are ways to make the government legitimate and give it consent of the governed – but we cannot allow corrupt oligarchs to tell us what is and isn’t legitimate.

So… ICE will know both your location and face every time you get in your car? Yeah, I’m sure this won’t result in a genocide. ^/s

I’m pretty sure short-sightedness is more a result of patience and critical thinking, but outdoors might help near-sightedness.

The US has always been an electoral oligarchy. It paints itself as a democratic republic to claim that it has consent of the people it governs, but the governed are given no real choices. Would you like to take a right hook or a left hook? Sorry, not getting hit wasn’t an option.

We need to start demanding our cities and states use a ranked sortition approach. Put a lottery option on a ranked voting ballot and make politicians beat the lottery if they want to claim they’re a legitimate ruling class.

You have to make somebody suffer first.

On our side or theirs?

Agreed. I’m either the youngest Millennial or Oldest Gen-Z at 29 nearly 30. Gen-Z hasn’t reached the previous enlistment age of 35, so it’s entirely targeted at millennials. That said, it might be caused by Gen-Z’s unwillingness to enlist, so sorry our government reacted that way.

I can translate 'merican to English.

Value of the 2nd Amendment

There really need to be safeguards implemented to prevent actions like this from just being conducted on the turn of a dime without any awareness of others, discussion, etc. beforehand.

These systems and safeguards exist, but they remain inactive due to political capture and entrenchment. You can make all the laws you like, but they mean nothing when oligarch rule prevents enforcement or encourages inconsistent enforcement.

This is what I’m talking about when I say we’re not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of our interference in foreign affairs. The people do not rule in the United States. We’re not a democratic republic, we’re an electoral oligarchy.

Worse, we seem to be choosing this. States choose how their elections work. We could switch to a ranked voting system with a lottery option without the federal government being able to do anything about it. Heck, a lot of individual cities could do it, but people aren’t engaged enough to overcome local entrenched powers much less state and federal ones.

Is there a solution to this whole government censorship problem? I don’t know networking, but it seems like the centralized systems get the central nodes shut down and the decentralized systems are too easily tracked and/or too inefficient. Reticulum looked interesting, but it was still pretty traceable, and appears to only really be for messaging apps since you have to know where you’re sending to already. Your motion idea has some merit to it, but I was kinda hoping for something more on the software side.

You know how Americans were making fun of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine because it revealed that Russia had a super out-dated and under-maintained military? Yeah, about that… Turns out, we’re not so different after all. Not that I think we should be investing in the military, frankly we’re not close enough to qualifying as a democracy for me to approve of anything beyond non-interventionism.

Are we just grouping the whole EU as one entity then calling it a tie with china?

Well, the Drone Autonomous Warfare Groups (DAWG) requested a budget larger than the Navy’s, so I’m thinking it goes to whatever’s the current financial grift going around. AI these days.

For real, free house just because there’s a poltergeist of an eldridge daedric god? Who hasn’t had roommates like that?

What? No, Sims is way more fanciful than D&D. Which sounds more realistic riding a unicorn or owning an entire house? Exactly.

there would mechanisms in place to educate

Could you imagine if he was quietly black sited and came back from lake laogai all “there is no war in ba sing se” upstanding citizen?

Also, I think this is more vocational training anyway, so probably not far off from the educational system you want anyway.

To be fair, no one taught me how to apply for jobs.