Fair enough. I love the spirit of your intent. But we’re already wildly self-selecting for people versed in any level of opsec by just assuming they know how to SSH into a headless Pi if something goes wonky, plus know *NIX terminal commands.

I would say that for general users, switching to Firefox and getting uBO is enough. That much is very easily done by the layperson (and honestly would be sufficient for people looking at cat photos and reading email). From there, we veer off into needing technical skills.

I ran a newsroom for the 2000 election and pushed deadline back twice, so you probably have my age pegged correctly. I’m just saying that results, whenever they come, however they may be challenged, are definitively news. Campaigning isn’t.

I don’t know why you’re on the warpath for me reiterating a three-year-old rule because of recent issues. I said post politics in Politics and your response was disproportionate. Now you’re smearing me as being unkind for doing basic server-janitor stuff that really hasn’t been an issue for years, accusing me of not knowing what news is, and telling me I’m the one being unreasonable.

I’m also not stalking you. I’m a user of the site. So of course I see posts in other communities. The reasonable response here would have been to post politics in politics. Instead, you chose to test my boundaries by posting entertainment news to U.S. News as some sort of flex.

As I said, it doesn’t appear you understand how Beehaw works. If you wholesale dislike it, I’m not sure why you continue to show up.

There’s a certain irony to wanting more control over what you see in Politics while complaining about U.S. News. It’s possible you’re simply not aligned with the goals of Beehaw as a project, which is fine. But you seem to want the site changed according to your desires, and things just don’t work that way.

Firefox with uBO behind a pihole pointing to Quad9 and on a router-level VPN is sufficient for 99% of users. And the 1% know exactly who they are and will harden further.

It’s somewhat crazy to think what Texas might look like with term limits. I moved here in 2015, and so far as I can tell, I don’t live in a democracy. Abbott, Patrick and Paxton have all been frozen in amber in their roles the entire time. Never have I lived somewhere that the governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general are simply established infrastructure that never changes for over a decade.

Didn’t even consider “has she ever been to the state?”

We’re kinda going to need a revolution for corporations to be held accountable.

I’m reiterating a rule that’s been standing for three years, since the creation of this community. You’ll note that most of my posts are not in U.S. News. At any rate, yes, the initial setup was approved higher than me, so “I don’t want to have to think about where I post” is a bad look. Just, like, post in politics if it’s political. Your photographic evidence of me posting events that already happened and calling me a hypocrite does less than you’d hope.

I’m just trying to keep things tidy. I’m not going to put a gardening post in the space community. There’s no need to put politics here.

Right, and when we have election results, we have established facts. Until then, it’s just grandstanding, and that isn’t news.

I mean, yeah. There’s a politics community. So it makes vastly more sense to post political news there. The communities are intentionally separate so that people can choose to subscribe to one or both and get what they expect in their feed.

If there weren’t a space for that, I could see where you’re coming from, but this is just mundane categorization.

I mean, at a certain point, you have to go with the angle of the current story. I know this is going to be a hell of a stretch, but that’s sort of like expecting any car review of a new Ford to include the founder’s anti-Semitism.

That’s part of it. Surgeon general warnings on a pack of smokes have all sorts of direct messaging. Canada does better on that front, but that’s table stakes.

In this case, there is no warning attached, just “X product contains Y chemical” on the packaging. This is not at all a free-speech issue, no matter how much chemical companies want to claim it is.

I ran into it on Bluesky today, so, yeah, that’s on me for not checking the date. However, I wasn’t posting it in a news community, so that feels like an odd complaint.

Definitely some couching happening here.

I expect more from you.

Why institute a robot tax when you could just fund the government with corporate and wealth taxes using existing structures? (Rhetorical question; we all know why.)

The U.S. did just fine without an income tax until the 1910s, and the circumstances under which that even happened are suspect, but that’s a tale for another day.

The sheer logistics of a “robot tax” ensure a lack of compliance. Are we charging by the hour while it’s in service (where are the service logs?)? Sheer numbers in the fleet? All options I can come up with are easily gamed; we end up exactly where we were, but lawmakers can say they “did something” instead of the more extreme action of doing something useful.

This feels like Charles taking the reins after his mom lived for so long. We’ve got an heir! Also, he’s already in his 70s.

The press pool may at this point be greener than the reflecting pool.

Yet again they trot out billions in losses for the MPA caused by piracy.