Sure, there's that. But no one is calling the bricklayers to disrupt union activities of other workers. The Starbucks local union organizers aren't going to have to worry that the pipefitters union is coming for them. Cops on the other hand are literally the primary tool of unionbusting. It's impossible to even pretend there is equivalence there while this remains true.
Outside America, cops have a union.
They have "unions" in the US too. The shield them from consequences and fight against accountability.
There is no big plan to weaken encryption or anything.
This may not be a symptom of such a plan, but there very much is such a plan.
Exportation of PGP and similar "strong encryption" in the 90s was considered as exporting munitions by the DoD.
it was not until almost two decades later that the US began to move some of the most common encryption technologies off the Munitions List. Without these changes, it would have been virtually impossible to secure commercial transactions online, stifling the then-nascent internet economy.
More recently you can take your pick.
Governments DO NOT like people having encryption that isn't backdoored. CSAM is literally the "but won't someone think of the children" justification they use, and while the goals may be admirable in this case, the potential harm of succeeding in their quest to ban consumer-accessible strong encryption seems pretty obvious to me.
As a bonus - anyone remember Truecrypt?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/rhodium-enterprises-bitcoin-usd-loan-bankruptcy
Not knowing much about McLean except his age (and American Pie) I was half-expecting a conservative sideswipe against her, where he questioned her relationship with Kelce or her (so far) childlessness or something. I was pleasantly surprised that this was nothing of the sort.
The ex-deputy also faced accusations from his former wife in divorce proceedings that he treated her with "repeated acts of mental cruelty." A separate citizen complaint against Grayson in May alleged that he unlawfully tried to intimidate a 17-year-old girl while trying to enter a house without having obtained a warrant, yelling at her and threatening to "put her in cuffs" if she didn't let him inside. The complaint was found not sustained by one of Grayson's fellow officers.
Thank goodness there was a good apple there to toss out that complaint!
You are exactly right and here is a comic that explains it. But nearly 0 websites have caught on to this.
https://xkcd.com/936/?correct=horse&battery=staple
Whew yeah that's a shitty one too. Good job working it out!
THIS is the one that makes me the angriest.
I'm happy to comply with your complexity requirements, but don't tell me about each one only when I've failed to meet it. That's really past the bar of shitty design into the realm of asshole design.
I refuse to believe this will impact DD in any meaningful way.
Whatever blip Bud Light experienced was due to their flip flopping. I was ready to start stocking up for our annual July 04 bash and would have gone out of my way to buy some (even though I don't normally) until they rolled over for the magas and fired the person responsible for sending that single can of bud light to a trans influencer. I know others had a similar thought process, because I've seen it discussed online and in meatspace.
I'm sure I've bought products that they own since then unknowingly, but haven't knowingly bought an AB product since then. All they had to do was take a stance, but they proved to be exactly what all megacorps are - greedy and spineless. Edit: Just like Target, I might add.
Fair point, I see where you are coming from. This is definitely one of those "I'd rather be wrong" opinions on my end.
So here I am sitting on lemmy.ml which is defederated from threads (and which I chose primarily for that reason) and I see a comment from the user above.
That comment is on a community at lemmy.world, and the user is apparently registered with their @threads username through @sh.itjust.works.
IIRC .world does NOT respect the fedipact, and I guess this means sh.itjust.works must not either, but I'm super confused by the username.
So I guess I still need to just block all the threads users I see, defederation or not?
That bump in 2020 is kind of interesting. The reason seems obvious, but correlation does not equal causation and all that. It does make me wonder if a big chunk of people claiming to be unaffilated are doing so because they think it's the correct answer to give, not because it's actually true. (My theory being that the pandemic made them decide they better stop denying Jesus for awhile or whatever)