Chalax91

"I don't get how people walk through life with all their windows wide open." - Leah Burke, Leah on the Offbeat

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

@Kafkaesquire @bykatiebuehler Basically, the individual officers are not the ones taking Federal money, so they can't be sued as individuals. But I haven't seen anything saying he couldn't sue the prison arguing that the individual officers violated his rights, likely in violation of prison policy

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Social Democracy is capitalism, not socialism.

Pass it on

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

couldn't be reached. The USA warned Japanese citizens to leave, but most stayed. They thought it would be like other bombings. Then an invasion would have cost even more lives on both sides and devastated Japan

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't necessary, but they are likely the best of all bad options. Tokyo and Kyoto were eliminated as targets for cultural reasons and fear it might reinforce fervor to fight. Other sites were considered either too remote, insignificant militarily, or 1/2

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

Reading some POW accounts of WW2 in the Pacific theater really puts to bed the theory that Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't necessary. Japan had about 150,000 Allied POWs in camps, had already murdered half of Americans captured, and had standing "kill-all" orders set to be executed just days after the bombings completely changed the legal and military landscape.

The older I get, the more I read, and the more I realize that most people with isolationist and overly pacificist ideologies on foreign policy are just ignorant.

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

in many cases can't, bc there's limited or no alternatives bc a majority of industries are not Free Markets, they are Captured Markets where if you don't make a bad decision, you're, forced out of the market. I could go on, but the heart of their arguments is illusion 2/2

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

They don't believe that they will self-regulate, they believe that there will be enough consumer pressure that they will be forced to regulate and do the right thing. But it ignores several realities, most prominently that consumers rarely, if ever, maximize their benefit and 1/2

[aezzie !! ♂ @AezzieUwU]

Can a conservative/libertarian actually explain to me why they actually believe if they stripped regulations/minimum wage that companies will just self-regulate out of the goodness of their heart? Thats genuinely gotta be one of the most delusional ideas I’ve ever heard.

[Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh]

One truly alarming notion I’m seeing lately among the teen social media ban discourse is that online culture would be magically fixed if we forced people to use the internet under their real names. A few reasons why this is an awful idea:

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

No, it's not weird! It's a well financed multi-national campaign, with full support of the largest social media companies. They benefit greatly by killing off any potential competitors forever, locking in and expanding their market share

[Ian Runkle/Runkle of the Bailey @ YouTube @IanRunkle]

Weird how so many countries are all pushing for internet surveillance and control all at once.

They've all decided that liberty is too dangerous (to them).

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

If young people voted at the same rate as seniors, it would change every aspect of politics

[Joe @electionsjoe]

I think young people should start voting

[thinkingcap @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

Yes and no, but it's unnecessary as there are many built-in settings and apps, with even more third party ones, that can be used to protect children online, on device and on network. The issue is most parents don't bother to use them, then complain that children are unsafe

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

I’m not a tech person so maybe this is dumb but isnt it easier to create a “children’s phone” at point of sale so you get a phone with built-in restrictions rather than asking every single person in the country whether they are over 16 or not through hackable digital ID software?

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Just your weekly reminder that @JoeBiden was a damn good president.

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

And even then many of the worst teachers are set up to fail by administrators and school boards that don't actually listen to educators

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

People like Tracy Morgan are why the most qualified, most successful, and most talented teachers are leaving Education for other fields, leaving behind a below average workforce because the worst teachers can't get a different job and schools can't loose any more teachers

[Variety @Variety]

Tracy Morgan says he “can’t stand teachers” because “they have a limit... that’s all they’re ever going to be.”

Stream the full #ActorsOnActors episode now on the CNN app: https://t.co/jrgGNUTCmX

[capitolhunters @capitolhunters]

People seem surprised that Trump's AG was using private email. But the Jan 6 investigation showed: Trump officials do EVERYTHING on private email. That's why their comms had to be subpoenae'd. Nothing was archived.

1000 Hillarys, and not one article mentioned it. 1/

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

Because a prerequisite for being a billionaire, especially a multibillionaire, is being an immoral, bad person

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This might sound cynical, but I’ve always wondered why no billionaire has single-handedly used their wealth to fund the eradication of poverty, or reverse climate change just for the narcissistic satisfaction of being able to say they saved humanity.

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Chalax91 @Chalax91]

@LartinMeff @JaredF449913 @jdcmedlock The issue comes down to money & time. Most people can't leave their jobs for weeks to work as an elections volunteer for just a few dollars an hour. Then it just takes time for the verification steps, even spending just 10 seconds/ballot equals just over 1,200 man days of labor

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

The LA election discourse is a good reminder that Democrats are overly process focused and build well intentioned systems that move far too slowly, whereas Republicans are really stupid.