Lobbying on its own is not the issue. Nurses’ lobbies and teachers’ lobbies, for example, work for a good cause.

The issue is that lobbying is done in private, and citizens don’t hear about anything until laws are proposed, by which time they already have momentum and are very hard to fight. And once laws are enacted, it’s even harder to reverse them.

Lobbyists are people working on behalf of companies whose job is to meet up with politicians to discuss their issues. Typically that involves some back and forth that may or may not be considered bribery.

You want a law to protect your business? You go talk to lawmakers behind closed doors about how some laws are needed to better protect children and also data centers, and subtly let them know that maybe your company might have a job for them in the future.

Those lawmakers then go out and propose these laws and they sell the idea to other lawmakers who approve them for the children and datacenters.

Or the dead bear he casually dropped in Central Park

Czechia is not surprising, as in NA it’s been generally called the Czech Republic since Czhechoslovakia split.

I think Trump can’t imagine why anyone else wouldn’t think exactly like him. That’s why he serves McDonald’s to White House guests and he gives out gifts that he likes, even when it otherwise makes no sense. It’s also why he accuses everyone of things that he would do, like lying, cheating, and taking credit for things that he never did. Also stealing elections.

GOS’s argument over the attestation is that it’s essentially the same as Google’s system. It approves the devices themselves regardless of their security. An approved device isn’t more secure in any way just because it’s on the list. It’s just a way of arbitrarily excluding any OS that they don’t like while still allowing devices that are obsolete or behind on security updates.

All that olive oil has to go somewhere.

Yes the word for cat is “chat” but the word for chat, in the online sense is also “chat” and it’s pronounced like the English word. It should also be capitalised because it’s a proper noun, eliminating the ambiguity that may exist.

IMO switching to Linux as a new user is no harder than switching from Windows to Mac, which I think is something more people can identify with and aren’t afraid of, for the most part.

Those sellers post their stuff on every marketplace they can, and just fulfill it through their Amazon store. Ebay, Etsy, Walmart, Best Buy, etc, are all full of Amazon sellers.

It’s not really weird. It’s something that’s going to happen at some point regardless. Like the article states, erosion made the arches, and it will eventually unmake them.

Keep wigling the mouse and eventually there’s nowhere the pointer can possibly hide from you.

Most Americans don’t own a passport in the first place.

The lights go out, and I can’t be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against

We should stop selling oil, wood, paper, aluminum, steel, and electricity to the US.

Why is they so uppity?

The issue is not whether people are willing to do it, but whether they should be allowed to.

I can’t think of any situation where disallowing people from repairing their own property makes any sense. The only ones it makes sense to are the ones who profit from it.

Nah, they have some great stuff. It’s just way more expensive than the cheap MDF and cardboard garbage that sells by the boatload.

It grew because it was the only platform that did it.

If you want views, you have to go where the viewers are. Current alternatives are sorely lacking.

If you want the smaller platforms to grow, you do need to post there, but ignoring the existing giant won’t get you seen unfortunately. At the very least, you should do both.