If the supreme court can’t subject laws to constitutional scrutiny, and there is no longer separation of powers, I think that’s basically the end of the US Republic.

Explicit types are just laziness, you should be catching exceptions anyways.

I think maybe rather than trying to gather biometric data, the choice of this form of authentication is related to the intimidation factor of implying they might be.

The data collected by ID.me has nothing to do with the processing of a FOIA request.”

So why collect it? If the data is irrelevant to the request it shouldn’t be asked for. What is the IRS even trying to say here?

Also I want to say I’ve had to use this system to do my taxes and it’s creepy as hell.

Microsoft hasn’t detailed ESU pricing for consumers yet, but the company did previously reveal it will offer these extended updates to consumers for the first time ever

They’re actually gonna make us pirate security updates huh

Yes but only if it’s actually secure and safe ie. fully open source

Seems like this is the reddit thread referred to.

Crazy how some people feel generating images on your computer makes you deserving of attack.

I think I will instead promote keeping their power limited, such as by using cash

Nobody wants to cut off people from the economy

They do though.

I was thinking of the US and Canada https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/05/more-americans-are-joining-the-cashless-economy/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-banking

It might be theoretically possible where there is cell service, but keep in mind that a lot of homeless people do not have and are unable to get bank accounts. De-banking can be and is used as a tool to control people generally. Being cashless might be benign if you are in a situation where the banks, financial apps, and governments can be trusted not to weaponize their absolute control over everyone’s money, but in many places they cannot.

But fuel taxes are not protecting the environment. They are not high enough to fund environmental remediation, nor do they cover the costs of other externalities of road travel like pavement damage, accidents, and congestion

So raise them?

Transportation analysts record travel distance using a variety of methods that require equipment ranging from vehicle odometers to GPS-based technology.

I am deeply uncomfortable with this. It is already a huge privacy problem that new vehicles come with all sorts of tracking systems that transmit information remotely, but at least having these enabled isn’t a legal obligation. If such a bill is passed I would say there is a 100% chance that this will also be used to prevent people from opting out from mass surveillance of their movements under the pretext of tax compliance.

As an alternative, what about instead taxing companies for the commutes and business travel of their employees? In that case it isn’t necessary to track vehicles on an individual basis, instead you keep track of where employees live relative to their workplaces and work from home rates. I understand commercial trucking is already generally tracked, and that is the biggest impact on wearing down the roads, so tax that too. You don’t need to be forcing individuals to regularly check in with the government about where they’ve been and how much they have been traveling.

One unified interface I’ve been enjoying is Stability Matrix, which lets you conveniently switch between different image generation frontends without having duplicates of the model files.

Text generation: LM Studio seems the most user friendly IMO

Voice transcription: I’ve been using AllTalk TTS, was a little frustrating to set up but works

Well I haven’t played in years, but I strongly suspect that exceptionally low ratio of female voices I referred to was not just because the game itself does not appeal to women.

This doesn’t really address what I’m talking about. I can personally handle people saying mean things to me (though can’t say anyone in an online game ever threatened to rape me), but what I have a problem with is people I might like to interact with being driven out and the space becoming increasingly concentrated with people I don’t like very much.

I think a lot of people on hearing this sort of thing once or twice will shut off the game and never play again. To me it seems like a similar kind of situation to a website like a Lemmy instance that removes all the csam spam that gets posted, but not fast enough that most people never see it. In that situation you can’t tell users “just report and block”, there is still a big problem and there is no one that can take responsibility for it other than the people operating the service.

I played thousands of games of Dota 2, and in that time I heard a woman speak probably like 5 times total, which honestly is very understandable on their part, but still unfortunate. Would be nice to play online games that are not de-facto filtering out everyone who isn’t willing to tolerate being periodically subjected to verbal abuse, especially when it’s extreme forms of verbal abuse.

So they used to be able to profit by screwing over fishermen, but then someone else got in front of them in line for that, so it got sold to a company with a scheme to gut its assets and offload the lemon to the final bagholders, who filed bankruptcy once they noticed how bad things are, if I’m getting that right

A way of getting a cat into a carrier I’ve found is, wrap the cat in a blanket and then have someone else go get the carrier, so they don’t know what’s happening until it is too late

I looked through the context of this comment thread and see no quotes. To clarify, my claim is that you can’t measure housing supply like you say you can, and I’m making a logical argument for this, not presenting evidence. Still don’t understand what if any criticisms you have against that argument.

No idea what you mean, elaborate?