I use a Windows machine with 16GB and even when Windows claims much of it is free, it still chokes with a bunch of disk activity when I use little used functions even of applications I'm actively using. I conclude that Windows is paging even when it doesn't have to, and then having to reload those pages later. This is sloppy bullshit because they could copy those pages to disk and not actually reallocate until it's necessary.

Live your life in such a way that you get kicked off Facebook.

This has gotten MUCH easier of late. Lots of big reports even of big influencers getting booted, which is weird because those people produce a lot of traffic.

- It's impossible to prove anything. Somalia was in the midst of a civil war, there are no records.

The civil war is not even the case.
I have a Somali friend who was born perhaps two decades before the civil war started in 1990.

He told me that he does not know when he was born, simply because there are no birth records in Somalia. He needed this info to apply for something in a Western country.

He said the only way to know for sure is to go to the village elders who will remember when he was born based on a certain event (natural disaster, war, or other notable event).

With people displaced and such in the civil war, it could only be worse ...

I'm pretty fucking old. I started on a Timex zx81.

And you're mixing up different problems. You're complaining about social media and outrage porn designed for engagement. Just regulate social media. Problem solved.

I don't see any reason to cut children off from a massive source of information that can explain a complex topic to them in a thousand different ways to help them learn just because they can go to Facebook and you are too obsessed with corporations rights to stop them from doing terrible things to children.

Seriously this isn't hard. Break up Facebook. Enforce antitrust law. Stop letting them buy up their competitors every time one comes along and you can have social media platforms that are designed to not rip children to pieces. Do a few other basic regulations problem solved.

I will admit you're fucking old. Because you doing what all old people like to do. You cannot imagine a world where problems can be solved anymore if you ever could. So you just have to be all or nothing, black and white. Either we have the internet for kids or we don't have the internet for kids but there can't be a good internet that isn't fucked up because that's way too nuanced and way too complicated. So just burn it all the ground and fuck it. That's Boomer mentality right there. Christ you might even be older than a boomer but you're thinking like one.

You can look up the Congressional hearings where they admitted it under oath. And I don't believe anything any corpo tells me that isn't under oath. When they can't be tossed in jail for perjury they'll tell you all kinds of bullshit. Christ you'd think you'd have learned that from Elon Musk but you probably believe you're still going to Mars...

At least you've got plenty of time to post here since you have a fleet of self-driving Tesla is making money for you in 2016 right?

We spent the last 50 years undermining democracy so we could indulge in moral panics and other nonsense and freak out about terrorism that was only a problem because we put idiots in charge of basic national security...

I guess what I'm saying is, we do not have enough Democratic institutions left to prevent these people from forcing these cameras down our throats and forcing 24/7 around the clock perfect surveillance down our throats.

We could get all that back but I mean for fucks sakes man they are currently trying to turn the furries into the next moral panic. They've been trying for a while they got Joe Rogan convinced that we are putting litter boxes in classrooms for fucksake. It's not working yet but it took them a few tries with the trans panic and it took him a few tries with the rock and roll panic. Eventually though have us freaking out about boys with cat ears I'm just not sure how they're going to do it.

Crime rate has increased to 115,000% every day since I started following the news and watching political advertisements. As near as I can tell every single American is employed 24/7 in some form of criminal Enterprise. Except me of course but all the rest of you are criminals.

That's your problem. If you survey people about crime rates they're going to tell you that they've gone up. Reality doesn't matter. And statistically you probably been the victim of some crime or another at some point if only porch pirates. Pretty sure I just had one steal package from me. And I've had a car stolen which was especially frustrating because I got it back and it was an old beater and I had to pay a bunch of money to get it out of the tow yard after I had already replaced to the car because it took the police a month to call me up and tell me hey come get your car.

Basically the real problem here is news went from being something you felt obligated to watch at 9:00 at night to 24/7 entertainment. Human beings simply do not have the critical thinking skills necessary to cope with that much bullshit. With a lot of effort I think we could get most people to have those critical thinking skills but that would piss off religious people because anyone with substantial critical thinking skills who sits down and reads a holy book might still believe in God when they're done but they're not going to believe in religion. And they are sure as shit not going to tithe 10%. Also parents get a little testy when their kids keep coming back from college and don't believe all the nonsense they do anymore...

I can tell you don’t watch Fox News. Listening to them would make you think an illegal immigrant drag queen would invade your home at any moment.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin

It is as true now as it was then.

We do not need to go to extremes to protect ourselves from rare risks. Life is pretty darned safe already. Really, it is.

Great idea. They solicit donations on bsky, I will buy a raffle ticket next time

What about why have the Epstein files not been released as required by law?

Stop defending child rapists, shitbird.

We have this already. It's called a "press conference."

Were they Adobe or Auth0 ads?

Just wondering...

Details matter. Especially in law.

Taking notes is not illegal. Using a device to assist in taking notes is not illegal (speech to text use is ADA protected). Transcription is not the same as recording. As long as the device is not producing an audio recording, it is not recording audio. Transitory processing of audio is not the same as recording audio.

The devil is in the details, and they are carefully to stay within the letter of the law.

None of which is legally an adequate reason to remove someone's citizenship two decades or more later. Filing the wrong form would be considered a minor clerical error. It should have been rejected at the time, and she should have had to file the correct form at the time, but once citizenship is granted, that's moot.

There is a general presumption in the law that citizenship cannot be revoked unless all of the following criteria are true:

• That person misrepresented or concealed something
• The misrepresentation or concealment was willful
• The misrepresentation or concealment was material to the decision to grant citizenship

None of those apply, much less all of them. Omar did not misrepresent anything; her father did. The misrepresentation was probably not willful. See also the comments above about birth records in Somalia. And being born a year earlier is not material to the decision to grant citizenship. It is only material to whether that specific form would have been accepted or a different form would have been needed.

So absent some significant evidence that something else was omitted as a side effect of using the wrong form (which is incredibly unlikely), this would be a clerical error, subject to possible civil penalties against the father, were he still alive, and that's about it.

This isn't just a little bit short of the threshold required for removing citizenship. This is so far from reaching the threshold that even the most conservative immigration judge in the country would laugh in their faces for even making the attempt, and probably hit them with contempt charges for wasting the court's time.