you can’t put all elected officials in the same basket, at the very least, they care about getting elected again and a huge protest threatens that….

protests accomplish a lot, but not by protests alone.
for example: sending a message to elected officials, increasing awareness, bringing like minded people together to work on the problem they’re addressing.

no. that’s for stuck pixels… a line is a connection for a whole row of pixels, ie the problem isn’t the screen it’s the connection (or both).
but the problem probably isn’t in the visible part of the screen….
it’s also a bad idea for stuck pixels

you can’t tell me what to do, cop

i’ve seen that a few times… like, sure i’m an asshole sometimes, but getting -30 downvotes for a pretty basic comment, while everything else has 5 upvotes max… feels sus.

i’m pretty sure there’s a fair amount of brigading and sock puppetry going on.

and fwiw i don’t care about my vote score, i do care about people manipulating people

well, the soldiers documented everything themselves and posted it on tiktok:
https://tiktokgenocide.com/

You best use in our cause is to follow in the footsteps of St. Luigi.

fuck you, cop

That’s because Californians know how to dispose of a body properly…

a dozen people spray painting and burning stuff doesn’t mean that nobody else has any rights any more.
and this may surprise you, but: often times it’s outside agitators who come in to a protest and start trashing shit… for the very purpose of giving cops justification to attack them.
often times it’s just actual cops, but sometimes it’s independent people… like nazi’s trying to turn BLM protests violent.
btw, I was actually living in the portland metro area during the stuff you’re referring to:
and, you’re full of shit.

we never had roving mobs destroying the city, at any time of day….

that’s a lack of imagination….
just because i can’t think of a great solution doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
off the top of my head, here’s a system without a centralized surveillance database:

1. porn site gives you a random token,
2. you then hash that with a time-stamp,
3. get the token signed by your government ID system (like a dmv),
4. return the signed hash.
5. the government only knows that you used age verification for something somewhere….

now the hard part is just explaining cryptographic signatures and hashes to people….
of course people could still give a kid a verified account, but at least it’s harder for them to access it, i don’t need perfection….

i think it should be a little harder for a child to watch anal prolapse fisting porn than “click yes if you’re of legal age”….
but… not a good excuse for creating a citizen surveillance database.

the original plan was:
Israel would see them and say, “fine, go ahead and bring food to palestine”.

with the right soundtrack it’s a comedy

well that’s just completely divorced from reality

it’s not “pro palestine”, it’s not “anti israel”,
it’s anti genocide of palestinians by israelis…
they try to keep framing it as that, as some nationalist thing….

that’s not what gatekeeping is….
you don’t “gatekeep” qualifications and skills.
“you’re not really an artist because you were born rich” would be an example of gatekeeping.
“you’re not really a doctor because you didn’t graduate from medical school” is just the definition of a doctor.

according to my research: no, you can’t have anything more reflective than a normal window, except specific colored reflectors in particular spots and regular car mirrors.
state laws vary though…
i was looking into mirrored windows and no, not allowed.

he’s planning a murder/suicide involving peanut butter

it couldn’t hold hundreds of pounds of air… or of hydrofluoric acid