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Of course, this expected time-to-decay has only shifted from 10^794^ years to 10^790^ years

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I agree that she should be more clear on demanding a ceasefire (although she did actually partly demand just that in March, at least for 6 weeks - and again during the debate), and that this war could probably be stopped if she made such demands. The current US administration is working to end the fighting, so not voting for the party that is actually working to end the war is at the detriment to the people of Gaza.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said two weeks ago that 90 percent of a ceasefire deal had been agreed upon.

Washington has been working for months with mediators Qatar and Egypt to try and bring Israel and Hamas to a final agreement.

Biden laid out a three-phase ceasefire proposal on May 31 saying that Israel had agreed to it.

20 Sep 2024, Al Jazeera

Now compare that to Trump:

"From the start, Harris has worked to tie Israel's hand behind its back, demanding an immediate ceasefire, always demanding ceasefire," Trump said, adding it "would only give Hamas time to regroup and launch a new October 7 style attack." Trump added: "I will give Israel the support that it needs to win but I do want them to win fast."

So he would basically allow a full scale genocide, no holds barred.

That being said though, this is likely not going to end anytime soon due to the massive pager/radio attack on Hezbollah that's likely going to make this whole quagmire even worse. And I 100% agree with you that the US/Kamala/Biden should put Israel in it's place before this whole powder keg turns into WWIII, which is not outside the realm of possibilities to anyone who has studied history and the role multiple global conflicts played in the past to lead to world war.

It seems to me like we didn't have this problem twenty years ago. If blinding LEDs are the problem, why not just not allow them anymore for headlights? It takes 5 seconds to pop in a new incandescent headlight on cars that have them, and well made ones can last 20+ years depending on the construction. Visibility is good and equivalent to some LEDs with higher end lamps, and it doesn't create a superbly unnatural light that impairs the other drivers, pedestrians, or nature. It would also reduce light pollution.

On very rare occasion, the progressive step forward, actually looks a lot like the road backwards. It would take a long time to implement, but anything worth doing is worth taking the time to do it right.

Auto sensing technology is going to be more of a glaring headache in 20 years, when you have half of the cars with failing sensors and everyone getting blinded even worse. Adaptive Driving Beams (ADB) are not a solution, it does not properly address the issues of glare, and it will likely only make the problem worse by further removing human interaction from headlight controls.

Oh you can't change apathy really. I was just suggesting if privacy friendly tech (ie: Linux) is to go mainstream, that it would have to be "easier" than what is currently out there to gain mainstream popularity.

Desktop linux is almost there, but the general population mostly uses mobile devices now, and phone Linux seems to be a dying prospect.

everytime I tell someone there are alternatives to using Google/Apple/etc their response is, "but it's just so easy". I guess you can call my view of that jaded, but people really don't care? I mean I'm not trying to be defeatest at all, it's just trying to accurately appraise people's apathy to apply a proper resolution to the problem.

The solution has to make it "easy" for people because that is what they expect of technology now.

Please remove if this sort of thing is not allowed. Trying to foster a discussion of various policy issues from week to week.

I haven't bought anything from Amazon in 10 years. It's full of crap now, and the legit stuff is just thrown in to a bin in their warehouse for scanning by UPC, so it's 50/50 if it's an untraceable counterfeit. And the counterfeiters are good, so you probably won't notice it's fake until a couple years later.

US is a flawed-democracy, EU, Canada and Australia are currently the leading democrocies. That all could change but US is not the best in that area.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

Because there are more effective forms of protest that don’t guarantee with 99.9% accuracy that a fascist is elected if people vote for an alternate party (literally the case this year with the margins, and “dictator day 1”).

Voting should be pragmatic. There are a million other ways to protest/lobby, but honestly the Democrats of today are far more progressive than 20 years ago, because of people who understand the system and change it from the inside, like AOC/Bernie.

It is not going to "run out". That is republican talking point and propaganda. God damn that myth is believed by everyone.

The concepts of solvency, sustainability, and budget impact are common in discussions of Social Security, but are not well understood. Currently, the Social Security Board of Trustees projects program cost to rise by 2035 so that taxes will be enough to pay for only 75 percent of scheduled benefits. ^1

75% of benefits will still be paid in even the worse case scenario. The fear mongering is not necessary.