Why does the US not have severe penalties for threatening anyone? Or do they?

I remember when Bitcoin first came out and one of the selling points of bitcoin was that literally anyone could trace the transfers using the wallet codes and what not no? I don't ever remember there being claims that it was untraceable at least as the selling point to the average consumer. There was even tools in like 2012 for tracking whether stuff internally in bitcoin was stolen or whatever...

"While the taint analysis tool aims at measuring the “correlation” between two addresses, there is another notion of taint in the Bitcoin community which refers to the percentage of bitcoins, that come from a known theft or scam and have been blacklisted by popular exchange markets. For example, in 2012 the bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox froze accounts of customers, who owned bitcoins that could be directly related to such an incident [20]." https://maltemoeser.de/paper/money-laundering.pdf

When the Libertarians did the same thing and thus the Republicans stole their talking points and what not and used them to prop up business interest. :)

The answer is absolutely they should... But seems like they don't want to...

Picture of op I found.

I wonder what the "issues including women’s rights" actually are supposed to be?

The table in the ACLU report is kind of interesting. I mean, I was confused about the could be shared with law enforcement and the could be used to discipline my friends but then seeing the Could be used to identify trans/reproductive health makes those amounts completely understandable as well as the undocumented statement.

• I always feel like I’m being watched 32%
• How it could be used to discipline me or my friends 27%
• What our school and companies they contract with do with the data (such as sell it, analyze it, etc.) 26%
• How it limits what resources I feel I can access online 24%
• Could be shared with law enforcement 22%
• Could be used against me in the future by a college or an employer 21%
• Could be used to identify students seeking reproductive health care (such as contraception or abortion care) 21%
• Could be used to identify students seeking gender-affirming care (such as transgender students seeking hormones) 18%
• Could be used against immigrant students, especially those who are undocumented 18%
• How it limits what I say online 17%
• Could be used to "out" LGBTQIA+ students 13%
• I have no concerns regarding surveillance in my school 27%

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Source: YouGov. School Surveillance, fielded October 20-26, 2022. Commissioned by ACLU TABLE 1 Students’ Concerns About School Surveillance

Good lord can the GOP pick better fights and not be stupid as fuck? Please stop doing the be stupid challenge...

I think this is confused Sauron's main job is engraving little poems into home-made jewellery of which he takes a little portion of his day out to try and subjugate all Middle Earth and give the orcs rights.

Common China internet L.

“They say that there’s so much water up north, that I wanna have the overflow areas go into your forests and dampen your forests,” Trump said. “Because if you dampen your forest, you’re not gonna have these fire forest fires that are burning at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.”

Absolute dumbass shit.

‘You have very poor land management,” he continued before recalling a conversation he had with an Austrian official about forest fires in that country. “He said, ‘Sir, we have more flammable trees than you do on your coast. We don’t have forest fires. We have land management.’ They take care of the land. They pick up the dead trees. You know, a tree doesn’t burn very easily unless it’s dead. Then it gets dry and it burns. The leaves on the ground – they’re five feet thick over here.”

Stuff that might be true (I'm never going to look into this) but isn't funny. Goddamn Trump sending mixed signals here.

1. There were supposedly two driverless cars in play just from reading the bot below so that makes me immediately think that the cars were not in the same lane but it doesn’t state that.

2. Going to a different website reveals that to indeed have been the claim. “When we arrived at scene, the only open lanes for egress from the call were blocked by two Cruise vehicles that had stopped and were not moving or leaving the scene. We were unable to leave the scene initially due to the Cruise vehicles not moving. This delay, no matter how minimal, contributed to a poor patient outcome,”

3. The main disagreement here is between whether or not the driverless cars completely stalled and blocked the way or only one stalled and the other kept driving which is what the car company is claiming happened.