I know this is unpopular and goes against the ideals of the early internet, but the open internet (especially social networks) is hugely damaging at the moment.

This isn’t just “people having different opinions”, but rather full-scale cyber warfare that’s currently happening. It’s also only going to get worse…

Propaganda works, and it works quite well. Nobody is fully immune.

So unless you feel like having Musk/Russia/China dictate your life (through forcing their shit agenda), banning their attack vectors is really the only play.

Being a scientist is a ridiculously hard career path these days.

The flexibility of the rights platform is actually one of their greatest strengths.

They are happy to flip-flop on things that they kinda care about in order to keep people onside and get what they really care about.

We on the left should learn from this. Less purity tests and trying to die on every hill or we’re fucked.

“I wish I could work at home tidying up the house for no salary and have no income of my own!”

As a fun aside: both my wife and I would both love to do this! Unfortunately it’s just too tough financially in the modern world, so it’s never a really serious discussion.

Plus we would have to flip a coin or something to decide who has to be the breadwinner.

We don’t really have a relationship that revolves around power-roles though, so it’s a bit of a different discussion.

Huh, that’s the first I’ve heard of this!

I was suuuuper into MMOs back in the day, but I guess I also had no idea who Notch was before he made minecraft

At least europe it has kind of switched to the opposite in recent years.

I did a doctorate in physics and women had a much easier time finding PhD/post-doc positions because there is just much more funding available.

Most groups in my institution were majority women.

Professorships are still nearly all men, but that’s largely down to the sexism of the previous generations (back in the 60s-90s when they got their positions). This will slowly shift in the coming decades.

Everyone down voting this clearly hasn’t read the 14th amendment and thought about all the ways you could interpret “…and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…”

I’m not saying I agree with it, it’s easy to see how you could intentionally try to spin that to mean essentially “…under the legal jurisdiction thereof…”

And who ultimately decides what the “correct” interpretation is? Not you or me…it’s the Supreme Court

You have waaaaay more confidence in these agencies than I do.

The reality is, with enough pressure even ‘independent’ heads of agencies can be replaced. Nobody wants to be in the firing line and the focus of Trump (and his followers) rage.

That’s true, but I think a lot of Americans tend to think of the constitution as being more powerful than it actually is.

Just like any other set of rules, it mostly comes down to how these are interpreted. The constitution itself had no autonomy… it depends on everyone agreeing on a certain interpretation of the words as well as agreeing to enforce this interpretation.

I’m not saying that it is logical or consistent, but the wording “…and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…” in the 14th amendment could have some VERY warped interpretations, if you really wanted to force it…

It’s less about that and more about stopping an extremely powerful attack vector currently active in your own country.

Literally the biggest reason why the western world is in such a giant political crisis is the weaponization of social media.

No love for Assad, but given all the islamist groups involved I have a bad feeling that this is going to end up even worse…

Citizens united at the very least

In the short-term: yes.

In the mid- to long-term: obscene inequality (like we are seeing currently) inevitably leads to awful awful things…

That sounds like all the more reason to be for legal immigration and against illegal immigration.

MMOs are the reasons that my typing style involves my left hand covering 60-70% of the keyboard and my right hand getting the remaining 30-40% that I can’t easily reach.

Only need to bring in the mouse hand of absolutely necessary!

He’s useful to the orange man… unfortunately that might be enough

For me, the biggest strength of the steam controller was using the right trackpad for FPS-style games… basically a virtual trackball mouse. Once you got used to it it’s incredibly responsive and a huge upgrade on a joystick.

I never managed to get my deck to work like that. The trackpads are just too small and don’t seem as responsive somehow? Granted, I do have quite large hands

Yes! The steam controller was legitimately incredible for first person games. The combination of left joystick and right touchpad was incredible once you got used to it.

I love my steam deck, but I was really disappointed with the touchpads… they are just too small too really use for much of anything other than menus. As a result, I really only play 2d games, since I hate 2-stick controls…

Politics (especially among republicans) has become a bit religious, so it’s not really THAT different I guess

The Dems should definitely move more central on social issues, as the US election system has a huge built in rural bias.

Then focus on more broad-reaching progressive economic topics. Less focus on legislation targeting specific marginalized groups and more on policies which would impact everyone directly. As a potential example, Universal Basic Income (“Freedom Bonus” or whatever it was called) was one such policy which was floated a couple elections ago.