Maybe the one with the greatest personal consequences, and also the one that’s the most routine for them, is not the place you should test first.

It’s the kind of thing you’d have to disclose before getting a security clearance. And the FBI would be the ones to decide if it’s okay. Not Elon.

This is referring to after you know the person, already have their number, etc. You still text before every call.

I think it’s somewhat age gated. But I love it. A phone call out of nowhere means I need to drop everything and give you my full attention, and I have to make that decision within 20 seconds or it’s too late.

A text first gives me so many more options. Especially if I like to prepare, for example, stepping out of the crowded office. Or parking the car. (Which still works even if I don’t read texts until parked.)

First, if there’s one thing the federal government is good at doing, it’s getting normal people to pay their taxes. Besides, you’ve probably already had the taxes withheld from your payroll and you’re just stalling on the end of year balancing of books.

Second, I know nobody has told them yet, but we print the money. Not paying your taxes is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts them. If anything it just gives them a valid excuse to go after the people they wanted to go after anyway.

Don’t change to their whims.

I appreciate the protests that are happening, but protests won’t do much until polling changes.

Pretty sure Trump just made a thinly veiled threat on the life of the Governor of Maine while declaring that, “I am the federal law”.

You’re asking a lot of people for very little return.

I think most any full time job in the US has bereavement leave.

It’s only the poorest of the poors that get absolutely fucked, as is tradition.

I’m not directly experienced, just throwing that out at the start.

There are things more addictive than cocaine, like heroin. NEVER, ABSOLUTELY NEVER do heroin.

But if you do end up being a coke-fiend, that does suck. And it seems the individual often has very little control of their ability to get addicted or not.

I’d never touch it. At least not before 80. I don’t think it’s worth the risk.

But I also don’t think it’s beneficial to lie and exaggerate in order to promote drug-phobia.

I had a friend who was addicted to coke for a very short time. Another friend, found his stash, flushed it, and threatened him with life-changing consequences. He quit, and has been successful since.

More recently, I went to a bar with a person I knew from the Internet. When he went to the bathroom, another patron told me, “after the third coke joke it’s not a joke”.

There’s also the more modern danger. If you think you’re doing cocaine and it’s actually half cocaine, half fentanyl (much cheaper), then you’re probably dead. Maybe they didn’t intend to cut it half and half. Maybe they just didn’t stir well.

He’s not the one behind the elaborate plans. That’s Putin.

I followed r/ the_donald when it first started. It was a joke, and rightfully so. It was fun. However, when anyone tried to call it out as the joke it was, they’d be banned within seconds. Any time of day. Those aren’t volunteer moderators.

I assume similar schemes were happening on Facebook and other social media. Honestly it was a master class in modern propaganda. I expected more research papers covering it by now.

They picked the horse. The horse didn’t pick them.

You’ll notice they love to fall back on this “just a joke” thing. It’s a theme. Like when you’ve ironically used the word “rizz” enough that it’s no longer ironic. That’s what they’re going for.

Smells like bait.

I suppose it would help the Russians to get the left to buy into some disinformation. Then you can later call it out and use that example to discredit Russia’s election influence.

If they rigged the election, they rigged it everywhere, in nearly every county throughout the United States. I don’t think they’re capable of that.

Did they also rig AOC’s district? Because there were a number of voters who voted for both her and Trump.

I get that you’re saying this out of frustration, and it’s true. But it doesn’t help. We need people like this to come forward. We need to beat this drum enough that even some of the idiot Trump supporters get it.

The most important thing is that he still has something like 45% public support. Until that number drops, we’re stuck with this. If this can help chip away at that 45% then it’s more than welcome.

Does it mean that anonymous social media can’t exist without state actors using it to push propaganda?

I also don’t want everything I’ve posted to social media to be attached to my resume when I’m applying for jobs.

I’ve thought about some kind of system where a trusted actor would have access linking individuals actual names to pseudo-anonymous online identities. But one, that’s a stretch. Two, Elon would have downloaded that database first. And three, it doesn’t even fully solve the problem. Maybe you can make it a crime to allow foreign individuals to use your verified social media account.

But all that’s just spitballing on the bleeding edge of social media. And our government isn’t exactly known for being on the bleeding edge of tech.

I do think something like this could be good for the German government in particular.

The Nazis may not get broken in the East without the Americans and the Allies in the West.

We have plenty of things to be Anti-American about right now without trying to cherry pick, and oddly frame WWII.

They’ll just find a way to get out of it. Like reinvesting in the long term reputation of their companies and investing in their workers.

Just stop testing, duh.

allow the US to leave the conflict quickly

… we’ve always had that option? We don’t need an offer from Putin.

And you’re the sort of person to call me a Nazi at the slightest provocation.

People like Bradley Hart write books like that as a cautionary tale. People like you just abuse any chance you get to shit on America.

There’s better unethical stuff in South America. You should spend your efforts there.

And if you’re on the jury, you never say the words “jury nullification”. It technically isn’t allowed, and you can be removed from the jury.

But if you just think there’s reasonable doubt, then nothing can be done.