Matt Van Horn

Yeah, my dad worked as a commercial artist, so when I was a kid, we had a house, a Volkswagen, and yearly vacations (both domestic and abroad). But pensions were gone already, and when he was laid off, my mom helped pick up the slack by selling costume jewelry she made, and cooking for people.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Yeah, I'm expecting to find out very soon what kind of chemical and biological weapons programs they had underway.

Exactly.

"pRoBabLy sUpPorT thEm tOo"

We saw how that played out when Mamdani beat Cuomo in the primary.

That's why Cuomo got zero votes in the general, right?

I will set the over/under at 11 days.

Holy Orwell, Batman!

(I wonder what that war was like between 1953 and 1979?)

I've seen it called tradcoding. Ew.

Let's see the constraining laws first.

And then let's see some accountability, meaning "rich people getting sent to prison".

After that, I am willing to give a lot more leeway to the legislators to regulate the tools I use to support myself.

hey seattle pals

I have to reluctantly agree, but the fight should include NOT handing over a bunch of legislative weapons to the worst sort of people.

True. You don't get to be a gerontocrat without massive infusions of campaign cash.

And you don't get to stay one by voting for sensible lobbying reforms.

Exactly - but we need more Section 230 with less "Communications Decency Act" surrounding it.

Is bad regulation by corrupt actors preferable to the status quo?

Opinions vary.

I am not anti-regulation.

I am anti-(regulation by the current bunch of idiots in the legislature.)

Good regulation created the internet. And ever since a certain type of politician saw its potential, they've been throwing bad laws at it.

The FCC Kept Getting What Would Happen Without Laws and Rules Wrong Starting in 2005, the FCC began to classify broadband companies as Title I “information services” instead of Title II "telecommunications services" and no longer subjected them to competition law on the premise that broadband options would flourish and telephone would deploy fiber to the home (FTTH). Today, we know none of that happened, but what is striking about the TLPC paper’s historical analysis is the fact that every justification the FCC premised its abandonment of competition law have not panned out.

File under "sins of omission":

And how could I forget SESTA/FOSTA?

Cable Act, DMCA, and COPPA right off the bat.

There is some hyperbole involved, but I consider things like antitrust to be *business* regulation not tech regulation.

And I suppose I should have a carve-out for standards-setting as well.

Net neutrality as regulation seems to have been about as effective as trying to trowel your bathwater flat

Took me a second to parse this because "International Republican Institute" and "Islamic Resistance in Iraq"
also fit so well.

While I agree in principle, the gerontocracy has a terrible record when it comes to implementing regulations on tech products and infrastructure.

Every regulation put in place since the 90s has made the world a worse place. And many of them have empowered the worst kind of autocratic wannabes.

You mean the new Warriors remake?

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Those both sound like a lot of fun.
Hence the nickname?

I love water towers and elevated trains!
(Things I miss from NYC)

Yeah, everybody knows it’s Lesbos, not Lesbia.

Not my job.

That is literally the party's only job.

My job is to vote or stay home, or maybe, just maybe - if they find a candidate with honor and integrity, to donate a little cash, too.

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