Does it count if I already know whiskey is bad for me?

That’s comparable to alcohol. I’d be good with that.

The illegality of production and sale makes the drugs far more likely to be adulterated or a concentration other than advertised, which kills people. Prohibition causes black markets, which leads to people resolving disputes through violence since they can’t use the courts.

Legalization would make all of that go away, almost instantly.

Robespierre thought killing tens of thousands of people was defense. History has not been kind to that position.

Can you think of anything that happened in the past month or so, perhaps involving US politics, that might have a tendency to radicalize people?

I like small phones and I agree with you.

OP asked for “relatively smaller”, which I took as acknowledgment of the current state of the market where nothing is much under 6".

That may be overstating it. Here are 8 recent Android phones with a headphone jack, card shot, and screen no bigger than 6.2".

I didn’t check current prices, OS update plans, or camera samples for these.

I think all drugs should be legal. I think using most of them is a bad idea.

I couldn’t help but notice Blue Cross rescinded its very dangerous policy placing a time limit on anesthesia the day after the murder.

I don’t want a reign of terror, but perhaps just a little bit of terror will have CEOs thinking they could be next when considering especially harmful policies.

Not any more than any other subsidy is.

Actually nullifying a debt a borrower owes to a lender, which the government guaranteed would be paid at the time the loan was issued would be akin to theft. As far as I know, all programs that “cancel” student loan debt are actually the government paying the balance to the issuer.

I run Linux on a Thinkpad P14S III with a Ryzen 6850u. It has been a trouble-free experience, and if there’s any way in which it is not optimized, it masks that by being very fast.

Why do you need this if you don’t use analytics or store anything but a session? It looks like the GDPR and CCPA don’t require a notice or consent for session cookies, shopping carts, or similar features that are strictly necessary to provide functionality the user is intentionally accessing.

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When Microsoft first proposed this sort of crap, it was widely seen as a nightmare scenario. Now, it seems as if only a few of us open source nerds care.

prevent screenshots or copying from an encrypted chat

Aside from the obvious analog hole, that’s only possible if the user’s device cooperates, which is never guaranteed.

There is no way to send messages to someone’s device and guarantee they won’t provide them to a third party. Technology can’t force an untrustworthy person to keep your secrets.

Signal does not attempt to stop me from taking screenshots, and all chats on Signal are encrypted.

Instagram has long maintained a login wall, so I’m not surprised to see one on Threads. That means they hate the open web, not necessarily federation.

I do assume bad faith when it comes to Meta, and I suspect their middling, slow implementation of ActivityPub here is mostly intended to discourage antitrust actions against them.

The headline is a bit misleading. The government had a warrant to search the phone, which required repair before they could do so. The court ruled that repairing the phone was not a separate search requiring a separate warrant.

Federated systems handle free speech very well; you can run your own server and post anything you want there without interference from other server admins. You have 100% freedom of speech with Lemmy.

You do not, however have 100% freedom of reach. If your server is a frequent source of content or behavior other admins find unacceptable, most of them will block it.

I’m surprised so many criminals are picking these niche services that haven’t had their security verified by trustworthy third parties. That’s just asking for trouble.

I’d rather people be able to trust their local police for protection than want to rely on themselves

Even if the police were trustworthy, they’re usually not fast enough to interrupt crimes in progress, especially in rural areas.