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Don’t blame me for Project 2025, I voted for Kamala Harris.
If you are on my profile wonder if I’m a bot posting so often, no, I just have no life. Pls don’t judge.
- Comment on Couldn't governments just remotely disable phones nearby to prevent evidence of police brutality from being recorded? 17 hours ago:
Damn, this is so depressing.
I mean I guess they won’t have to do censorship anymore, with AI, they could just lie and say its deepfake or whatever.
- Comment on Couldn't governments just remotely disable phones nearby to prevent evidence of police brutality from being recorded? 18 hours ago:
How would that backdoor be activated?
See, phones could be preloaded with a malware that make it so that it doesn’t actually turn off radios (like wifi bluetooth or celluar) when you change the settings, and only stops transmitting and goes to passive listening only. Once they detect a certain signal, like when police activates it in a protest, the phone then activates and disables recording, and maybe also disable trasmission of data.
I mean this is just hypothetical. I don’t know if they are doing this, or if they can. But like when you think about it, its quite possible.
There are already reports of malware that fakes a shut down animation and silently records in the background, and execute remote commands.
- Comment on Couldn't governments just remotely disable phones nearby to prevent evidence of police brutality from being recorded? 18 hours ago:
Apple has a patent that is designed to allow concerts to disable iphone cameras to I assume “avoid distractions” or whatever. That could be exploited by the police. Luckily apple never implemented that in iOS.
So its not inpossible.
A government could mandate a manufacturer to install a backdoor that disables the camera to be used (or even disable communications if they wanted) that activates when nearby police send a certain signal, then the phone receiving the signal would disable whatever fuctions it wanted. This would allow them to just kill protesters then falsely claim that the protesters were rioting and using violence.
- Comment on Couldn't governments just remotely disable phones nearby to prevent evidence of police brutality from being recorded? 18 hours ago:
Lol its not new. I once saw on reddit that apple filed a patent that allows concerts to emit a signal to prevent recording because… reasons…
Then people in the comments were like “Police could misuse this”
I mean I could see why the US couldn’t do this. Constitution stuff and all, but just wonder why dictatorships don’t just do it, they have all the power to.
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- Comment on Pluto's Orbit 21 hours ago:
Hopefully the AI Contruct that we will create will be able to witness it.
Because I don’t think humans are surviving that long.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
It is a democracy.
Not a good type, but still a democracy.
Remember, Democracy and Autocracy isnt binary states of its either a Full Totalitarian Regime or a Full Direct Flawless Democracy.
There’s a sliding scale in between.
We don’t just go from Monarchies to a perfect Utopian Flawless Democratic system. Change is incremental.
I do agree with the sentiment that 2 party system isn’t really a good idea, that very much need to be changed.
But its not like the constitution says “The United States shall be a 2-party system”, its an emergent property of First-Past-The-Post electoral systems. But unfortunately, human brains always look for the first thing they think of, I mean “Most Votes Win” sounds simple right. People never thought about the fact that “Most” doesn’t mean majority, but by the time people realize, its too late, people go too used to it.
But its still a democracy, a very very flawed democracy. But if you argue that First-Past-The-Post isn’t a democracy, then most of the world are living in dictatorships.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
Not really. Not to be dismissive of the harms of a 2nd term trump.
But you have to understand what American history has been.
People were literally enslaved in the early days, then the country was literally at war with itself over slavery. Then Jim Crow and Segregation. Black people were lynched. White mobs would kill black people.
Chinese people were targeted by the Chinese Exclusion Act and banned from entry, some were US Citizens too and they weren’t except either.
The US had a major economic crash in 1929. Got into 2 world wars. American Citizens of Japanese ancestry were literally arrested and held in camps because of their ancestry. Went through cols war, the red scare, mccathyism. People randomly getting accused of being “communists” and arrested. Unions get cracked down. Protests were brutally suppressed, more violently than in modern day. Black people protesting for their rights and took a bus down south got burned. Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. literally got assassinated.
That is the American history.
And here we are, through such a shitty history, democracy survived, and voting rights expanded to so many people. First to Black people, then to Women.
Back then a majority of the population supported segregation, institutionalized racism. But today, a majority of people are okay with interracial marriage.
I have high hopes we can survive another trump term.
It won’t be pleasent, but we’ll survive.
- Comment on What do you create? 1 day ago:
I create stupid jokes and sarcastic comments on Lemmy.
But mostly just a lot of CO²
And a lot of um… excretions, liquids and soilds, ya know…
I wanted to do worldbuilding and write a story but my depression kinda derailed that 😓
- Comment on What do you create? 1 day ago:
You made Discord?
🤔
When is the Chaos app gonna be released and how is it different from the Discord app?
- Comment on Ideal world 2 days ago:
Um… no thanks 😅 I’m fine the way I am, I don’t really like bullet holes on me… 🫠
And I kinda said EU, not Europe, a slight distinction. 😉
- Comment on Ideal world 2 days ago:
Do I get a visa to a EU country?
Anyone willing to sponsor? Im a dude but I’d be willing to suck a dick if I have to. Gay marriage is legal in EU, no? 😉
/justkidding lol too depressed to even have the will to live… maybe I’ll get lucky and become the next #TankMan and get immortalized forever? I’d like a wikipedia page, seems fun.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
We might have the first president in the history of our country that we have enough evidence to prove beyond a resonable doubt who is indeed a pedophile if enough people in the line of sucession dies.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Sorry I didn’t get the parody. My mind is filled with post-election despair. 😖
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Charisma doesn’t matter when you are the most powerful person in the country.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Already asked like hours ago 🙄
Answer:
If trump died before the Electoral Votes are cast, they wouldn’t be bound to vote for him and can vote for anyone, but its almost certainly going to be vance. Then either vance or RNC picks someone else to be the new VP to tells the electors to now instead of voting: [Pres: trump VP: vance] its now [Pres: vance VP: whoever they find to take this role]
If both trump and vance died before the electoral votes are cast, then RNC find 2 new people to tell their electors to vote for.
(Remember Electors are selected by their parties and are usually party loyalists that aren’t gonna vote for the opposing party. Think of people like Former President Obama being an elector in his state for the democratic ticket, he aint voting trump ever, and same thing with a loyal maga supporter, they aint ever switching to vote Democrat.)
If trump died after the electoral votes are cast, vance takes the oath and become 47th president, VP is empty. vance can appoint someone to be VP with simple majority of both houses.
If both trump and vance died after the electoral votes are cast, the speaker of the house, mike johnson, swears in as Acting President (after being required to resign as speaker of the house) for the rest of the term or until someone else above them in the line of sucession becomes available to be acting president. (We dont know what happens if acting president mike johnson nominates a VP since the new VP would be above him in the line of sucession)
Only VP takes the title of “President”, everyone else in the line of sucession is not designated by the constitution but is only statutory.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 3 days ago:
Because most countries have been patriarchal for most of human history. Old habits die hard.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 3 days ago:
If trump dies, vance is gonna baselessly claim democrats assassinated him and immediately invoke the insurrection act and martial law, ordering the military to hunt down democrats.
Remember his ohio “haitian are eating our cats” rhetoric? Imagine when he has a position of power.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 3 days ago:
I think in the constitutional sense, “President-elect” and “Vice President-elect” refers to the candidates after the electoral college votes and before they take office. The constitution doesn’t take into account popular votes, as presidential electors aren’t even chosen by popular vote in early days.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 3 days ago:
If trump died before the Electoral Votes are cast, they wouldn’t be bound to vote for him and can vote for anyone, but its almost certainly going to be vance. Then either vance or RNC picks someone else to be the new VP to tells the electors to now instead of voting: [Pres: trump VP: vance] its now [Pres: vance VP: whoever they find to take this role]
If both trump and vance died before the electoral votes are cast, then RNC find 2 new people to tell their electors to vote for.
(Remember Electors are selected by their parties and are usually party loyalists that aren’t gonna vote for the opposing party. Think of people like Former President Obama being an elector in his state for the democratic ticket, he aint voting trump ever, and same thing with a loyal maga supporter, they aint ever switching to vote Democrat.)
If trump died after the electoral votes are cast, vance takes the oath and become 47th president, VP is empty. vance can appoint someone to be VP with simple majority of both houses.
If both trump and vance died after the electoral votes are cast, the speaker of the house, mike johnson, swears in as Acting President (after being required to resign as speaker of the house) for the rest of the term or until someone else above them in the line of sucession becomes available to be acting president. (We dont know what happens if acting president mike johnson nominates a VP since the new VP would be above him in the line of sucession)
Only VP takes the title of “President”, everyone else in the line of sucession is not designated by the constitution but is only statutory.
- Comment on rip frend 3 days ago:
Okay I saw the one with the cat and this one is just creepy for some reason.
- Comment on Anon plays pretend 4 days ago:
Anon should just do a stream and do their best and hope one of the popular streamers/youtubers pity them and give them a donation and a shoutout to a massive audience.
Pity views better than no views.
- Comment on Anon misses a hint 4 days ago:
She needed help with her physics class assignments, Anon dodged a bullet.
- Comment on AI slop animal abuse 4 days ago:
reddit.com/r/EyeBlech
- Comment on Horse denier 4 days ago:
That makes me wonder. I haven’t even been to like most of the countries on the planet, how do I even know they are real? 🤔
I never even met any of you irl, how do I know y’all aren’t bots? 🤔🤔🤔
- Comment on Journalist asking the hard questions 6 days ago:
My comment has been edited to clarify what I meant.
- Comment on make it make sense 6 days ago:
“Democrats are creating hurricane to kill republicans”
Also
“Climate change isn’t man-made”
- Comment on Journalist asking the hard questions 6 days ago:
Diplomatic immunity, technically felon trump isn’t stepping into the country, there is a bubble of “USA” around him.
Physically he is there, but whatever country’s jurisdiction doesn’t apply to him. Or any diplomat for that matter. 😓
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 6 days ago:
mass mail-in voting, which has the same downsides as online voting
What exactly do you mean, the same downsides?
Mail ballots require physical presence to tamper with, so if you have armed guards + security cameras watching the drop box, most tampering threats can be prevented, at the same time, no one knows who the voter really voted for since envelopes are sealed.
In contrast, internet connections are really easy to tamper with. Most people just blindly click past https warnings, and thats just the most basic attacks, there are more sophisticated attacks. Not to mention, you dont even need physical presense. Anyone, anywhere around the world can hack an online vote.
- Comment on How would American culture change if the internet went down? 6 days ago:
You mean people have to actually go outside? 😱
Nah I rather in my echochambers no thank you.