Interesting. Possibly useful to some. I have also discovered that the simplest, most privacy-friendly way to update location is just to do it manually when you change location.
I have a simple script that does this by querying OpenStreetMap's Nominatim server with the city name. It feeds the resulting coordinates thru a Python library that deduces the timezone, and sets the system time to this.
Yes, someone else made that point and I conceded it. Unfortunately the constructive bit of this discussion got drowned out by a couple of activist types who preferred to sling mud and ad hominen insults.
Throwing around insults doesn't get you to win the argument.
Did you join one of those parties and try to do something to fix this problem, or is it always someone else's fault?
The "democratic choices of the party base" is precisely why you've got Trump on the ballot. Democracy is a good thing but you can have too much of a good thing. America's founders understood this. They thought the electoral college would be the filter to prevent authoritarian populists getting into power. In the end it was the parties that ended up serving this purpose, until the Republican party broke. So, yes, I absolutely do think you would be better off as a country if your political system had an elitist mechanism to stop would-be dictators getting their hands on power.
Yes, good point. Effectively, what I argued only applies to swing states. Completely agree that people should always vote anyway, for the reasons you outline.
The electoral college does not invalidate my argument about third parties. To vote for a third party in the US electoral system is effectively to surrender one's vote to other voters.
Trump became the GOP nominee in 2016 because the Clinton campaign claimed colluded to elevate him to the nomination
This is conspiracism. Sure, it was convenient for the Democrats, but Trump did not get where he is "because" of Democrats. Trump became the nominee because the Republicans were a hollowed out party with nobody in charge and a voter base that become radicalized and completely unmoored from the official free-market ideology. The Democrats had nothing to do with that.
As for interfering in Republican campaigns since then, yeah sure, and it's even a strategy that worked somewhat. I agree it's cynical and risky and generally a bad idea.
I'm beginning to understand why people clamor for better blocking features. I am just expressing a viewpoint and I have never so much as downvoted anyone else here, you included.
With your hysteria and insults and false accusations you are poisoning this discussion. I'm done here. Others will judge for themselves.
Please stop insulting me and accusing me of things I didn't say. Thank you.
Chill. Your arguments would be more persuasive that way.
Interesting read, somewhat enlightening.
But IMO, from the point of view of interoperability, it was bad enough having competing corporate social networks. We don't want to replace that with competing open meta-networks. And yet ActivityPub and ATProto seem to use completely different paradigms, which would make bridging them pretty hard. Frustrating.