After seeing someone doing 1000 days of coding, I wanted to start with a good goal, so for 2025, I am going to do a Year of Code daily programming. Still working out exactly what and how I want to share each day, but I plan on post here and at yearofcode.webluke.net
@TheRMVoice Not sure why we as a society put up with non-human “enforcement” of rules and regulations. They will only increase the use of this type of crap, that's the end goal of thousands of Flock cameras costing us ~$10.5M a year, is to make the money back with fees.
New cameras don’t just catch you speeding—they track your average speed over time. Go 10 mph over, and a $75 ticket could be on the way. Big Brother, but for your commute.
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@iluminatibot Welcome to the reason they want “age verification,” aka Digital ID, in the OS of your phone, tablet, computer, or any other communication device.
At the WEF, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez calls for the abolition of anonymity on social media.
He argues that linking user accounts to a European digital identity is essential to tackle "misinformation" and "hate speech."
@mattvanswol Guess they should all be fired, lose their retirement, and new standards be issued. If they refuse to do their job, then they can go. It's not like test scores and grades have improved nationwide over the past 10 years.
Just so we are ALL CLEAR on what happened today...
Educators and school administrators single-handedly CANCELLED SCHOOL for 700,000 North Carolina students...
...INCLUDING MY SON!!!
To wave signs around in the street instead.
The signs vary from:
a) F**K ICE!!!
b) Defeat Trump's Agenda
c) Trump is a N*ZI
d) ICE OUT!!!
e) Protect trans kids
f) Refuse fascism
g) Stop bombing schools
DO NOT TELL ME THIS WAS ABOUT KIDS.
IT NEVER WAS.
This was ADULTS using 700,000 children, INCLUDING MINE, as political leverage against a president they don't like.
That is despicable.
You know better... DO BETTER.
@embergock@SenRandPaul@KelleyAshbyPaul I finally made it big on the internet 🏆, some loser called me a name of a group that doesn't exist other than within the Far Left.
I am introducing a Constitutional Amendment to end Birthright Citizenship.
Under current interpretations of American law, anyone born on American soil automatically becomes a U.S. citizen, regardless of whether the parent was here legally or not. This is wrong and not at all the intent of those who wrote the 14th Amendment.
We are a country filled with immigrants, and legal immigration is valuable and should be protected. But we are also a country whose borders have been too open and our generosity exploited too often. President Trump has moved to seal our border from illegal immigrants more than any other president.
But we will have more to do.
We need to make sure that only children born to legal residents of the U.S. are automatically citizens. I have supported protecting birthright citizenship from abuse since the beginning of my tenure in the Senate, when I cosponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011, and now I am proposing an amendment to protect United States citizenship in case the Supreme Court fails to address this issue correctly.
CEO of the Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Lindsey Hooper, claims that water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. She proposes classifying them as assets and placing them on a global balance sheet.
“So, the stories about having to pay for a breath of air will soon no longer be gloomy jokes, but a very real prospect.”
Seems common sense that none citizens, visiting legally or illegally, should ever have access to citizens' welfare systems. Somehow, the generosity of the USA has allowed people to get on welfare, citizenship to people who happen to be born in the country, and legal / voting power. End the loopholes!
Year after year, the federal government wastes billions on unnecessary programs, including welfare benefits for illegal immigrants. Pass my End Welfare for Noncitizens Act and put an end to this.
@TheRMVoice Strange how the Far Left doesn't have kids, kills their kids before birth, abuses your kids into their rainbow cult, then tries to change laws with the “think of the children” lie attached. It gets the Boomers and GenX to allow them to do whatever, so they get away with it.
@SydneyLWatson People or bots, come up with the so many “what abouts” to try and justify the broken insurance system. They are also the ones who say “healthcare” costs too much. Failing to understand that insurance companies set payment, treatment, and more, the doctor is just for suggestions.
@SydneyLWatson People keep talking about how they pay $25k+ a year on insurance and have a $10k+ deductable. Put that money in a savings account for a year, and pay for the few office visits you may have out of that, and you will be better off.
Seen a lot of conversation about how predatory the American medical system is.
So I will weigh in.
I ended up going to the ER about 2 weeks ago for crippling pain. Turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. I was there for MAYBE 4 hours.
My bill? $13,500 dollars.
Because I'm uninsured (by choice, that shit is a SCAM), the hospital dropped my bill down to $8,100 and some change as an "uninsured" discount.
For starters, $13,500 for a 4 hour hospital visit is insane as it is.
But the fact the hospital can wipe $5,000 off the bill "just because" should show you how utterly fucked this system is.
And to be clear - $8,000 is still an absolutely insane sum of money when all these people did was scan my stomach and give me some pain killers.
On my itemized bill, my CT scan was 7k. The iodine they used was $900. Just being in the ER room alone was $2,500.
We phoned the hospital to haggle. They dropped the price by $20.
Normal people can't survive this shit. I do okay and $8,000 is still an INSANE chunk of money out of my savings.
Anyone who argues this isn't a disgusting, predatory system is crazy. And it is even crazier that Americans accept this.
And for those of you who argue this is the free market, I need you to be quiet. There can never be a true free market here when government and insurance have their creepy little fingers in this pie.
People shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. This has to change.
@RealHickory@Jamierodr14 He could never “win” an election if he couldn't cheat. No one knew who this clown was until he wouldn't pass the simple citizenship requirement to vote. He must be making some good money to oppose this.
Judas John Thune making excuses to not pass the SAVE America Act using the standing filibuster because "they" don't have enough time.
The real reason is because Traitor Thune doesn't want to!
@brockpierson Used Linux at college for 6 months, my C++ code was worse, I had problems with both my laptop and desktop, and I was less productive. The only good thing was that the main game I played had a mostly working native Linux client. Switching back to Windows and VS was amazing
@amuse This doesn't look like Ukraine is winning. It looks like Russia is holding the line, and Ukraine is struggling to find more young men to get killed.
@iluminatibot Pretty sure it was before my teens when Y2K was the crazy new thing, and seeing my dad say nothing would happen, but he still bought MREs despite the amount of food we already had stocked from living out of town in the mountains, and my stepmom enjoyed canning.
@PeterSweden7 It's about Internet ID and Censorship. They are taking the same system used by the CCP to track what people are doing online. It has nothing to do with kids, other than tricking Boomers and GenX into supporting the laws.
Isn't it weird how governments all over the world suddenly and simultaneously want to ban children under 15 (or 16) from social media?
Does this seem organic to you or is this a coordinated effort to control the internet?
We're excited to introduce Ocelot, an open-source and Brave-trained AI model built specifically to summarize web content.
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