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They got manufacturing, shipping, or warehouse jobs.

Why are they scared to do that?

Nice. Looks like the frontend is Next on Vercel? Curious to hear more about your stack for this if you want to share.

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Or create the conditions for the rise of electric hotrods.

If cars are computers on wheels now, seems time to buy a case and components and put it together instead of just gettin' a Dell.

Ford's electric crate motor is out now: https://performanceparts.ford.com/part/M-9000-MACHE

They did change the link from https://live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/joan-donovan-...

Yep thanks for clarifying/correcting.

They were charged, but the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/supreme-court-rules-in-favor...

Has it been that long...? I'll take another look.

Fair point, looks like they're third party but easy to manage through the browser directly:

https://www.samsung.com/my/support/apps-services/how-to-bloc...

Curious by which metric(s) you consider Samsung Internet Browser superior to Chrome for Android?

What are you talking about?

It does seem like the simplest explanation for why Samsung both makes their own Android apps and seems to consistently half-ass them, is because they're meant to serve as leverage for negotiating with Google, not something they expect many end users to actually use.

Yeah we definitely got what we paid for with Operation Cyclone. Unclear how things would have unfolded if Soviet expansion hadn't been opposed though.

Did the 11 year old set up and pay for internet access?

Sounds more like an 11 year old stole their parents' rental car and the family turned around and sued the rental car company. It's a stretch to even suggest Omegle was akin to "rental car company" since they didn't charge, it was more like a P2P car sharing app.

A bipartisan bill confirming our right to also repair our personal electronic devices will be considered in the Maine Senate in January.

https://twitter.com/miketipping/status/1722101497683382286

That seems to be the problem across most industries in the U.S.

Seems expected after the courts stopped enforcing the Sherman Antitrust Act and started allowing vertical restraints.

> That is my point. You made a claim but have no evidence to prove it.

I'm not claiming anything, it's right there on https://penobscotnation.org. Reach out to Chief Francis or the council if you have questions on their assertions.

> I don't think you understand what my point even is if you think I am doubting anybody's sovereignty.

Good to hear, that doesn't really seem to be the case among Mainers. Note that the Penobscot River has legally been a citizen of the Penobscot Nation since 2018. The State of Maine has repeatedly disputed their claims and legally challenged their sovereignty, finally losing their battle to control pollution in the river last year: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/22-year-court-battle-ends-justi...

> I don't think being the earliest inhabitants of an area gives permanent ownership.

Okay, so who should control the Levant then?

I understand how one could extrapolate from other geopolitical tensions, but there doesn't seem to be much uncertainty in this case regarding Penobscot claims. Yes they lost most of their wider territory through illegal treaties, but they never lost their "capital" on Indian Island. I'm not aware of any other New World peoples who weren't displaced from their ancestral headquarters by European settlers and have maintained continuity of government since before Columbus set sail.

The Penobscots asserted their claim on over half of the land in Maine in the 1970s, and reached a settlement for over $80M in 1980, which they've used to acquire more territory [1]. The only question has been over sovereignty, specifically in terms of environmental rights, with the State of Maine taking on both the tribe and the feds in their failed battle for control over the river.

1. https://generationallandscapesblog.wordpress.com/sugar-islan...

The people, in the U.S. We can strike down any federal statute, call a convention, and simply dissolve the federal government and create a new one whenever popularly desired.

There's no monopoly on arms in this country. Every able-bodied male between 17 and 45 is in the militia and we keep a gun behind every blade of grass.

In this case, the nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy.

Uh, what do you think we can "actually determine" from before recorded history?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_millennium_BC

I used to live on the next island over (French Island), and your clueless questioning of Penobscot sovereignty is disappointing. Would you also suggest that maybe Natufians should control the Levant?

Without the European conquest, the Wabanakis may have actually been crushed by the expanding Iroquois Confederacy. Hence they, along with other Algonquin nations, joined the Americans in the Revolution, while many Iroquois sided with the British.

The Penobscots, one of the member nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy, have never been displaced from Indian Island (since settling there ~11k years ago), and acquired significant additional land holdings since the 1970s.

Yeah, in the U.S. the people retain sovereignty instead, and our Constitution, the first codified constitution in history, provides a narrow set of powers for the federal government that serves us, written after we defeated the most powerful empire up to that point near the peak of their power in the first successful war of independence.

Statutes can always be tossed or repealed, but our rights may only be overturned via amendment (Gödel's hack).

Wabanakis also fought the British and maintained their freedom.

https://www.penobscothistory.com/historic-preservation/12-tr...

The Penobscot Nation, the oldest government in the Western hemisphere, has never been conquered.

Looks like they're running cherries jubilee instead of bananas foster this month:

https://thegrillnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/THE-G...

> What would the advantages of significantly increasing the number of representatives be?

Better representation, obviously. This is like asking the advantage of increasing the number of pixels on a screen.

How many average constituents per member is right? We're not going back to <50k constituents per member like the U.S. in the 1790s or Nordic countries today, but unclear why we can't get under 300k per constituent like Mexico or Australia.

We're an extreme outlier in OECD countries:

https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/enlarging-the-house/...

Looking at federations instead of unitary states, Mexico has ~250k per member, about 3x better than the U.S., while Australia has under 200k per member. Germany has only a little over 100k per member.

Potential effects of better U.S. representation here: https://thirty-thousand.org

> On the other hand it's about on par with the EU parliament.

The EU is a voluntary economic union (see Brexit), the U.S. is a federation of states which may not unilaterally secede (see Texas v. White).

What issues?

Congress can't do anything about the electoral system or gerrymandering. The only beneficial structural change that Congress could make constitutionally is to repeal the Reapportionment Act of 1929.

I'm not well versed on political subdivisions in Japan or South Korea, but there appear to be prefecture/province level officials that don't sound too far out of line with states. Looks like if the U.S. had the national representation (population per seat) of Japan we would have over 1000 reps, South Korea almost 2000.

Hands waving, no points made, got it.