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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Requiring every state DMV to have NSA level information security is unworkable. There is a reason everyone in this industry knows that the best way to protect information is not to collect it.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

are purged and not retained. Note the tension between verifiable audits and privacy protection. How do you prevent malicious insiders from compromising the internal controls. You are creating a gold mine for criminals and hostile state actors, how do you protect against them?

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I work in the tech industry. Sloppiness is the norm. Everything just barely works to the minimum SLAs Keep in mind you are proposing this as a legal requirement. How do you enforce it? How does a site prove that it is meeting the requirement without retaining data? How do you ensure data backups

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Six months after that is implemented, you will see the complete browsing history of half the country leaked. That's why we don't do that

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can you summarize his argument? Can he summarize his argument? If not, there is nothing to debate.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean, I took a mixed undergrad / grad level modern Japanese history course and we covered that war mostly in passing. Mostly to demonstrate just how rapid and successful the Meiji modernization efforts had been

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly all TCGs are gambling for kids, so this tracks

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mills clearly did not want to actually put forth the effort to win the seat. That she lost a Dem primary to a guy with a Nazi tattoo should be prima facie evidence that she was a weak candidate.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I took a semester on Revelation in HS, at no point was it considered a literal prophecy of the end of the world. The only other thing in 4 years of Catholic HS that even touched on it was a timeline with now, the end sometime in the future, and between those the Bengals winning the Super Bowl

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

movements of everyone in a public place, this would also cause concerns. Isn't the mosaic theory similar to this in concept?

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This will be unsatisfying but body cameras document what happens in an officers presence and an officers actions. Flock cameras are mass surveillance. Scale and data aggregation makes it a meaningful distinction. If body cameras were used to continually record and aggregated so they could track the

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Artists are not in the tech industry, Translators are not in the tech industry, Transcribers are not in the tech industry. Many small contract jobs are simply gone

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Only if you are counting salaried workers. The contract workforce is also very vulnerable, and is much broader than tech.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

as it is important to stand up for good character in the face Trump and his goons

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Actual evidence is to the contrary. Bathroom bills were political losers in swing and even red states until very recently. Republicans running on anti-trans bigotry in 2024 under performed, or at least did not out-perform. It's important to stand up for human rights in the face of oppression, just

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

All living arrangements are ultimately temporary.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Where it does matter is in-state vs out of state tuition.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Seems weird. Presumably if a student in a dorm has a part time job in MA, they will be paying MA income tax. Obviously if you are living off campus either the student or the landlord will be paying property taxes. So the distinction hardly seems to matter when it comes to taxes.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tom's position is just super weird. I can think of maybe 1 or 2 circumstances where if you maintain a domicile in a place and reside there for 75% of the year, you should not be counted as a resident.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I did my renewal in November 2024 and had it in a week

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Gankutsuo is amazing. One of the anime I had a strong emotional reaction too. But my favorite is still the original Legend of the Galactic Heroes

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's just wrong as an empirical matter to conclude anything about your first point other than the polling was off. As most primary polling is off. The error here is in line with the average.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

WWII was a bigger event. But there are few other comparable events in the 20th century. The only ones that come to mind are the Depression, WWII, and Vietnam.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It took the Great Recession to finally dislodge it.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You won't get it if you did not live through the 90's. The GWOT was a massive, massive shift from the feelings of the prior decade. Politically and socially, it was the most dominant force in the country, and it was all-encompassing. It lasted 8 years this way, an eternity in politics.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Senate Dems are still regularly voting for Admin judges and nominees. That is the one power Senate Dems actually have and they refuse to use it. If they did across the board opposition, there would at least be something tangible to point to.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Not arrogant at all. Taking the job and just not showing up would be an improvement basically across the board.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don't understand it either but I do have a fear it might somehow be my mutual funds

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It applies to anyone who gets access to protected info in the course of their job, which generally would not include members of congress

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

says anything about Vance's kids. It just says their father is behaving in a way that suggests he is willing to support and empower people who hate his children for his own gain.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The attack is: Vance sits at the top of a government that is sending masked armed goons to kidnap and imprison children that look a lot like his own. Vance's colleague Miller is out on TV dehumanizing children like Vance's kids every damn day. Vance is silent or supports all of this. None of this

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sincerely enthused to be re-posted by you. If that is your position on this case, do you think that the people complaining about Moreno and his silence about the violence his son in law in Congress inflicted on Moreno's daughter and granddaughter are bringing his kids into it?

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

AES is not targeting Vance's kids here. He's targeting Vance. Vance is so loathsome that he has not problems allowing his own children to be collateral damage in his pursuit of power

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I feel like in this situation, Grok and the user should both be treated as the speaker, as there is a coordination of effort. The user directs the creation and propagates the image, but Grok actually creates the image. Both are actors that have a hand in the speech, just in different ways

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If the existing options are distant or demonstrably inferior, then direct provisioning can make sense. It's pretty much the same argument as municipal broadband. If price is the only concern, then direct subsidy is preferable.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Was not really as big of a concern before because most people could rely on the government not launching witch hunts based on Congressional testimony. Now that is not a reasonable belief. So this is another consequence of the loss of the presumption of regularity

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

More than 1 I think. I expect most of the Cabinet would get question 1 wrong. And probably some from the WHCA as well. Also, Tuberville

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

CATO should run this survey on the WHCA, Members of Congress, SCOTUS justices, and the President and Cabinet and see what the results are.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Well, the public environment has not reinforced the correct answers for the last 12 years, so I think she might be forgiven for that.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Right. But if the Sovereign systematically and intentionally does not follow the law, then I think the law does not exist. And if that is happening, I think it is dangerous to pretend there is a law that the Sovereign is bound by

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I know the book answers. My position of late is that most of this is mythmaking and we should stop pretending that the words actually mean anything. It's just pure power politics by the SCOTUS majority. US v. Trump, Callais, many others, just put the lie to most of what we are taught in civics

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You can argue that presenting the question as stated or instead handing someone 50K, and then telling them that for 50K they can do the coin flip are materially different in some meaningful sense, but I don't think very many people would agree with you.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

the Declaration exists. 3 has many many possible answers, but the simplest historical one, and this purports to be a historical question, is "To replace the Articles of Confederation." Again, it's vague and not factual.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

1 is a live debate. Until Marbury vs. Madison the answer was different, and that case was in 1803. With US v Trump we might soon have a new answer to this question as well. All Answers to that question are a matter of historical and legal interpretation. 2. Just a very vague question, but at least

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The first 3 are not at all straightforward, and are a matter of ongoing legal and historical debate. The fourth is kind of strange to include as a civics question and is muddied by current events. Only the last 3 have hard factual answers.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

1. Congress, 2. You can refer to the declaration but there were a lot of reasons, some not included there. 3. To secure political rights and power to wealthy land owners. 4. Trump's supposed greatness apparently, given the actual celebrations this year. 5. British Empire 6. Three 7. Washington

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Look at it this way, if you choose the coin flip and lose, that cost you 50K you could have otherwise had. It's a forgone opportunity and that has a cost.

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Why should prisons be allowed to delegate critical safety roles to other inmates? Even if you allow that having an inmate perform this role is acceptable, why on earth would that remove the liability of the prison officials? How does that possibly make sense?

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soundsilenttide.bsky.social @soundsilenttide.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If I offered you the same deal but the numbers are 10 Billion and 1 Trillion, would you opt for the Trillion?

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