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Judge Sets a Trial Date for Next May in Trump’s Classified Documents Case in Florida
  • What forcing function is there to make sure Trump's lawyers are actually looking over the evidence. I strongly suspect that they are being given time to look over discovery but are merely planning on throwing out another excuse when May comes by. Those excuses will likely sound like, "well we need more time, nevermind the fact that we actually had time to do the thing."

  • France set to allow police to spy through phones
  • Is this new law allowing the police to go to carrier companies and demanding to know the phone numbers of people near the riots, or is this closer to the police using your camera without your permission? I would have thought security restrictions on devices would have blocked such intrusive ability.

  • Noob Question: If you aren't willing to deal with custom OSes like Linux (for computers) and Android Custom Roms (for phones), do you just not have any privacy at all?
  • It depends on what you consider spying. The vast majority of devices want some form of push notification capability, which requires being connected to Microsoft/Google/Apple servers, and thus the company knows your IP address. But doing pretty much anything on the internet and you expose your IP address.

    If what you mean by spying you think it is looking at what app/program you are doing, recording your keystrokes, recording what your camera sees, the vast majority of devices don't do any of this. Those are done on hacked laptops and school laptop admins that are either creepy and unchecked or overly intrusive.

    Somewhere between these two extremes you would say it crosses the boundary into spying. You don't need a custom OS to stop it unless you your threshold is all the way to the push notification level.

  • Is there any more ethical solution to our current circumstances than "murder all billionaires"?
  • The problem isn't the exact rate, it is their ability to pay for tax experts so they can avoid having most of their wealth taxed at all. This is why Biden wanted to beef up the IRS and sic them on billionaires. Scrutinize the cracks they slip through.

  • ELI5: If you're a Christian, why do you have to be good if Jesus will forgive you no matter what?
  • God will forgive who he chooses to forgive, but of us we are required to forgive all. Implicit in this is that God's forgiveness is not automatically given to everyone. It is offered to everyone freely. Christ has already paid the price, but it is up to us to accept that gift and repent of our sins. Not repenting means that well suffer for those sins in the afterlife, but doing so won't mean we then get to go to heaven. Our reward is dependent on how we lived up to the truths we understood in life. Christ invites us to repent and live a higher life, a holier life, a life of continual repentance.

  • Supreme Court rejects independent state legislature theory in major election law case
  • Wasn't there an attempt to have electors vote for whoever wins the popular vote. It was contingent on enough states joining forces. I forgot what it's name is, but wouldn't such a thing rely on electors being able to vote dynamically?

  • Facebook and Instagram to restrict news access in Canada
  • Spain also tried to tell Google News to pay up for what they offered for free to people. Google simply shut it down. I haven't checked up to see if news agencies floundered, went elsewhere or thrived as the rich touted would happen.

    Canada is claiming the same issues. I suspect there is a symbiotic relationship between news agencies and social media that connects eyes with publishers.

    I agree with the general sentiment that Facebook users are more siloed than those heading to Google News. But paying to show a snippet just isn't feasible.

  • Reddit’s average daily traffic fell during blackout, according to third-party data | Engadget
  • Those 5 million users didn't seem to come here? We still have improvements to make a layman resume their reddit activity here. This just seems like a loss of the community overall.

    But if the same percentage of people come over we are looking at roughly a 10x growth, at a minimum.