The US needs to legalize drugs, if they don’t, there will continue to be a market and cartels will serve that market. That’s not something Mexico can control, so the next best option is to drive them out of Mexico.

Yes, remaining silent works, but explicitly invoking your rights is better. At any rate, don’t tell the cops anything unless your lawyer tells you to.

Lol.

I’m religious and Christian (and went to church today), I just think a lot of Christian denominations are manipulative. Jesus taught love and peace, and worrying about going to hell doesn’t jive with that. My understanding of a loving God is that you’ll get more than you deserve, whether you accept Christ or not, and that will be based on what you did with what you had.

I’m super uncomfortable with the amount of manipulation in religion…

Oddly, you have to actually assert that right in many jurisdictions. In the US, say something like “I plead the fifth” or “I choose to remain silent” and assert your right to an attorney, and shut up until the attorney comes and only speak at the discretion of the attorney. Just staying silent opens you up to attempted manipulation, whereas they must provide an attorney if requested and the attorney may have options to strike some of the manipulation while you wait for the attorney.

I’ve never understood the concept of original sin. Catholics teach that babies likely go to hell (though less bad hell than murderers?), many Protestants teach that free will is effectively dead, etc.

What’s crazy is that Christians apparently believe we can inherit sin but not debt, and that children of criminals deserve a fresh start instead of finishing their parents’ sentence(s). Why do we only inherit the type of sin that requires the church to exist to eradicate? That’s stupid.

It seems more reasonable that everyone is responsible for their own actions. Surely the Adam story is more about having the opportunity to prove ourselves and not the requirement to find the right church before we die, and if we don’t have the chance or we pick wrong, we’re screwed.

So many people? I’m pretty sure it’s one person.

Ew, I used node.js for years and I am very glad I stopped. There are much better options…

Exactly!

The one I build for work definitely does since we do things like manipulate 3D models. The majority of sites just present information and costs would go down significantly if they used a static site generator.

But tech and privacy experts have warned that the laws bring with them some unavoidable downsides, including potentially driving people to seedier corners of the web.

Hmm, if only there was something in history (cough Prohibition cough drug bans cough piracy cough) that could’ve predicted this. It’s almost like people will do the easier thing when the legal thing is harder to do.

It is, but if you ask for a hamburger with cheese, I’m going to look at you weird, and I’ll ask if you want the cheese melted.

At In-N-Out, it would be a 5x5 (five by five). That sounds reasonable to me.

Yeah, Mexico needs a lot more than tech investment, they need:

• functioning law enforcement - bribing officers is very much a thing pretty much everywhere
• safe highways - high robbery is very much a thing, and it’s highly recommended to hire local drivers who know which roads are safer
• crush the cartels

High tech investment needs law and order, and that’s not consistent in Mexico. Fix that and maybe people will stop fleeing the country. Education is important too, but the country first needs to be a place foreigners feel comfortable relocating to, because that will be necessary to set up shop.

My point is that any solution here will be used for tracking, because that’s in the interests of both regulators and regulated entities. It’s not going to solve the original problem because kids are great at finding workarounds, and it will cause harm to those who follow the rules.

I also could devise a technical solution here that respects users’ privacy and is effective, but once it’s implemented, it will be changed to violate privacy. That’s how these things work.

Easy:

• companies have a vested interest in identifying you (ads, data brokers, etc)
• governments have a vested interest in tracking you (local police, terrorism tracking, etc)

I don’t trust the government and private interests to come to an agreement that somehow benefits citizens more than their combined interests.

This makes me sad…

My favorite Mexican place is a local place where the staff doesn’t speak English well. Their salsa bar is amazing and all the food is super fresh and flavorful.

Yeah, I’ve never understood those “detox” diets or whatever. It seems like they’re doing fasting w/ extra steps…

And that’s generally how I interpret stuff that sounds like nonsense. I know just enough about mitochondria from a high school health class that I basically ruled out RFK’s statements as nonsense. I know they essentially produce energy for the cell, and that doesn’t sound like something that would be widespread, and if it was, it wouldn’t be observable with a passing glance, and it’s certainly not something that would be unique to “kids these days.”

That said, if my doctor said something like that, I’d give it more attention and ask questions. RFK doesn’t seem to know what he’s talking about, but my doctor does.

Yeah, it looks cool, but I’m not really in a position to be a guinea pig. If they were around 2 years ago, I probably would’ve given it a shot.

I am looking for another phone at some point in the next year (kids getting about that age), so if I hear good things, I might just pull the trigger. It is a bit chonkier than my current phone, which isn’t great (30mm longer, 10mm wider, and 110g heavier), but according to reviews, it seems to fix all the issues I have w/ the PinePhone.

Who knows, maybe your review will push me over the edge in deciding to get it.

Eh, you’d want something like this to run something custom, because there’s going to be a lot of iteration and it’ll be harder to push things through a distribution they don’t control.

It seems to be Debian based and has some customizations to make work w/ Android apps nicer (Halium support).

I would personally prefer PostmarketOS, but I’d be fine w/ that being a community effort as long as Furilabs doesn’t block installing alternatives.

Yes, grace is to cover for natural human failings (Romans 3: 23-24). But we also need to do our part to show our faith (James 2:14-26). It is the faith that saves you, but it is works that keep that faith alive. Works alone (going through the motions) isn’t sufficient, nor is faith alone, though we are judged based on our faith and not our works, that much seems clear.

you can’t do something here that really would earn you eternal damnation

I don’t think that’s consistent with the majority of religious thought. For example, Judas Iscariot is commonly accepted as having been damned, so surely there is something you can do to earn eternal damnation, according to Protestantism. In fact, the rule here seems to be pretty simple, to earn damnation, you need to not accept Jesus as your savior, and it seems that, given 1 Peter 3:19-20, you have a chance at that after this life (i.e. if you would’ve accepted Jesus in life, you receive salvation even if you didn’t have the opportunity in life). You don’t get damnation for regular sin, only for that denial.

My personal belief here is a bit different than the protestant one. I don’t think the Bible really supports there being one heaven and one hell, but instead something like this:

• damnation/hell - completely cut off from God because you never accepted him in the first place
• spirit prison - some kind of holding place where you await judgement and are given a chance to accept Jesus if you didn’t have it in life
• heaven - reward for your faith in life, and the reward likely includes some form of additional progression/learning (God is truth, so life with God means life w/ truth, i.e. learning)

The Bible isn’t clear on what the next life is actually like, but it does seem to imply there’s something comparable to this life after we die, provided we exercise faith in Jesus (else why would we need a resurrection?). I think the top priority for God is to ensure we’re comfortable in the next life, so putting someone who denied Jesus in his presence for eternity wouldn’t really fit, they’d instead feel more comfortable away from God’s presence, and the “suffering” is probably largely based on knowing what they could have had (i.e. guilt).

That’s my take reading between the lines. But the important part is generally agreeing that faith is the most import and works are merely there to reinforce that faith, and that we’ll be rewarded based on our faith, not our works.

I disagree. The only time the police should invade your privacy is with a valid warrant, and only to the extent of the warrant.

The police shouldn’t be able to monitor transactions at large for illegal activity, nor should they be to attain a broad warrant to check for illegal transactions if you’re merely suspected of an unrelated crime.

If that means more criminals go free, I’m okay with that. But it should also mean we train our police better to account for the higher difficulty of police work given the protection of our rights.