Skyrmir

joined 1 year ago
[–] Skyrmir@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

The term you're looking for is 'Horizontal Conduct' and it's illegal. The hard part of course is making that claim against the team of lawyers that Google would be able to field.

[–] Skyrmir@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Apparently $2mil wasn't enough to find him a lawyer.

[–] Skyrmir@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Kind of surprised it's not being challenged due to preemption by the FCC, or interstate commerce clauses. I would expect for that though, out of state companies would have to sue in federal courts.

[–] Skyrmir@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PRC has fewer people, regardless of it's political structure.

[–] Skyrmir@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

We have the technology, but not the social skills. Most of America doesn't know their next door neighbors, let alone their community. We have a lot of steps to go before direct democracy is the best solution.

[–] Skyrmir@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

Anyone can sign up to the party. He's never been elected a Democrat though. And probably never will be.

[–] Skyrmir@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Hopefully there's more movement on our electoral system like the ranked choice voting in a few states. It doesn't fix the problem, but it's a large step in the right direction.\

[–] Skyrmir@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like the Bloomberg article was about Biden calling Xi a dictator. They're not mad that it's true, they're just mad Biden said it. And of course Russia had to run to Xi's defense, because well, they know it's true of Putin too.

[–] Skyrmir@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a simple statement of current US policy. The US supports the status quo of limited independence of Taiwan under the government of China.

Mainly it's an attempt to not have to fight with China about technologies that are manufactured in Taiwan, while still keeping global access to that tech. As the US and other countries invest heavily in chip manufacturing though, it will become less and less important that Taiwan stay independent.