Bernie has been trying most of his life, but recent events have finally made it obvious enough that the average American can wrap their head around the concept and give enough of a shit to maybe consider voting based on that.
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I think it's simple enough, they're trying to convince more people that we need to get big money out of politics. Bernie is probably also trying to pass the torch (and his followers) to someone young who can continue the fight after he's gone.
Is hard to say for sure exactly how everything is going to pan out given that random dark horse events seem to drive US politics so hard. The administration could say or do something completely unhinged tomorrow that ends up galvanizing massive support for who knows what. I think AOC and Bernie rightfully recognize that they need to raise awareness of the problem to maximize the probability things go in a better direction. I don't get the feeling they're overly concerned with how that happens because completely restructuring the Dems is not a hyper likely outcome.
All that said, forcing the Dems to coalition build with a nascent anti-money faction in the same way the tech/crypto bros and libertarians were able to force the GOP to might be a possibility.
Who the fuck buys these things anyway
The problem is there's a very real risk the American people will view the move as illegitimate and prevent the land from being taken in the future, ie under a new admin that jails trump or something. The point of collateral is to reduce risks, not introduce new and exciting ones. Nobody is going to accept lower rates on this unless the aforementioned quid pro quo is real, in which case the deal is already illegal and the downside risks now include prison.
Yes this is idealistic, but the threat is still real and that's how finance people calculate interest.
Fake tweet that keeps getting recycled
It's mostly a nothing burger. You basically need to have code already running on the chips. It's less of a backdoor and more of just an undocumented function. That may sound scary but it's rather common in production chips. In some ways it's a good thing, it means there are now more possibilities for messing with the chip and doing fun stuff with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_0GzK2oAVM
Tldw: last week Dev postulated this would be the first attempt to probe the courts because trans inmates are probably the least publicly visible group available for such an attack.
The glass etchant is probably not going to work. It's polycarbonate, not silica glass. Sand is interesting but maybe too coarse. Stuff like 1-10 micron industrial diamond power, silicon carbide/aluminium oxide blasting media is the bane of my existence when trying to clean shiny things :(
There's already a startup trying to get the FCC to give them half of the 915mhz band (meshtastic, smart home stuff, ELRS, ham radio) for a pay to win GPS alternative.
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In fairness, I think the possibility that someone might light your car on fire is a stronger incentive to not buy a brand than internet posts making fun of the brand. It also means now they have to beef up security at all of the dealerships. Car sales are surprisingly impulse driven, hence the famous high pressure sales tactics, so it'll be harder to get people in the door if they're strip searching everyone and if they can't have as much inventory on the lot, customers can't drive home with the options they want so less impulse buying. Also full coverage insurance, required for financing, will get more expensive or even impossible to obtain which possibly means a massively decreased customer pool.
I think a better counter argument is the environmental damage caused by lighting all the cancer boxes on fire.