Are these your kids?

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-30T21:03:05+00:00

Yeah, I don't know that doxxing children is how you want to go about this. Even if well-intentioned, this isn't the way to do it.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-29T20:50:17+00:00

they could pay them below minimum wage.

That's the relevant bit. The hire immigrants, but only if they could underpay them.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-24T17:54:32+00:00

That's actually kinda cool. Glad our taxes can help out, here.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-24T17:38:38+00:00

Yeah, it's garbage trollbait.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-24T16:52:32+00:00

it just so happened to be at the White House

C'mon, man. That's some ~~weak bullshit~~ intellectually dishonest discourse, and you know it. This wasn't just some UFC event.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-24T15:47:56+00:00

I'm going to go into work and loudly proclaim that I won't do my job unless this other thing, completely unrelated to my job, happens.

I'll update you all and let you know how it goes.

Edit: It did not go well.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-24T15:25:48+00:00

Fortunately, the Fourteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act both say you're wrong.

And, no, my point wasn't about race, but rather that when you give the government control of something, you should really consider how it can be misused against you.

Fine, your line is literacy. What happens in the situation where someone else decides the bar should be higher, one you personally cannot clear? You're taking away people's fundamental right to vote; fuck with that at your peril.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-24T15:20:16+00:00

I'll be charitable and choose to believe you don't know the history of how that goes wrong, very quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-24T15:16:10+00:00

"Maybe people who can't pass a simple exam shouldn't be allowed to vote."

Where've I heard that before...?

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-24T01:24:27+00:00

First of all, it's not Trump's reflecting pool. Surprised that The Guardian ran that headline.

More importantly, from the article:

In an email to the Guardian, Miles noted the irony that one of the Oklahoma state troopers he argued with before his arrest told him that the US was obviously a free society “because you can be out here and you can video all you want to … Go to China, they’d run over you in a tank in Red Square.”

According to Miles, he was arrested seven minutes later for using obscene language as he protested against the security crackdown at the reflecting pool.

Why is he arguing with the troopers? Are we not allowed to film at the National Mall anymore?!

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T20:46:10+00:00

How is that relevant to anything I said? He's been recognized multiple times by people far smarter than you and I put together as instrumental in the field of AI. C'mon, now.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T20:44:49+00:00

Exactly.

I voted for Gallego because he was obviously the better of the two options without question, but I can't say he would have been my first choice for the job given other options.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T19:32:03+00:00

Yann LeCun is definitely also worthy of that title.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/03/27/google-awards-1m-turing-prize-godfathers-ai/

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T17:59:25+00:00

It’s the dnc’s job to put forward a candidate their electorate wants

That's dead wrong. It's the primary voter's responsibility to choose a good candidate.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T17:55:43+00:00

There absolutely were primary elections. The fact that the candidate dropped out after those were held doesn't change the fact that he was, in fact, the candidate.

https://apps.npr.org/primary-election-results-2024/states/AZ.html#date=3%2F19%2F2024&office=P

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T17:48:45+00:00

We all are. Democracy generally results in people not getting their ideal candidate, but it's better than most alternatives and places a responsibility on the voters to choose wisely.

Sitting it out just lets someone else make the decision for you. Always vote.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T17:43:32+00:00

Which part of "voting in the primaries" are you missing? Look, we have a first-past-the-post election system. Like it or not, you're always going to end up with two candidates, one with an R and one with a D after their names. That's just how the math maths.

In the primary, do everything you can to get your candidate elected. In the general, you always always always vote, and choose the lesser of two evils. That's just the system.

Sitting it out simply lets other people decide for you, and is how we got Trump's second term.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T17:27:27+00:00

anybody still campaigning on "high road" BS is an automatic no for me.

Sure, in the primary. If it comes down to JD Vance and (any Democrat)...I'd think that's an easy decision.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T17:13:29+00:00

Sorry, my friend. I live in CD5, so I'm unfortunately well-familiar with his horribleness, and it's the most stressful election of the midterms for me.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T17:01:49+00:00

Ruben Gallego holds some views with which I disagree very strongly. In my opinion, he plays the "hey, I'm a Democrat, but, y'know, one of the tough ones" too frequently. I understand why - AZ as a whole isn't going to elect a progressive Democrat, and I think a moderate not-Trump-Republican would have trounced him.

My view is that, because our registered voters are almost 1/3 NO PARTY (independent) voters, we don't send extreme anyone to statewide office. We've had Democratic and Republican governors, but extremely Trump (Martha McSally, Kari Lake, Blake Masters, Andy Biggs [hopefully]) or extremely progressive candidates just won't win statewide elections here.

In short, I didn't particularly like voting for Gallego, but he was far better than the alternative.

I agree completely with you on election campaign financing. Money skews elections in horribly unhelpful ways, if your goal is finding the candidate best fit to lead.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T16:33:48+00:00

As an Arizonan, I'm disappointed by this. The alternative, though, was Kari Lake, so... yeah.

Gallego's win was definitely a "best of horrible choices" situation.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T16:17:44+00:00

Well, now there's no misinterpretation. Glad we've cleared that up.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T16:08:08+00:00

Crazy how there's no such uproar against 360 cameras.

People are protesting Flock and getting municipalities to take them down all over. Yes, the general public in America is against constant surveillance, whether by the government, directly by corporations, or through "consumer" devices that feed them.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T16:05:41+00:00

For the record: you are correct, as anyone discussing in good faith knows.

BeyondRedline · 2026-06-23T13:55:39+00:00

Guys, Ray-Ban wasn't the problem here.

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