Is it better for them to remove the app altogether and have users on Apple forced to use it through the website?

Yes. Clearly yes, for everyone. This sort of shit only continues because people don’t do that.

OMG yes

Probably worth mentioning: https://www.linkedin.com/company/u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice/people/

Oh, yeah. Currently low humidity, though.

42-ish here in Belgrave. Current status: finished work, drinking a cold cider, then off to the pool.

Comparing Trump to Stalin is funny, actually, because no matter the mistakes and errors Stalin made over his decades as the leader of the soviet union, he was never a genocidal imperialist.

Wait, what? The USSR wasn’t an empire? The Holodomor wasn’t a genocide?

Are you guilty?’ said Winston.

’Of course I’m guilty!’ cried Parsons with a servile glance at the telescreen. ’You don’t think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you?’ His frog-like face grew calmer, and even took on a slightly sanctimonious expression. ’Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man,’ he said sententiously.

Here’s an idea: a catalogue of companies who pulled this shit during the bubble, so we know who not to buy from when it bursts.

Why do people keep trying to “fix” a democracy

Because we’ve seen the alternatives, time and time again. Historically the medicine has been worse than the disease.

Only if it were implemented in one place, as a centralised ballot. Why not have States individually run their own?

… in fact, I wonder if it’d be legal under US law (I’m not an American myself) for a State to unilaterally start using sortition to provide their representatives? 🤔

How did we get to a place where “Hitler was bad” is no longer the default in mainstream US politics?

I’d argue it started with:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Surrender_and_immunity

Note that the article is appealing to the Republicans to stop Trump. Tells you all you need to know about the efficacy of the Democrats in opposition.

It’s a reasonable criticism. Just remember that the enemy of your enemy isn’t your friend, they’re your ally.

Time to see whether our elected representatives here have any spine …

In the same speech, he warned: “You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don’t win the midterms, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.”

Is he campaigning for the Democrats now?

Must admit I’m sitting here in Australia, thinking about our uranium reserves, and thinking “uh oh”.

They at least used to be …

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

I am souring on mainstream, respected news outlets

What do you suppose their job is?

Historically, angry Marxist-Leninists with guns have been very useful allies in dealing with NAZIs! But history suggests that things didn’t work out too well afterwards, for those ruled by the angry Marxist-Leninists with guns …

Oh sure, there are competent individuals in most any regime. Wernher von Braun, Hanna Reitsch and Otto Skorzeny spring to mind.

What I meant was though that fascist regimes as a whole do not govern competently, for a variety of reasons, including promotion for loyalty. I’d argue though that the main reason is philosophical: their disdain for intellectualism and reason.