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Dude… do you honestly believe that he knows what an ISP is, what it does, or that he would even listen if someone tried to explain it to him?
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- kids start using one of the eight hundred thousand other video messaging services instead
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So much for Republican beliefs in the free markets and deregulation. Can you imagine the outrage if Obama suggested this?
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im trying to figure even how that works. like they only have one server? like they aren’t using aws and cloudflare like every other company on the planet?
unless the government is ready to do packet sniffing for figuring out which services are being used, outlawing https, etc. i dont know how’d you go about it.
the best you could do is maybe outlaw the company from operating, or force companies to stop doing business with them, and then hope they don’t open up their servers/service overseas. [ edit: and tiktok already has parallel infrastructure overseas. ]
this seems the more likely route, but really don’t have a clue what framework they’d use. maybe something about collecting information on people under the age of 13? but still dmca whatever should give apple and alphabet safe harbor id think
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intended to resolve years’ worth of operating deficits that have left the agency more than a hundred billion dollars in debt
How can a government agency be in debt? Either it is being funded by the government and consequently doesn’t need to take on debt or it’s privatised, at which point it’s not a government agency anymore. As far as I know the USPS is still the former?
Is this really retribution for the Tiktokers who sabotaged his rally?
I installed the app on my android phone this morning, just to see if it disappears later today or tomorrow.
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Would you like a side of hyper-inflation to go with your plague and civil unrest? Evidently the plan is to just print more money to cover the covid debt…
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The USPS is operated by the government but is required by law to fund itself from its own operations, rather than be funded directly by Congress.
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Retribution, another diversion, simply saying out loud whatever the voices in his head whisper at 3 am - take your pick.
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That’s why I’m saving the Trump check I got for the future, in the hopes that it offsets the upcoming inflationary jumps in the general cost of living. (I know I’m lucky to be able to do that.)
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Shouldn’t you invest that money in krugerands or S & H green stamps first?
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I decided to give my notice and take a month or two to rest and recover and job hunt… on February 3rd…
I am not sure if i should consider myself lucky or cursed, by the time it was apparent i needed to get back to work quick, everything shut down. I intend to stash away the next check, though.
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(Also @Doctor_Faustus) Also, the “debt” isn’t really debt the way we usually think of it. USPS runs at a tidy profit, but is required by law to pre-fund their employee’s benefits out something like 75 years. So it’s not so much that they owe a bank a hundred billion dollars - it’s that the government accounting system tells them they are that far behind in their benefit funding.
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Specifically required by law passed during the W era. They’ve been trying to kill the postal service for a long time.
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This should help you understand what’s really going on (a few years old, but gives you all the info):
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