This oddly feels like either an Onion story or a Florida Story

DEY TOOK R FISHES! RABBLE RABBLE!

this morning walking the dog on the west side of the building. oh you know. this aint bad. go to put the poop bag in the can on the east side of the building. ooh. ah. lets get back inside.

Hunh. I figured that at least one of the classic trio stomped Peoria flat, back in the 80s. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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I agree that exceptions should be made for open-source.

The exceptions shouldn't be made for "open source" (which would require a legal definition of that), but for operating systems that aren't preinstalled on devices.

I haven't read the exact wording of this bill yet, but if it includes all operating systems, then that would seem to prohibit distributing vintage operating systems from before anyone had this idea.

we sure are getting close to someone's wet dream of having a dystopian hellscape where people don't have control over their computers

I'm interpreting the opposite. Currently, if I want my kid's user account flagged as belonging to a minor, I don't have that option. If I want my kid's user account treated differently online, I don't have that option. This bill gives me that option, and it gives me the option of turning it off if I feel like it, and it doesn't require me to provide any personal information to achieve that outcome.

I agree that exceptions should be made for open-source. But overall, this seems way less invasive than EU or UK age verification.

So, what am I missing? This is the same asshole that wants every round of ammo to have a serial number, so I know better than to expect reasonable and well-thought-out legislation from this administration.

Don’t forget they have a pro-life law as well. Prolife reference

when he first ran I voted against him in the primary and held my nose in the general but damn next election I was super jazzed to vote for him. Hes been the best governor I have ever experienced. Im not wild about presidents being old as heck to but biden is still top of my list of presidents I have experienced. So I guess you never know.

I feel like Pritzker would be one of the last ones we guillotine, and he'd be very solemn like "nah I get it."

I know there's no good billionaires, but goddamn Pritzker does a lot of shit right.

Enough owning the libs, time to own the cons

Healthy Inois be like: Your rotten gangrene is a gift from the Creator.

This truly sucks. For parents with children with these life-saving needs that might be affected by this in the days to come, here's an idea for a workaround:

has announced it will no longer prescribe life-saving puberty blockers and hormones to trans minors at its pediatric gender clinic, unless they are an existing patient already on these regimens.

Go to a doctor out of the city, out of the state, or even out of the country if you need to and go to a doctor there that would get them on the initial regime. At that point Lurie Children’s Hospital rules would apply that they would be "an existing patient already on these regimens".

Billionaires never pick people over money, and Pritzker made the people pay for this...

That program provided more than $650 million of incentives to other data center projects between 2020 and 2023 – including $25 million for a different CyrusOne development in 2022.

Those tax breaks, according to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, have resulted in $6.5 billion in required investments, $11 billion in total investments and 469 new permanent jobs.

"We have chased down every potential dollar of private investment we could find and leveraged every incentive and grant at our disposal to attract and build up existing and new industries,” Pritzker said.

https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2024-10-03/pritzker-touts-illinois-economic-development-at-data-center-groundbreaking

one eastern state governor threatened to collect fed tax and keep it after funds were withheld. Delaware? forget which. might work.

maybe ai will figure out how to make its own electricity

I hate to suggest privatization, but … are private Solar plants and wind under-attack, or just grid-connected-first ones?

Cap (at least new)corporate/industrial grid-demand, outlaw new fossil-fuel plants/buildout, and watch the corpos fight the feds for wind-and-solar tooth-and-nail. They aren’t the ones demanding/defending more coal and gas so much any more(outside of cramped cities, where none of this shit needs to be), as its not the cost-effective option.

Throw in net-metering and balcony solar across-the-board too.

Wow every photo of Greg Bovino looks like the lamest version of a middle schooler's description of what a cool guy is.

Are you telling me this is NOT from a Call Of Duty ad on a Mountain Dew can? I don't believe you.

Oh blessed me the judge "blasted" the border patrol boss ? Out loud and wearing big-girl-judge robes ?

Well, then, heaven for fend! That guy has now been blasted! You gott'em, judge!

Yeah but I blasted his dad

In the article it states that these two members are expressly democratic political candidates.

Which is a good thing, as it means there are (relative) progressives leading some level of charge here and hopefully it encourages other NG members to refuse these deployments as well.

History, if you’ve read it. When the military turned on the wealthy. The Russian Revolution, and the French Revolution. The turning point was hunger… people were hungry. Even worse, their children were hungry. Adults are not going to watch their children go hungry.