Not doing anything about scammers was a major policy failure, really.

Having something you can call 911 on without unlocking or going through unintuitive emergency menus is good!

Oh yeah A is getting his dad's phone in a year or two (if he can learn not to lose things....)

yep, also came here to say this.

Wisconsin is weird though. Lotta good progressives, lotta reeeeeeeely not-good reactionaries.

My coworkers literally do not know what's going on. To one of them the big news was a celebrity breakup.

Don't underestimate the information stranglehold. When I tried to explain that there was a coup, they just looked at me.

I know I should take my kids and run. I looked into buying a house across the border, but Canada is picky about foreign investment (fair tbh), and it's nearly impossible to make myself believe this is really happening.

And if you think it's going to stop at workplace discrimination you haven't been paying attention to what's happening to immigrants--or anyone who looks like they MIGHT be an immigrant.

And it's terrifying for me, personally. I'm bi and non-binary, but with a gun to my head I could pretend to be a straight woman for years.

They are not offering that choice.

But then FIRING EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER SHARED A PICTURE OF THEIR PET is an extra level of insane, because there is no chance to comply, there is no warning. Just gone. How much of YOUR work group would be intact?

This is just not true, for one thing. It doesn't use a definition of "child" or "pornography" with any relation to reality. But fine, we knew this administration was nuts. Employers think weird hair colors mean you don't work hard.

Like imagine tomorrow your employer decrees that because pets cannot consent and are usually under 18 years old, all pictures of pets are child pornography.

I’m already GETTING an authoritarian form of government, and it’s NOT COMING WITH TRAINS.

What a shitty deal.

Lydia says hi, Winston.

Am I disabled? Is your nephew who doesn't talk and yells if he has to put on clothes? Who cares. I contribute as I can, I receive care I need, and so do kids.

From each according to ability, to each according to need. They do not have to balance for the individual. They balance at scale.

EVENTUALLY we run out of resources for everything we want, but we are not near that point yet if we keep our wants moderate, and it is possible to build ourselves as part of working ecosystems.

Nazis start defining everything they don't like as a "drain on society" but no. There is no such thing. Society doesn't have gravity pulling it into any hole. There is unhealthy accumulation to deal with the threat of scarcity, otherwise there's helping each other as best we can.

Humans can exist as individuals but that is not our natural state, not is exploiting each other in weird status games. That is a hobby. Fundamentally we are here to keep each other safe.

Like literally. You were born a helpless baby. An adult cared for you. Other adults made that possible. That is society. We get all complicated about it but that's it. We take care of each other as best we can.

PROTECTING PEOPLE WITH DIFFERING LEVELS OF ABILITY INCLUDING UNAMBIGUOUS DISABILITY IS THE WHOLE POINT OF SOCIETY.