I think Trump would not be president if the Democrats hadn't thrown a horrible batch of candidates at him.

Since it's pro-trucker I'm sure it will include:

1. Pay for waiting at the dock and stuck in traffic rather than just per-mile, and alternative minimum wage rules ensuring that truckers don't end up working for pennies per hour.

2. Fatigue rules like aviation that account for cumulative fatigue and circadian rhythm.

3. Limits on that companies can do with trackers, forbidding their use for "productivity management".

That stuff is definitely in there, Right?

Reading about this family just reminds me of this:

Son of the Norwegian crown prince. You'll be unsuprised to learn that he stands accused of many sexual assaults.

Someone told him those bunker bombs were from Canada.

Ok but stay with me. Maybe the bombing was so good it blew up all the radiation?

Next time they pick a patsy for a guy with distinctive eyebrows they should find a guy with the same eyebrows.

Saw an interview with a guy (on Bloomberg actually) who explained that "ability to pay" and "willingness to pay" are two different things and that the pricing system doesn't target people who have a lot of money ("ability to pay") but rather people who have fewer options.

Like, if the app knows that you don't have a car and this is the only grocery store you can walk to, you will pay a higher price.

I shop at Jewel (which is currently under threat of being taken over by Kroger) and they're now doing this thing where there will be, for instance, peaches, under a huge sign showing an incredible deal. Then you look at it and realize that the price isn't discounted at all unless you install a "Jewel App" and use it to "claim" a "digital coupon."

In 2004 I was a radical young man protesting for bikes and against the Iraq War. At one of the meetups another kid who had been at the RNC protest in New York showed us this software someone had hacked together overnight to broadcast SMS messages. Basically you could send an SMS to a VOIP phone number and it would echo the SMS to everyone subscribed. They were using it to communicate in the crowd at the protest and avoid police kettles. It was pretty cool but I admit I didn't really see it as being more broadly useful.

Later that night the group went for drinks and I was talking with one of the older radicals and he was telling me that the internet was too good and too powerful and they were going to shut it down. I thought that was absurd. How could they get rid of the internet!? He said they would figure out a way to shut it down, there's just no way they could leave it out there, it's too dangerous for them to do so.

Now I look at the thing we call "the internet" in 2023 and it looks nothing like that internet. The current internet is completely corralled, controlled and monetized. He was totally right. While they never "flipped the switch" on it they used salami tactics little by little until there was nothing left.