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You might even call it a hobby!

The 8th amendment also applies to what we do to stop what you refer to as an illegal state of affairs.

Using the "someone in your house" example you've used a few times, would you be OK with the Air Force dropping a bunker buster bomb on your house, killing the home invader(s), and you, and your family/pets/etc, and destroying your stuff, and the same for several neighboring homes?

Or do you think that might be an excessive enforcement mechanism?

The 8th amendment to the US constitution: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

That is, quite explicitly, the constitution saying that there are limits to what we will do to punish someone.

Fuck off with your unserious nonsense.

I reject your slightly modified false equivalency.

The actual restrictions were quite reasonable in the vast majority of cases, weren't in place very long, and were only spottily enforced.

Sorry you missed a couple nights at Applebees.

Consider this scenario. A friend of yours walks up to you and says "man, I got a ticket yesterday." You will have a general idea of the level of enforcement involved, how that's looked at by the government and others, etc. You probably do not see your friend as a criminal.

Now, suppose the same friend walked up and says "man, I got arrested yesterday, I just got bailed out." You will have different ideas of the enforcement model and perceptions of that. There is now a greater probability that you see your friend as a criminal.

This was in line with long standing behaviors in this space [1].

Musk bought Twitter in 2022. In 2023, they began substantially restricting API access versus how it had been for years.

It is not unfair at all to look at that timeline, look at Musk's acquisition as the biggest change that had happened to the company in that timeframe, and draw a relationship.

[0] https://newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2021/03/use-twitte...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07340

Perhaps the costs of an accident should be increased to the point that it makes sense to have the oversight.

It's true, you can't ever ensure 0 accidents. But you can do things to reduce the rate of accidents and try to limit the peripheral impact of the ones that remain.

Sometimes you gotta, if you want to keep a free society free

I am increasingly aligned to the position that every billionaire is a policy failure.

Wealth inequality of the degree we have today is not sustainable.

It's like a vending machine that 99% of the time it dispenses tasty snacks, but 1% of the time it gives you poison that appears to be normal, unexpired product. It just does this. They did their best to minimize how often it happens, but the poison chance is still there. It can't be removed. It's part of the system.

A "normal" vending machine has failure conditions, sure. They generally can't do worse than cause you to lose your money without giving you a product.

Outlook 2003 never presented a risk of draining my bank account to buy memecoins because a spam email was treated as instructions.

It's like having an assistant that can be helpful, but not always. We can bicker about the ratio of helpful to unhelpful interactions, but there will be some unhelpful moments.

And hoo boy, those can range from "eh, whatever" to being like a deranged toddler just got its hands on whatever tools and permissions were granted to the "mostly helpful" assistant.

And we can't get rid of that chance. We can pare it down a bit. But we can't get rid of it because it is fundamental to how the technology works.

NATO would not need to provide so much material, political, logistical, financial, and intelligence support to Ukraine if Russia just fucking left Ukraine.

The drain goes away if they stop invading a sovereign neighbor.

Did you look at usa.gov at all?

I see it every day in the text, images, and video posted by AI proponents on social media. Full of errors and wtfs and the people posting the tripe don't seem to notice it.

Maybe you've just stopped paying attention so you don't notice as much anymore?

https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-trum...

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

You may not realize this, but you're making excuses for his behavior. I'd recommend not doing that.

Standing outside and looking through the Nazi Bar's window is still pretty much hanging out at the Nazi Bar. It still brings traffic and attention to their establishment.

Sure, it's not buying drinks from the Nazis, and that is an improvement over being inside and giving Nazis your money and engagement directly. But it's still hanging out at the Nazi Bar.