Humans are not interchangeable components… that’s a disgusting take, honestly…

Every community I’ve been in can feel through loss in some way, of a member.

This attitude is exactly why you cannot fathom why maybe small instances, ran by volunteers for the community is a viable concept.

Its also why BBSes started their death spiral: people trying to commoditize the community.

Yes. Communities cannot exist without community members.

A lot of it is, in fact, deterministic probability…

It very much is a probability thing… A pool of monkeys, smashing on a keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually generate all combinations of text possible. The longer the process goes on, the closer the probability approaches 1.

You need to learn to stop letting others do your thinking for you. Open your eyes.

Ibid.

It’s a probability thing, and it’s actually true, due to pure chance. Same reason it’s nigh impossible for our planet to be the only one in the cosmos with intelligent life. It’s also the reason that any finite number pattern can be eventually found as a series of digits in pi.

Thats… literally what happens. Like when the owner of a bar calls it quit, and leaves.

How do ypu think communities “naturally” come and go?

Communities don’t have heary attacks, or get a new child or something…

All communities work like that…

Pandoc.

There is no real need for the kind of permanence you think you need.

Imagine if a building could only be a bar, for perpetuity, and nobody opened any other bars, because that first bar existed.

Bars would suck for like… 99.99999% of the human population, huh?

So…

Start alternatives, on a host ypu maintain, and then everything can be ran perfectly how you want it to run

Problem solved.

Or… the ones after him didn’t bother to finish the job, because they wanted it to fail.

It’s not like FDR was elected right before Reagan or something here.

He ran on something quite different… Remember, he was running a campaign long before 2013… Like… 2007.

The Supreme Court apparently disagreed, both in this specific case and more generally when the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference doctrine.

The SCOTUS disagreed because that’s what their oligarch told them to decide. Not because of any actual legal framework or reasoning involved.

Congressmen aren’t individually drafting bills, they direct their aids to draft the bills and hammer out the details

One slight point, this isn’t how they get legislative drafts. Legislative drafts come from thinktanks like Heritage, ALEC, Vote Blue, etc.

Oligarchs write legislation, and then find a congresscritter that owes them a favor. They “lobby” for it, ie they stop into the congresscritter’s office, drop the envelope with the text, drop a check for their campaign fund, and then the congresscritter gets it to pass.

NYS pays more in federal taxes than we get in Federal dollars.

I think we’ll be ok.

The FCC has authority to punish whomever is the enemy of Reich Wingers, and Trump more specifically. Nothing more, nothing less.

Can the FCC punish a social media company for censoring the approved ideology? Yes. Can the FCC punish a social media company for not censoring the approved ideology? Yes. Can telcos be punished by the FCC for the same two things above? Yes.

It’s all about punishing the enemy, not logical consistency.

Bottom line: precedent, rulings, laws, etc have no bearing on the courts.

What matters to the courts is paying back for the favor of appointment. Which means they will rule whatever our oligarchs tell them to rule.

Always has…

It was happening before the ACA as well.

So, the problem was never fixed.