It's quite conservative. Liberalism means I can use my device with no laws in between.

Not conservative (there's nothing traditional about this) or liberal, just surveillance authoritarianism.

In the past, children were not allowed their own phone. To be particularly cautious, smartphones have not proven a net good; and we're 20 years in.

Amazing how outdated that document became. We all knew it was written for an audience of one, but still such transparent Emperors New Clothes vibe.

This is exactly right. The liar who lies to control the narrative is lying again. The chance he’s lying is high but as adults the (likelihood * hazard) of an invasion is worth preparing for.

The narrative he wanted to control was about Epstein. Denmark could have simultaneously prepared for that, but it wouldn’t be on OSInt Twitter.

The problem is that his "lies" and "jokes" sometimes suddenly turned out to be not lies and jokes.

More precisely, propaganda is always fake. After verification it’s possibly true, but it still began fake. Trump could try supporting his utterances with fact, but he doesn’t.

It’s rational to prepare for his propaganda to sometimes accidentally turn out true. Hence this relatively modest response. But the narrative most reliably supported by fact is that Trump hasn’t kept his story straight about Epstein.

Maybe you mean “structural realism”? Systems realism is a conflation of terms.

It wasn’t even about Greenland, but a distraction from the extent of Trump’s knowledge of Epstein.

Anyway, there’s actually an index for soft power. Eliminating USAID halved that index. China built the highways, hospitals and water treatment instead.

One insight might be that airlines and aircraft manufacturers get bailed out often.

Lovely. Utterly untrustworthy except for the important case of identifying others like him.

Coming soon to an email signature near you

In the US, we have this class called “accredited investor”

No, it makes sense for an App Store to do that. Or, that HTTP headers are set at the device or network proxy.

User account creation wizards could just create the dot files for the App Store. These weird laws ban OS.

The issue is that software can be installed from outside of the app store on pretty much every OS. Also if you have multiple app stores it would be convenient if they could all get it from the same place.

I'm skeptical we should ban all operating systems which permit this without an interactive age check. Shouldn't the free market acolytes be arguing that parents can choose between competitors which offer ever-improving parental controls?

I agree with you, but it seems like the free market is moving too slowly in regards to this pain point for parents which is resulting in demand for them to force change through the legal system.