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All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 year ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 131 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The state and local is where most of the progress is going to happen in the next 4 years. They control a lot more than you think - even including running elections for federal office. Pay attention to all your local elections - they are going to matter a lot

EDIT: While I'm here, going to mention there are local elections in some localities across the US tomorrow (feb 25th) in parts of California, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, & Maine

Here's a substack post with more info about those local elections

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

Ballot measures. Write them if your state empowers them. That’s where the democracy will happen.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My state is gerrymandered to death which is probably one reason the right wants to push everything to the states. Easier to divide and control.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Until pedo-prez and nazi-musk determines that it's hurtful to gafam.

Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it's actually a good news but I can't help myself these days.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.

Hope you'll take this criticism as honestly given, and not meant as an attack, but you're not improving the quality of Lemmy with these kind of posts.

May I suggest, instead of making a comment and apologizing for it in the same comment, you just don't make the comment at all?

It really sucks having to push through these type of comments.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah you're probably right, I'll try to shut to fuck up next time. It's just that these asshole a ruining every god damn thing I believe in so I can't help to think they'll come for this too. Here I'm doing it again... I'll go serve myself a huge glass of wine to celebrate this good news, it's almost 5 anyway.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What we need is a gloom & doom venting megathread (I almost misspelled it as "negathread," LOL).

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hey, that's not a bad name...

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, my doom and gloom tends to sneak out as sarcasm, and other people may not be as amused. Negathread is a good idea

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hang in there brother/sister, times will be better again.

Yes it'll be a long 3 years 11 months, but still, even the laziest people usually figure their shit out at some point and change their course appropriately, and vote differently.

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Local and state officals can enforce laws on their own without federal involvement

Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you. They want you to stop fighting or trying because you might realize they are weaker than you think. Don't do their work for them

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Assuming everything is doomed to fail is exactly what Trump and Musk want from you.

You're right, my bad.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New Trending Term: "Died In Committee"

👀

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A classic term for decades

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump will ruin it with an executive order.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Think of the profit that would steal from the big corps!

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

They're good at introducing them, just not as good at passing them.

There's room for a lot of politics between introducing and passing a law.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is also nice because every state doesn't have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or pretend to be compliant in the classic Apple way.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you come up with that username?

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the number to the new emergency services lol

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha that explains where you got the number from, but still have no idea how you remember it. I suppose they do provide a helpful jingle.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Moss, the character with the fun hair, said it best. "well, that's easy to remember".

Granted, he forgets later in the episode...

[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A monumental win for repair warriors; corporate gatekeeping faces a well-deserved reckoning.

😺😺😺😺😺

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 15 points 1 year ago

Also great for the environment. Replacing a part is significantly better than the waste products and energy used in recycling facilities.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"states rights rabble rabble rabble" -Republicans, usually. But not now it appears.

Except when an EO appears on dumbfuck's desk barring it because his eunuch demands it