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All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 129 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 24 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks 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 51 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

New Trending Term: "Died In Committee"

👀

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

A classic term for decades

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump will ruin it with an executive order.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or pretend to be compliant in the classic Apple way.

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

How did you come up with that username?

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the number to the new emergency services lol

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

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

😺😺😺😺😺

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I need Louis Rossmanns input on this.

These parasites love passing laws that hurt the taxpayer looking at you, ACA...

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[+] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works -24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Who cares? The US is over, folks.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't do Trump's work for him by spreading apathy and dispair. He wants us complacent and to forget the power we have. He is far weaker than he seems so he has to project absolute power. Don't give anything to him for free

[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am not American.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump will also harm you. Plus we could use all the support from our friends that we can get

[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

We will not be friends again until you overthrow fascism.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

More likely it will lose superpower status and just become a run-of-the-mill large size developed country like Britain or Germany.

Living in a run-of-the-mill developed country isn't actually bad - in fact the best places to live in the World in terms of median quality of life are all pretty run-of-the-mill places.

Granted, judging by what I saw living in Britain, the whole post-Imperial hangover does screw things up significantly for a century or two compared to similar countries that were never top dog.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The British pedon has been driven into poverty quicker than American one...

They got NHS at least tho

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

True.

That said, British days as an Empire were almost a century ago whilst the US has been entering that phase for a decade or two at most.

IMHO, the closer a country's past as top dog is, the more wealth is still floating around from the old days and the less the local elites tend to squeeze the local peons to maintain their status, and the riches from the gold old days are a lot more depleted in Britain than in the US, whose currency is still the main reserve currency of the World (though less and less so since maybe 2 decades ago), which would explain why impoverishment of the average person was faster and deeper in Britain.