The only thing they are in touch with is little kids. The Epstein Class !
Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 2 weeks agoThey are essentially trying to regulate technology they know very little about.
That’s not surprising, that’s just what politicians do. Especially politicians who are 65+ years old who are completely out of touch with technology.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am reminded of a senator from Alaska trying to describe the internet as a series of tubes.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That was way more accurate and intelligent than this. Like orders of magnitude.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Sen Ted Stevens, rest in piss.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“The internet would be a series of tubes if we rolled out fiber, but as the literal chairman of the Senate committee regulating the internet I’m somehow against that.”
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Isn’t most fiber optics solid glass? So more a series of rods.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
youtu.be/_cZC67wXUTs
Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I mean, not to defend that idiot because he was voting against net neutrality and obviously had no idea how technology works…
… But we do call some connections “tunnels”.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
And the inside of a fiber optic cable is sort of a bunch of tubes, if you’re feeling a bit loose about descriptions.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I mean…replace the word “tubes” with “cables” and he’s reasonably correct on an ELI5 level I would say.
athatet@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Except the tubes he was talking about could get clogged. He wasn’t really correct. He had no idea what he was talking about.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Clogged…like a broadcast storm? IDK, I can see the analogy working, but I don’t doubt that any resemblance of correctly was purely coincidental.