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hexclock said:

The coming ubiquitous surveillance state. 

it's arrived. I lived in Europe in 2021. It's fairly ubiquitous there and I'm not even getting into the Green Pass business. Cameras are not universal but they sure are widespread. Some of them are for traffic control (limited transit zones for instance) but there's also cameras that are specifically intended to monitor high pedestrian traffic areas. In my country, tax evasion is so rampant that the government is slowly but surely moving to make use of cash difficult for everything but ordinary daily transactions.

But it's in the US too... don't think the NSA isn't horking up every bit of data they can about your communications and movements thanks to your smartphone/cellphone. Just look at what Snowden revealed... they can tiptoe right up to the line and still collect a lot of information about you without violating your 4th Amendment rights. When you drive on an urban freeway in the US, cameras are present to monitor traffic. A lot of your neighbors have Ring doorbells, those are effectively surveilling a significant part of your neighborhood for better or for worse.

DAalseth said:

He’s absolutely right. More and more I hear people saying that “they know everything about us anyway so why worry about” Google, Facebook, the police, etc., etc. It’s very disconcerting. And I’m afraid that I’m not as optimistic as TC is though. I was shocked how easily people accepted pat downs, x-rays, and searches in order to fly on an airliner. “But it’s for safety” was the BS they used and everyone ate it up and asked for seconds. All it takes is for someone in authority to say the words “safety” or “protect the children” and people seem eager to give up their personal freedoms, and human rights. That’s how they are attacking things like encryption.

I find it very depressing.

I hope you didn't injure your wrist as you struggled to shoehorn your agenda into Tim's speech, which had little to do with TSA security theater.

this guy is worth reading esp. with respect to the Russian army


Why Russian army is so weak?
https://mobile.twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1502673952572854278

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https://mobile.twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1498377757536968711

addison huy said:

Males can’t get pregnant so I don’t know why such an emoji would exist. It seems pointless. If your sex is male then you can’t have children this can’t be pregnant. All these gender and sex methods that are used to describe people now are so confusing. I remember when non of this really existed before and there were only men and women. 

I'm not old enough to remember when blacks had to use separate water fountains, but I *am* old enough to remember when women had to have their husband co-sign for a credit card account.

Did your nostalgia have a point other than celebrating the defense of outdated prejudice?

I would buy this for video editing but I really, really want that hard connection to be sure V and A are in sync when I edit. Bluetooth headphones have led me to believe they were not, when in fact they were. So it's a dongle for me?

Please Apple, leave the 1/8" jack aloooooone