That’s why this invasive tech is criminal. Just plain criminal.

I dont even vacuum. I get on my knees and clean my floors by hand.

Because A: violent people aren’t as common as they think, and B: those people are actually dangerous.

So like any good bully they target meek people and claim they are the most dangerous people around.

Maybe another 4chan nihilist…

The way how they presented it is just… wow. Like it stank so bad of a publicity stunt that I would be surprised if they actually got the guy.

So? Doesn’t mean any crime against him is because of that? What if it turned out Brian Thompson was a closeted homosexual. It doesnt make his killing a hate crime.

Yes, I meant humiliating for the CEO, not the cop. For him it should be a casual Wednesday.

Why would it be a hate crime?

Haha! This us why i never ask it to do anything serious.

Meaning they should just be arrested and charged already, and not by some special agent, but by a rookie cop just barely out of high school and policy academy and it should be their first felony arrest. Make it as humiliating as possible for them.

I would say ‘don’t give them any more ideas’ but we both know they already have that idea AND are working to make it so.

They believe they are a cut above the rest. Basically is they expect the enemy to act with extreme restraint while they exercise none whatsoever.

They denied your passport? That is like literally the highest level of ID you can present! Holy fuck!

Yes, like the farting monkey i made who uses his farts as a means of jet propulsion… the art world will never be the same.

I will be a happy man if they also lost all data and all chats permanently… meaning my chats are gone. Not that that I said anything embarrassing, but I like my privacy.

If you want to know, some of the things I asked chatgpt were sarcastic questions like ‘why won’t Bill Gates buy me lunch?’ Or ‘how do you know i am not Jack the ripper?’ Or ‘write a scenario where Mr. Bean joins the bomb squad and is tasked with disarming a bomb left by thr unabomber?’

I think people don’t realize just how dangerous this shit is until they have been affected in some noticeable way, and even then they will not link just how the incredible amount of surveillance they are under every day is the cause of it.

I worked in tech support for 7 years, and one thing that will never cease to astonish me is how tech illiterate people are. Do you have any idea how many people called me and demanded that I make modifications to their account and refused to tell me any verifying information? While some might have been malicious actors , most aren’t. Most of them were genuinely expecting me to do everything for them and they wouldn’t even tell me what their name is. They fully expected that somehow we would already know they are just from them calling…

Some of them called me on a number not recognized by the system but they fully expected me to pull up their account (fucking how?) Without any information at all.

When you have worked in this field long enough you will know why there is so little effective opposition to all this shit. It is not just because they dont give a damn if we are literally in a 1984 scenario with active cameras and microphones in people’s homes, but they just dont understand what that really means. Even younger people who grew up with these devices from early childhood don’t fully understand just how much they are being observed. If anything Gen Z and Gen Alpha are more fucked since they are the first generation of people whom the algorithms and data brokers have had some profile on since early childhood.

As an elder millennial who grew up in a techie family with computers from childhood. I am fortunate in that they have nothing on me from early childhood to teen years. By the time I hit 20 the internet was still too chaotic and underdeveloped and algorithms weren’t the norm yet (and I was never a Google guy to begin with). But people born within the last 10 years can’t have that privilege.

The UK experienced a major data breach with all their government info from their ID checks not long after the law kicked in. How many fucking data breaches do we need before people catch on?

When you are carded at a club the staff doesn’t scan your card and keep it on file. They simply look at it and return it.

As someone who worked similar jobs and would have had to look at tons of IDs every day I can assure, I dont have the time or interest in remembering all of them.

It is about monitoring political protests and activists. If someone spray painted the words ‘die, Mike, die!’ On a storefront (and the owner’s name was Mike) the police won’t bother looking at the footage. They won’t bother looking at the footage even if said Mike was shot multiple times a few days later.

But spray paint ‘eat the rich’ anywhere? Calling all cars… calling all cars!

My Webcam is in my bedroom but that’s because that is where my computer is. However it is unplugged as I said. It’s also an old as fuck one I got more than 10 years ago so hackers can’t do fuck with it if it is unplugged.