And I want RFK, along with the rest of these anti-human ghouls to be dropped into an active volcano, but we don’t always get what we want, do we?
RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years
Submitted 16 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Almacca@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
I love how these extremist Christian Republicans always go on about the mark of the beast and how everyone will be forced to wear it but that the righteous man won’t wear it…
All of them will do this, mark my words. These fuckers are worshipping Satan as far as they know and they’re fine with it.
immutable@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Everyone in America has to give out their social security numbers to every fucking company and government department because it’s the closest thing we have to a national ID.
Why can’t we have a real, secure, National ID system? Because it’s the mark of the beast!!
But now that RFK Jr wants to hunt people for sport I’m sure they will fall in line.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
They lobotomized the wrong Kennedy.
Absaroka@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You know what else would help? Annual (or more) blood tests during routine wellness checks with your doctor.
Do you know why most people don’t get those?
Insurance won’t cover them.
Maybe start there? Although I’m guessing he has no buddies who would make money from routine blood tests.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 8 hours ago
The best part is the random bill.
- Go to the doctor. Get blood drawn.
- Doctor send the blood to a lab for the test. Doesn’t tell me who. I don’t care who. It’s their subcontractor, let them worry about it. *Go back to the doctor or get a call for results. Pay the doctor the standard co-pay. *Months later a random company sends me a bill. This is a company that I have never interacted with or entered into any contract with, for work that somebody else (presumably my doctor, but who the fuck knows for sure) asked them to do for them, sending the results to that other person and NOT to me.
The system is broken. If any other company subcontracted a part of their work to a third party, you as the client would reasonably expect that work to be paid through the original contract, not get a bill directly from the subcontractor. I didn’t hire them, the doctor hired them. As far as my tmethic compass spins, that’s the doctor’s debt, not mine. I paid the doctor already.
Or another variant.
- Go to the emergency room.
- Get separate bills FOR THE SAME SERVICE from the hospital, the doctor, and somehow the hospital again but this time it’s the emergency room (which is somehow separate with a different billing company).
The system is not just broken. It is designed to fleece us and train us to always accept whatever debt the institutions decide to levy on us without question.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Or how about the variant:
- submit prescription refill request —- check back —- check back —- check back
- escalate —- “we don’t have your insurance info” —- yes you do but here it is again
- resubmit prescription refill request —- check back —- check back —- check back
- escalate —- “we don’t accept that insurance. Find a new doctor”
New doctor
- “why don’t you take your prescriptions regularly?”
Geodad@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
As medical bills can’t currently ding your credit score, I just throw them in the trash.
vxx@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That would be a violation of the hiipa act. Your samples get sent anonymous to the Lab with only a case number. They only know the adress of the doctor.
If your doctor didn’t anonymise your sample and the lab used it to send you a bill, they’re in deep waters.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The doctor bill is separate because they’re not hospital employees. The only have privileges to work at a given hospital, not for them.
The separate ER bill is likely some fuckery I’m ignorant of.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
You know what else would help? Annual (or more) blood tests during routine wellness checks with your doctor.
Do you know why most people don’t get those?
Insurance won’t cover them.
My insurance covers this.
orionsbelt@midwest.social 6 hours ago
casio calculator watch or bust
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
I chose to stop wearing a watch more than 20 years ago. I thought about getting one for the health benefits five years ago, but concluded that I don’t want to have a watch nor cover an awesome tattoo. As a friend once wrote, “wearing a watch is like being handcuffed to time.”
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
As a friend once wrote, “wearing a watch is like being handcuffed to time.”
I mean, some of us kinda need that.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I have a decent sense of time and an abundance of options to verify it
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
It was a note he wrote down for himself while on strong psycadelics. I don’t think that nullifies the observation.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
It’s certainly nice to live a life free of responsibility for others, but that’s a massive and selfish privilege.
AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
“wearing a watch is like being handcuffed to time.”
That’s perfect! I’m stealing this. I HATE, despise, loath in every respect clocks, watches, calendars and any other form of scheduling oppression. Go pound sand - I’ll show up when I show up.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You would have a nervous breakdown in my house. Clocks in every room and 20 watches hanging in my room.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Do you have children or elderly parents to care for?
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Do you take your phone everywhere? Does it have a clock you use on it?
So, guess the only difference is that one has an armband and the other you stare at for a lot longer?
If you do not have a phone either, then hats off to you.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Anti-science brain worm dumbfuck says what?
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Screw that. Give the government a way to track my vitals 24/7 and sell that information off to their cronies in the private sector? No thanks.
viking@piefed.ca 15 hours ago
Vitals? You mean location. They don't give a rat's ass about your vitals.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
False. All data has value. Vitals can 100% be used to sell targeted ads for pharmacuticals, supplements, lifestyle brands, gyms, and more.
garretble@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I assume they can already get your location from your phone.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 hours ago
They’ll have a lot of fun correlating your media consumption and your vitals to know exactly what you like and dislike, especially about politics. Then they know who to target for layoffs, arrest and/or deportation.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
My watch runs for years from a coin cell. There’s no way that I’m replacing it with an internet connected spy device that constantly needs to be charged.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Mine runs on me. It especially likes me waking.
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
The thought of a low battery alert saying “fancy a wank. M8?” got a laugh out of me
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Good ol’ wank-o-clock.
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Tell that to the Apple Watch wearers.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’ve got 20 watches and only ever change the Swatch batteries. They’re laughably inefficient. One is an old smart watch, but it needs charged daily and I’m not up to all that.
weremacaque@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
If it ever comes to this, I’m going to “forget” to charge mine. Every day since it comes out of the box.
EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m sure soon enough we’ll be “wearing” them inside our bodies so we don’t have to be troubled to make sure they’re working. Hasn’t that been the Big Tech dream for decades now?
EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
From: theguardian.com/…/rfk-maha-ultra-processed-foods
A key adviser to Kennedy, Calley Means, could directly benefit from one of the campaign’s stated aims: popularizing “technology like wearables as cool, modern tools for measuring diet impact and taking control of your own health”.
Calley Means is a senior Kennedy adviser, and was hired as a special government employee to focus on food policy, according to Bloomberg. He founded a company that helps Americans get such wearable devices reimbursed tax-free through health savings accounts.
Casey Means is Calley’s sister. She also runs a healthcare start-up, although hers sells wearable devices such as continuous glucose monitors. She is Kennedy’s nominee for US surgeon general, and a healthcare entrepreneur whose business sells continuous glucose monitors – one such wearable device. Calley Means’s company also works with Casey’s company.
Due to Calley Means’s status as a special employee, he has not been forced to divest from his private business interests – a situation that has already resulted in an ethics complaint. Consumer advocates, such as the non-profit group Public Citizen, had warned such hiring practices could cause conflicts of interest. HHS did not respond to a request for comment about Calley Means’s private business interests, or his role in crafting the publicity campaign.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Sure Bobby. I went and got myself an open-source “smart” watch that pairs with another FOSS app that doesn’t send anything outside of the device.
What? Not like that? Oh, too bad.
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
He never said that he wants your data. Like, at all.You are just projecting. The Apple Watch BS claim is from the publication linked, not from him.
In fact, going by he actually said, you are doing exactly what he wants you to do. Use the data, if you want, to make better life and nutritional choices.
Keep doing it. You American seems to need it given your country’s general health stats.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Yes, I am projecting, I will fully admit that. Which is why, as a watch person, I went with a smart watch solution that doesn’t mine my data.
Geodad@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m looking at getting a Pebble.
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Still rocking a Pebble Steel from a decade ago, I tried a fitbit and Galaxy one but this Pebble has outlived them all. Thankfully I managed to find a silicon band for it when the leather one finally gave up on me.
Liberteez@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Dude I used my Pebble way more organically than I ever used my much fancier Fitbit
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Same, I loved my Pebble Time Steel. I still do, and I still wear it sometimes (still got a week long battery life), but my daily driver is my PineTime.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Don’t wearables cause autism?
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Only if using 5G.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
American evangelicals when the government suggests getting a vaccine for a deadly virus- “IT’S THE MARK OF THE BEAST DON’T GET IT OR YOU’LL GO TO HELL”
American evangelicals when people they voted for say you need to wear something on your wrist to participate in society - “This is fine”
A wearable computer is much more similar in form to what is described in the Book of Revelation than a vaccine is, but these dumbasses don’t see that because they’re not operating on logic but instead are just doing what they’re told.
solrize@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.
Guidy@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
RFK jr’s wants, needs, desire to continue breathing move me not at all.
He can fuck off.
If we had a science-backing and non-Nazi government who I had any belief in their ability and will to keep our data safe, this might be really cool. When I first got an Apple Watch and saw all the ways it benefits me I honestly wished everyone had one by default.
Instead, something like this would simply be used to further control people especially women since it can track monthly cycles (to my knowledge at least.)
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Something something government tracking with microchips
kreskin@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
He reminds me of the ‘precious bodily fluids’ general from Dr Strangelove.
floo@retrolemmy.com 9 hours ago
General Jack D. Ripper.
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 14 hours ago
He can fuck right off with all his worm-brained ideas.
Dragomus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
“Wearables” but they forget to mention it’s about government mandated trackers in a closed ecosystem.
They will track which bad (health or otherwise) groups of people one has come in contact with and make deductions based on that.Ofcourse it’s also extra business for the ice teams. And the deluxe wearable also tracks payments.
The European Covid tracking app back then already was very scary in its early setup … and this mandated wearable idea will be far worse.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
As long as the wearable contains open source software and preferably open source hardware, then sure, I’d be willing to do so. Because then I could know that I could control where the data went.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Because then I could know
that I could controlwhere the data went.It being open source doesn’t mean you can music and run your own software on it and still have the agency accept you are compliant.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I said nothing about the agency whatsoever. I don’t give a shit what they see as compliant or not. If it’s not open source, I won’t fucking use it.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Pine64’s Pinetime is pretty close. I use one. I like it.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
Sporting a wearable pump that injects worm eggs into your blood periodically
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
to do what with? unless you're going to also increase grants to nih studies for wearable devices to study and improve something involving the health system, what is the benefit besides making apple richer?
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
It makes the police state more efficient.
Quik@infosec.pub 16 hours ago
pine64.org/devices/pinetime/ 🤣 (rare case of a valid usecase for this emoji)
Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 hours ago
The only wearable I would ever consider wearing, is someghing likebthe thing Zack Friedman of Voidstar Labs made for himself.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I think some org could take the initiative and offer a standard protocol for “that” to communicate to this service.
Then you could wear something FOSS and clearly not spying, but send some information (if you so wish). Maybe no location, but vitals. Maybe no vitals, but location (suppose you want RFK to see a big “FUCK THE GOAULD” on the map).
Cause when you put enough money into a project, it might actually happen.
This is also the mistake everyone made about platforms and social networks.
I’ll repeat again my idea that similarly to Usenet, there should be standard protocols and universal services for a global public system replacing those (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Google, whatever). You need a service to store data to be always available - have a standard for that service. You need a service to do some computation - have a standard for submitting a task and storing the result (until retrieved or maybe to the previous kind of service). You need a service to search for objects (common task, yes?) - have a standard for that. You need a service for notifications real-time - have a standard for that too, NOSTR does that now. You need some way to financially incentivize people to provide these services - have a “resource market” service, something like MMORPG item markets (where players script their trade with simple constraints, very easily), to buy&sell space&computation, with payments provided with something like GNU Taler, or BTC Lightning if nothing better. Need common identification - well, there’s OpenID, but one can also have cryptographic identities and identity caching services. Need to actually aggregate hundreds of those services for every task - if search service is not enough (suppose we want to also make search and other services somehow partitioned, or something like that, to accommodate for amounts of data), then have an aggregation service (similar to torrent trackers) or maybe just use DNS for that. Structured machine-processable results of those services allow you to never depend on one platform and have everything they offer. With the specific “kind” being provided by the client application.
Humanity in our time has all the technologies it needs and none of the will.
dermanus@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
So the vaccine is the government implanting a tracker into me, but watches that track my vitals and send them God knows where is hunky dory?
These anti government types always have such a hard time when they become the government.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Every accusation is a confession and all that
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Having watched his actual statement, is not that they want your data. That’s a red herring in the article.
But that the average American is so out of touch with how food --presumably bad, shitty food and nutrition-- interacts with their body, that them being able to know of how, for examole, that 2nd Coke, and bag of chips is screwing up your insulin levels, and how it get affected in real time could be a positive drive for change. The fact is that the USA has an obesity pandemic and most people’s knowledge of nutritional science can be laughable at best. 60+% of Americans are overweight. And 33% are literally obese, including kids.
You do not have to buy a wearable. They are not making or forcing to you wear a wearable and they are not going to ask you to show papers before you want to enter a restaurant proving that you use or own a wearable. He said that he would prefer it because how do you empower people who know next to nothing? Is it the only way? Nope. Of course not, but the system has been so captured by interest groups that many changes may not be politically feasible. They could be done in theory but not in practice right now. Europe had s superior take on nutrition than the USA, for example.
Personally, I would never wear a wearable but I also spent a lot of time studying Nutritional Science and attempt to leave a healthy lifestyle. It is an extra load of work that cuts into other things and not many may want to do but it is one that it is worth doing for yourself and the family.
Additionally, I have friends who are Doctors and the concept of wearables is not always well received. Privacy concerns aside, the worry is that it can turn a lot of people into hypochondriacs if they do not fully understand some basics of human anatomy and take raw data out of context. Not to mention a waste of resources if people want to run tests for absolutely everything they think might be wrong with it. It can also be a source for unnecessary stress in some people.