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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We All Just Living Beyond Our Means Now?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok I’ll tell my mother in law with water on her brain that she needs to bike to the hospital. It will broaden her view. She can’t walk without assistance. But you know, broader

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it. They disavow that they take any recordings of us before we approach but, while I’m not a suspicious person, I am suspicious of TSA and HLS. Heads up they’re going to start scanning our faces at physical border crossings in cars now too. We have the same right to refuse as citizens but you know how good that is if you’re dealing with a crooked agent.

  Masks help when approaching but obviously not a cure all when you have to move it to be identified by card

  I hate that this is a conversation we are having.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct just citizens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In America you can refuse to have your biometrics scanned still. This is true for coming into and out is America. Just politely say no. They cannot force you to scan your photo. I always refuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It always seems like its time to move to linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the origin being that the earth is flat means that the astronaut on the left not only thought the earth was round but that had also never seen the real earth.

  Memes fall into different genres. This one is absurdist. It’s not meant to be totally logical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! SO many people would never ever believe this kind of evil action without hard proof. It absolutely needs to be said and reported on! Any reaction less than this is dismissive and enabling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The poop psa absolutely no one asked for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so sorry for the loss of your friend. I have a close relative that was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer AND my friend’s dad was diagnosed too. They both slowly were losing weight and were forced into the doctor.

  Anyone reading if you’re losing weight and not doing anything different go to the doctor!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s up cousin! I have this gene. Also have EDS and we have a ton of red hair in our family.

  I also woke up during a pediatric surgery! Mine was a facial surgery. I was out for a bit and near the close end I woke up and was aware of everything except the pain.

  Thanks for letting me know about the vasectomy pain because those are supposed to be easy! Yikes sorry man.

  I wish we could add this to our medical files. Like it should be easy to do but for some reason it always comes down to the patient and whether the doctor feels like believing them that day.

  Bonus: We also process opioids rapidly. So, those don’t work on us either. But the trade off is we have higher pain thresholds than normal people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm then we are deeper into this than the world has realized. I think the gilded sheen is still there—but the rot underneath is deeper than the outside thinks.

  Meaning, the mass protests that broke out in the millions across the country from 2017 to 2020–that era was the “protest era.”

  What are we in now? Sure as hell not a protest era. We are way beyond.

  As someone who has closely studied the evolution of spycraft from Ancient Intelligence to the development of the modern Intelligence Community—I know that because of my knowledge—I feel exactly as you say here. If I am taken out now for being too open or too loud, the side of humanity loses me in the fight. And it is so god damn easy to misstep.

  We are and have been under massive constant surveillance. The facial scanning at airports has expanded to the physical border if you’re crossing by land. They say they delete your photo—but I assume they’re instead storing the biometrics. This is and will be used against us.

  The tech companies in control know most of us better than we know ourselves. We are tracked every second of every day. They don’t need warrants when they already have access to profiles of data on almost every human in America. Even if we were in a normal world—the constitution generally doesn’t apply to private corporations. This is and will be used against us.

  There is no safety “protesting” or organizing unless it’s done in a tight, cell operations that have some communication in between but function so that if one goes down the network stays intact. Intelligence and resistance groups survive when they’re federated.

  Master’s tools cannot dismantle the master’s house. Organizing on a mass scale across the country without using any tech that touches our adversaries right now is not possible. So, first we must figure out how to share information quickly and easily in a way that excludes big tech capture and government capture.

  Figuring this independent communication hurdle out is more important right now than getting out on the street with a geotagged phone and smiling for a drone who is sure to snag your biometric data. And I’m saying this as someone who has been in full scale car tipping rubber bullets everything on fire riots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know about mixing the yellow dots by adding mode. But Erased? Do you have any resources I could learn from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will ‘crash the economy’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick and dirty numbers for those reading:

  • Overall debt grew by $93 billion in the last three months of 2024 – and about half of that increase was new credit card debt, according to the report.

  • Americans’ total credit card balances now stand at a record-high $1.21 trillion.

  • Americans hold nearly $1.7 trillion in auto loan debt.

  • Americans’ household debt – including credit cards, mortgages, auto loans and student loans - American household debt of $18.04 trillion (including credit cards, mortgages, auto loans and student loans)

  • Americans hold $1.62 trillion in student debt.

  • Missed federal student loan payments were not reported to credit bureaus between 2020Q2 and 2024Q3. Consequently, less than % of aggregate student debt was reported 90+ days delinquent or in default in 2024Q4. Missed federal student loan payments will likely begin appearing on reports beginning in 2025Q1.

  Here’s the report: House Hold Debt and Credit: Q4 2024 (published 2025 by Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know anything about printer steganography? That’s what nailed Reality Winner ultimately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been wondering the same thing. It would be useful to have an active docket of the DOJ for all cases against large corporations and how many now lose steam or have the lead attorneys replaced.

  I also worry about the whistleblower program. If you are a corporate whistleblower, if the government wins on your tip you get around 15%-ish of the takings. So, whistleblowing on something big enough can net you a few million USD or more. Something else to watch. I assume this will break quickly too under this administration.