Underwater archaeology is incredibly interesting! It's high on my list of "things to do if I suddenly had a lot of money" :-) There's almost certainly something to be done by advancing the state of underwater drones a bit, and then automating the bulk of the survey work.
One thing strikes me here. He offers $10.000 as reward for the information and "all" people have to do is bring him $100.000 that'll he'll hold for however long it takes to investigate the info, and then they'll get it back along with the reward. I'd be suspicious of this, even if I had any information.
This was so crazy I didn't believe it, but there we go. "perinatal death related to a failure to act" - so it'll be legal to let the child die from neglect for a period after birth.
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/fnotes/bil_0009/sb0669.pdf
Does this cross anyone's line in the sand?
Having to install nodejs to run a browser extension sounds extremely dodgy! Normally extensions run exclusively within the browser, subject to its sandbox security model which is pretty good, but I'm guessing you had to run a nodejs process at the same time, which probably started a server the extension could then connect to in the background? May I ask which one it was?
Leave it to hipster soyboy Javascript deveopers to destroy the package ecosystem. Probably the real issue is that unless something is done to stop this now, there'll be a precedent, and the bar will then continue to be lowered a to what "cause" will trigger people into committing this kind of sabotage, until we essentially can't trust open source.
Lets go over the list. When accessing the menu inside the restaurant, they'll know that
- The phone is inside the restaurant
- The phone was inside the restaurant at the time you were sitting there
- The phone was connected to the nearest cell tower to the restaurant (they can't actually know this, only the carrier can, but they can guess.)
- Metadata your browser sends to every single page you request, which you can configure to be anything.
This does not seem nefarious.
They'll also know which IP your phone happened to be assigned at the moment you requested the page. With a warrant, the police will be able to go to your carrier and get their customer records for you. I suppose that's vaguely annoying, but you can use a cheap VPN service to foil this. Unless you use a VPN they might also be able to run a traceroute back to your IP, which probably reveals which carrier you are using.
I don't think they'll be able to get the phone IMEI or any other hardware identifiers, since that's simply not accessible to JavaScript in the browser, and it's not being sent as headers when requesting any page. I could be wrong about that. Same with wifi or signal strength, and network status - the best they could do would be to try to load a massive resource to do a speed test and find out how much bandwidth your phone happened to have while inside that restaurant.
The real annoyance about tracking on the web, is cross site tracking, such as when one site embeds a tracking-script from Facebook or Google which lets them correlate your pageview across all sites using those trackers. If you know what you're doing you can block that, but it's hassle.
It gets worse though :-)
When you sit down at the restaurant, they'll know that you are there, and what time it is. They'll know what your face looks like, what you're wearing, approximate height and body mass, and when the waitress comes by to take your order, she'll know if you have dubious personal hygiene. Unless you pay cash, or with an exotic anonymous card, they'll know who you are as well.
Everything you're saying is true, and half of it is the point I really wanted to make but was too lazy to do.
The fun "wild west" internet we remember from 20+ years ago, is still there, in a way. Back then you could put up a website with whatever information you wanted, and you could participate in the forums without the fear of rampant mobs of SJWs and mainstream media "journalists" wanting to burn your house down for failing to kowtow to whatever new craziness was the hot topic of the day. Everyone involved were reasonably technical people, and the normies were nowhere to be seen.
Today, in addition to that, we also have enormous, well-lit, highly polished, user friendly sheep pens for the masses, where the global normie population is guided into to consuming the narrative and posting pictures of their breakfasts as well as their genitals, and argue wildly as long as they stay inside the Overton window like good little boys and girls. Anyone who fail to say "baah" in either of the permitted ways, is ejected from the pens.
If you ignore all the mainstream systems, what's left is the internet of old. You can still run an irc server and write and host whatever sites you and your peers want - and that is far easier today than it was back then. As long as you don't get an audience larger than what you could have had those 20 years ago, you will be fine - but if you try to reach and threaten the gated communities of big tech, the powers that be will strike you down. Back then you couldn't reach the normies because they weren't on the internet, and today you can't reach them because the global cabal still has global control of them.
I don't think we can have it both ways. Reaching the mainstream isn't about making a good or fun or necessary product, it's about being part of the right club. That's how it was then, and it's how it is now, even though all the details have changed.
Your source may be better. I had just searched quickly and got the 350K from here https://www.hli.org/resources/planned-parenthood-abortion-statistics/
Your page also lists "186 abortions per 1,000 live births", holy crap that's creepy.
Before we go full retard, lets do a quick sanity check this. If they were directly harvesting material from fetuses to put in food and beverages, they'd need enormous quantities.
I found a statistic saying Planned Parenthood performs ~350.000 abortions per year. Assuming they can get 3 gram of material per fetus, that would be ~1000 kg per year. There are tens of billions of liters of sodas shipped each year, and this list also contained teas, coffees, juices, food, candy and pet food - so even if the global consumable cabal managed to get their hands on all aborted fetuses, they'd only be able to add them to products at homeopathic levels.
I think we'd be at the levels of one very small drop per Olympic sized pool. That would obviously still be repulsive and unacceptable, but there's no possible way anyone could taste it, so it would not be done for any practical purposes.
Probably the more likely explanation, if any, is that at some point someone did some research that involved fetal cells, and then the result of that research has been used for something that ended up in food production.
We need some kind of opensource community searchengine. It won't be cheap to run though, and I wonder if people would actually pay to support it.