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cant_even 1 point ago +1 / -0

I lived before Amazon. I can live without Amazon.

"Safe and Effective" died in 2020. It's worth no more than, "Think of the Children!"

If any company conditions access to their product/service on possession and use of a 'smartphone', they can issue me one and pay for the "line".

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cant_even 2 points ago +2 / -0

Under the current US 'legal' system, anyone using 'biometric' anything is throwing away their 4th and 5th-amendment rights.

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cant_even 2 points ago +2 / -0

Even "physical" is another FDR-'33 Executive Order away from confiscation.

I've always considered FDR-'33 the biggest stain on the "Greatest Generation" who sat still for it and meekly complied.

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cant_even 1 point ago +1 / -0

... and there's not a single airline CEO with the balls to tell him "not on my planes".

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cant_even 4 points ago +4 / -0

I'd sooner live under a freeway overpass than join that club; and if they get in, I just might anyway.

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cant_even 0 points ago +1 / -1

The old stand-by, "tHiNk Of ThE cHiLdReN!!" trotted out as people start 'noticing'...

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cant_even 1 point ago +1 / -0

This: Offline mass storage has never been cheaper. Get some.

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cant_even 1 point ago +1 / -0

"...and then he forgot the act of forgetting."

-- some old book

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cant_even 1 point ago +1 / -0

I guess shape-shifting is becoming more common as the US doesn't even hide (((who's))) running their government.

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cant_even 1 point ago +1 / -0

I knew it was "Chinese metallurgy" before I clicked.

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cant_even 0 points ago +1 / -1

We need a new slur for our Southern 'neighbors': Apocalypto-stanis.

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cant_even 2 points ago +2 / -0

That "Stablecoin" name ought to be an international felony in its own right. It's a mouse-click away from .gov confiscation.

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cant_even 2 points ago +2 / -0

... and which ISP/domains does that absolutely depend upon? How many .gov or even ". il" addresses are buried in the TOS fine-print?

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cant_even 2 points ago +2 / -0

Not exactly seppuku, but miles better than US officials.

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cant_even 2 points ago +2 / -0

This realization will feed the "accelerationist, tear it down" view, as in, 'try running your digital Panopticon Blockchain on USB sticks schlepped between bicycle-powered laptops!'.

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cant_even 5 points ago +5 / -0

Enough with the euphemisms; they murdered patients on direction of the government.

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cant_even 2 points ago +2 / -0

"Effective" at doing what?

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cant_even 2 points ago +3 / -1

Weren't the old-school spacesuits from Playtex or some other "foundation garment" company?

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