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Suzi Island wrote:

Also the whole idea of kids consuming bad content being the fault of the app and not the parents for better monitoring their kids social media usage is laughable

Parents gotta parent.

Thanks for posting Psychological Impact of Surveillance
https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Impact-of-surveillance:b. Good article.

Re: Freedom from State Sponsored Corporatist Serfdom: I won't broadcast any groups or organizations as they tend to become targets of malice by bad actors, but groups that effectively circumvent vehicular fascism can be found in most large urban centers that like to lay low on the radar and practice gray market capitalism. The rural spots tend to be individuals or a small family group with even less ability to avoid malice or protect themselves. Many like to keep things word of mouth. It can be costly, but considering the price of new cars, it would probably be worth adding it into the cost of buying an new one. Only use DIY guides that others have successfully used on relevant models. No sense learning your own costly mistakes when you can learn from the costly mistakes of others. Open Source groups, EFF, and Repair.Org, and some of the oldest social networks that act more like newspaper want ads are friends in this regard. For a young family just starting out, and for most Americans, this would be lest costly in the long-run as a developed habit (social custom), than the obvious goose-stepping that will happen if we do not. Addenda: The contributing factor is people not taking responsibility for themselves to treat the Internet when it was opened to the pubic as a free people in social contract with each other according to established property rights, as there were still enough Traditional Americans alive at the time that could make it so without having to wrangle and compromise our inherent rights away. Instead we treated it as if it were merely a paid subscription service to watch hamsters dance, and cats play the piano, instead of the biggest events to change world civilizations since the advent of quill, ink, papyrus, and alphabet as a venture the development of which every extant civilization (except one) relies; and the advent of replaceable metal type in a press, indelible ink with a little soap, and forging a font typography as an enterprise, of which only the most wicked of governments dare deny to their oppressed persons.

Imagine, if every time a scribe wanted to scribble, he was automatically assumed to have agreed to a contractual obligation to Papyrosoft's EULA, TOS, and (lack of) Privacy Policy, and Pharaoh Gates' preferred tools that he and his subsequent cadre could arbitrary decree were outmoded, thus forcing people to upgrade to the latest and greatest stupid idea, like pens made from a certain donkey part (but wrapped with a proprietary ribbon, so yay!), because feathers are now in the pubic domain. That world powers agreed to this (not-so good, but better than other evils at the time) ideas gone horribly wrong called copyright, patent, and trademark that no longer helped scribes, orators, and poets get the recognition due their labor, but was now used by world elite to crush them, and absurdly keep their powerbase against natural law and common sense. The world would be stuck in a pre-literate bronze age, with only the elite having access to the secrets of iron, and the Great Works of the ancients of which every civilization was able to transfer its thoughts to the next generation relatively uncorrupted as a basis of societal development is gone. The chances of the world falling back into the dark ignorance of perpetual illiteracy relying on the thought-mongers of the strong and mighty in constant tribal warfare would be assured.

I was going to make a similar analogy to the printing press, but shorter is better.

I did want to comment on contract for clarification, but am not able atm.

Narland wrote:

Re: Freedom from State Sponsored Corporatist Serfdom: I won't broadcast any groups or organizations as they tend to become targets of malice by bad actors, but groups that effectively circumvent vehicular fascism can be found in most large urban centers that like to lay low on the radar and practice gray market capitalism. The rural spots tend to be individuals or a small family group with even less ability to avoid malice or protect themselves. Many like to keep things word of mouth. It can be costly, but considering the price of new cars, it would probably be worth adding it into the cost of buying an new one. Only use DIY guides that others have successfully used on relevant models. No sense learning your own costly mistakes when you can learn from the costly mistakes of others. Open Source groups, EFF, and Repair.Org, and some of the oldest social networks that act more like newspaper want ads are friends in this regard. For a young family just starting out, and for most Americans, this would be lest costly in the long-run as a developed habit (social custom), than the obvious goose-stepping that will happen if we do not.

Thanks, I may make use of some of these suggestions in due time. I am familiar with the EFF and Louis Rossmann, who posts frequently on right to repair matters. Beyond that, most of my exposure is to content creators that largely discuss privacy/anonymity/security software (especially FOSS) and relevant topics. Since they put themselves out there on social media, I figure they'd rather the attention than security through obscurity, so I'm happy to repost them whenever their videos or articles catch my eye. Rob Braxman, Naomi Brockwell, Switched To Linux, Mental Outlaw, Techlore (they've gotten a bit flaky roughly since teaming up with PrivacyGuides.org), and The New Oil all immediately come to mind. While I'm thinking about it, PrivacyTools.io seems to be a pretty good site.

Narland wrote:

Addenda: The contributing factor is people not taking responsibility for themselves to treat the Internet when it was opened to the pubic as a free people in social contract with each other according to established property rights, as there were still enough Traditional Americans alive at the time that could make it so without having to wrangle and compromise our inherent rights away. Instead we treated it as if it were merely a paid subscription service to watch hamsters dance, and cats play the piano, instead of the biggest events to change world civilizations since the advent of quill, ink, papyrus, and alphabet as a venture the development of which every extant civilization (except one) relies; and the advent of replaceable metal type in a press, indelible ink with a little soap, and forging a font typography as an enterprise, of which only the most wicked of governments dare deny to their oppressed persons.

Imagine, if every time a scribe wanted to scribble, he was automatically assumed to have agreed to a contractual obligation to Papyrosoft's EULA, TOS, and (lack of) Privacy Policy, and Pharaoh Gates' preferred tools that he and his subsequent cadre could arbitrary decree were outmoded, thus forcing people to upgrade to the latest and greatest stupid idea, like pens made from a certain donkey part (but wrapped with a proprietary ribbon, so yay!), because feathers are now in the pubic domain. That world powers agreed to this (not-so good, but better than other evils at the time) ideas gone horribly wrong called copyright, patent, and trademark that no longer helped scribes, orators, and poets get the recognition due their labor, but was now used by world elite to crush them, and absurdly keep their powerbase against natural law and common sense. The world would be stuck in a pre-literate bronze age, with only the elite having access to the secrets of iron, and the Great Works of the ancients of which every civilization was able to transfer its thoughts to the next generation relatively uncorrupted as a basis of societal development is gone. The chances of the world falling back into the dark ignorance of perpetual illiteracy relying on the thought-mongers of the strong and mighty in constant tribal warfare would be assured.

If Pharaoh Gates of Papyrosoft had had technology that granted this kind of power in Antiquity, I'm sure he would have used it. Human nature hasn't really changed since then.

The real April Fools day is April 15

Do the people criticizing Truth social forget that Twitter and Facebook both had poor ipos

Nicotine has a 500 year history of established statute and precedent. It is pretty much grandfathered in as a cultural affectation, and of established farming, and small business practices that cannot easily be changed (despite magnates and multinationals created from it). Other than the smell and later health issues, a satiated smoker is just as much in control of his faculties as an non-smoker. The only thing that can be done is controlling the public and business workspaces. Fascistic micromanaging of the end user would be rebuffed in most of the States. But Mj and Alcohol abuse is a Socialists/Fascists/Communists dream. Every excuse and reason that can be given to gain power over that its manufacture, distribution and use including fascistic micromanagement of that segment of society as agentive change to further their authoritarian oppression.

I never thought I would become as cynical as one of my great-grandfathers.

How quickly the democrats went from "safe, legal, and rare" to get as many abortions as you want.

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