I hate pranks in general, and this one in particular. It's extremely dangerous, it can easily cripple the victim for life.
My childhood was, in many parts, pure hell. Seen from outside, it probably didn't look that way, and I can't put my finger on exactly why, it's probably the many small things, and/or things from before I can remember. It's not like there weren't good parts too, but on average I'd give it 2 stars out of five, would not recommend. Or maybe I'm remembering the worse parts more right now because the current state of me and my environment, I don't know.
I live in Sweden. Spanking is abuse, both according to the law and general opinion. Children here are generally not misbehaving more than in other places AFAIK.
🇬🇧 🚨Alert: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share pictures/videos! Read all about it: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/let-yourself-be-monitored-eu-governments-to-agree-on-chat-control-with-user-consent/
Text, but no video or images without scanning?
A renaissance for ASCII art perhaps.
But seriously, it's obvious this isn't about the children. They are planning something.
Crazy overreach.. very interested in answer to the question that nostr:npub1082rg9mtv3696funeuc87gyk0cnez2v57m5pvvk7rrdrzpkzew6qd32vph asked and am also wondering if it would cause a public outcry.. what steps would European population would have to take to roll it back if it happens to be passed?
I guess we don’t have to expect the law to be opposed beforehand cause not enough people are aware?
I hope, but I don't believe that there would be an outcry. Nothing seems to be happening when it comes to such dystopian shit. People are either too stupid to understand the possible consequences, or too propaganda-fed by algorithms to believe they are many enough opposing it. Or maybe really aren't many enough opposing it, I don't know.
Plenty of people are aware, and plenty of people have signed a petition against this, including doctors, cybersecurity professionals, adult video industry people, and lots of others, but it wouldn't surprise me if 95% of the general population isn't aware, since mainstream media doesn't report, or if they do, only report that it's for "protecting the children".
[This](https://stopchatcontrol.eu/) is one page with a petition, which I thought was the one I'm thinking about, but I can't find that document with all the people who are against it that I saw, so it was probably another one.
The Bullish Bitcoin Channel, a Bitcoin podcast by nostr:npub13kgncg54ccmnmvtljvergdvrd7m06zm32j2ayg542kaqayejrv7qg9wp2s of course! No need to apologize for that, what did she think it meant :-P
Note that I don't want this to be the case, but from everything I've seen so far, it seems to be reality.
To a small degree, by using privacy tools that are good enough. Those are uncommon and desperately needed. To a great degree, it's impossible without plenty of people seeing it for what it is. Which, by extrapolation, seems to never happen, no matter how tyrannical it becomes, possibly unless it goes so far that people start starving to death. And even then, they are likely to be duped into blaming the wrong people for what's happening.
Most likely because of massive amounts of propaganda and brainwashing through mainstream media and algorithms on the internet.
Probably easier than that - these traits have always existed, but there is a culture of labeling everything nowadays, especially when it doesn't fit in to the current norm of how we work. Sitting in an office for eight hours a day being the most common form of work is a pretty new thing.
Living in Sweden, sure, I don't follow mainstream media very closely, but still this is the first time I read these news.
I guess "we" don't want to publish a report pointing to someone "we" see as allied/friendly/good. Despite it being pretty obvious - Russia wouldn't sabotage their own pipeline, not their allies either, and those are pretty much the ones considered bad here, so who is left but the allied/friendly/good? It wouldn't surprise me if threats and/or bribes are involved too. ("we" of course meaning the politician/media/etc. people, not Swedes in general.)
Are they preparing genocide? What else could be the reason for wanting to know so much about everyone? This is terrifying.
Anyone have an explanation for this?
You can find the source radar loops here: https://pauljhurtado.com/US_Composite_Radar/
750kW sounds like a lot, and it is, but the intensity decreases with the square of the distance. I can't say exactly what distance from the tower would be required, but sooner than most people think, that radiation becomes a drop in the bucket compared to WiFi routers and devices (which are also about the same frequency), remote controlled devices, etcetera, and by far especially the cellphone that's right in your pocket.
Different in different countries, but only where on the timeline we are. I'd say the changeover began earlier, or at least became obvious earlier, when surveillance started ramping up. Here in Sweden, the obvious shift was the FRA law, already in 2008-2009, when the military was formally allowed to snoop on internet traffic, which, of course, has been a slippery slope increase in their mandate since then. Then in 2014, the EU Data Retention Directive was another big red flag, especially later when Sweden decided to keep on doing it even after the Court of Justice of the European Union declared it invalid due to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
[Bank-ID](https://stacker.news/items/402596) is another thing in the same line.
I mean, they wouldn't be spying on everyone unless they planned to use the data for something.
Different in different countries, but only where on the timeline we are. I'd say the changeover began earlier, or at least became obvious earlier, when surveillance started ramping up. Here in Sweden, the obvious shift was the FRA law, already in 2008-2009, when the military was formally allowed to snoop on internet traffic, which, of course, has been a slippery slope increase in their mandate since then. Then in 2014, the EU Data Retention Directive was another big red flag, especially later when Sweden decided to keep on doing it even after the Court of Justice of the European Union declared it invalid due to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
[Bank-ID](https://stacker.news/items/402596) is another thing in the same line.
What do you Think about this?
https://video.nostr.build/a4397b69bf77dce1e7f2277fb5347334c135a777a2bce5de176c4c1180767ae2.mp4
I try to stay out of the moral questions, I don't want to go into the polarized debates, but I can definitely say its confusing, it would be a lot to keep track of if these people were my friends, neighbors, etc. Especially if they are the easily offended kind (not saying they are, I don't know them, but at least some prononun-picky people are, according to the internet.)
Becomes a problem when the batteries run out though.
I don't. Or, I like the concept of a computer, and I like what we can do with them, but I don't like the implementations, especially of software:
1: Make something half-arsed, using software parts you don't even know how they work.
2: Try it in the real world, on real people.
3: When things inevitably break, in the best case just being annoying, but often harming privacy, don't even apologize, just cobble together a fix (not rarely introducing new problems), and call it an "update".
4: Repeat from step 2.
Maybe somewhat exaggerated, but not by much... Hardware is marginally better, due to the incentives that come with it not being updatable in the same way, but still it's not good. As you know.
I have programmed microcontrollers in Assembler, long ago. I knew what they were doing, bar any hardware flaws. I liked those projects, but it's of course completely impractical to do anything like a desktop OS that way. More advanced programming languages, libraries, etc. are a double edged sword. I'm of the opinion that we trust computers too much in modern society.