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I have not had a mobile phone since the Snowden confirmation.

GrapheneOS is the first thing to give me serious consideration of getting one [despite the remaining issues].

Preinstalled devices, increases chance of a snap purchase.

the global historical situation, does feel a bit like [we the world] obiwan wailing at the birth of darth vader, “you were supposed to be the chosen one”, [at america] where the hope was.

maybe we should cease looking for a strongman saviour on the international/global stage, as well as domestically/nationally.

[ happen to be playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyO08j_JEps while writing this. ]

… anyway, that’d be foolish to think it something special and unique to Trump. He’s their boy. Puppet does its job.

even after Trump leaves office and is potentially replaced by a more traditional, dependable administration

and wont that be a pleasant placatium to passify the people [in USA?~ agnotological inducement deep enough into insular oblivion sufficient to not be aware that; in the rest of the world?~ no. like the article’s main point. But the people there wont likely be sufficiently aware… and so the injustice machine that is the military industrial complex shall continue. unless… … unless… that “unless” is so tenuously thin now. c’mon americans, you can do it… ]

I know for a fact that if I was a parent I wouldn’t want my kids near that crap.

Yeah, it’d be some kind of non-mamalian (let alone inhuman) approach, to let your offspring freely frolic in dire dangers, and not actively protect and educate them. Roads. Crocodile infested rivers. Corporate “Social Media”.

That’s always a fun 3 fingers to double check on. May reveal some insidious “not even wrong” fallacy that’s not easy to see when too close to it, immersed in it.

Two chopsticks!

I websearched that, wondering if that some memetic idiomatic expression…

o_O the websearch I used returned only 1 result: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/one-chopstick-or-two-chopsticks … what’s happening to this world?

a yes or no has no information about the user

Sounds too good to be true. … But, if it’s as you say… sure, lets use it to let pedos know where to target. Oh, sorry, I mean, use it to “protect children”.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=computer+says+no

Even after explaining what I would have done to them,

with that data, if I had the data, when I worked in advertising… [or even just explaining their basic human dignity of privacy]… the rhetoric remains strong enough to not have the cognitive dissonance be itchy enough to stop fallaciously repeating their mantra “nothing to hide”,

… and so that’s why they’re fine with this dystopian nightmare, this single point of failure, this hijacking of humanity by totalitarian government (or at least just megalomaniacal parasites wanting total dominating control, even in banal mundane petty ways, like just doing their job, serving their client as best they can, maximally manipulating mentalities to maximise wealth extraction)?

It does not make sense.

As for who’s on social media… yeah, maybe lets not have a corporate attention snare that learned from the billions invested in Las Vegas casinos for their ability to snare and direct peoples attention, keeping them going back in for more, keeping them addicted, maximally extracting wealth from them. “Social media”, such an Orwellian marketing spin term. … The ambiguity and resulting conflations help camouflage what the crooks are up to. Not all “social media” are alike. As surely we here on the fediverse know.

Children should not be on “social media”? Depends what one means… but typically I’d say children are due the same rights, and are not to be under classed. Y’know? Wanna take away children’s access to parts of the world? The parts that can be used for good too? … I just picture what that different world’s like, where Aaron Swartz gets denied access to something even younger… where that precedent goes, how much worse the dystopia can be, compared to what it already is. … Or… as you allude to… How much more fervently pursued, freedom is, by the young, the tighter they squeeze.

So Orwellian.

I am so glad I switched.

Better to face the horror.

If ignorance is bliss, give me agony.

magnets and copper wire?

and a slip ring.

and maybe a sand battery?

or maybe a corkscrew to lift water, as a secondary store of power potential, that could then be toggled on to flow in low wind to keep a turbine going.

Removes [your first step to be able to remedy a problem] your awareness of what’s going on around you in the real world. [Many people feel very unnerved by it because of this aspect.]

… I was going to share a link here to whatever first video I found of any of the many videos of thieves sneaking into people’s homes while they’re oblivious on VR, but someone has created a VR game called thief sneak, where the wearer of VR can play a thief sneaking into people’s homes, making it too hard to find the videos of that really happening. The potential for irony now, seems obvious…

Anyhoo, beyond that flooding-the-zone, plenty else goes wrong, born of that aspect, and more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VR+fails

I wonder if it’s more like VR.

People don’t like losing control over their technology in reality.

People want to retain control over their technology, like it’s a tool.

Virtual reality removes awareness and agency in the real world.

Same as agents do.