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I'm willing to buy into this interpretation, your explanation seems plausible at a minimum.

The most shocking part in all of this was finding out that Arkansas had a university. I'm sure they do the best science.

I think we would all prefer if the US would stop pretending the 6th amendment didn't exist and if trials could be carried out without endless delays.

To be totally clear, the UK has been a fucked up place for centuries, I don't think Meta fundamentally changed the culture.

Having said that, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc are tools that enable political influence over the population at levels that were previously unimaginable. Look into Cambridge Analytica a bit or borrow Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Christopher Wylie from your local library for details.

Starting as early as 2012 we have evidence that Facebook was pivotal in stoking racial tensions in Myanmar, leading to a genocide.

There's evidence that Meta was a major factor in Brexit, which more specifically relates to my claim with respect to influence in the UK.

The US election in 2016 was clearly influenced by Meta platforms, including taking Russian money to stoke racial tensions in line with the Russian Manifesto, The Foundations of Geopolitics.

I'm currently reading through Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, which is a memoir about how these systems were conceptualized and built at Facebook, and so far I'd recommend it.

Obviously Meta isn't the only problem, Tiktok is clearly a problem of similar size and scope, and other social apps have their own challenges (X being owned by the richest man alive and actively influencing the algorithm, for example), but in many ways Meta is the OG, and blazed the trail for others.

Meta happened. UK, US, all over the world there is a correlation between the adoption of Meta's products and the corrosion of basic human rights.

You should try asking people about the last EULA they read the next time you're at a party. You're gonna be blown away.

But how could the trolls enrage well meaning people into moving to a less privacy respecting browser if the post wasn't designed for performative outrage?

A buddy of mine works for a fortune 500 company that started giving out MacBooks as the standard hardware this year. Apparently you need to jump through a bunch of hoops if you want to run Windows. I was shocked to hear it but Microsoft deserves to be humbled.

Literally everything you said is just dumb hater bullshit. You added nothing to the discussion.

It's too bad there isn't a way to use something like a flipper zero to compromise the cameras and simply disable them, or insert malicious video files into their network...

Oh I agree that you won't be able to fire your shotgun in a large urban area, but if you're someplace less densely populated I can imagine being able to drive up from behind in the middle of the night...

It's too bad there isn't an easier way to deal with this problem, especially in the instances where the cameras are being installed without consent.

Akin to having foreign adversaries set up a spy network within our borders, and instead of being punished for it, many law enforcement agencies are choosing to buy the subscription plan!

Anyone have any intel on how well these cameras hold up against buckshot?