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Anecdotally whenever I encounter someone from Denmark, they are always downplaying their home country and saying how great they think the USA is; I think they have a cultural propensity to try and keep Denmark a secret from outsiders.

Hey johnson & johnson, we've got a bundle of email addresses and phone numbers for another 200,000 people who mentioned to their friends and family that they've been sick in the last 48 hours to sell you.

Good question, and I just want to add my input as a framework for how to think about this:

Airplane mode is a software feature built into phones, and the idea of restricting it from connecting to the internet would work for what you want it to do; HOWEVER that requires you to TRUST the people who make the software, and I think nothing good could come from that. Smart devices have cameras, microphones, GPS technology built in; all of the tools necessary for something to spy on you exist in those devices, it is just safer to not have them at all unless you are an advanced user who can take appropriate measures.

I'm not an advanced user, so I leave my devices at home when I want to minimize my risks. Paranoid? Sure, but it's not a constant anxiety inducing fear of being tracked, I see it more as a basic safety measure like wearing sunscreen or carrying an umbrella.

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There are no consequences present for the criminal actions taken by members of the elite class; it stands to reason that reminding them that they are still beholden to us, the lower members of society, even if the justice system is not working, is the best course of action.

I learned a lot this year. I think our media exalts the peaceful bloodless protest, because it is a comforting lie to think you are an honorable person for being passive and not resisting.

I like gen ai and I think this rule is a nice gesture towards the other side. It's a good practice to cite your sources when you're online anyhow.

In real life people think it is weird that I don't use apps; even if this is obvious to us, we are also a bunch of anarchists on a defederated internet forum. Explanations and examples like this will help us protect the normal people who don't think like us (yet).

Lately people are starting to come around to ways social media makes people sick, and understanding consequences of the information age; from my experience the first casualty of this was not our attention spans, but our will to resist. Apparently just telling people your opinions on things anonymously gratifies your ego just enough without having to sign a petition, or stand outside in a line. "I'm so passionate about this subject I spend every waking moment talking about it online.; uh yeah I can't make it to the protest sorry, It's like a 30 minute drive and I have work in the morning."

I worked as a student loan debt collector over covid, all the old school collectors there would wax nostalgic for the times they could call peoples family members and shake people down; the CFPB was single handedly keeping debt collectors defanged and declawed.

I've always been too self conscious to dance, and had never thought of this before, Nice article, thank you for sharing.

Thank you db0, i am an average internet user, no vpn, limited pirate activity, minimal social media activity, minimal hacking knowledge; this is the kind of info that helps inform me about how to be safe in the dystopian cyberpunk frontier that is no longer a looming science fictional threat in the future, but a present that we have firmly arrived at.