Most of what they do is security theatre as well. They are just a lot more competent and efficient about it.

Had a friend who worked customs. 95% of their actual work was behind the scenes. Most of the public facing stuff was book keeping and window dressing.

Having visited the US from outside, it’s not even good security theatre. They seemed the least competent airport security I’ve dealt with. That list includes Kazakhstan and several middle eastern countries.

Fully agreed that it needs to be done right. I’m definitely not the best person to try and write it.

It also needs to be area specific. A predominantly republican area would need a different message to a predominantly black community.

Has Amazon ever actually said it wouldn’t sell the results of face tracking to data brokers? I can easily see it happening. It’s a lot of tasty data to them.

A better option might be a leafleting campaign.

It would need to bypass the “I’ve nothing to hide” effect. E.g. “Does your friend have an ex they don’t want to know where they are? Facial recognition would easily put them on your doorstep. Would you like a visit from them?”

Leaning on the ICE issues right now would also work in some areas.

If someone mocked up a few variants for different demographics, that could actually help.

Also, does anyone know an easy layman alternative to ring, that is more ethical?

Their biggest problem is media capture. With the loss of twitter to Musk, there’s no large scale organisation path that hasn’t been captured.

As the phrase goes. “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

I’m UK based btw. I had my tangles with the police at protests in my younger days. It’s intimidating, even when nominally peaceful. I have a lot of respect for those of you willing to face off against the nastier crowd control methods.

It’s worth noting that there is still a huge difference between what you dealt/deal with and shoot-to-kill military weapons fire.

If I thought it would help, I would (unhappily) deal with tear gas etc. I’m too old, with too much to lose to risk rubber bullets etc, but respect those that would. VERY few people would face gunfire without the ability to fire back. The American Left is not at the point where they are willing to escalate to that point.

I think the Germans might have some ideas to draw from. Or at least what doesn’t work as well as you might think.

There’s the acute situation and the chronic one. The acute one needs action now. You also need to keep an eye on the long term goals.

It’s a common thing that’s been discovered with extremist groups. A good number of their members get in before it becomes extreme. By the time they realise, too much of their identity is tied up with the group. They get drawn deeper and deeper. This makes getting out both emotionally and practically costly.

Giving a release valve to remove these people from the group is emotionally unpleasant, but extremely useful for collapsing the group.

Also, those same people are often in the best position to help with deprogramming other members.

I’m not saying to let them walk Scot free, but you need to leave some way out. Unless you are willing to stand and systematically gun down them to a man (bare in mind, they will be firing back).

Those who turn soon should be accepted. Not Scot free, but accepted. There’s the possibility they were roped in by propaganda, and got too deep.

If they don’t turn now, they definitely knew what they were doing, and should face the appropriate consequences.

It’s also worth remembering, always give your enemy a way out. It’s a lot easier to run down the die-hards than deal with a group of cornered animals.

I’m not American. I’m only aware of them in passing. It’s not the sort of thing we learn about in school, over here.

In France, the worst they will likely be met with is water cannons, tear gas, and potentially rubber bullets/beanbag rounds.

In America, it’s more likely to be automatic assault rifles.

They are excellent in the hobby world. It’s generally when you need to do a bit of quick logic, an ESP32 can be dropped in to do it. E.g. change the colour of an led depending on a sensor.

They also form the core of a lot of IoT devices. Simple sensors and relays that can connect to WiFi and throw up a simple web interface. ESPhome, tasmota and WLED exist to make this extremely easy.

They are basically the hobbiest electronic multi tool. Powerful enough to do most jobs without bothering with code optimisation. Cheap enough to throw in and leave there.

The current mindset seems to be that the other side wants reciprocal violence, and so not to give it to them. They want to spin it as ICE trying to do their jobs and being mindlessly attacked. The current situation is giving them almost nothing to spin.

At some point it will detonate. Trump and co mean it’s likely either that or folding under their boots. Holding out till the American midterms is unlikely, unless something seriously changes.

I thought that only applied to steam keys?

You can sell your game for whatever you want elsewhere, but if you want them to be able to install via steam, you can’t undercut steam itself.

Women definitely have it harder. I’ve seen statistics that back that up too.

Women have more variance in their health, mostly linked to their hormonal cycle. That drastically widens the range of ‘normal’ for them as a group. An individual patient might be highly abnormal for herself, but within the bounds of ‘average normal’. A good doctor, with time will account for that. Unfortunately most lack the time.

The fact that doctors are traditionally male doesn’t help. Add in a few women overreacting to feed the stereotypes and we end up with the current situation.

It seems to be improving slowly, based on what I’ve seen, but it’s still got a long way to go.

Been there done that. How do you think I learnt to self advocate properly?

I don’t blame the doctors. They did their best in the time and with the information available to them. I didn’t fit the mould so they missed it again and again.

I could have done with the right treatment 20 years earlier, but I got there.

If you smell dog shit, check the ground. If you constantly smell dog shit, check your shoe.

Most doctors are trying to help as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. 80-90% are fine to work with you, within their workflow. If every doctor you encounter is in the 10% then either you’re VERY unlucky, or you are the problem element.

I’m guessing you just mouth off at doctors, and so get treated like an idiot.

Most doctors I’ve spoken to have been quite happy to work with me rather than against me.

The unfortunate trick is you need to self educate to speak a bit more in their language. You also need to accept they are often working within rules that are unintuitive.

E.g. I prefer a particular brand drug Vs the generics. (The delivery method was slightly different) I had to cycle through the generics so they could tick them off in the system. Otherwise it would try to automatically shift me to a generic.

Remember, it’s not a war crime the first time!