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  • While this is true, it’s not difficult to verify. You can inspect the network traffic through your router from that device and see whether it’s communicating more often or with larger data packets while you’re talking near but not to it.

    That could be obfuscated with a powerful enough device that’s able to maintain the user profile locally and by sending the full profile each time, or by trickling the information out bit by bit as part of a regular heartbeat traffic, but that would require more expensive hardware and would eat up a lot more bandwidth.

    Not impossible, but not undetectable either. I’m willing to bet that studies have been done.

    Skepticism is good but without thinking through it, experimenting, or doing research to back it up it’s just paranoia. Conversely you could say my trust that others would have looked into it is naive.


  • It’s not about the elections it’s about who gets the support and opportunity and resources to win elections.

    A footrace can be executed completely fairly and transparently but if you need to buy special expensive shoes to participate and you receive them at someone else’s discretion and you need to join one of two private clubs to get an invitation and the leaders and members of those clubs also apply discretion then a lot of unfair choices and decisions are being made before the starter pistol goes off.










  • I’m opposed to this oversimplification, even if he’s a confirmed Russian asset we can’t just imagine that erasing Trump and Putin will solve everything.

    Fascism has reared its head and it wasn’t just due to Putin and Trump. Real systemic change is required in the politics and the economy of the United States.

    If they just go back to Bidening things up after Trump and assume everything is great there’s going to be a very rude awakening.

    We can’t keep iteratively adopting Fascism, technological advances and the interdependence of the global economy has already made it so this time might destroy us all. Next time definitely will.