It’s funny, because I cut ten minutes off my thirty minute commute via the HOV lane by carpooling, and I see plenty of Metro buses on the same route.

Never rule out intimidation

I was told we can’t say this because it’ll mean Democrats lose the next election.

I’m further being told we should go after Transgender people, Muslims, and anyone immigrating from The Bad (nonwhite) Countries, because this is the only way to Stop Trump.

I’m any case, privacy is a spectrum. I can’t be untraceable by state agents, but I can avoid a lot of non targeted spying.

Absolutely. But then, as often as not, just using the browser feature that doesn’t cache client side data is enough.

there is actual evidence…

Satellite imagery and open-source geographic data

Buddy…

Amnesty International verified the human right abuses independently.

Thanks for that

it’s entirely possible that this person’s route to work is far too dangerous to walk, let alone cycle.

If only there was some kind of enlongated multi-passanger vehicle they could use

I walk 3.3 miles to and from work

In that kind of traffic? You’d be trampled to death

I genuinely wonder what people think they’re using a VPN for. Do they think they’ve outwitted a trillion dollars in surveillance with an $8/mo subscription service?

It’s fish in a barrel.

You don’t always hit, but the odds are stacked heavily in your favor

• Third party service run by corpos who pinky promise not to harvest any of your data

• In-app tool that doesn’t cache your client-side data

Is the woman the negative side on this?

The important thing isn’t that your kids don’t see porn, it’s that they feel the requisite amount of shame and never talk to you about their sexuality.

Also, it’s one more thing we can criminalize in a surveillance state. So now we can more easily extort horny people with fines and prison if we feel the need

UwU

So we’re all terrorists, right?

“Comrades” is the term they really hate to hear.

Bold move in a country with more guns than people.

You need the people to use the guns, otherwise they’re not worth much. And just holding a gun doesn’t do much. Which Americans are just talking shit and which ones are willing to Luigi a motherfucker?

Palestine was the test bed for this shit.

We demoed our ethnic cleansing systems over there so we could deploy them over here.

“Cash Bounties” seems to be the GOP go-to in a country that’s increasingly impoverished and facing mounting inflation in cost-of-living. Quite literally paying one half of the poor to kill the other half.

Folks kick around “when does the US Civil War start?” both in jest and in anxiety. But we’re getting into real Fugitive Slave Act territory with this kind of policy. Between ICE Agents racing around to hit deportation quotas and anti-Abortion Bounty Hunters getting introduced across the Gulf Coast, we really are barrelling towards the AnCap privatized police force meme.

THEY GAVE HIM BACK HIS COMMITTEE CHAIR

Fucking imagine putting a convicted criminal on House Appropriations while chanting “Rules Based International Order” to yourselves. I wonder how many Azerbaijani checks got cashed to make that happen.

You want us to check the COVID leaderboard?

If they bring up their cultural religion, values, politics, philosophy, or social dynamics, suddenly things can become an area of controversy and even ethical debate

Italians will go three rounds in the ring over which neighborhood has the best ice cream shop. I wouldn’t even say its uncontroversial. But these also tend to be attributes that vary heavily even at relatively short distances in older communities. A certain meal prepared a certain way or a dance/music style that originated in your neighborhood becomes a unique touchstone to your community.

I might note that this is something “Planned Communities” tend to lose out on. Everyone gets a Chilis. Everyone gets a radio station franchise that plays the same six songs on a loop. Everyone gets an AMC that shows the same ten movies as everywhere else. Everyone gets a Catholic Church and a Methodist Church book-ending the local elementary school.

Then you leave your provincial cookie-cutter suburb and visit London, a city where the dialect of the language changes by intersection. Or you do a road trip in Italy and find out how every tiny township has this one kind of dish they’re all really proud of. Or you just drop into inner city Houston and get an earful of Chop’n’Screw music played by guys with spinners on the wheels of their lowered Cadalliacs. Then you find some weird old bookshop in Montrose that sells pagan bumper stickers.

OP is British