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In some areas, it would be necessary to somehow install trackers on your busses that you use. Depending on the jurisdiction, I've had to deal with busses either being possibly 10 minutes early, or missing their stop time by up to half an hour.


This is a good reason to stop using busses, not add tracking.


That is what I myself ended up doing :)


> youʻll end up with a council of third-rate minds and politically-motivated hacks, and the situation will be worse than how you started.

Wow, surprising honesty from someone affiliated with Reddit. I'm sad that I wasn't on the site during the time of the old guard.


> I'm sad that I wasn't on the site during the time of the old guard.

It really was great - I probably wouldn't care how horrible it's become if not for the fact that I remember how it used to be.


There are so few places anymore where you can't guess exactly what will be in the comments threads, and you go between feeling either frustrated or occasionally relieved to see someone who is open-minded. The few that popped up either seem to become echo chambers with their own biases, mysteriously disappear, or get flooded by organized campaigns to ruin the landscape.


It's like sitting in a mental ward and listening to two very potentially intelligent schizophrenics or dementia patients chat. Interesting at times and confusing most of the time.


"At this point any GOVERNMENT ACTOR, or private sector entity WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE GOVERNMENT..."

You missed that part. The Bill of Rights is (or at least was) a list of things the Government can't do.


Uri Bezmenov was telling the truth.


Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.


>I bet he wasn’t feeling too great about that bit of litigation the deal closing helped him escape.

>Maybe one of the cronies who were cozying up to him

>freedom isn’t free.

There are a few nasties in the article. This nerd writer got so angry his writing even got pretty sloppy in his section (3).

Seething is in fashion!


> outputted

You're fired.

But seriously, this wasn't the kid's fault. There are a number of layers that should have prevented this, including NOT PUTTING PRODUCTION CREDENTIALS IN AN ONBOARDING DOCUMENT.


I'd be interested in how storage capacity has changed over the past 5 or so years. Has it been reduced for some reason?


If you have a sensible set of statistics that you believe justify surrender of personal sovereignty of identity to this degree, I would invite you to ponder a set of statistics that you would think completely monstrous, but still arguable, toward such a surrender. There is someone out there who believes the opposite to you, and if you think the creation of a power that benefits your opinions should take place, know that it could be used by this hypothetical person to benefit his opinions.

If you're ok with all that, then you have a justifiable position. If not, then you do not.


> If you have a sensible set of statistics that you believe justify surrender of personal sovereignty of identity to this degree, I would invite you to ponder a set of statistics that you would think completely monstrous, but still arguable, toward such a surrender. There is someone out there who believes the opposite to you, and if you think the creation of a power that benefits your opinions should take place, know that it could be used by this hypothetical person to benefit his opinions.

Your “personal sovereignty” argument is equally applicable to a sociopath who wants to maim and kill at will.

Because that’s what Plague Rats are: sociopaths that care only for their own “rights”, and are more than eager to let everyone around them die in order to avoid a trivial imposition that would significantly improve safety.

If you want to be a part of a community, you also have an obligation TO that community, to keep it safe from any pathogens you risk transmitting.

If you cannot do your duty of care to that community, find a different community to be in, then. Because you have demonstrated you don’t give a single shite about anyone but yourself.


You're assuming there are only communities who want paternalistic interference.

That is not the case.

You seem like you're possessed by the delusion of objectivity. There is no such thing.


>There is no such thing.

Effectively, that is true; and the closer you get to absolute objectivity, the scarier it becomes to the average person (which was the crux of my point, so I appreciate your pointing out what you did). Fitting that the dude would have mentioned psychopaths, in that light.


>Your “personal sovereignty” argument

What is this you're talking about? I talked about personal sovereignty OF IDENTITY. If you're going to strawman, at least strawman based on a correct reading of your target's point.


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