SPACESHIP!

That’s quite an assumption for you to make. Why would you believe this to be true about me?

Even worse, yolk sizes are unpredictable, and it’s not like you can open an uncooked egg to check. You had to boil at least a dozen and hope one of them fit.

Yup. I don’t think you can approve of this kind of research without also giving tacit approval to the police state being built around us.

It wasn’t voluntary for any of the people who had their rights violated by GM, OnStar and LexisNexis. And we know they aren’t the only ones doing this shit, they’re just the ones that got caught.

If we lived in a sane society, the people responsible for this shit would be occupying prison cells.

If I, as an individual, took it upon myself to install surveillance devices in peoples’ vehicles and collect behavioral data on them, without their knowledge and explicit consent, I would be (rightly) held criminally liable for that. But because this creepy stalking is being done by corporations, apparently that’s OK.

What a creepy Orwellian system we’ve built, to have this kind of information down to seconds. In the next study they’ll be including what direction the driver’s eyes were pointed in at the time of the crash.

You can’t possibly wait that long.

I mean, it’ll take at least a day for all the deanposters to dean themselves out.

Until the trash gets picked up.

You can also just shim a Masterlock with a bit of soda can. A stiff piece of plastic will also usually work.

goddam this meme fell out of the JPEG tree and hit every branch on the way down

Is this the big-tent politics I keep hearing about?

Organized crime exists everywhere. In the places that don’t have a stereotyped reputation for it, the organized crime groups are either better at hiding or have more control over the local government and don’t get investigated.

For instance, in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos internet scams are a significant portion of the economy. In Laos the scams revenue represent about 68% of their GDP:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/02/scam-state-multi-billion-dollar-industry-south-east-asia

Local governments have tried to crack down on the scam centers, but the operations are so large that basically everyone in the country is either involved directly, or knows someone personally who is.

“These are massive pieces of infrastructure, set up very publicly. You can go to borders and observe them. You can even walk into some of them,” says Tower. “The fact this is happening in a very public way shows just the extreme level of impunity – and the extent to which states are not only tolerating this, but actually, these criminal actors are becoming state embedded.”

The point being, most of the time there isn’t a “crime family” like in movies and TV shows. Organized crime is business, and in a lot of places it’s business as usual.

Ooh, yes someone should do this not on any particular person’s property but as an avantgarde public art installation. Not with actual Flock cameras but just some replicas. Pop it up in a couple different cities around the world.

I worry for my sister, who is transitioning at 30+ and has some other chronic health issues.

Something else that I think is an important part of this discussion, especially in regard to family members, is long-term medical issues.

There are a lot of medical conditions that are gender-specific, especially with aging. For one example, an FTM transitioned individual will likely still experience menopause. That is the actual menopause condition, not just similar symptoms. An MTF individual may experience menopause-like symptoms due to complications with estrogen therapy. Evidence also suggests that transgender women have the same risk of cardiovascular issues as the general male population:

Evidence from several studies suggests that cardiovascular risk is unchanged among transgender men using testosterone compared with non-transgender women. Evidence in transgender women is less clear. Some studies have found increased morbidity and mortality from myocardial infarction and stroke compared with non-transgender men, however these studies did not adjust for a number of risk factors including tobacco use, obesity, and diabetes.

https://transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines/cardiovascular

Functionally, if you were born male then your cardiovascular system is still the same. However, as noted in this study there is not a large body of research on this specific subject and there are many complicating factors, so the above conclusion is tentative. Hopefully we will get more research and better statistics, but long-term studies are slow.

Unfortunately these issues don’t go away just because you look and feel different now - we just don’t have the technology to make real changes to your genetics, not yet anyway.

If you are transitioning, obviously you’re having a lot of conversations with your medical team about all of this. I would encourage you to please also discuss it with your family. They won’t have all the specifics that you do about the side effects unless you talk to them about it.

If your family is disassociating with you because of your transition - first of all I am very, very sorry and I hope you either have or find some new family. Please please make an effort to have a person in your life (other than a medical professional) who you can trust enough to discuss your medical situation with. I know it’s very personal, but like… everybody needs care and support, and to get that you need other people with patience and understanding, and to have understanding you need communication. Talk to people who care about you, and give them at least some of the specifics. And really… you need that care and support from someone directly involved in your personal life, not just the trans community on the internet. You need someone who can look at you and see that you are struggling.

Then you provide the enemy with ammunition.

They claim that the purpose of the cameras is to prevent crime, and that the people who oppose them are violent extremists. They’ve even tried to label deflock.me as a terrorist organization.

Don’t provide the enemy with ammunition.

Even better, a group should cut down several dozen of them and mount them all on poles outside his house during the night, so that he wakes up to them in the morning. No vandalism, no violence, no threats, just a blunt statement that the media couldn’t possibly ignore.

Heck, no need to even risk collecting that many real ones. I hear there’s some fairly decent 3D printed fakes available.

“All we need is some guardrails… and then some guardrails for the guardrails… and some guardrails for those guardrails… it’ll be fine, swearsies.”

As the fediverse grows, you can’t just assume that everyone connecting to it is an adult. NSFW content needs to be segregated by default.

https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/detail