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Much of the time, it’s illegal if the person being manipulated/used/complicit knows, so the FBI will often tip them of an intelligence asset targeting them so if they keep it up, or spill the beans when told not to, they can get charged.

Maybe there are other laws too but that one came up with the US president’s first term investigating all the russian links to the campaign back before we officially became south america where nobody gives a shit anymore.

i’ve had mastadon people interact with me on here, I think one followed me even. Not sure if I should’ve blocked them or not, I followed back. I think they had zero posts.

Should I block?

We do need more cross functionality, plus we need instances with a clear set of rules enforced equally ending in a jury trial of users for major violations, rather than the feudal system we have.

We will never catch on as it now stands. 40k weekly users on lemmy is it?

Indict that bitch!

The value of the chips is probably less important than the possession of them that allows them to reverse engineer them, if they haven’t already.

I can relate to this. With the internet I don’t read as many books as I used to. But I still want to read them, I just don’t as often.

That’s not quite what I read in the guardian and elsewhere, there was stuff about electing for jury trials and denying it in more cases.

The tories scrapped the jury trials for up to one year in prison in 2020, so that part isn’t scrapped presumably. The birthplace of modern liberty, cancelling it without a goddamned fight.

Also, they basically cancelled the right to protest, if disfavoured by the politcians. Plus falsley proscribing groups as terrorists based on politicians’ say so. Plus a bunch of other stuff.

I appreciate the links, especially about the scrapping of these jury trial changes from 1 year to 3 years in prison soley decided by the UK’s famously haughty and aristocratic cuntish old boys club that is it’s legal system.

But I must disagree, the UK is further into fascism than the US. You blokes just don’t realize it, for aforementioned reasons. Although reasonable people could disagree on a which is worse off.

I think the US will surpass the UK in getting worse in most ways soon-ish, and we already are worse in many ways, healthcare, business running amok, drug prices, less protections and regulations all around to protect us and more faithess enforcements. Still though.

Says the guy that doesn’t get a jury trial anymore if facing a year in prison, and soon 3 years, decided by a magistrate? That just made a masterbaitorbase to record every web page you ever considered whacking off to? That instituted age control and is now recording every single thing you have said or done?

You guys are worse off than here in the US, bro. You just have a mealy mouthed controlled opposition in power rather than a blowhard troll king so you must not notice it.

But no, by the way, on the cameras, what I said is correct, the entire city of london has been covered by cctv cameras for over 20 years. The entire thing, and it’s getting worse you can be sure. That was in the NYTimes, back before I left them over Israel.

I bet you are forbidden from doing so. Because fuck you (and me, and us all,) that’s why. They have nothing but contempt for working people in politics and corporate american leadership. And the courts, and lawyers, to say nothing of all the prosecuting attorneys, that wouldn’t piss on one of us if we were on fire.

Some teens get emancipated when they are 17 or maybe even younger, if their parents suck and they can show a court they are able to care for themselves, depending on state I presume.

I imagine that is an exception to minors signing contracts, maybe they are no longer considered minors after they do that though.

It used to be like that in the US. It was not until the 90s into the 00’s that employers were allowed to make employees sign away their right to sue and instead use binding arbitration of the employer’s choosing, or manufacturers and retailers forcing consumers to waive their rights to sue in purchasing the product, and so forth.

Judges used to throw them out. And if a contract had egregious language, it could invalidate the entire contract not just the part that is illegal.

Since the federalist society conquered the courts all of that changed.

https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-origin-wuhan-lab

It appears the lab leak is the cause. The exotic animal trade still needs to be shut down, and also fuels new viruses being discovered to be studied and gain of functioned to make biological weapons from, which is the real reason for these programs.

That said, the evidence from the Senate Report is convincing, the emails we got from the virology lab all but said so in their bureaucratic speak.

What? No. You want the government to be in control of this tech directly? Jesus Christ, I can’t tell which is worse, our situation now, or if we nationalized it and the goddamned federal government was calling the shots directly.

We should seize control of them by legal process and explode them with due process in law and all that shit.

Yeah sorry I knew that, obviously it does help pricing, their pricing, dynamic pricing coming to you soon!

CCTV cameras will know who everyone is and digital tags can give a price based on their metrics, or online with different prices. It’s already started. Consumer Reports outed Instacart for doing it online already, a firm that operates shopping carts on multiple websites as a vendor.

I think this is the article: https://www.consumerreports.org/money/questionable-business-practices/instacart-ai-pricing-experiment-inflating-grocery-bills-a1142182490/

The future fucking sucks.

The bigger danger is chemical contamination in the food supply, and it’s harms will rarely if ever be recognized for their sources. Not unless we make them be recognized. Not an easy task with influence operations and social media being completely sold out.

We are the only developed country that has allowed salmonella in our chicken supply, after pressure from the industry. Propublica did a piece on it some years back.

Most men find Sinema attractive, because she objectively is, for an older woman.

AI won’t help for pricing anyway because the company actively tries to get you to buy the less quality more expensive products, as outlined in a John Oliver episode.

Private insurance does not cover floods. The feds underwrite flood insurance, and it is bought separately, as I understand it.

I think some insurance will mandate you get flood insurance from the feds if you are in a zone that floods every so many years. But that would vary state to state.

All these apps basically dox all of their users. Just not to us, to data brokers that buy that information wholesale.