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Yeah cool that frog started getting hot 15 years ago whats the plan haha
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I feel like the privacy issues goes back waaaaay further than any of this and that attempts to stop it then were fruitless.
I hate to be pessimistic but I was butt hurt about rights to privacy online and in public (security cameras) long ago. Nobody cares about them now and soon nobody will care that I'm caught ripping bongs in a school. Lol.
I'm old and tired.
No, more people definitely do care now. Not as much add they should in the ways that they should, but they do.
That's what we said back then bro
You mean24 years ago when they signed the fucking Patriot act?
Also go watch and act on Benn Jordan’s license plate reader video. It might be the best thing you can do for keeping your insurance rate low for now.
Ah the pleasant names they give these things: The Patriot Act, The Big Beautiful Bill, No Child Left Behind, giving citizens the illusion these will improve the country and improve everyone's lives but it couldn't be more opposite.
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act doesn't hit the same, especially after knowing what they would pass for "terrorism"
Yea