Because that line of "enjoying your existence" making no mention of the monumental harm we cause to every biome on the planet is exactly the kind of selfishness that the button pushers would like to eradicate.
I've noticed a big split in viewpoint between people who don't live in the US.
Its like those who live in the states have a incentive to act like everything going on is ok, while those outside are increasingly having statements like yours. "How do you not see this power 13 years past Snowden"
I've not given up trying to point out how dangerous the US govs powers are in the hands of an ever less capable and more fascist government, ie posting here on HN, but the odds to convince people are low.
This is just one more thing in a time of all the things. When all this backlash comes to roost at techs door this site I expect will be shocked. How could the average American confuse the rich VCs with the moloch worshiping pedophiles and the fascist government populists?
When the giant finally wakes in America it won't be reasonable or well targeted. I'm reminded that violence in gang neighborhoods is modeled as a contaigen. Have we ever seen a violence "pandemic"?
Which I guess is why Zuck has been building compounds.
i keep tabs on posts roughly along the lines of "maybe we need guns after all."
imo they're usually too late, as guns without training and a group aren't very useful. but i can tell you the number has went up about 4x the baseline in the holiday season. and thats after its doubling after November's elections.
this country is a powderkeg and what's worse is i think these provocations are international. the admin seems to want to start a civil war.
what gets me is trying to make the argument that market economies are not necessarily capitalist economies. it seems plain over time that capitalism works to destroy markets. As an American I'm pretty pro market, but that means at this point I'm an enemy of capitalism.
As someone formerly a member of the the Center for Inquiry and still a believer in its mission, I understand what you're saying.
I would still point you to, there is something to this. And theres not been any whistleblower mention of anything "visiting." What they report aligns with the most probable scenario that the things we're seeing are automated Von Neumann probes, most likely sitting at the bottom of the ocean, and they've probably been here a long time.
I think Age of Disclosure is coming out. Might be interesting to watch if only to scratch your head about how many military and defense people are trying to convince people the opposite, that there are craft with extraordinary capabilities and they ARENT ours.
I made fun of UFO people the same as I did the religious and bigfoot believers, but after the video in the Times in 2017, and all the military people who have come forward with roughly the same story.. I would very much like to know whats behind it.
I agree with that, which is why its pretty interesting the whistle blowers who went before Congress used the term "non-human intelligence" pretty extensively.
In any case the point the article makes and the one I'm most interested in, is it looks like we've been lied to.
if you believe like i do that gpg is an awful dead and outdated tool you'd never enforce on your worst enemy, its a good time to mention sops supports age.
"they" dont detect it light years away. from what has been published in the public domain, like in the congressional hearings, there are machines that have been here possibly a very long time. think at least 500 years. theres no indication the "they" behind those machines have ever made contact, or are on this planet, or are even still in existence. but there is something mechanical here that was not made by us.
as far as I know, the very few publicly identified records of speeds we have suggest a really big power source and the probable manipulation of fields we cannot yet (mass/gravity), but nothing breaking the speed of light.
so many people make leaps beyond the evidence we have and then declare them not plausible.
GOP apparently had enough votes to pass a budget by reconciliation. Which means the riders they want to add on, dropping Obamacare funding expansions are at minimum important enough to shut down over.
They do not seem to be acting in good faith, not sending people to negotiate any of this. Combined with the leaking presidents comments about being able to force through things under shutdown they wouldn't be able to otherwise, I think a reasonable interpretation is this shutdown is intentional and part of someone's plan.
edit: since subtext is dead its called Project 2025 and it's supposed to be a "bloodless coup" of the federal government. And if that isn't obvious by now please wake up.
I respect at least your choice but I'm not growing tofu on the farm. Veganism is one of those protests that while i appreciate going after factory farms, you're only enabled to do so by large corporations.