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Oh, I hoped that you were somebody
Someone I could count
To pull me to my feet again
When I was in doubt
Now I'm the last cowboy in this town
Empty veins and my plastic broken crown
They said I swam the seas then ran aground
They said I once was lost but now I'm truly found
And I know the place but not the way
I feel, I feel no shame
But you threw your heart away
Oh, I know just what to say
That the Concorde, it can wait
We have still got time to say
And I know you ran away
Oh, I know my feeling okay?
But now I've found love, the feeling won't go
Now I found love, the feeling won't go
See you walk away
Feeling okay now
Happy now?
I'm calling out your name!

I grew up when the biggest threat was a nuclear warhead. We feared what governments could do with weapons. Now the weapon is in your hand and you paid for it yourself.
In the 80s, privacy was default. No one tracked your every move. You called a friend the line was yours. You bought a record , no algorithm noted it. You walked outside. no camera logged your face.
What a great time when berries and cherries were abundant?
Now? Every click is harvested. Every purchase profiled. Every step tracked. The dystopia William Gibson warned us about isn't coming it already shipped, and people paid to install it in their pockets.
The 80s had nuclear anxiety. We have surveillance capitalism. Different fear, same powerlessness.
The difference: back then the machine was visible. Today it's invisible, and most people call it convenience.
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People or They named as the black conspiracy theorist actor here ..
You can imprison a man. You can silence a voice. You can burn a book, ban a platform, deplatform a movement, arrest a journalist, kill a leader.
You just...cannot kill an idea..

Ideas have no body to handcuff. No address to raid. No bank account to freeze. An idea is a shadow and you cannot shoot a shadow. The harder you chase it, the more it spreads. Every attempt to suppress it writes it deeper into the minds of those watching.
The surveillance state knows this. That is why it doesn't try to kill ideas anymore.. it tries to drown them. Flood the feed with noise. Bury the signal under ten thousand distractions. Make people too tired, too entertained, too divided to act on what they know is true.

American business culture has never valued employees unless they have some leverage. It should surprise no one that a company which is planning to replace all its people with AI in a few years is perfectly happy to piss every single employee off by ganking their raises and bonuses and actually telling them it's to pay for the AI...

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@Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪 I thought you had it already after reading your post yesterday... it's sad. But It's like that yours is regulated and also a max grams you can buy. I found a site in Holland and they bring it to your door for 50 grams you pay 6$ for 100 you pay 4$ so my friend takes the 6 once a month for me and him and we took Silver Haze for day time as well 25/25 that service you must command by using Wire app and he comes to your door and you open aand taste and pay him in cash.

edit: they have 10 menu cards like you go to Amsterdam to a coffee shop and it comes from there around a little further. Menu's are sent tou your Wire App.
If you ask me that is not secure. better use Session or another I can't find the name again without mail or number
And it's more than 4 years we do it this way, never has a problema

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Let me ask you a question. Using your personal, for real situation right now: If Cloudflare decided to ban all the IP's from VPNs and flagged your home and work IPs as bots, along with all the devices you personally own, identified by device fingerprinting, what would your life be like? Could you really get on with any kind of normal life?

Well, governments just started talking about banning VPNs in service to "Know Your Customer" and "Child safety". Do you think they'll try to hunt down every piece of VPN software on the internet, or will they use their "mandate" to force a choke point corporation to use their already ubiquitous scanning to block suspects without any due process or chance of appeal?

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We no longer have the ability to govern ourselves, and the people who do have the ability are using it to destroy our civilization. This all ends in technofascism or luddite terrorism (or a mix of both). I can't see any other outcomes...

" The $16 billion data center... was flat-out rejected by both the town’s board and its planning commission in September. But those votes turned out to be only minor bumps on the project’s path: The developer quickly sued, the town settled, and the construction vehicles rolled in."

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