Now? I feel like I'm sitting on gold by keeping these cheap dumb devices around.
Depending on how old they are, phones have diminishing network compatibility, and cheap, dumb devices are in production still, and will be for the indefinite future. So it's not like they are a resource that the world has run out of.
Old laptops age better, but it's not like anyone restricts software on laptops, or will ever be able.
You can still buy equivalent dumb phones, but they aren't any more open than the rest of the rabble.
Laptops are a different story, although I believe part of that battle was already lost when the Intel SSM and AMD equivalent came around. We'll see how things go when banks start to require you to enable (In)Secure Boot just to be able to log in through a browser on a PC.
If people stop the bullshit it's not that hard to effectively oppose
Later we get the wet dream of surveillance with V passports. Social credit style. If you watched the ads companies were trying, you would've seen it. But of course you're going to call me a conspiracy theorists just like it happened back then.
Locking down your devices, putting age restrictions and therefore digital id and no privacy to access the internet, it's all pretty convenient.
But hey, Google is doing this all for your own good, or they aren't and the good EU will stop them because there's no way they'd like control.
If you're going to use unrelated discussions to launder your conspiracy theory, at least provide evidence. Otherwise we get to dismiss you without trial which is faster but less fun.
I don't give a flying fuck if you dismiss me. You already did in 2020, 2021 and so on and I'm still here, didn't you?
Now I get to see you move uncomfortably while still ready to lick the next boot.
Enjoy it.
So yeah, your comment was completely unrelated as phones aren't public property. I don't expect to be able to control the DMV or my local Kroger, but I absolutely do expect my phone to behave as-advertised.
It really is enlightening how people like you are willing to hate the "other" just because the government tells you to.
Terrorism, disease, children's safety, drugs, etc.
No emergency justifies it because emergencies have a tendency of staying forever, entrenched in law, long after the perceived emergency has been forgotten.
Funniest thing was, you wanted to quarantine and oppress the healthy. You also didn't quarantine and oppress the rich or your politicians who didn't abide by their own theater. No, the coward man went along with the excuses and screamed murder at the sky. Just like in history, you accuse groups of people of being "a disease" to suppress them. Google that, will ya?
As for risks, I posit you're a risk to me, with your hellbent intent of locking me up because I don't follow your theater. Should I ban you from society? Engage in state punishment and suppression like you wanted?
Stop killing your family and friends.
My taxpayer dollars go to not breaking the social contract and you not killing people with your ideas. Cease and desist killing people. You'll murderer.
Oh, see how easy it is to just say those things?
Now argue in the real world. We're not in 2020 anymore.
Do you even have personal opinions?
Disease actually kills people.
I know that makes you uncomfortable and you'd like to live in an alternative reality where you can do whatever and cause no harm, but come back down to Earth.
1 million Americans died from Covid. Our policies caused some of that. Selfish people caused some of that. Everyone, including you, is partially responsible for those deaths.
That's uncomfortable, and it's hard to hear, but it is also indisputable. The sooner you come to terms with the reality we live in, the sooner your mind can heal.
> Selfish people caused some of that
Lol. Fuck off with this tired bullshit. This fake accusation of murder when thanks to your moronic policies economic hardships have caused much more hurt around the world. And let's not start on the undetected cancer and other treatments.
You're just repeating the same old propaganda. Anyone who disagrees with your theater, which was disproven then and now, is a murderer.
Go stop genocide that your country is either perpetrating or supporting and then we will talk about "murder".
You are legitimately delusional.
Requiring a mask doesn't hurt anything other than your feelings. Not wearing a mask actually, literally, in disputably, without a doubt, with no room for argument, hurts people. At least, during the pandemic.
Are you noticing how my thing is real and yours is just made up? That should tell you something.
Also, you know fuck all about my "economic policy". As if whatever stupid ass economic policy you voted for is better. Remember - that BBB is putting us a few trillion more in debt and is certainly going to lead to some deaths due to Medicaid cuts!
Humble yourself brother. The world doesn't revolve around you.
You just repeated the propaganda so much that you're not able to interact with reality.
The rest is just ramblings.
Not even the politicians that screwed you over followed their theater.
The truth is, obviously, somewhere in the middle. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to deduce putting a physical obstacle between your mouth and other people mouths and noses reduces how many particles can go into their system.
Its not ramblings at all, you just don't understand much about anything.
Again: your stuff? Not real. My stuff? Real. Covid is real and did really kill people, for real.
If you were an outside observer, who would you choose to listen to? Its very basic reasoning.