Wait. Are you calling me old?!?!

Yeah. Guilty as charged. lol

Notice how the focus of 'Birds Aren't Real' is that robot birds are engaged in mass surveillance. Which is ridiculous, but with a tinge of plausibility since actual prototype robot birds have been created. But that's not the point. Forget birds. The point here is to dismiss robot birds as replacing all real live birds and in the process diminish or demean the concept of mass surveillance. Which IS REAL. I mean, we're all carrying phones with GPS tracking our every move, audio recording (which has been subpoenaed in the past) , and leaving video records these companies analyze for whatever reasons they choose.

The birds, not so real. The mass surveillance part, very very real. And I get the sense this movement benefits surveillance capitalists more than it debunks fake conspiracy theories.

GraphineOS. Requires a Pixel phone. Is pretty secure.

Like how Facebook was. Now its nothing but censorship and it algorithms trying to put content I didn't ask for in front of me. And what is with the "sensitive" blocks? I'm not sensitive so stop trying to block stuff from my non-sensitive eyes.

91% of the time, it works every time.

I have an old Google Pixel 2 which I regularly mount to my Yamaha motorcycle handlebars and I've never had a problem. Camera works fine! Use it with a PacTalk to bluetooth stream music or Google Assistant from the helmet. Would definitely choose an old or cheap phone with enough oomph to do maps and spotify over a mere GPS. Would not buy a $1000 iPhone anyway. $300 will get you a perfectly good last gen phone that will last several years. And if you break it, buy another and don't shed a tear.

China has deployed a one million volt DC electric grid transmission system which, is efficient at several thousand kilometers. They are deploying solar, wind, hydroelectric and nuclear as fast as they can. And not focusing on storage but instead a national transmission grid. Solar in the northwest where it's still light and transmitted to the south east where it's dark in summertime, especially for hvac cooling. Invert that for winter.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chin...

We could do the same thing. And in fact we desperately need to upgrade our electric grid anyway.

A wallet is nothing more than software and a unique crypto key. There's no way to verify identity of wallet holders unless the owner registers a wallet to an official exchange. The blockchain will record chains of transactions to keys, and regulators are welcome to trace those transaction records as much as they like. But it won't get them identity of key holders or the location of a transaction anywhere in the world. Which means, in what jurisdiction did that transaction take place?

Want cash for bitcoin but don't want regulators to know? Trade bitcoin for dirty cash from drug gangs. You get dirty cash and they get bitcoin. They use the bitcoin to buy large quantity drugs. You use the dirty cash to pay fake rent for an empty apartment to get it into the local banking system. This is at least one way bitcoin is used for money laundering. And it won't go away with a mere law. Because bitcoin (and most every crypto currency) is unregulatable at the protocol and intended to be that way.

Nowadays it seems they are moving options around in their old products and calling them updates. And here we have them acting like some old white collar company with "butts in seats" so middle management has a job and executives can quietly collect their bonuses from their beach front property in some foreign country.

Microsoft seems more progressive.

Liberals play by the rules because to do otherwise is to reinforce the very lawlessness and kleptocracy they oppose. Gaming the system ultimately breaks the system.

You mean those people and scenarios you make up in your head but have no link to actual reality but you want to talk about to seem virtuous? Or is that fap material? Is everyone covered in oil in these fantasies?

Maybe all that bitcoin money laundering of stolen sovereign wealth from Chinese mega projects and then expatriated out to buy residential properties in coastal cities throughout the world might slow down. Go crash crash. Could be a bad time to buy a flat in Vancouver or Sydney right now.

Yeah. It would be much better for the government to charge him with multiple felonies and lock his ass up.

That's very nifty. Thanks for the link.

Pressure cuffs are typical for upper arm blood pressure monitors. How does that work in a watch?