Oh, my sweet summer child..

Phones for all their surveillance uses still won't serve up information about your body state to your employer, which constitutes some of the hype around a future of employers requiring wearables. The public applications are of the sort people would volunteer for: payment and identification including for physical access.

Granted I'm sure there are other technologies that could obsolete needing a chip, but my overall point is that these technologies are presented to the public as a negotiation of conveniences--especially with air travel in particular, where the state has recently seen fit to insert part-time gestapo as a solution to a problem that never existed.

"You don't have to wear the bracelet if you just get the chip, you know."

I agree except for "Irak created ISIS" , as it wasn't merely a consequence of our interference, but a deliberate funding and arming of extremist Sunnis that make the Taliban or Al Qaeda look tame. google Timber Sycamore

He gave over $10,000,000 to them in 2023. In that regard, he's not very different from so many other vampire billionaires https://archive.is/RgXOg (Rolling Stone)

for brokering Donald Trump.

Oh I don't know, maybe read the fucking news the last two days.

NPR is propaganda too: it always serves to whitewash and minimize the crimes of the US and its allies to a liberal audience. It does so in between delightful slice-of-life pieces, some pretty good music selections, and its own variety of vanilla latte capitalism ("Marketplace") where every stupid carbon capture pilot technology is offered to the audience as completely viable for "well-meaning capitalists" (their phrasing, not mine) to invest in.

NPR went hard on the Russiagating as well.

"TicToc will get young people siding with Israel like the rest of the media did"

I don't think so, the genie is out of the bottle and if anything the timing of the Epstein leaks finally blowing up in a period of heightened scrutiny has corked the bottle for good.

The inclination of tech companies to institute age requirements no one asked for based around digital ID, just so they can dedault-censor news and social median indicates that they don't have any faith in winning back a public dialogue, let alone the integrity to respect it.

Every other month we get a story about how X major American tech company is effectively further bailing out their tech sector by acquiring an israeli company, and in some cases (Google and amazon) giving that company's engineers the reins. But even articles on a sympathetic-to-Israel news site like Calcalist betray an anxiety about their tech sector (a massive component of their tax base) drying up from lack of VC funds, whereas before it was reaping them far in advance.

Is that supposed to be a rebuttal? Are you asking that as if Qatar are some adversaries to Israel--the same Qatar that allows the US to host bases there, and pays multiple Israeli weaponry firms?

nice attempt at forum sliding there with some boomer TV talk.

Larry Ellison's motivations for buying news media and tailoring them to court MAGA go beyond US politics. He knows the Israel lobby is losing / has lost a large segment of the American right, especially young people, and he will sell god and country to conservatives to win them back to that cause. Oracle has even recommended mental health therapy to employees who criticize the company's relationship to Israel

So you love ICE spying on everyone but hate the companies they employ to do it. Makes total sense..

"Child grooming services"? Most discord users are adults. The age verification is not for their liability, it's part of a cross-industry push to incur digital ID and censor news / social media for adults as if they were children. Check out discord's CEO

All it takes is Ben Gvir telling you they put weapons in a school or hospital, and then you'll be back to cheerleading blowing everything up again.

Y'all are running on fumes if this is all you have to throw mod points at.