You need to remember the take everything in the headline with a grain of salt.

The study isn't just saying that you think it's haunted it's saying that the ultrasound frequency these buildings emit puts humans on edge. As a consequence of that yeah if you are susceptible to believing in ghosts and scary things that aren't real then yeah you're going to be more likely to think something scary that isn't real is there and think that it is real.

But the headline of "ultrasonic waves admitted by some old buildings maybe unpleasant to certain people" isn't nearly as cool or is catchy or likely to make you engage and read and comment.

All I'm saying is whenever you see a headline you need to turn on your cynicism and critical thinking. Every single headline is always trying to manipulate you.

Only it's the strait of Hormuz instead of an actual nuclear weapon. And it's way more effective than any nuclear weapon they could ever get their hands on.

Iran now has the power to crash the entire world economy. All thanks to the staggering incompetence of one senile old man and a bunch of sycophantic hangers on and a bunch of people who couldn't figure out that making a known rapist and pedophile president wasn't going to end well for them...

The thing is so far about 40% of the country here in America has been completely insulated from this mess. It won't last but it's looking like it may hold out for them until after the midterms and then they don't matter anymore.

We wouldn't need laws.

I know that we're all nerds but you can't technology yourself out of human interaction. Human beings are still human beings and do human being things.

Technology can help and sometimes because human beings suck so much we just have to hope it saves us.

The problem with relying on it exclusively is that there's no guarantee we're going to get the technology we need fast enough and good enough to keep Pace with human beings doing bad things.

As an example it is perfectly possible for us to stop the effects of climate change almost immediately with a rapid transition to wind and solar energy.

That transition is completely on hold while the oil barrons make sure that they get control of global energy supplies.

So we have a technological solution to a major problem the human race is facing but social and political forces prevent that from happening.

You see this with nuclear power too. Nuclear power has been a effective and safe form of energy for 50 years but it requires very very strict maintenance schedules that end up being very expensive and it is extremely tempting for a businessman to come in and claim they can do the maintenance for a fraction of the cost because of the magic of the free market and then they just don't do the maintenance. That's basically what happened in Fukushima.

Again there's a technological solution that is completely broken by social and political forces.

We are nerds and we don't want to hear that. We grew up being told technology was going to solve everything and we wanted to solve everything. Not just because we love technology but because being nerds we're not big fans of human interaction.

The right wing and the corporatists always want to put everything on the state level. That's because they can exercise complete control over government and you at the state level.

The national level is too big for them to control completely. There's too much money and too many people to bribe and too many eyeballs on everything.

The county level doesn't work either. It's too expensive to take over everything. You can do highly effective voter suppression at the county level because you can Target that carefully to the right districts but if you want total control of a government county level politics just has too many people involved to buy off and bribe everybody.

The state level is the Goldilocks zone. It's small enough that you can bribe everybody with reasonable amounts of cash and there are few enough people involved that you can manage them and control them all. But it's not so large that everybody is paying attention to it. You might be able to name your senator and maybe even one or two of your house reps but can you name anyone who represents you in your state legislature? Can you tell me who your attorney general and your secretary of state are? Maybe some of the hyper politically aware can but most people have no idea.

So if you pay attention what you're going to find is that the Epstein class is constantly trying to get everything managed at the state level where they can maintain little fiefdoms with little wanna be warlords.

You historian types will recognize this as a feudal system.

Need to make sure that when the transition finishes they are still the ones in control of electricity and energy. So they have to slow down the transition.

It's not about money or greed it's about power. Greed is wanting more stuff. They don't just want more stuff they want the ability to tell human beings what to do and then those human beings have to do it. That's not greed that's lust for power

Billionaire oil owners and Saudi Arabian Kings are pushing this. Wind and solar are going to take over from oil no matter what so the goal right now is to slow down the transition in order to make damn sure that the people who will control energy today will control it tomorrow.

There is a little bit of right wing ideological nonsense that helped put Trump in power don't get me wrong but honestly it was mostly voter suppression that put him in office.

But nobody really cares anymore about being ideologically opposed to clean energy except I have full of absolute lunatics in their late 60s and early '70s. The kind of people who sit around watching Fox News all day waiting to die but for some reason just can't seem to do it. But they are a tiny minority. And even the handful of coal miners left Trump used as props during his first campaign figured out that they don't have a future

When you start a business from scratch there's a lot of what's called sweat equity.

That used to be how you came up in the world. These days what you do is find a bunch of grandmas and grandpas with retirements and cheat them out of it dumping them on their relatives to take care of in their old age while slashing their Medicare and then profiting from the privatization of it.

But there was a magical time when we had antitrust law enforcement and extremely high taxes on the ultra wealthy limiting the amount of power they could wield against workers and small businessmen. Lasted about 40 or 50 years before voters got stupid again.

It's kind of odd that you don't know that. You're awfully young to be here on slashdot...

Google "progressive taxation" sometime. It's a whole thing.

When you have that much money it's not money anymore, it's power.

I don't like having a Epstein class. Maybe you do, but you're gonna need to explain to me why.

Is that he was fired from PayPal for incompetence but because he was a CEO he got a $20 million dollar golden parachute. He then took that golden parachute and used it to buy a electric car company that was set up to absorb billions from a government program. From there he repeatedly lied to investors about the capabilities of his product until he's almost a trillionaire.

He really is the epitome of the modern American billionaire. A grifter who has produced absolutely nothing of value but convinced everyone he's a genius. Even Tony Stark thinks he's brilliant! And Lisa Simpson said he's history's greatest inventor.

We're talking about the difference between Windows and Linux. Framework is just caught in the middle here.

It doesn't matter if major Linux companies are American companies because they're not doing anything a European company can't do.

Just because you don't think you need civil rights doesn't mean you aren't protected by civil rights.

You can say that you don't need clean drinking water and that's fine. But we aren't going to let you drink dirty water because even though you might not think you need clean drinking water in reality you do and it has serious implications for the rest of the society when you start chugging water for deadly chemicals and bacteria.

I mean if you just drop dead whatever but that's not what people who do stupid things do. They show up at hospitals and they become crippled and become economic drains on society and their family and lead to other social issues and economic issues and so on so on so forth...

In this particular case the issue here is that the police abused the warrant process. You weren't personally harmed directly so you're dismissing it. But once the precedent is fully set then before long you're going to see wider and wider abuses it will start having knock-on effects that you will notice. Police will be able to get a warrant for your property and seize it for example and had it to the local Warlord. He'll have a more official title than that but you get the point.

What I'm saying is you can't just let civil rights go and come out okay on the other end. Once you give up on civil rights you have given up on the rule of law and from there it's a hop skip and a jump to local bandits seizing your stuff under the color of law.

So the problem isn't an individual security camera.

The problem is that the police are pulling security camera data for blocks and blocks of the city.

That's the analogy. The problem here is that they are casting a ridiculously wide net. They aren't allowed to go on fishing expeditions. Warrants are required to be specific and limited in order to prevent the police from using them to harass the public.

Part of this is because we understand that just the accusation of a crime can cause serious damage even the innocent people. Part of this is because we recognize that everybody does something mildly illegal from time to time but that doesn't really bother the general public...

But the other big reason why we control the police is because we know damn well that they periodically abuse power to get fake convictions. It's not hard to find video evidence of this but I recommend looking up any one of the many videos John Oliver has done on the subject of police interrogations or police in general.

Basically the courts know that we don't really trust the police and so we limit the scope of their actions to limit the potential abuses.

Kind of a silly way to prevent abuses but it's how we do things

The courts have ruled multiple times that if a police officer does something illegal that they thought was legal that makes it okay. I forget what contorted reasoning they used to get to that conclusion but when we decided to militarize our police instead of building parts and giving kids free school lunch that was to trade off.

People don't turn off their location services not because of privacy but because it just wrecks your battery.