If you tried to make them today, you would just be a poser.

False. Idolizing that snapshot and discouraging human output misses the point entirely and is the worst poser take on the subject I can imagine. Curated sips of ancient counterculture are just pretentious self indulgence if you aren’t drawing inspiration, and disparaging those who would actually participate is extra gross. Go make a zine about how much you love old zines, it’ll be fun

Let’s be wildly paranoid lol

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I obviously reject the original framing and was really hoping to hear your answer. That a system supports a life you find worthwhile does not mean it is inherently worth supporting.

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I am here to back up op, sticks build up quick and mulch/chips can actually be useful

How would you respond to a system you currently depend on that you recognize needs to change?

I mean… I genuinely believe your phone (and the watch I correctly assumed you wore) log all of those things, for a start. It’s essentially free for them to do and there’s value to be extracted from that data. My earnest answer to the mocking strawman question you pose would be that you, garmin, your healthcare provider/insurance company, various advertisers, and law enforcement for a start would love to know the frequency, consistency, and volume of your shits for various reasons and that same data on a population in aggregate is even more valuable.

Anyway if you want hyperbole, informing the corpos of your turd girth is a traitorous betrayal of our species and will be punishable by death when the revolution comes. Hope you’re having a nice day lol

Maybe it’s all the drugs (did more than enough, long ago) but I’m genuinely unsure what you’re trying to say. It doesn’t take a lot of institutional support to get high and listen to music, I get a vague sense you think I’m supporting something and find that hypocritical. Care to elaborate?

Will you bite the hand that feeds you? Will you stay down on your knees? I have found you can find happiness in slavery

Yes these are Nine Inch Nails lyrics, they slap. Op needs to do a lot more drugs

There’s hard evidence everything transmitted is logged and that any phone capable of connecting to the cell network can be listened in on at any time. I would be very surprised to learn monitoring/logging like that was not the default at this point given the infrastructure we’ve publicly built for that purpose and just how easy to implement it’s become. You think an on device assistant can help schedule and summarize your day but the NSA is going to opt out of those capabilities on principle and let that big ol Utah data center sit idle?

Nothing, you’re the one guy who literally has nothing to hide. Just let it log when you sleep shit or fuck, every word you speak, and every place you go. Who cares, am I right?

I think your provider would probably be willing to exempt you from their AI processing shit if you talked to them, given the good relationship you seem to have built. Raising your concerns like that could benefit other patients in their care as well, depending on how well you articulate them and how receptive they are

Never, I swim most days though. The amount of 'both’s in here is wild

Propaganda is a lot more dependent on centralization than documentation, and though I get that their power is tempting change will not be made with the tools of our oppressors

I am going to find your coworker and make them care whether the moon gives off light or reflects it

The nose knows that was about her own insecurities. I can almost smell it ;)

Trump’s a useful idiot with motivations like “being near gold”, “not shitting himself”, and “getting away with fucking kids”. I guarantee the guys at raytheon, palantir, haliburton et al ran the numbers before they let him start dropping bombs

There’s something called an “appliance soft start” that anyone with a small scale power system should be familiar with, capacitor or something in there to soak up those load spikes. My freezer usually pulls ~100 watts but spikes over a kW on startup and will absolutely pop my inverter without one if there’s anything else running

“All war is economic”