So can a phone, or a tiny audio recorder.

Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say. - Edward Snowden

Human cloning becoming common. That would be around the time Dolly the sheep died IIRC.

Belief in alien UFOs is deliberately promoted as it makes a good cover for experimental government aircraft.

The NSA has backdoors in most computer chipsets.

Alex Jones is a false flag crisis actor designed to discredit anyone revealing genuine conspiracies.

Nostr and plebbit are the closest I can think of, the latter uses IPFS so is completely decentralised.

What are we supposed to use instead? Papyrus?

For impact

Should’ve streambombed her.

People make fun of trots and their newspapers, but that was one way.

That doesn’t seem to be how it’s been implemented, at least going by the AliExpress subreddit.

So a low maintenance garden I can eat? I’m not seeing a downside.

We used to call software that installed things without permission a Trojan horse.

I’ve read that chain maille can short out tasers.

Fun fact, George Soros was involved https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/08/08/funds-representatives-arrested-in-china/24e8b72c-d6fe-4753-a007-51d181239cb6/

Same, sousveillance is fine, it’s when it becomes surveillance it’s a problem.

Fuck me yourself, coward.

Not a movie, but Alexander Armstrong was an extra in Sharpe.

Ublock origin has the option to block all media over a certain size and JavaScript. The browser will never request the files so it will be faster (as long as it isn’t inline scripts)

Alternatively https://github.com/ayastreb/bandwidth-hero/

Obligatory xkcd

Bitcoin.

Hell, monero is the only crypto I think isn’t a honeypot, since so many exchanges refuse to list it. That could just be how the government wants us to think though 🤔