They look at CCTV, take an violentcustomer.jpeg, and add it to the database.

EDIT: Oh I see what you’re asking. You misread my quote, what I said is “they only scan for” and not “they only scan”.

The way Bunnings used facial recognition was as private as it could be … mostly. It is possible to run all of the facial recognition locally, but instead they run it on a central Bunnings-controlled server in Sydney. They only scan for faces of known offenders based on previous entanglements.

My concern isn’t surveillance, but mass surveillance. Because this is exclusive to Bunnings it doesn’t quite reach mass surveillance, but because the processing is centralized and Bunnings is so big it edges dangerously close.

This isn’t Flock, nor Palantir, nor Google.

It’s more that the lawyers have a lot of power at Fedora, because America is a failed state.

I currently use Fedora but I’d swap to OpenSUSE if I didn’t already install Fedora. None of the software I wanted to install worked on OpenSUSE but I remember my time with it so fondly.

In which case you might not even have the option to install GrapheneOS.

Is your new phone provider providing a carrier-locked phone?

T495s here.

The Democrats make it pretty clear that they do not care about our votes, or about beating Republicans. We have to organize outside of the Democratic party infrastructure, while reluctantly voting for the lesser of two evils.

They’re a luddite, if the site wasn’t down then I’d doubt their credentials.

And they’ll suddenly throw away that excuse that they’ve relied on for decades, just to spite the world’s developing countries by cutting USAID funding a few months sooner?

The Democrats famously adhere to American norms. Do you think they’d suddenly start bypassing congress and appoint a special government employee to go around causing chaos? They’re entire identity is “we’d love to, but we can’t because of congress”.

Why? Why do you say this? You keep getting trapped in this idea of the DNC being “more moral” in actions, despite their actions still propping up imperialism and protecting it.

I literally just explained.

Get a separate device for work. You shouldn’t be working on your personal computer anyway.

The Democrats would’ve, at a bare minimum, left USAID slower. They wouldn’t have sent Musk in to immediately halt payments, they would’ve just removed the funding from the next congressional budget. Aid organisations would’ve had warning and people wouldn’t have been suddenly cut off from their HIV medication.

Leaving the WHO is not something even the rich are really calling for. It’s a conspiracy theorist thing that Trump is pushing on a personal level. Nobody in the imperial periphery is really following him either.

I’m not going to bother responding to the last part. Unless it’s easier to organize under the GOP, it’s irrelevant. Hell the communist revolution is besides my point entirely. All I’ve been trying to say is that more people die when a Republican president is elected, and even if that might usher in a communist revolution you’d still be gambling with lives by choosing that.

Cutting USAID killed hundreds of thousands of people. How many the Democrats would’ve killed is almost definitely less, although how much less is up for debate. Maybe the wouldn’t have cut USAID, maybe they would’ve just reduced it, maybe they would’ve cut it completely but done so more gradually.

They certainly wouldn’t have left the WHO. Staying in the WHO is just good business sense, aside from for the private hospitals but the impacts of a highly lethal global pandemic on stability and on the safety of the rich isn’t worth it.

And people will have more space to organize when under a predictably evil government than a chaotic one. Unless you’re relying on the death and destruction for a recruitment drive.

“Some of you may die, but it’s a price I am willing to pay for the collapse of the American empire” - Lord Farquaad (Shrek)

Even if the Democrats would’ve cut it USAID, they would’ve been far less sudden about it. According to people who work in humanitarian aid, the suddenness of Trump’s cuts to USAID got a lot of people killed in the developing world.

Even if the DNC haven’t meaningfully countered climate change, they haven’t done nothing either. They also likely wouldn’t have abolished USAID which, while it existed for propaganda purposes, did save lives.

It’s not a solution, but as you said it’s easier. We can and should do both. Even if voting for the Democrats saves one life from climate change or ICE, it’s worth doing.

I stopped reading them after the first 20 or so.

I’m not American in the first place.