confusedwiseman

So, by extension, I could take money from the government (or really anyone) because it’s not property? If money is not property and not “owned” by someone wouldn’t that drive the population to abandon the “fiction” of a fiat currency?

Maybe, it doesn’t matter the outcome, the objective is to stall and stifle the defendant’s resources.

I got one from my utility company. They installed it at the meter. It was about $400. Once it’s tripped, it will have to be replaced, but if something happens significant enough to trip that, I probably (hopefully) saved a lot of other large appliances and HVAC.

I don’t see a feed for the nib. Do you think it’s missing? Could this be a kind of dip pen or something for calligraphy?

Cars have gps built in even if you don’t use the onboard navigation. For some odd reason you care goes to a particular club / establishment every Thursday and stays parked there for 2.75 to 3.5hrs each time. If I took all the data your car’s gps collected, I bet I could make some pretty good inferences about you. Even if they’re wrong but roughly accurate, I could still sell it.

Now imagine something associated with where you’re going suddenly becomes illegal or target activity. Now you’re on a cool new government list.

Heck let’s go one step further. The location you frequent gets associated with pro Israel or pro Palestine. And since all companies are perfectly with safeguarding data, somehow has a breach. Now a true wackadoodle has this and your home location. What could possibly go wrong here? All actions and dialogue around this topic have been perfectly mannered and civil . You might not even have a clue that your now associates with something to which you had no awareness or affiliation.

All of these scenarios go away if they didn’t harvest data.

Agreed, and that’s the hard part. Finding and promoting good and right while removing greed. Oversight is needed, but doesn’t this feel a bit like the wolf watching the sheep?

The system isn’t completely broken, but it has glaring issues. Transparency and accountability is missing. Rules for thee and me need to match with equity.

“Good”, “right”, and “fair” seem to be dying in society.

We can only be our own little light in a sea of darkness…maybe with a little luck we can make the world a little brighter.

May I suggest a rule of “don’t game the system”.

It helps avoid situations where people think they’re clever but also deliberately skirt the rules.

I.e., people make mistakes, and that’s ok. Willful disregard is another beast.

It would seem they have a conflict of interest. Choosing life or death for someone where not providing care would be less costly. Morality = / = legality.

It would seem to make sense to allow the doctors to be advocates for their patients, but I get that oversight is needed too. It’s not an easy situation to solve. There are clearly glaring issues in the current system.

In case it’s unclear murder is wrong if done by 1 person or a collective entity through an indirect series of actions.

E: fixed formatting = / = Without spaces changes to equal and not ‘not equal’

We’re such a cruel society. In a time when we focus on the story of a poor and downtrodden migrant family. With the birth of a child born without medical care in an unsanitary location. This child would then become one that teaches peace, kindness, and care for one another.

Clearly, it’s been heard and the story is known by many, who not only claim to be part of this movement, but profess it as their religion. It seems the core concept is so desperately lost everywhere we look, if we take a moment to truly observe our world.

Merry Christmas.

Ok, I feel old. The only reason facebook has any relevance to me is the market place. What’s the best alternative?

Florida man here. Driven I-4 many times, can be scary, but not horrible. Miami, yes can be horrifying.

Dallas and Houston, I hate driving in the most. I don’t like Atlanta traffic, but I’d agree with you it’s awful. I was just being coy with my comment. Atlanta is probably top 10 worst drivers in the country. That list probably correlates well with biggest cities too.

Maybe it’s because I drive less since Covid, but I’d seems like everyone has gotten 10x more aggressive. Just in general. Kindness seems to almost be obsolete and decency is a rarity.

For what it’s worth, my mantra when driving is lead, follow, or get out of the way. I try to match speed to about the 80th percentile of traffic so I don’t jam things up, but also not the one that sticks out to get the speeding ticket.

Tell me you’ve never been to Texas without telling me you’ve never been to Texas. 😉

These were so cool. Didn’t they work by the pitch omitted? When a mechanical lever struck a plate that emitted a tone. The tv then receives the tone and completes the task.