When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by whatshisface on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:19PM (#43517838)

It is probably better to start keeping public lists of surprising incidents, analogously to the way lawyers would summarize case precedent, but applied to the extralegal system. It can be difficult to find old news articles sometimes.

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Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by bilbo0s on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:41PM (#43518041)

Um.

I don’t know that I would do that if I was a scientist right now.

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Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by gopher_space on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:55PM (#43518176)

We have reached the point where it’s either something like this or leave the country.

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Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by collingreen on Saturday March 29, 2025 @09:10PM (#43520264)

Being someone who makes a list like this might be the reason you get kicked out of the country (or worse?) if there is an authoritarian regime hurting people in order to silence critics.

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Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by gopher_space on Sunday March 30, 2025 @04:45PM (#43527466)

Right. So you're either going to make a stand and risk getting arrested (Just like Thoreau!) or you're going to move somewhere this isn't happening.

Keep in mind we're talking about people with a moral framework that reduces the situation to these two choices. They'd need to abandon their sense of morality to maintain the status quo.

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Re:When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you k... by antifa on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:02PM (#43529124)

A lot of people live in countries that won't deport someone to the US for documenting a list of crimes against humanity performed by the US government.

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