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No identity: no authority.

Oh good the morality police are here.

You're generalizing and projecting your own experiences onto people with agency who can make their own lifestyle decisions. Please speak accordingly.

I have horrible neighbors and no HOA. I do not wish I was apart of an HOA.

"It's not a lie if you believe it." -George Costanza

Encouraging people to procreate is absolutely wild to me. That's just adding fuel to the fire.

congrats, now the only songs you can play have G, Em, and Em11.

Imagine the danger and legitimate fear a stalking victim would face if their stalker is a police officer with access to Flock.

Going out on a limb by suggesting if someone dropped 7 large on an MS machine, recouping the cost isn't a huge priority.

Sorry to interrupt the pedantry about whether a specific entity counts as a state, I'd like to submit the notion that maybe the argument shouldn't be "is a state entity" but rather "is an entity that has some form of authority over my livelihood that is cornering me into a mode of constant surveillance which I do not consent to."

The obvious answer is to leave the organization, but ultimately one shouldn't have to end their employment in order to be free of undue/unjust AI surveillance.

is it the substance that's addictive or is it the relief and respite it provides from this capitalist hellscape we're all drowning in?

This comment strikes me as someone who a) has been 'unplugged' for some time now, having weaned off of social media and phone addiction, and b) someone who collects hobbies as a hobby in and of itself, the first of which being photography.

I felt guilt for not capturing those moments throughout the day where there is a perfect picture... somewhere. Some perfect framing of a branch or a building or interesting subjects doing whatever, but ultimately after unplugging, I realized that I was able to look at something and see the composition and didn't actually need to snap a photo to feel fulfilled as a photographer/artist. Just seeing the picture in real life, knowing I could take a photo but not feeling the need to, is fulfilling enough for me. Might be for others, too?

"And cops also have guns, tear gas, the right to pull people over, arrest them, etc. etc. If they cannot be trusted with a licence plate database, then they can't really be trusted with those either."

now you're getting it.

"cops are the only reason we don't all have delicious cartel boots (or their bullets) in our mouths already"

citation needed.

And since you're looking for some solutions to these problems, here are a few: end qualified immunity, make peace officers obtain licensure and insurance so when the shitheads fuck up they are personally liable for their corruption, dissole internal affairs and move the investigations to a third party. In terms of reducing crime: tax the ever loving fuck out of anyone worth more than a million, dump those taxes into public services like education and healthcare so people aren't forced into deviance (further reading: https://www.simplypsychology.org/mertons-strain-theory-devia...)

This comment gives pretty wild middle manager/micromanager vibes and it is more offensive than whatever it is you think you're policing.

you shouldn't take it into consideration, they aren't a mod and clearly have nothing better to do with their time. the pedantry on this site sometimes...

"It's reportedly associated with hip hop culture"

Yeah about 35 years ago.

a whooooole lotta professionals on their feet, like nurses, dental hygenists, teachers, etc, are wearing Hokas.

show us on the doll where the evil democrats touched you. are they here in the room with us now?

skill issue.

Charlie Kirk, the trans activist? never heard of her.

'I could play for two hours and still feel like I accomplished nothing except for "interacting with the world"'

Funny how this is exactly the same sentiment I feel about NMS. Go figure, different strokes, ya know?

I think maybe you're discounting that people have agency and can decide that a game they are playing actively doesn't tick their boxes. I reinstalled it last week and put in about two hours before uninstalling again. Mile wide and inch deep is exactly the way to describe it.

"Flock only tracks cars and not individual people."

prove it.

"People have a constitutional right to privacy in their own homes."

When the current administration is wiping its ass with the constitution on a daily basis, are you really so daft you can't see the direction we're headed in as a society in regard to an unregulated surveillance dragnet?

People have a constitutional right to due process and to not get murdered in the street by ICE (that's pronounced T-R-A-I-T-O-R, btw) but look how well that's been going.

Would just a couple bits of punctuation killed them?

The year 2025 progressed to 2026. Never in the history of the Gregorian calendar have we EVER made it to 2026. That is an accomplishment. That is a record.

>we also have abundant, safe food, clean water and warm housing

for now

tell that to someone with an eating disorder.

If you have to jump through this set of hoops to come to the conclusion that you want to outsource the effort of self-admin, just save the trouble and deal with not being the target audience.

>But he (like most people) is probably fine with designer babies and sperm clinics that expressly sell product based on the characteristics of the donor (tall, high IQ, etc). That’s a tidier form of the same thing.

that is a wild blanket assumption that "most people" "probably" want designer babies, as if a majority of prospective parents are using sperm clinics.

I think you missed the entire point of the film. You know the end speech where Not Sure says something along the lines of "read a book" and "maybe don't put sports drinks on soil and expect it to grow".

The main premise of the second and third acts of the film demonstrates the scientific process. Hypothesize: "water will make plants grow", Experiment: "put water on plants instead of brawndo", analyze data: "the plants are growing". Go figure, after people see the results of the experiment they change their preconceptions!

It's stupidity by choice. Willful ignorance.

I've heard this criticism before and I don't that it paints the complete picture. I reckon it's less a commentary on "weeding out" the intellectually and physically disabled but more a commentary on a society and government that makes stupid decisions (brawndo on plants) and rewards anti-intellectualism to the point of it becoming a core component of life in the year 2505.

The society depicted in Idiocracy is the way it is by choice that turns into policy. I highly doubt Mike Judge wants to start culling the population of undesirable traits like birth defects, intellectual disablities, learning disabilities, etc.