Thank you, I think I will have to reconsider the usefulness of VPN. I may have been more pessimistic about them than warranted. I hadn’t realized that metadata in E-Mails thing but that makes sense. Also too many people stay logged into their accounts all the time anyways, so it sucks when someone gets their devices confiscated.

Asking philosophical questions about scientific subjects and complaining that scientists won’t engage in philosophy. Where “does” time come from?

I agree with everything you said. I did not claim that corporations would stop a “VPN ban”, and as you said, a “VPN ban” would not try to ban VPNs, but it would target any kind of anonymity. Opposition to this should of course be supported. The law is an obvious deception to give law enforcement more power to use against anyone they wish, and terrible humor is my coping mechanism.

Now to your point about stopping 95% of the population from hiding their ID online, have they done so successfully in the past? I’m not trying to pin down the number, I get that it’s probably just an estimation and youre talking about the “average person online”. My guess would be, they use a VPN at best, but they do not use it in a way that actually makes them anonymous, like they would still log onto their E-Mail and Facebook and whatnot. My understanding is, that this makes any VPN useless for anonymity, but please correct me if that’s wrong, I admit I’m not super well informed on that.

In my experience, and anyone I talk to in real life, the advice is to generally not even use phones to talk/message about organizing stuff. I mostly go by the assumption that the average person is already not able to hide their identity online, other than by “hiding in the crowd”. Right now, the amount of data makes it hard for anyone to find anything, so people still get away with a lot of shit because noone is looking at them too closely. I think this might soon end, as law enforcement is starting to use software tools from Palantir, and the biggest critics of those tools in germany are apparently opposed to it, because it is a US product, and not a EU product. Police has not been bothered to check whether the use of this software to indiscriminately analyse personal data is even legal. Courts might intervene, but I’m not sure how relevant that is, because they will probably still allow the use of such tools in some capacity, and then police can just do some oopsies and use it illegally anyways.

I don’t wanna dismiss people who rely on online communication a lot, I get that it’s important for many. I think E-Mail and encrypted messaging in 1on1 messages is still sort of safe? But I wouldn’t be surprised if that also has no future. Eventually the state figured out they could just open the mail of a “suspect”, why wouldn’t they do the same with online comms?

Every multinational company uses VPN for their Intranet, no? I assume this would break so many things, lets go. Just set everything on fire already.

The job of “economists” is to spread misinformation. I don’t think reasoning has ever been involved. They are not interested in scientific pursuit. “Economists” are playing team sports. AI makes it that much easier to spin up new talking points, while debunking them takes time and effort.

In capitalism, yea, most of it is a scam. Especially the manufacturer-specific cloud service stuff (basically everything that tells you to download their app to use it). I won’t get anything that needs an internet connection to install or use.

Constant light control, automatic blinds that assist heating/cooling, and demand-based heating/cooling control saves energy and will be mandatory after the revolution.

Noo stahp whatre you doing… You need a tripod for that

You cant expect me to read all that. I thought Theres a Maximum length on These. Trump is only funny in less then 50 words.

And sometimes they want weeds to be not around so much that they blaze it ayooo

Won’t that slow it back down tho?

That’s mental

Not even a window… That makes it worse than the rooms I was in on sailboats, and on sailboats there is a good reason why everything is super cramped lol

What is Obama?

Hmmm much closer to a diamond then a hexagon

Thanks for the clarification. I did see your edit, Im just trying to farm upbears by stating mathematical factoids

The graph implies there are at least 3 polls done every day, on this specific issue

I was typing out why each single of those points is wrong* but what’s the point. This persons brain should be scientifically studied. Preferably in a jar.

*Edit: Ableisms

Just make all clocks that are connected to internet run 0.1% faster / slower until you are at UTC+12 and in about one and a half years everyone should be caught up. People will only have to change their mechanical watches by 1.4 minutes every day, so it should hardly be noticeable

All I could glean from the original graph was that it is a European country, but I couldn’t find which one it is. I’m guessing it’s probably Sweden but IDK