I choose to carry my phone in my pocket, and I can choose not to carry it. I can even choose to have someone else carry it north while I go south.

I can go anywhere in my city on foot or a bike and be entirely untracked by anything, except those damn doorbell cameras. At most I might be picked up by a traffic camera or two, but I can do any number of things to not be recognized, but not if they can follow my movements back to my house. Those cameras fill the last gaps of untracked freedom of movement.

You don’t get it. It’s not about just one camera. They have the whole network and can run facial recognition and licence plate readers (that go well beyond just reading plates) across all of it. They don’t just know that you left your house, they can track everywhere you go. Some courts have made that illegal for cops to do, so they just outsourced it.

Your camera is just a small piece, but it’s a piece you control. Nobody should be throwing that shit up to the cloud. It’s incredibly damaging to any kind of civil resistance movement. Stalin could only have dreamed of the kind of mass surveillance that Americans are just freely providing to our oligarchy. It’s fucking dumb.

That ring camera is still absolutely a privacy threat, if not to you, than to your neighbors. Ring is partnering with flock on mass surveillance with facial recognition. That camera belongs to ICE just as much as it belongs to you, if not more since they can have AI “watch” it 24x7.

Unless your seeking work accomodations, your employer has no right to that information. The only exception might be for some government jobs.

I personally have never disclosed my diagnosis to an employer. I’ve even gotten some level of accomodations just by telling them it works best for my work style.

Don’t believe they can’t fire you for a disability. If the job description says that the job requires “attention to detail” or a “self starter” they can argue that accomodations aren’t possible.

I really don’t think it has much to do at all with ICE vs Electric vehicles. It just so happens that both transitions are going on at the same time. If anything, the electronics involved in running an average modern ICE vehicle are more complicated and more proprietary than an average electric vehicle.

Trump didn’t want the deal. He wanted to end the filibuster then use domination tactics to essentially cancel the midterms. He’s only talking about caving on the subsidies now as damage control for Republicans.

including a plethora of unions

If there iwas anything that pissed me off more than the Democrats abandoning support for workers it was union leadership doing so.

I solved that for most of them by going AMD with my last upgrade. No more binary drivers solved most of my issues. Al that’s left is really the anti-cheat kernel garbage. For that I just decided fuck it. I found it easier to stomach changing some gaming preferences than the Microsoft ecosystem.

I finally went 100% Linux and I’m never going back.

Who says he has to do it through purely electoral means? Why would you even assume that’s the plan? He’s a politician. The electoral part is where he fits in. That doesn’t mean he expects the rest of us to sit back and watch once he gets elected It’s never this approach or that, it’s everything.

Any model year 2024+ Tesla needs to be open game for vandalism. The damn things should be uninsurable.

I love me some DNC establishment bashing, but where is all this free food supposed to come from? As far as I’m aware they still haven’t paid off the debts from the Harris campaign.

I hate that there is still this tiny little voice inside me that says I can show this article to a Trump believer and have it make some kind of difference in how they see Trump.

LOL, wut? Yeah, there aren’t any Americans fed up with the Democratic establishment. I’m just making that shit up. Haha, you got me.

BTW: Has Schumer endorsed Mamdani yet?

It’s not a binary issue. Elections have been getting more and more compromised for decades. 2026 will be even more compromised. They will not be entirely compromised, and we have to keep working from the assumption that they won’t be unwinnable, even while preparing for the possibility that we might not win them.

Honestly, I fear that Democrats are more responsible for hurting their chances than Republicans. Even as bad as things have gotten, the Democratic establishment has continued to dig in and refuse to give any ground whatsoever to progressives. It’s becoming a real mask-off moment for a lot of rank and file liberals.

And election observer observers.

Technically, I don’t think supreme Court appointments are necessarily lifetime appointments. Appointments to the federal judiciary are lifetime appointments, but the constitution doesn’t specify that federal judges can’t be rotated in and out of the supreme Court. I could be remembering that wrong though, it’s been a while since my last read through.

We aren’t talking about that money.

They aren’t “falling” for anything. They are accelerationists actively trying to help the fascists destroy America.

I guess I can wait a few more days.