Fan of breaking echo chambers by being devils advocate. Other than that, centrist. As in in USA I’d be considered left.

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I’m gonna be honest, I think USA is lost.

    It’s not even a year, and they gutted it’s systems, institutions and beliefs. Shaped people’s minds and began intereference on international scale. Burned bridges, built walls and set up traps.

    No matter what happens now, changes made by anything close to being “progressive” in USA system are too slow and, most probably, will fail to revert the changes. If they even get selected, or get a chance to be selected.

    I am not from USA, but I am patriot for my country and seeing a huge, proud country like USA fall in such a short time is nothing but terrifying. A humble reminder of how brittle are the systems we create, and how much they rely on others “playing fair”.





  • So we have two camps.

    1. It’s a tool to be used and it’s a good thing to exists and I have it enabled forever

    2. Keep a gun pointed at it at all occasions and even if you use it, do so with heavy restrictions

    I trust my partner and my partner trusts me but the idea of stalking her via app is mindboggling and, honestly, disgusting to me. Like a dog on a leash, always observed, always controlled. That’s some mind disease shit going on. Trust your partner dammit. Ya all have issues.

    On the other hand though being violently agaisnt it cuz “oh my god privacy” is also funny. The recipent is your partner. Setting it up for some specific use case shouldn’t be a bother. It can be extremely usefull for example for grabbing shit in a mall - if you are not interested in going to the same shop, enable it, split, get what you need, join back, disable it.

    What I am getting at is - it’s a tool, but an invasive and overly controlling one. Use it how you wish but do not perceive having it on constantly as normal. It literally sounds disgusting.

    Edit: For people talking about privacy - we’re on lemmy. We all know how tracking works. An even if you have localisation off, your device will connect to local wifi and smart appliances to log your location anyway. So I am not really invested into discusing overall practice of having location on - only on sharing saud location.