On a related note why are you so bitter over people being annoyed by the enshittification of yet another small source of joy in this hell world?

Is this that sour grapes thing? Or do you have an issue with people using reaction gifs to convey a concept that’s either too convoluted or requires too much context to type out?

For example, this entire comment could have just been;

How is it not hard scifi? Genuinely curious given the whole hyper advanced civilisation, interdimensional space travel, transhumanism as a part of daily life,

Surface Detail by Iain M Banks

Part of The Culture series but can be read standalone, potential for being one of the best hard scifi books out there

Then block me if my way of speech is that annoying?

You’ll never have to see anything that doesn’t fit neatly into your beliefs or anything that isn’t a purely literal answer to a question again.

But hey, in an effort to seem like less of a cunt; I googled it for you.

" In 2015, Congress passed the USA Freedom Act, which placed some limitations on the government’s use of Section 215. Under the new law, the government must provide a “specific selection term” that identifies the subject of the investigation before it can obtain a business records order. "

It’s still alive. It’s just been changed to fit with the times, because like with all that I brought up, the times have changed, and surveillance has changed with it.

Want to know if it’s actually stopped any terrorist attacks since 2015? Ask yourself how many mass shootings have occurred since then, and if they would count as a terrorist attack (or if the government would even tell you that the attacker/s were manipulated by a foreign entity or instead just say they were public enemy du jour.)

You asked for updated information, since this was a decade old, I asked why would they have to wiretap your phones when there’s a listening device in every home, and a fleet of satellites that know what colour underwear you’re wearing.

Your inability (or unwillingness, serving no point but to be snarky) to draw parallels between related topics has nothing to do with my illiterate/schizo ass.

That ufo shit is smoke and mirrors to disguise their concentration camps (ICE rape camps where even the kids get pregnant) and arming/ funding of genocides worldwide, oh and the Iran invasion they launched to distract from the JE files they’re all in. Its really bad out there.

Why would the government of america need to wiretap your phone when your alexa knows what you dreamt about last night, your web browser knows what you paused to take a look at when scrolling, your phone reports where it is and what it’s doing to every cell tower in range, and there is a network of fully internet connected sattelites overhead at all times capable of resolving images at CENTIMETRE scale.

I guess that also sets up the potential side business of paying poorer people to do shopping for you

Scamazon, doordash, ubereats, any of those “go buy my groceries, and bring them to my door lest I suffer the fate of seeing a peasant in any other role than serving me.” companies count as exactly that.

Just ask a millionaire what the cost of a loaf of bread is, or a 2kg bag of potatoes.

Oh fucking joyous, automatic surge pricing labels have finally hit the UK, can’t wait for it to be tied to your wifi shadow and device biometrics so that supermarkets can charge people more for daily goods than their neighbours due to their credit/social/political standing.

I mean “Haha that means it’s free, right? Lol.”

Didnt tango recently take it off the banned chemicals list because some farmer in a big hat told him that the bees deserve to die or something? Or was that asbestos? (My condolences if you live over there, with luck it’ll happen any day now)

Also spraying Glyphosphate (a known cancer inducing biocide) across all the crops in the area to poison the plants and the people, along with using White Phosphorus (an incendiary weapon banned under the Geneva convention due to it being so good at causing third degree burns and fires that cannot be put out, along with poisoning the ground and water.) on Lebanese and Gazan villages and refugee camps.

Turbine generators onsite to manage power spikes and reduce the company’s cost of buying power, in musk’s megadatacenter case, the cunt didnt even get permission, he just ordered it done, and the community suffers.

Yes officer, of course I’ll go to this exact location on that exact date and definitely not end up being labelled a domestic terrorist by a fascist technostate run by child sacrificing pedos after one of their goose stepping fingermen mistakes my blank white placard for a gun, killing me and three others in my immediate vicinity (oh if only these poor defenceless cops were given more military surplus, you know how hard it is to accurately magdump a lefty, always those pesky “civilian casualties” getting themselves shot.)

Do you think Obama, Clinton or the Bushes weren’t aware of the ring of super wealthy pedos distributing terabytes of csam and manipulating world leaders?

It goes futher back as well. The original LSJ known as North Fox Island was where the same kind of pedos would abduct children to, that was run by a high ranking American colonel (may have their rank wrong) who ADVERTISED AND SOLD TAPES OUT OF NEWSPAPERS AND ZINES

It’s already ongoing

I long for the sweet embrace of the void

They’ll use your wifi signal strength to map out where the occupants of your home are and if the one sat at the computer is waving

It’ll have the same level of legal power as those facebook boomerposts of “I do not allow zuck or facebook to use my likeness for any reason”

No, they just now legally have to tell you (like when they had to start asking for your location instead of just having it.)

If you’ve got an android, go into your phone’s dev options and try to turn off Google’s location tracking service, or the one that tracks screen inputs, or the one that checks what wifi networks are around you.

They’ve been dishonourable from day 1 :C