Posted on 11/24/2018 9:49:45 AM PST by snarkpup
At least we have a choice in the West - no one is forced to participate in the lunacy of social media.
Not participating with social media will label you an outcast and trigger psychological evaluations.
“At least we have a choice in the West - no one is forced to participate in the lunacy of social media.”
Yet.
Correction: go cash only.
not participating in social media means you will increasingly not be able to participate in normal civil society
How will you live in society when cash no longer exists and all payments will go through approved oligarch tech firms like Google or Apple? How will you work when employers won’t recognize someone who can’t submit their life details and CV via Facebook or Linkdin? How will your children be allowed to go to the mandatory state schools without an on-line profile?
Zuckerberg started a similar “trustworthy” index for every Facebook user.
That score remains a secret from them.
We have chosen to keep our FasTrak transponders in anti-stat bags to prevent our movements being monitored beyond any toll crossing for which they are needed. It’s no big deal to pull them out of the console and throw them upon the dash when we have to cross a toll bridge. Our son says he doesn’t ever use his and because they use license plate readers at toll locations, he claims they aren’t really necessary. And although it’s against the law, we don’t run front license plates on any of our cars. We’ve done that for years and never had a problem with the cops for so doing.
“How will you live in society when cash no longer exists and all payments will go through approved oligarch tech firms like Google or Apple? How will you work when employers wont recognize someone who cant submit their life details and CV via Facebook or Linkdin? “
Well, I’m 78 years old so it’s not going to affect me.
The sci fi TV show “The Oroville” did an episode like this. The encountered an alien planet/ society where everyone was judged by the collective will - on everything. It was a commentary on today, taken to an absurd extreme, but maybe not as much as we’d think...
“At least we have a choice in the West - no one is forced to participate in the lunacy of social media.”
Dont be too sure.
With the tech cartel engaging in deplatforming for wrong-think, they have already instituted a light version of this.
Once they hook this into actual banks, HR departments, and the airlines, then we are really going to know the “price of tea in China”.
This is correct, regardless of what geriatric FReepers who yell at clouds try to say.
Yep. Just wait until you can't use PayPal because FaceBook suspended your account after the SPLC flagged a "hateful" comment you made about transgender people 6 months ago.
Lol
Ever test the ant-stat bag by leaving the FasTrack in it when you place it on the dash at as you roll thru a toll gate.? If it works your Fastrak account shouldn't be debited normally but they will correlate your car to you via a plate reader. and you will get debited and you should see how they did it proving the bag actually works or not.
The reason I say this is because in some areas (NYC) the transponders are used for more than ease of toll payment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=JCwWVxGtYgE
The British series “Black Mirror” shows episodes like that and is quite good and sold on Amazon but curiously is in the PAL format and set for Region 2 in effect blocking it in the US.
Amending the last statement. It apparently can be watched on a PC ok and only some series are Reg 2 available.
label you an outcast and trigger psychological evaluations.
And for those of us who are already viewed as outcasts and hopeless old curmudgeons, hopefully our status will not suffer too much.
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