It brings up an interesting question: if wiping your phone after being requested access to it is illegal (?), would wiping your phone in anticipation of access being requested also illegal? Are we effectively required to give the federal government access to every private account in order to travel?
Advice: if you know you don´t want your phone searched going through customs, don't bring it! Or wipe it before you go through. I'm 100% on this guy's side, but we're not exactly living in a free and open society.
If it makes you feel better, bots will be much less of a problem when they have to start paying their own way.
The second thing I'm thinking is that smaller communities will always be both less attractive to bots and harder for bots to infilitrate, so you'll likely be able to find a group of real people to talk to.
Honestly don´t know if either party can cut the deficit. Being the fiat currency leading to easy lending leading to debt to fund military adventures leading to collapse is the pattern of all empires throughout history.
That said, my experience is the Democrats do at least theoretically try to raise or maintain taxes and spend money on social programs and the Republicans, while running on the deficit, always cut taxes as much as possible while usually raising military spending. And, as we learned in Iran, our military spending is mostly a wealth redistribution scheme, but upwards (and, notably, backwards from the future).
And I don't even know if can fault individual politicians or parties. Cutting spending will definitely lose you votes. Stumping for liberal politicians I heard a lot from people involved in the defense industry.
The only way not to lose votes is to tax the rich, but only theoretically, because then you have to deal with a shitstorm of bad press from the rich-owned media and that will swing people against you; at least until the rich are well and truly despised by the populace, which we are getting to.
This probably ends in a Greek/Argentina-style collapse.
Another podcast that ruined me If Books Could Kill. It is increasingly clear to me that being popular and established are two enormous red flags. And, comically, "being a rebel" is part of the armor all these people wear. The podcast covered an economist who labelled himself, "the bad boy of economics" despite being an established professor and having won a ton of prestigious awards... it's all an act because just coming out as an obvious bootlicker is disqualifying, you have to camouflage yourself with trivial rebellions (Maher smokes pot! omg!) or against people not in the power structure (in Maher's case, most often women, trans, and gays).
Not proud, not ashamed. I'm just using my ignorance of something to evaluate a risk, which is certainly a flawed and lazy algorithm, but probably operates better than chance.
Honestly, that was the sum totality of my intention. If you would like to review the logs and tell me where my language reflected differently, I would love to know about it because I never had an intent to say anything else.
Source that China is using its backdoors to share information with the US? I mean, it very well might be, at least it's an extra step. I'm saying I'd rather not share my information with anyone, but if i had to choose, it would be a foreign government ahead of my own.
It brings up an interesting question: if wiping your phone after being requested access to it is illegal (?), would wiping your phone in anticipation of access being requested also illegal? Are we effectively required to give the federal government access to every private account in order to travel?