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80+ million of them. It reminds me of the George Carlin quote: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

Questions for the ridiculous number of people on here who are perfectly willing to give up their right to privacy because you believe it makes schools and other places safer:

Have you read the 50+ page user agreement for your cell phone company? How about the user agreements of every app that has access to your cell phone, your PC mic or apps that have access to your files? Late model cars have microphones too, as do TV remotes. Microsoft has access to everything on your Windows PC. I'd give 100 to 1 odds that 99% of you haven't read any of those user agreements OR the UA for private chat apps you are using. Likewise are you sure any cloud storage you're using isn't scanning your documents for forbidden phrases?

Since you haven't read every word of each and every user agreement and think it keeps schools safe, you should be just fine with the fact that EVERYTHING you say or write may be available to law enforcement, even if you're talking to yourself while sitting on the toilet in your home. If you mutter that you'd like to kill someone or burn something misheard as a school building to the ground you are just fine with AI flagging it and the police knocking on your door in an hour, right? You'll also be just fine with losing your career and your job never being able to find another one, right? Right? After all, other people never know WTF someone dangerous and violent is going to do.

The number of people on here who are perfectly willing to give up all their rights and have their private communications monitored for something that is nothing more than security theater is unbelievable.

End-to-end encryption on Telegram only exists in Secret Chats, which has to be manually activated. I used it for more than a year without realizing it and sent private financial info across it thinking it would remain private. IMO Signal's a much better choice.

Good thing they stopped her before she shot up her school, right?

What utter nonsense.

Would a teacher venting to a friend in her apartment with the windows open be overestimating her degree of privacy if overheard by a neighbor and reported to police? How about if she's on a phone call and law enforcement "happens" to be monitoring the call? In a pubic park? In a coffee shop? In her car with the windows open?

It is perfectly reasonable to expect a joke shared over a private chat with friends remain private without reading 50 pages of legal language.

He was stopped by his staff before answering whether he'd eaten food found in trash cans. Kennedy has snorted cocaine from toilet seats so trash cans are a step up.

The Pledge began as a marketing gimmick:

As branding expert John Gorman outlines, the pledge began with an initiative from The Youth’s Companion, a Boston-based magazine looking to expand beyond its religious roots. To reach a broader audience, the editors launched a nationwide effort to place American flags in public schools, offering them as incentives for new subscriptions.

Not such a great example of "American values", or perhaps since it started as a corporate marketing gimmick it's a perfect example.

How can 1/3 of Americans think this child rapist is doing a good job?

Deny
Delay <----------- We are here.
Deceive
Distract

Perhaps a distraction, more likely an unexpected consequence of releasing Fauci's diary. Either way it's funny as hell.

63% of Chippewa County voters supported Trump in 2024.

Time to give the Windows 8 "Metro" UI another shot, after all the only reason it wasn't accepted (according to numerous Microsoft employees) is "People are afraid of change."

Huge tariffs on prescription drugs and now huge increases in prescription drug plan premiums.

Trump is a sadistic, malignant narcissist who loves causing misery and death.

I'll make sure to give your opinion all the consideration it deserves, professor.

LIke you I deleted all my comments and verified they were deleted. When I looked a couple of months later, Reddit had actually restored each and every one.

I'm slowly deleting them again. Maybe this time they'll stay gone.

My comment clearly (but apparently not clearly enough) referenced the fact that American producers are dealing with the add on effect that the Canadian boycott is having. I read the article, you failed to read my comment.

You may not think it's related, but math and the bottom lines of American producers would disagree.

I'm sure the fact the Canadians have stopped buying American products costing producers $500+ million per year hasn't been so good for them either.

Mad? This is hilarious!