Or they are just doing this for optics, with an understanding that the feds will end up forcing their hand in the future.

Yes. I do mean to tell you all those things.

Because I’ve never uploaded my face or a picture or my ID before? They don’t just magically pull that from the ether.

That is still very different than giving them access to my facial data or government id

I also wish I could just tell my ISP " I don’t have kids and have never once had anyone younger than 18 even connect to my wifi" and then they could just mark it to bypass these age checks.

Because what way could be more convenient while you are wearing 4 layers and gloves than pulling out your tiny phone and using its touchscreen?

I would be very surprised if it was that far away to be honest. They estimate there are likely trillions of planets in our own galaxy now. For us to be the only one would be absurdly unlikely.

As far as the history of the universe is concerned we are actually super early on in its lifespan. So in some ways it’s actually more likely that we will be one of the early civilizations that perish before the others show up.

Me and my friends use it to stream our gameplay or watch movies and stuff together. Nothing else I’ve seen really allows you to do that easily.

Searching medical records for people with diagnosed autism I assume.

I’m guessing you don’t know that vaccines generally rely on heard immunity to be effective? If a significant portion of the population doesn’t take the vaccine, even people who have the vaccine might get infected. On another note, immuno compromised people might have legitimate reasons for not getting the vaccine, and rely on that same herd immunity.

You can also just disable it, which is much more secure. You can have it not open your locked phone but still be used to verify it’s you in apps which is also nice.

You just said that no one else is the problem except the people who voted for the Democrats. And you think that’s an irrefutable case? You are delusional or intentionally trolling.

Ah, gotcha

Moving isn’t exactly cheap, some people really don’t have that option

Do you not understand the concept of time?

There are already users of these though? Meshtastic has plenty of nodes in the US afaik and is perfectly useable. It uses long range radios for communication so you only need a few people in a state to do it for it to work.

Dude, they just shot a woman in the face 4 times for driving NEAR them with literally no consequences. You think they won’t just open fire on a group if one of them gets hit with pepper spray?

ICE has literally started going door to door in Minnesota looking for immigrants and activists. It’s already starting, people need to be protecting their privacy now.

That’s because the right and law enforcement are the same thing.