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Shh!

You realise downvotes are a big deal for managing information on certain sites that we frequent...

I just don't see how a cell is similar to an insect.

I don't understand the emotion, or even the idea that I have to feel something about cars or roads. What is it to do with me, why should I care? Its not as if I can do anything about it.

The governance structure provided us with road infrastructure in the past. We were sold this idea and developed our lives around it.

Now the governance structure wants us to live in smart cities, with no cars. This allows for greater control and tighter management of the tax paying stock.

No one gets to vote for this stuff. It is not a way of life I would choose - I don't like being manipulated. I'm not going to stand at the sidelines and clap these changes on. It is communitarianism - but its not a good thing.

"Our revealed preference seems to be that we'd rather have homeless people live in tents than have poor people get free or nearly free housing."

Well, I'm sick of your preferences; they make no sense to me.

I'm being facetious, but why talk that way? You are an individual. If you have an opinion state it.

Government and its decisions are not you, you do not need to pretend that you agree with these decisions, or that they are somehow the result of a benign expression of voting decisions that you are bought into.

UBI is such blatant bribery by the existing governance structures, in order to ensure conformity to their ever increasing dictats.

I don't see how anyone things this action is a good thing - it's inflationary, it's bribery. How will people voice alternative opinions, when to do so will risk loss?

UBI is just a trick to have everyone willingly sign up into assimilation into the government's citizen-borg.

No. Blackrock and Vanguard are.

"Pegasus takes advantage of so-called zero-day vulnerabilities of software running on mobile phones, meaning built-in flaws that not even developers and manufacturers are aware of."

Vulnerabilities, eh - 'flaws'?

Or backdoors there by design?

What's in a name?

No one has 'the truth', it's just not that sort of thing. Everyone has opinions. Some opinions are lies. Transparency is the way to deal with the lies.

But if you're the one lying and have your hands on the levers of power, censorship is a great tool.

"Few pause to think that their phones can be transformed into surveillance devices, with someone thousands of miles away silently extracting their messages, photos and location, activating their microphone to record them in real time."

They were designed to be surveillance devices! Remember when you could replace your phone battery? They corrected that 'design flaw'. Smart phones, smart meters, smart cities, 5g... this is the infrastructure of the technocracy.

Smart = spy.

When papers like the guardian present articles like these as if they care, they are in fact doing a different job. They are actually acclimatising us to the future so that we are not shaken into action, but wring our hands for a bit and move on.

To those talking about journalists needing to protect freedom, what world are you on? Have you heard of 'project mockingbird'? Have you not yet realised that journalism is just a part of the governance structure, along with education, and of course the government?

You can't blame them! What seem like valid differences of opinion are political, national security threats, etc. Intolerance abounds.

But please - that 'storming of the US Capitol' was a joke - those people were pretty well behaved, and waved in by the police. I suspect to provide a justification to portray republicans badly later on. All those riots, in Portland etc, in the middle of epidemic? Those are fine and can carry on for months.