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My sister in law recently told me that she wanted to submit the DNA of her very young baby for logging in someway. She went further, that everybody should be u
by Lio 7y ago
My sister in law recently told me that she wanted to submit the DNA of her very young baby for logging in someway.
She went further, that everybody should be under observation via CCTV and other methods 24/7 “as I have nothing to hide”. It was a bit of a spit the tea out moment.
All I could do was weakly say something about “in a police state everyone is guilty of something”.
I think this is related to her near total devotion to reality TV. She almost only watch reality TV and seems to be primarily concerned with judging the behaviour of those involved.
I think, sadly, she’s far closer to the mainstream than I’ll ever be. She regards my demands of privacy from tech companies as “weird” :(
- Gibbon1 7y agoAnd at this point I think my long departed grandmother who would read to me in bed whatever she was reading. she liked to read about history. Which left me at a tender age with the reflexive understanding that those in power are usually utter bastards. You sister in law doesn't realize the the people who would watch over her and her family's every move aren't considered ruthless criminals only by simple convention.
- Lio 7y agoYeah scary how naive some people are. Sadly I'm not a good enough communicator to convincer her of this.
- Gibbon1 7y agoI've been rolling this around for a long time. We tend to think of leaders as being good (ours of course) or bad (theirs of course). But I think mostly our leaders are as good or bad as we let them get away with.