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Absolutely unacceptable behavior. Wild that Americans are so distracted by pointless social issues that they haven’t even realized the ruling elite are treating

Absolutely unacceptable behavior. Wild that Americans are so distracted by pointless social issues that they haven’t even realized the ruling elite are treating them like cattle. Absolutely pathetic.

westmeal 10mo ago
The pointless social issues are manufactured specifically in order to distract Americans from the fact they are being treated like cattle.
- ares623 10mo ago
  And they/we absolutely love the distraction
  - therobots927 10mo ago
    Because our educational system has been dismantled
    - throwaway0xT 10mo ago
      Cloudflare outage on Dec. 5 on remote servers were /user/ parsing errors in HTTP. Flock does this well in terms of bios spinlock releases, whereas a secure measure is stress-testing network traffic.
    - nerdponx 10mo ago
      Which is precisely part of the strategy to keep everyone distracted and confused.
- anjel 10mo ago
  Cattle is as Cattle does
  - Psillisp 10mo ago
    Moooo
- chii 10mo ago
  > are manufactured specifically the fact that these majority do accept the distraction points to lack of intelligence and discipline in critical thinking and future planning. The populous has half the blame - not just those who do these manufacturing of distractions.
  - themafia 10mo ago
    That's an easy trap to fall in. This industry costs trillions every year to operate for a reason. The people never really stood a chance. It's not as if school educated them to live in the world we actually inhabit.
JumpCrisscross 10mo ago
> Wild that Americans are so distracted There is a tonne of civic action against Flock, specifically, in the works, in many cases with successful results.
voidfunc 10mo ago
America is huge and there's a lot of exceptionally stupid people especially in the South and Midwest. Not much I can do about that over here in the coastal Northeast.
- hermannj314 10mo ago
  I was offended and then I defined "exceptionally stupid" a few ways and all the statistics support this claim. I'm still offended though. Fucking a lot of smart people in Mass., Vermont, Conn., New York, Maryland, DC.
  - matthewfcarlson 10mo ago
    I’m pretty sure anywhere there’s a lot of people (the northeast of the US for example) you’re going to find a lot of smart people.
    - hermannj314 10mo ago
      People with advanced degrees accumulate in those specific states, despite not significantly different rates of HS graduation from other states. Smart people, as measured by educational attainment, live in the NE coastal states and exceptionally stupid people (by the same metric) live in the South and Midwest. As a guy from Iowa, I was offended, but humbled by the reality of the numbers.
      - faidit 10mo ago
        All things considered, I don't think advanced degrees necessarily correlate with intelligence. It's often just a marker of socioeconomic privilege. A Carnegie Mellon study found that people with PhDs were more likely than any other educational attainment level to be against the Covid-19 vaccine: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v... (page 17) Gallup polls during the Vietnam War found that higher-educated Americans were more likely to be pro-war while the most anti-war group were those with only a grade school education: https://afterthewarproject.org/files/original/3e5e5a47a152039640da9e900d5e8f296fb5b18d.pdf https://afterthewarproject.org/files/original/3e5e5a47a15203... (page 19 of the PDF, page 38 of the document)
01HNNWZ0MV43FF 10mo ago
Like what?
kotaKat 10mo ago
Flock's CEO basically went to the public and said "you all have phones" like the Blizzard people. “If (people are) worried about privacy, a license plate reader is the dumbest way to do surveillance. You have a cell phone. A cell phone knows your exact location at all times,” he said. “If you don’t trust law enforcement to do their job, that’s actually what you’re concerned about, and I’m not going to help people get over that.” Just means I have to have a Faraday bag alongside my polesaw and high-powered laser. I can compete with your shitty outdated Android SoM and a shitty Raspberry Pi webcam in an enclosure.
- ProllyInfamous 10mo ago
  I'm an American blue collar that does NOT carry a cell phone. Datapoint: one.
jjulius 10mo ago
And yet... many communities are in the process of ending their contracts and lawsuits are being filed against them?

westmeal 10mo ago

The pointless social issues are manufactured specifically in order to distract Americans from the fact they are being treated like cattle.

ares623 10mo ago
And they/we absolutely love the distraction
- therobots927 10mo ago
  Because our educational system has been dismantled
  - throwaway0xT 10mo ago
    Cloudflare outage on Dec. 5 on remote servers were /user/ parsing errors in HTTP. Flock does this well in terms of bios spinlock releases, whereas a secure measure is stress-testing network traffic.
  - nerdponx 10mo ago
    Which is precisely part of the strategy to keep everyone distracted and confused.
anjel 10mo ago
Cattle is as Cattle does
- Psillisp 10mo ago
  Moooo
chii 10mo ago
> are manufactured specifically the fact that these majority do accept the distraction points to lack of intelligence and discipline in critical thinking and future planning. The populous has half the blame - not just those who do these manufacturing of distractions.
- themafia 10mo ago
  That's an easy trap to fall in. This industry costs trillions every year to operate for a reason. The people never really stood a chance. It's not as if school educated them to live in the world we actually inhabit.

JumpCrisscross 10mo ago

> Wild that Americans are so distracted There is a tonne of civic action against Flock, specifically, in the works, in many cases with successful results.

voidfunc 10mo ago

America is huge and there's a lot of exceptionally stupid people especially in the South and Midwest. Not much I can do about that over here in the coastal Northeast.

hermannj314 10mo ago
I was offended and then I defined "exceptionally stupid" a few ways and all the statistics support this claim. I'm still offended though. Fucking a lot of smart people in Mass., Vermont, Conn., New York, Maryland, DC.
- matthewfcarlson 10mo ago
  I’m pretty sure anywhere there’s a lot of people (the northeast of the US for example) you’re going to find a lot of smart people.
  - hermannj314 10mo ago
    People with advanced degrees accumulate in those specific states, despite not significantly different rates of HS graduation from other states. Smart people, as measured by educational attainment, live in the NE coastal states and exceptionally stupid people (by the same metric) live in the South and Midwest. As a guy from Iowa, I was offended, but humbled by the reality of the numbers.
    - faidit 10mo ago
      All things considered, I don't think advanced degrees necessarily correlate with intelligence. It's often just a marker of socioeconomic privilege. A Carnegie Mellon study found that people with PhDs were more likely than any other educational attainment level to be against the Covid-19 vaccine: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v... (page 17) Gallup polls during the Vietnam War found that higher-educated Americans were more likely to be pro-war while the most anti-war group were those with only a grade school education: https://afterthewarproject.org/files/original/3e5e5a47a152039640da9e900d5e8f296fb5b18d.pdf https://afterthewarproject.org/files/original/3e5e5a47a15203... (page 19 of the PDF, page 38 of the document)

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 10mo ago

Like what?

kotaKat 10mo ago

Flock's CEO basically went to the public and said "you all have phones" like the Blizzard people. “If (people are) worried about privacy, a license plate reader is the dumbest way to do surveillance. You have a cell phone. A cell phone knows your exact location at all times,” he said. “If you don’t trust law enforcement to do their job, that’s actually what you’re concerned about, and I’m not going to help people get over that.” Just means I have to have a Faraday bag alongside my polesaw and high-powered laser. I can compete with your shitty outdated Android SoM and a shitty Raspberry Pi webcam in an enclosure.

ProllyInfamous 10mo ago
I'm an American blue collar that does NOT carry a cell phone. Datapoint: one.

jjulius 10mo ago

And yet... many communities are in the process of ending their contracts and lawsuits are being filed against them?