Bodily autonomy (like abortion, anti draft, etc) -> āThe government shouldnāt be able to force anything on my body I donāt want.ā
Anti surveillance -> āI donāt trust big government/big tech (big brother if youāre feeling frisky) with the ability to spy on me and my family.ā
Immigration -> āNext to all of us immigrated at some point, I donāt see why the elites get to decide whoās allowed to be where. Whatās to stop them coming for me?ā
Climate Change -> āBig oil shouldnāt get to determine whether or not I get to go places. I donāt want to be dependent on some big business to survive.ā
State Violence -> āI donāt want the goddamn secret police breathing down my neck! I trust my community a whole hell of a lot more to help me than I do the state!ā
The vast majority of conservatives think of themselves as underdogs being repressed by the government/the elite, and they value personal freedom (specifically their personal freedom, they donāt care about other people). The will almost always agree with leftist points if you can find a way to blame the problem on their vague enemies (useful, since rich people are the root of most problems), and tie it back to their ability to say fuck everyone else. NEVER appeal to science, theory, logic, or human goodness. Make it seem as if you are a paranoid lunatic who trusts no one. They love it.
#you need to tailor your arguments to people's existing values and priorities if you want to convince them #the flip side is that it's every bit as easy to tailor conservative arguments to convince a leftist audience #so don't get smug #you're not immune to this either <- prev extremely true
[edit: @glorious-spoon I'm sorry, if I'd known this was going to breach containment I would've @'d you instead of just saying "prev"]
āAs a chemical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh who uses a power wheelchair, I figured it wouldnāt be long before I met one of these bots in a frustrating face-off on a narrow sidewalk. What I didnāt realize was how dangerous, and dehumanizing, that scenario might be.
The robot was sitting motionless on the curb cut on the other side of Forbes Avenue. It wasnāt crossing with the rest of the pedestrians, and when I reached the curb, it didnāt move as the walk signal was ending. I found myself sitting in the street as the traffic light turned green, blocked by a non-sentient being incapable of understanding the consequences of its actions.ā
[ID: three screenshots. The first is a perspective article by CityLab. Itās headline reads āMy fight with a sidewalk robot.ā The paragraph below reads āA life threatening encounter with AI technology convinced me that the needs of people with disabilities need to be engineered into our autonomous future.ā Below the paragraph is a picture of a small rectangular sidewalk robot moving along a sidewalk.
The second screenshot is a tweeted picture by an unknown user of six sidewalk robots going down the side of the street, with a car trying to pull between two of them. There are two replies below it, the first reply is by Adrian Lopez @PaladinZilch and reads āWow. Imagine being in a wheelchair and seeing that.ā The second reply is by I [flaming heart emoji] You @IAm444x and reads āoh god the tech bros made car traffic for sidewalks [crying emoji].ā
The third screenshot is a reply tweet by Will Jackson @geologywill that reads āA few weeks agoā¦ it took 5 minutes for their sensors to figure out how to get out of the standoffā¦ Enjoyed every second of it.ā Below is a picture of three sidewalk robots caught in a circle at an outdoor bus stop, presumably stuck in their circle. End ID.]
The logic of these devices being "allowed" on the sidewalk, whether they've found a technical legal loophole for it or not, is complete nonsense.
Motorized vehicles aren't allowed on the sidewalk. The sidewalk is for pedestrians. Power chair users are considered pedestrians by specific exemption (and for good reason - that is a single human, using the most minimally disruptive means of locomotion available to them.)
This thing isn't a pedestrian. It's a miniaturized delivery van. They should be banned from the sidewalk. They might already be in most places under existing laws, and nobody is enforcing it.
It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.
It has always been possible. It is still possible.
because original sin isn't real in mormonism and dead babies automatically go to heaven this means it'd be okay to hit them with a baseball bat and win the world series
the leftism leaving peopleās bodies when you tell them making fun of someoneās appearance is always objectively scummy even if the person theyāre making fun of is bad
ālol are we really surprised that the dude who said eating puppies is good and morally correct looks like THISā and then itās just a picture of a completely normal looking person who is fat or has acne or just in general doesnāt meet the societally imposed standard of conventional āhotness,ā which is bizarrely being posited as an indicator of morality
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnāt care which VPN you use, only that itās still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows āsurveillance softwareā.
Two things back that up:
Thereās no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleās advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidās works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereās activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: āItās impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].ā Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
You can get and use windows 11 without logging in with a microsoft account, as of five days ago. I am a local user on my computer. Don't ask me how to do it, because my computer repair guy did it when he reinstalled windows, but there are tutorials out there. Refuse to connect to internet until you're set up and can use the computer freely.
Refusing to connect to the internet doesn't help. You have to open a Command Prompt (Shift+F10) and typing start ms-cxh:localonly (and pressing enter) during installation when you get to the sign in/create stupid ms account screen
For comprehensive deets, tomshardware explains
Maintain only a local account on your Windows 11 PC.
Unless there's really really specific reasons to subject yourself to windows, please consider installing linux mint instead.
Iām also gonna highlight these tags I saw someone say earlier because LINUX IS NOT USER-FRIENDLY AT ALL. It is not a solution for most people in the slightest, and it is so much more complicated to use linux rather than windows. For the love of god I wish I could switch back to windows but I canāt without ^ yāknow . So Iām stuck with an operating system thatās made for coders and not exe files . God I miss exes and zip files
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