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  • IT professional here.

    Yup.

    Everything is hardwired with multiple layers of security. Everything even remotely personal is on encrypted hard drives. No Alexa/Google. Made sure the smart TV and smartphones (no Apple, vanilla Android) have all data sharing disabled. And I drive a 1999 vehicle that doesn’t make me jump through any hoops.

    There’s a fine line between technology making things better and making things worse. We’re definitely starting to drift into the making things worse era.









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    5 days ago

    IT professional here with 20+ years work experience. Not once have I ever met another tech that liked Apple. Personally, I despise them. Unintuitive locked down garbage that can’t do anything a PC can’t do for half the price. And yes, I have seen viruses on Macs.

    They’re just really good at advertising to people who don’t understand technology.



  • It’s easy to think protests don’t matter.

    They do. Just not directly.

    8 million people in the streets aren’t going to make literal traitors admit they were wrong and willingly leave their positions.

    But 8 million people in the streets sends a signal to everyone else that the opinions they already hold about this treasonous government are valid and that they are not alone.

    It’s a snowball effect. It’ll get bigger, if we’re persistent. Gotta keep the momentum building.


  • I didn’t wake up today with the intention of being a downer, but the odds of a general strike happening are vanishingly small.

    Just not gonna happen.

    Americans simply don’t have that kind of solidarity or the breathing room to go without a paycheck or lose their jobs.

    It’s the fastest and least violent way to bring this treasonous government to its knees, but I don’t see it happening. I’m not even aware of any historical examples of a general strike on a large scale anywhere.